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Author Boiko, Claire.

Title Dramatized parodies of familiar stories : six one-act, royalty-free scripts, with original song lyrics set to well-known melodies, for performance by young people / by Claire Boiko.

Publication Info. Boston : Plays, Inc., [1980]
©1980

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA 812.54 Boiko Dra 1980    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Description 172 pages ; 24 cm
Summary A collection of plays which give surprising plots and settings to well-known stories and folk tales. Includes production notes.
Contents Roamin' Jo and Juli; a lighthearted version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" -- Belinda and the beast; a wild-west adventure based on "Beauty and the beast" -- Rowdy Kate; a western "adaptation" of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the shrew" -- Cybernella; space-age disco antics modeled on "Cinderella" -- The town that couldn't wake up; romantic melodrama that retells "Sleeping Beauty" -- The fastest thimble in the west; a new look at "The brace little tailor."
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Children's plays, American.
Children's plays, American.
Parodies.
Parodies.
Stage adaptations.
Stage adaptations.
Genre/Form Theatrical adaptations.
ISBN 082380240X
9780823802401