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 Never Cry Wolf!
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- A Tale of Sincerity and Work
A much expanded version of Aesop's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" as retold by Betsy Lee Bailey
FLEXIBLE CAST: 20+ Males and 30+ Females (or fewer)                                           RUNNING TIME: approx. 60 min.

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 Director's Script - with stage directions, costume
                  ideas, acting games, and choreography tips
 Production Kit - Reproducible Booklet Script, Lyrics
                  Sheets, Coloring Page Activity, and  
                  
Performance License for one series of shows
        Score - Part 1                  Score - Part 2
To listen to Guide Vocal Performances, go to Songs from Musicals

​FULL LIST OF SONG accompaniments for Purchase and Digital Download separately from SMP Press

01.Never Cry Wolf Overture          02.&14.Greek Scarf Dance         03.Long, Long Ago                                         04. Long, Long Ago Incidental            05.Hurry, Hurry, Busy, Busy             06.Hurry,Hurry Incidental                  07.Military Academy March       08.Military March Exit          09.Tapestry of Life         10.Tapestry Incidental     11.Something in Dorian Mode           12.Set It for Posterity           13.Set it for Posterity Incidenta 15.Little Lamb's Pastorale Prelude         16.Take Care, Beware!           17.Take Care, Beware Incidental        18.Little Lamb's Pastorale          19.A View from the Highest Mountain        20.Going Home Incidental     21.Being Sincere       22.Sheepish Soccer Game       23.Everybody Works       24.The Thieving Wolf Balle
25.Foolish Boy!             26.&27.Now I Realize and Incidental            28.Being Sincere Reprise                             29.Everybody Works Finale 
               30.Bows "Set It For Posterity"    
​31.Exit Music "View from the Highest Mountain"         32.Play-Off "Everybody Works"


Preview the video from the 2007 Summer Theater Camp production of Never Cry Wolf!
      
Synopsis:  A family in ancient Greece has a son who is just plain contrary!  He just wants to goof around and have fun all day.  His family and the people in his town think that he should learn to work.  They give him the job of tending the sheep.  He gets bored and calls the people to come running to save the sheep from an imaginary wolf.  He pulls this trick once too often and finally learns how important sincerity really is.

"Never Cry Wolf!" is an expanded (larger and longer) show created from the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
The story line and many of the songs remain the same, but more colorful characters and situations have been created to broaden the telling.

Setting:   A pastoral scene and village in ancient Greece.  

PROPERTIES: Silk scarves (children dancers), scroll (for Aesop), wooden recorder (flute), slate tablet and chalk, button-on-a-string yo-yo, fabric satchel, small blanket, pita bread, small brown “soccer” ball (for Alec), clubs, pitchforks (for farmers), Grecian urns and black paint and brushes, stool or small work table (for Altair), Scrolls, helmets, spears, shields (for Politicians and Muses), harp, lyre, aulos, pandouris, finger cymbals, tambourine, long trumpet, and hand drum (for Musicians), wool in a basket and stool (for Galatia), fabric on loom, distaff and spinning whorl, baskets of fabric and food (for Women), low table with wooden bowls and spoons, towels, basket of rolls and fruit, scrolls, hat (for Family), painted war shields (for Military Academy boys). 
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