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                 Stone Soup - A Tale of Cooperation
                      Retold in Script and Songs by Betsy Lee Bailey              

            FLEXIBLE CAST of 9-27  (3-11 males, 6-18 females)              RUNNING TIME: approx. 30 minutes
                             Read the Perusal Script and listen to the songs for free.  
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                                               Digital downloads available for purchase at SMP Press:

Stone Soup - Director'sr SCRIPT with stage directions, costume ideas, acting games, and choreography tips

Stone Soup -  SCORE includes instrumental parts for young violin players

Stone Soup -  Production Kit includes reproducible Booklet Script, Lyric Sheets, Coloring Page Activity, and   
                                                  Performance License for one series of shows 


                MP3 Accompaniment Tracks - may be purchased and downloaded separately from SMP Press
1.Overture     2.&13.Over Yonder and Play-Off     3.Sleepy Village   4.Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!   5.The Hungry Traveler   6.a.Stone Soup   7.Stone Soup Dance and Reprise    8.Happy Dance 9.Cooperation     10.Stone Soup Reprise 11.Cooperation Bows     12.Exit Music

           
FULL LIST OF SONGS with Guide Vocals:  (To listen, go to Songs from Musicals tab)
Overture, Over Yonder, Sleepy Village, Trouble! Trouble! Trouble!, The Hungry Traveler, Stone Soup, Happy Dance, Cooperation, Stone Soup Reprise, Cooperation Bows, Exit Music, Play-Off

SYNOPSIS:  On the American frontier, a community learns a lesson in cooperation.  A traveler comes through who helps them realize that by combining their resources, they are all better off.  

SETTING:  A rustic village set with six small houses, a shade tree, a well and/or haystack (optional).  Two interestingly shaped stones should be preset on the “path” near the tree for the Traveler to stumble over.

Properties  -  Two unusual stones each about softball-size, sticks for “pretend fire,” a large kettle, salt and pepper   
         shakers, a *cabbage, two carrots, one onion, three small potatoes, nine (or enough for the cast or they can       
         share) *soupbowls and spoons, one ladle, a small table cloth, a leather satchel, a polka-dotted handkerchief or   
         brightly colored bandana for the Traveler.

                    *Plastic toy kitchenware works very well.

Costumes - Colorful peasant attire: Pioneer dresses or peasant skirts, aprons, sunbonnets, cowboy hats, jeans or   
         corduroy pants, solid or plaid shirts, bandanas, vests, soft ballet flats, cowboy boots, etc.



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