- 64 pages
- English
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The Snow Queen
About this book
Commissioned by the NYS Theatre Institute and performed both in New York and London. This tale of friendship and loyalty is an outstanding musical, brimming with adventure and fun. One day Kai is snatched away by the Snow Queen and taken to her icy palace. Gerda sets out to find her friend and free him from the grasp of the wicked queen.
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ACT ONE
Scene One
A small Scandinavian Town
A mysterious fizzing sound like a great mirror exploding in slow motion. Then silence. Moonlight on a small town. There is a decorated platform with coloured lights. The platform is occupied by a large carnival figure of a polar bear. Its mouth is open and the place where its stomach should be is occupied by a large, hollow globe. This globe can be revolved rapidly. The great bear is a traditional lottery machine, flea-bitten and scruffy from years of use.
Quiet music. A sudden chord. A puff of smoke.
The SHOWMAN is standing on the platform. He has a big hat, a flamboyant waistcoat and a long coat and boots. Also a moustache. (This actor may double as BOJ.) He begins to sing, very quietly at first.
As he sings the MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN enter, attracted by him. They carry lanterns in the shape of strange birds, snakes and animals. (See the book Engineers of the Imagination for instructions on how to construct such lanterns.) There is a mixture of eras in costume, a mixture of beautiful mystery and carnival vulgarity in the whole scene.
SHOWMAN (Sings.)
COME AND TAKE A CHANCE.
DON’T YOU DARE BE LATE.
THIS IS WINTER CARNIVAL TIME.
HAVE SOME FUN WITH FATE.
ONLY ONCE A YEAR
COMES THIS DAY OF DAYS.
IT COULD CHANGE THE WHOLE OF YOUR LIFE
IN A THOUSAND WAYS.
SHOWMAN produces a silver tray of coloured wooden eggs. The crowd is excited. Among the crowd are two street urchins – a boy, KAI, and his friend GERDA, a little ragged girl. The CROWD know what to do. One by one, during the following, the MEN and BOYS in the CROWD offer the SHOWMAN a coin in exchange for a wooden egg.
Then they scribble a woman’s or girl’s name on the egg and hand it back to be placed in the polar bear’s belly-globe – to be entered for the lottery.
BUY A MAGIC EGG
FROM THE SNOWBIRD NEST.
WRITE YOUR LADY’S NAME ON THE EGG
I’LL DO THE REST.
IF YOU WIN THE GAME
ALL THE WORLD WILL KNOW
YOU’VE BEEN CHOSEN – YOU’RE GOING TO BE
QUEEN OF THE SNOW –
You could be the Snow Queen.
RICH DAUGHTER
LET THE SNOWS COME DOWN
TILL THEY COVER THE GROUND
LET THE SNOW QUEEN STAND
IN HER SHINING CROWN.
FEMALE TRIO
LET THE SNOWS FALL DOWN
TILL THEY COVER THE TOWN.
LET THE SNOW QUEEN DANCE
IN HER BEAUTIFUL GOWN.
SHOWMAN
ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND
THE WORLD HAS TO SPIN.
MILLIONS LOSE
BUT ONE HAS TO WIN.
ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND
THE WORLD HAS TO GO.
WHO’LL BE CHOSEN
QUEEN OF THE SNOW?
ALL (Sing.) | SHOWMAN (Sings.) |
| ROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND | BUY A MAGIC EGG |
| THE UNIVERSE GOES | FROM THE SNOWBIRD NEST |
| WHO’LL BE CHOSEN | WRITE YOUR LADY’S NAME |
| NOBODY KNOWS | AND I’... |
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Dedication
- Characters
- SCENES AND SONGS
- ACT ONE
- ACT TWO