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Full-Length Play, Pantomime / 8w, 9m, 7 any gender (adult)
Norman Robbins
"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…
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.
First productions in 1978
One of the first pantomimes produced in America for many years.
As of 2016 over 600 productions worldwide
COURT CHAMBERLAIN (M)
QUEEN DILLY (M or F)
PRINCE (F or M)
PRINCESS (F)
SIMPLE SIMON (M or F)
DAME DURDON (M or F)
WITCH WATT (F or M)
FAIRY GOSSAMER (F)
FLIP & FLOP (M or F)
KING FERDINAND (M)
LUCY (F)
ZORIKA (F)
OLD MEG (F)
ROLLO (M)
SQUINT (M)
Both Queen Dilly and Dame Durdon preferably played by men - but not female impersonators, though Dilly would be the slightly more 'glamorous'
Prince preferably played by a woman (principal boy character)
Chorus of townspeople, cooks, guests, blackbirds etc. can be any number, age, or gender
Multiple sets can be as simple or extravagant as finances allow
"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
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 ...