The Adventures of Dick Whittington
A Tale of the Power of Kindness

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       Retold in Script and Songs by
​                  Betsy Lee Bailey
  From the Old English Pantomime circa 1605    
   "Dick Whittington and His Cat"

RUNNING TIME: approximately 60 min.

FLEXIBLE CAST: 30+ actors (9 M, 13 F, 8+ either)
Suitable for children ages 9-14  (I have actually done this show with some cast members as young as 5)

         Digital downloads available for
               purchase at SMP Press:

Director's Script - with ideas for staging, sets, costumes, and choreography as well as Warm-ups and Acting games 
 
Piano/Vocal Score Part 1 
Piano/Vocal Score Part 2 
 
Production Kit - contains reproducible booklet script and song sheets, coloring page activity Invitation, and Performance License for one series of shows.

             FULL LIST OF SONGS available for purchase and download separately from SMP Press: 
             1.Overture - Dick Whittington    2.Nursery Rhyme Quodlibet    3.&22.Off to Seek My Fortune                     4.Incidental "Streets of London"         5.The List          6.Alice's Dance          7.Off to Seek Reprise                    8.Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary       9.Mistress Mary Incidental        10.Too, Too Much to Do         11.&14.Scurry Scurry Song           12.A Toast to Travel and Trade       ​13.Over the Briny Sea                   15.Spices and Perfumes               16.Moroccan Palace Dance            17.Let Kindness Begin with Me            18.Moroccan Scurry, Scurry Dispatch                                 19.Let Kindness Begin with Me Reprise        20.Ballad of Dick Whittington Finale       21.Bows- Dick Whittington

Read the Perusal Script (without the song lyrics) and listen to Guide Vocals at
 Songs from The Adventures of Dick Whittington
Old English Pantomime is a famous type of Family Entertainment from the Renaissance Era (1600 AD) that included very predictable elements such as audience interaction with the actors, sing-alongs, and certain stock players.  "The Adventures of Dick Whittington" honors that tradition by including those elements.  The Stock players were the Everyman, the Do-Good characters, the Dame, a Villain or two, the Comic Duo, Musicians (Balladeer Narrators), at least one Funny Animal, and the Love Interest. 
​       Sometimes the "humor" tended to be off-color and raucous.  This Children's Musical has NONE of that!!!