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Do You Remember The First Time?

By Andrew Oxspring
Ages: 7-11yrs

Running Time

60 Mins Approx

Speaking Parts

45

Cast Size
(Including Non-Speaking)

60

Cast Size
Easily Reduced To

17

Suggestions for how to easily reduce and increase the cast size to suit your numbers are included in the "content samples" for this musical.

No. Of Songs

7

Do you remember your first day at school? Or the first time you were sent to see the head? What about first time you stood on the starting line clutching an egg and spoon? School is the place where we experience many ‘firsts’, and the most memorable can be re-lived through the songs and sketches in this hilarious, emotionally-charged new musical, which promises to deliver a bucket-load of laughs…and tears! Whatever else your children, their teachers and parents remember about school, this is a production they’ll never ever forget!

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Overview

Plot Summary

Four nervous candidates are waiting to be interviewed for their first ever job! As they sit in a state of agitation they begin talking to each other about life before they entered the big, bad world, and reminisce about the safety and security of being young and going to school. (song – ‘Do You Recall?’) As they recall many of the ‘first times’ that school provided, it soon becomes clear that perhaps it wasn’t the plain-sailing, easy life they at first remembered it to be!
Take your first ever day at school, for instance, and witness one family’s chaotic start to the morning. (song – ‘My First Day At School’) Will the crying stop long enough to get little Milly into her new school shoes and out of the door?
And learning to tell the time? The frustration, the confusion, the pain…and that was just how the teacher felt! (song – ‘Telling The Time’) Making sense of a clock for the first time is far from easy, as we see in this scene!
Waiting outside an office brings back a very memorable ‘first’ for the interviewees – being sent to the head! What horrors lie in wait behind the door for a group of little ones who’ve been sent from the classroom in disgrace? (song – ‘I’ve Been sent To The Head’) Are the tales of canes and slippers, told to them by parents and grandparents, real or just folklore from a dark and distant past?!
The first shot at sporting glory we ever get is taking part in the much celebrated Egg and Spoon race. For the watching parents it might only be a camcorder moment at which to go ‘Aaaah!’, but for the competitors it’s the chance to be a hero! And every dirty trick in the book will be used to ensure this chance is not wasted! (song – ‘Egg And Spoon’).
Who remembers the first time they were allowed to attend an after-school club? The promise of something exciting, out of the ordinary! For the group of children in this scene, perhaps the reality might not quite live up to the expectation! (song – ‘Football, Netball, Drama, Dance’).
And finally, primary school gives us another first – our first real goodbye. Leaving at the end of year 6 introduces us to new feelings and new expectations. Life seems to be getting more serious, but at the same time more exciting. All of this is wonderfully captured in the final scene, and song – ‘The End Of The Road’

Listen below to the songs from ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’
"Do You Recall"
"My First Day At School"
"I've Been Sent To The Head"
"Egg And Spoon"
"Football, Netball, Drama, Dance"
"Telling The Time"
"The End Of The Road"

Characters

45 Speaking parts in order of appearance

Note: If you have a smaller cast, because most characters only appear in one scene, multiple parts can be played by a single child. Alternatively, for extra-large cast numbers, many speaking parts have enough lines to be divided between any extra characters you want to create.

4 Interviewees – shaking in their shoes
Dad, Charlie, Milly & Mum – a family united in the trauma of a little girl’s first day at school!
Teacher – how difficult can teaching ‘telling the time’ be?
8 Children – let them be the judge of that
School Secretary – all that stands between naughty children and…..
The Head – a mythical being in possession of devilish instruments of torture!
4 Children – awaiting their fate at her hands!
3 Parents – competing for the best camcorder-position at sports day!
2 Teachers – in charge of sports day, holding the starting pistol, and feeling rather powerful!
6 Egg & Spoon Competitors – it’s not the taking part, it’s the winning that counts!
8 After-School Clubbers – eager to start their extra-curricular activities.
3 Teachers – making a slight but significant change to the after-school itinerary!

Ensemble Characters: – if numbers allow, for featured songs and scenes
Sports Day Spectators
More After-School Clubbers
More Children

What do you get?

This musical production is available to buy in 2 different formats.

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A wire-bound book with:
Full script
Detailed stage directions
Character information
Tips for costumes, props and scenery
Piano score for all songs
Licensing information

An Audio CD with:
Vocal demo tracks to all songs
Backing tracks to all songs
Continuity/incidental music
Sound effects

Option 2 – Digital Download

Any order containing a digital download option must be paid for online at the point of ordering. Any order containing a digital download which is not accompanied by payment will not be processed.

Both PDF and editable MS Word documents of:
Full script
Detailed stage directions
Character information
Tips for costumes, props and scenery
Piano score for all songs
Licensing information

MP3 files of:
Vocal demo tracks to all songs
Backing tracks to all songs
Continuity/incidental music
Sound effects

Extras included:
JPEG files of cover artwork for making posters or other promo material.

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    St Georges Primary School Kidderminster

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    My school chose this leavers play when I left Year 6 in 2013. I’m now in university and I still remember how fun rehearsing and performing this play was. It was one of my favourite memories of primary school because of how funny and emotional this play was. I wish I could go back.

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    Leo- Buckstones C.P School

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    the tunes were proper bangers

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    Keira used to go at peters c.e primary school

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    Loved it it was pretty much summing up all my primary memory’s and what my class was like in year 8 now this play meant so much to me !!!

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    Bit different to all the other reviews.
    I did an edgy production back when I was leaving primary school in 2009 – I was one of the interviewees. I can honestly say it was amazing! I still remember all the songs (they’re so catchy they stick in your head, 10years on!). Thank you so much for creating such an amazing production that I will never forget, nor people in my class (everyone still remembers it). Listened to the snippets of the songs on the site just then, weird to hear the new song for my first day at school. Thoroughly recommend!

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    John Beldon / St Margaret’s primary

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    My child did this at her school last year. Our two years six classes did their fabulous own version yesterday.
    Everybody loved it!

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    Lockerbie primary school

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    We love this for our leavers so funny but touching its amazing
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    CINDY

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    WELL I LOVE THE END OF THE ROAD

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    English Martyrs

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    This was an exceptionally good play for the children of year 6 in 2017 to perform they had a good time and there were many mixed emotions.

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    Cayden barker, student at glenfield primary school

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    In school, this is our year 6 leavers performance. I think that all of it is absolutely wonderful. I recommend it to everybody! (Especially the song ‘ the end of the road’

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    Ninians Park Primary School

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    It’s great for the yr 6 leavers

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    St Luke & St Philiphs primary school

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    I think it is amazing and it really worked out well for the year 6 leavers play!

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    Mid-fielder Primary School

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    I loved it. Just a few changes as well as more characters for the whole class it was FANTASTIC!

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    Noor un Nisa St. Paul's ossy

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    Really fun script

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    The school of epicness

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    I’m doing this for my leavers assemblies and it is perfect for the occasion. Would reccomend it to teachers as it is very funny but also very touching .

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    HareStreet Primary School

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    Best leavers ever!

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    Margaret Carr, Lancaster

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    Our performances went brilliantly – and it was declared the best ever Year 6 production!!

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    Alison Currah

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    I felt compelled to write and thank you for your excellent musical. The audience were ecstatic! Several members of staff were moved to tears, and at the end, the head teacher, who was crying with laughter, told parents that it was a ‘scarily accurate portrayal of life in a primary school!’ More important than that, the children enjoyed themselves. The characters were real, lively and easy to relate to, and the songs excellent! They brought the house down!

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    Pam Fox, Stockport

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    Just to say a huge thank you for producing such a wonderful script. Today’s Leavers Assembly went really well, people were laughing, crying and even both together. We have set ourselves a very high standard, so I do hope you will be writing more for leavers. It is just what we want. Thanks again, it was fantastic.

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    Susan White, Bucks

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    It went down really well with children, teachers and parents. Something for everyone was the key I think, and a very funny script.

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    Lloyd, Brigg Primary School

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    Awesome songs

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    D Gaughan, Greater Manchester

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    An emotional, moving and wonderful show!

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    Kirrat Tanveer, Lydgate

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    Made me cry…

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    Ocean, Tickford Park Primary School

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    best play ever, it’s like a comedy but were doing it for the end of year performance .

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    Jacky, Windsor

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    A fantastic play that ends up quite emotional. Great songs and was loved by everybody.

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    Owen, Cearleon

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    It is the best play ever I was child 2 in chapter 5

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    Emma, Sunderland

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    I did this leavers assembly 5 years ago and listening to the songs still gives me goosebumps and gets me choked up, wish i’d never left!

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    Niamh Long, Gelston Primary

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    it was really really really fun to do that as my end of term assembly i was the “HEAD” it was really funny when my office was supposedly a torture chamber LOL

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    Daisy, St. Peters C of E

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    I have just left year 11 now and I still remember every word! I was one of the interview people. It is one performance I will always remember and and can definitely say it gets me in tears every time!

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    Daniel Morris, Guernsey, Les Beaucamps High School

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    I am commenting on this now. In 2014. I remember singing this in 2010 When I was in Year 6 those were the good days. Brilliant stuff Edgy

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    Kirsy Rodger, Northamptonshire

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    We have just performed ‘Do you remember the first time?’ at my school. I am currently just finishing my nqt year and the school I have joined have never done an end of year show and I was determined that I would change this. Last night was our final show and it was amazing!!! The parents were blown away and there wasn’t a single dry eye in the room thanks to the wonderful moving last song. I would strongly recommend this play it was funny and perfect for year 6’s who are moving on with plenty of parts for everyone! Thank you so much for bringing my class and school so much joy and for the great pack I received that made my life so much easier!!

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    carmen, st stephens primary school tonbridge kent

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    loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Connor Runae, North Wooton Community School

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    Amazing!

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    Gemma, Glebe Primary School

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    Rehearsing at the moment for the play. Funny & heart touching.

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    Fiona Thomas, Ryders Hayes School

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    I really like this play. My school are doing this play, we really enjoy this play and I’m trying to get in as much practise as possible. This is a great play and very funny as well!

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