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Sing a Song of Sixpence
Full-Length Play, Pantomime / 8w, 9m, 7 any gender (adult)
"The audience loves it . . . Everything about it." - Des Moines Register
The play is a pantomine on conventional lines with a dame, wicked witch, good fairy, haunted bedroom, and knock about scenes, contemporary songs to choice, references to local names, etc., but based on the less usual story of the four and twenty blac…
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Cast Size
8w, 9m, 7 any gender (adult) -
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Christmas/Holiday, Fable/Folktale -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Details
Summary
Sing a Song of Sixpence is a pantomime on convential lines with a dame, wicked witch, good fairy, haunted bedroom, and knockabout scenes, contemporay songs to choice, references to local names etc., but based on the less usual story of the four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
History
First productions in 1978
One of the first pantomimes produced in America for many years.
As of 2016 over 600 productions worldwide
Cast Attributes
Keywords
Performing Groups
- Time Period Not Applicable
- Setting
Multiple sets can be as simple or extravagant as finances allow
- Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
- Additional Features Audience Participation/Interactive
- Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Media
"The audience loves it... Everything about it." – Des Moines Register
"Norman Robbins's story ingeniously incorporates all the elements of the titular nursery rhyme into a wittily updated fairytale where the ranks of good triumph, although they include gld-digging royalty and flaky fairies..." – British American Theatre Alliance Equity showcase, Dec 2002
"The laugh a minute pantomime is based on the children's nursery rhyme and comes complete with slapstick comedy and plenty of banter..." – Biggleswade Chronicle, January 2012
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £55 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Norman Robbins
Norman Robbins, one of Amateur Theatre's most popular authors, wrote his first stage show almost 60 years ago whilst working for the Yorkshire Evening Post. An avid theatregoer from the age of three (his grandparents ran the pub near the local theatre so free tickets were al ...