Snow White

Sample Songs

Listen below to the songs from Snow White

Plot Summary

With the opening song (Here Comes The Show) we are introduced to a kind, gentle Queen who longs for nothing more than her very own baby. Her wish is granted and she has a daughter whom she names Snow White. Skipping forward a few years we learn through the gossipy courtiers that the Queen has died, leaving the dim-witted King literally holding the baby! They soon find him a replacement wife, whose dramatic and amusing arrival brings calamity to the palace (song – Out With The Old). A selfish and vain woman, fawned over by her sly cronies, she banishes her young step-daughter to the forest and sets about spending the royal fortune on shoes and handbags! Snow White nevertheless settles into her woodland home, becoming a dear friend (and teacher) to the animals. (song – It’ll be Alright, Snow White).
As the years pass, Snow White grows into a beautiful young woman, a detail which the evil Queen learns from a mirror which she believes talks to her. This mirror is in fact an ingenious creation of her cronies; they use it to keep her convinced that she is the kingdom’s most glamorous female, even though she has the face of a bull-dog chewing a wasp! However, the threat of Snow White’s beauty leads the Queen to drastic action. Despatching her woodcutter to the forest with orders to kill Snow White and return with her heart, the Queen is confident her own ‘gorgeousness’ will now be unchallenged. Snow White, however, escapes and runs deeper into the forest, leaving the woodcutter to seek an alternative offal-source with which to convince the Queen of Snow White’s demise. Needless to say the woodland animals don’t stick around either!

Finding refuge in a small dwelling belonging to seven vertically-challenged chaps (song – The Teeny Tribe), Snow White convinces her hosts to make her residence a permanent arrangement, in return for her ‘keeping house’ and looking after them. Life continues pleasantly (song – Life Is Wonderful) until the Queen finds out that Snow White is still alive. She orders her evil boffin inventors to create dastardly implements by which her step-daughter can easily be finished-off once and for all (song – The Evil Boffins). She sets off in disguise to find Snow White and, having conned her way through the front door, tricks her into eating a poisoned apple.

Snow White’s housemates return to find her lifeless body. Devastated at their loss, accompanied by the grieving animals they take her into the forest to be laid to rest. However, the funeral is interrupted by a Prince from the neighbouring kingdom who is leading a hunting party. Despite Snow White’s ‘situation’ presenting a few practical problems to the possibility of long-term romance, he instantly falls in love with her (song – Here All Along). As he leans in to kiss her, the fumes from his unique eau-de-cologne cause Snow White to have a coughing fit, whereby she dislodges the offending piece of poisoned apple from her throat!

In a typical ‘happy-ever-after’ ending all wrongs are righted, family and friends are reunited, justice is duly administered where required and our story ends with a slap-up wedding….just as you’d expect! (song – Everything’s Turned Out Fine).

Characters

30 Speaking parts in order of appearance
*Click on the Line count/Costumes tab for more details

4 Narrators – our fairytale-tellers
The Good Queen – ‘Broody’ is an understatement
3 Courtiers – ensuring palace affairs run smoothly
The King – not overly-blessed with brains
The Bad Queen – scheming, psychopathic shopaholic
Her 3 Cronies – fawning underlings
Snow White – banished beauty whose refuge is reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic
2 Animals – the teacher’s pets, literally
The Woodcutter – for the chop if he can’t control his conscience

The Teeny Tribe:

Chief – the not-so-big boss
Beamer – pint-sized smiler
Milton – diminutive disinfectant
Muncher – petite pie-addict
Snuffles – knee-high nasalist
Grouchy – miniature moaner
Snoozy – over-tired titch
3 Evil Boffins – crocodile clips put smiles on their lips
The Prince – devastatingly dashing
2 Hunters – tally-ho whip crackers

Ensemble characters for featured songs and scenes

Courtiers
The Bad Queen’s Entourage
Woodland Animals
The Prince’s entourage
More Evil Boffins
Wedding Guests

What do you get?

This musical production is available to buy in 3 different formats. When ordering, simply choose the option (details below) which best suits your requirements.

• Option 1 – Book & Audio CD.
  A wire-bound book containing the full script (both rhyming and non-rhyming versions) with detailed stage directions, character information, tips and suggestions for costumes, props and scenery, and a piano score for all songs. An audio CD of all songs (backing tracks & vocal tracks) plus continuity/incidental music and sound effects where required. .
• Option 2 – CD-ROM & Audio CD.
  A CD-ROM containing both a PDF and an editable MS Word document of the full script, with detailed stage directions, character information, tips and suggestions for costumes, props and scenery, and a PDF of the piano score for all songs. An audio CD of all songs (backing tracks & vocal tracks) plus continuity/incidental music and sound effects where required.

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.

UK schools can order Book & Audio CD and CD-ROM & Audio CD options with an invoice to be paid within 30 days. Non-UK schools and private individuals (not ordering on behalf of a school) are required to pay for these at the point of ordering.