Overview

A marvelous show for high schools, community theatres, or universities. This is a madcap musical adaptation of famous - and not so famous - fairy and folk tales written by an author who is abundantly clever and ingeniously funny. You will meet the ostentatious emperor who insists on having magical new clothing. There's the dumb kid who knows that he doesn't have to be smart or work hard, so long as he's lucky...and his nagging mother who points out that he had better be very lucky. There's the handsome young lout who searches for three people who are more stupid than the family he hopes to marry into. There's the proud princess who won't marry any prince who isn't perfect and finds herself degraded to a kitchen maid and the wife of a humble minstrel. This delightful evening's entertainment has four stories which can also be performed as individual one-acts. The original songs may be sung with only a guitar accompaniment.