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Step on a Crack

Comedy/Drama | Cast: 2m., 4w. | Unit set | Run time: 90 min. | Code: S1G000
In Step on a Crack, Ellie Murphy lived happily with her widowed father, Max, bowling, eating
TV dinners and playing with junk. But now, suddenly, life is different. Max has remarried,
and Ellie has a stepmother. Ellie and her imaginary friends launch into a fantasy world as
ALT. VERSION Ellie seeks to escape real-life problems. Only by running away and discovering what it is
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a mother. By Suzan Zeder.

Stepsisters
ACCOMPANIMENT CD AVAILABLE Comedy/Farce/Satire | Cast: 3 to 23m., 8 to 30w., up to 22
either gender. | Simple set. Flexible staging | Run time: 95 min. | Code: S2S000
When Drew and Beth (who are not wicked, evil and ugly) are thrown into the dungeon for
conspiring against the throne, they tell their fellow prisoners what really happened with Cinderella.
Drew, Beth and Ella are really the best of friends and—spoiler alert—Drew is actually Ella’s fairy
godmother. So bibbity-bobbity-boom! How can two sisters play matchmaker for their tomboy
stepsister while trying to out-connive a conniving mother, outwit a sadistic chancellor and make
everyone’s dreams come true before the jailer takes their heads? Book by Flip Kobler and Cindy
Marcus. Lyrics by Flip Kobler. Music by Dennis Poore.

Still Life with Iris

Comedy/Drama | Cast: 5m., 4w. (flexible/doubling.) | Small units brought onto
an open stage | Run time: 100 min. | Code: SC4000
Iris lives in a magical place called Nocturno, where memories do not reside
ALT. VERSION in people’s minds but instead are kept in their coats. The rulers of Nocturno take Iris away
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from her home and remove her coat leaving her with no memory of her home or her family.
LOGO PACK All that remains of Iris’ past is a single button from her coat. Using the button as a clue, Iris
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joins with friends she meets on her journey and returns to Nocturno, having found her past,
and her home. By Steven Dietz.

The Story of Opal
Comedy/Drama | Cast: 2m., 3w. | Area staging | Run time: 120 min. | Code: S2V000
This play is an adaptation of Opal Whiteley’s diary. She was a little girl who lived at the turn
of the 20th century in a lumber camp in Oregon. Opal’s world was exceptional, and she
recorded every day, lovingly and carefully, in her own special language. Everyone who
enters Opal’s world will remember it. Her life is portrayed here without sentiment—it was a
hard, impoverished time in a grim environment, and yet she managed to find good in the
world and engaged it with an “understanding heart.” Adapted by Gale Childs Daly. From the
book by Opal Whiteley..

Stuart Little

Comedy/Drama | Cast: 7 to 25+ either gender | Area staging. The sets and props may be
as simple or as elaborate as desired | Run time: 70 min. | Code: S99000
ALT. VERSION This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary
AVAILABLE New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the original are captured in this adaptation
LOGO PACK as Stuart, the mild-mannered mouse, tries to survive in a “real people’s world.” The many
AVAILABLE adventures—both big and small—of Stuart Little are brought vividly to life in this story theatre
presentation. Adapted by Joseph Robinette. Based on the book by E.B. White.