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Songs from "The Ants and the Grasshopper"

"The Ants and the Grasshopper" is a retelling of the Aesop fable in Script and Songs by Betsy Lee Bailey.  This 15-minute classroom production is perfect for K-3rd graders. It uses a flexible Cast of 8+ with optional chorus. 
This Mini-Musical is easy to stage with simple scenery, costumes and props.  The show offers practical and sound advice.  
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The Script, Piano/Vocal Score, and Individual Show Tracks are available for Digital Download from SMP Press.

Listen to these Guide Vocal recordings from "The Ants and the Grasshopper."
"The Ants Working Song" Accompaniment - Sung by Ants as they make their first entrance carrying oversized seed pods.
"Summer Loafing'" Accompaniment - Sung and Danced by Grasshopper (soft shoe or top hat and cane routine) and joined by Ants
"Winters on the Wind" - Dance/Incidental 
The Grasshopper shivers in the cold while the Ants dance with oversized snowflakes
"Strummin' 'til Spring" - The Grasshopper plays a ukulele while the Ants dance and make merry.  The dance gets faster and faster through to the end when they all vanish behind the anthill.  On the last few bars, the grasshopper emerges from the ant hill exhausted.
"Pay Now and Play Later" Accompaniment - Sung by Entire Cast as the message song and Finale
"You Can Learn a Lot" Accompaniment - Opener may be used when both "The Ants and the Grasshopper" and "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse" are combined into one show.  Use the Reprise of this song for the Bows.
Bows "You Can Learn a Lot" - Reprise - use this as the Curtain Call for the combined Show of "The Ants and the Grasshopper" and "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse."
"You Can Learn a Lot" - Opener and Bows sheet music is available on SMP Press
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