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         <Summary>Children's theatre: What are my suggestions?</Summary>
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;It's always exciting to talk to a 
theatre director. Many times during the year I'll have the opportunity to talk 
with high school directors, middle school directors&amp;nbsp;or community theatre 
directors.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;Whenever I talk with any school 
director (often with community theatre directors) about my personal suggestions 
on children's theatre plays and children's theatre musicals, I'll always speak 
with complete honesty.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;Many of my&amp;nbsp;children's theatre 
favorites are Vera Morris and Bill Francoeur children's musicals. For 
non-musical children's theatre plays, I&amp;nbsp;love the humor of Karen 
Boettcher-Tate or Kathryn Schultz Miller. However, I think Pioneer Drama Service 
carries the right show for any children's theatre company. The music in our 
children's musicals is fun for the actors and loved&amp;nbsp;by the audiences. As 
for our non-musicals, there is an abundance of humor and action. We have 
excellent stageplays. These stageplays are wonderful for children and any group 
of adults and young audiences. You will always find quality playscripts for 
productions of any budget or size! &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;Attached are a number of links 
to&amp;nbsp;a few of Pioneer's children's theatre plays and children's theatre 
musicals. You may also visit the two websites of children's theatres who have 
done our shows. Any questions about Pioneer? Give them a call and I'm sure 
you'll find them to be excellent references to our company.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</Description>
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                   <Title>Wonderland</Title>

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                   <Title>Enchantment of Beauty and the Beast</Title>

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                   <Title>Your choice!</Title>

                   <Synopsis>Browse through all of the shows and give me a call if you have questions.</Synopsis>

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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;Our musicals are special. Every day 
when I speak with someone on the phone, I find that I receive compliment after 
compliment on a Pioneer Drama Service musical comedy. Why?&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;First, we make sure that our musicals 
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schools and many community theaters. Sets can be designed to be simple or, if 
desired, can be very elaborate. Most of our musicals have few sets, making it 
easier to perform. In addition, casts are designed paticularly for many schools 
that have a predominately female cast. Moving on, the shows have high quality 
music and come with CDs that can be used for performances and rehearsals. Cost? 
Easy to afford.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;I feel the strongest point, though, 
is that they are not as well-known as your typical Broadway show. Broadway Jr., 
an excellent MTI creation, takes away the originality that our materials bring. 
It's as one director told me, "My child felt so much pressure being Tevya. He 
wanted a role in which he could portray someone who had not been seen a million 
times. That's why we're back with you." &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;We have close to 150 musicals that 
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theatres.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"&gt;Take a look at where our shows have 
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         <Name>Pioneer Drama Service, founder, Shubert Fendrich! His life was theatre! Filled with educational plays, entertaining plays, school plays, and community theater plays!</Name>
         <Summary>Full length plays, full length musicals, one act plays... he wrote 'em all!</Summary>
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT 
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size=2&gt;I 
have often been asked how I became publisher of a play publishing company. It's 
really rather strange to be involved in something so unique. Here is the 
story:&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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size=2&gt;It was not unusual in our family to go see a play every week. Growing up 
in Cody, Wyoming, it wasn't easy to find a musical&amp;nbsp;or a play around the 
small town. However, there were&amp;nbsp;always&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;local community 
theatre where they often put on&amp;nbsp;children's plays and&amp;nbsp;musicals. Of 
course, when it was seasonal, you could always go and watch their Christmas 
shows. Even when I was young, we would always go and watch the high school drama 
department perform everything from dramas to&amp;nbsp;children's theatre plays. I 
always loved the comedies, though the dramas often meant a lot to me. I was even 
in one or two junior high school plays when we lived in Cody. &amp;nbsp;However, Dad 
felt that he wanted to do something special. He knew that there were many types 
of shows that would be great for&amp;nbsp;all schools and community 
theatres.&amp;nbsp;So he decided to start his own publishing company and ventured 
out to look for&amp;nbsp;play scripts. He placed an ad somewhere which said: We are 
looking for&amp;nbsp;plays for children... scripts for schools... theatre texts... 
playwrights! He wanted to become involved with theatre all over the United 
States. He wanted to become involved with the&amp;nbsp;theatre education process in 
elementary schools to high schools! Don't forget&amp;nbsp;community theater! He 
wanted the dramatic material to be moral, as well. Holiday plays would also be a 
strong part of the company, so he hoped. When he placed his ad, teachers started 
sending in copies of the school plays that they had written. These stage plays, 
though designed for amateur theatre, often did not have the quality that he was 
looking for. But many&amp;nbsp;school scripts that had been done for&amp;nbsp;school 
shows were excellent. He found high quality drama&amp;nbsp;in the numerous small 
cast plays and large cast plays that were sent in. He began to select the best 
plays that would act as&amp;nbsp;great drama aids for any drama class. Later, he 
created a competition to bring in&amp;nbsp;contest plays. During our time in Cody, 
Dad even went back to college to receive a Master's Degree in drama. I learned 
about reader's theatre when I went up to Billings, Montana to see him 
perform.&amp;nbsp;After that, Cody suddenly became to small for 
us.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT 
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size=2&gt;So, like improvisational actors, we took things as they came.&amp;nbsp;Though 
we were like&amp;nbsp; amateur performers moving around without acting books, Dad 
had class. In fact, his own acting class when we moved to Laramie, Wyoming. 
Pioneer Drama Service, very small, was being run in Cody while we lived in 
Laramie. Dad was going back to college at the University of Wyoming for another 
degree in drama.&amp;nbsp;While I was in Laramie, I enjoyed getting&amp;nbsp;acting 
parts and acting roles in our drama club. I even was in children's theatre plays 
in a summer theatre camp at the University. These acting roles were not exactly 
challenging but they were fun! Children of all ages came to see me in Elves and 
the Shoemaker. (I did feel my acting was pretty good! It wasn't classic drama, 
but I received a lot of applause!)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT 
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size=2&gt;After Dad received a degree from the drama department at the University, 
we moved to Denver. The company was then moved to Denver. While the company 
began to grow, I was in the&amp;nbsp;drama club at George Washington High School. 
The drama department at the school had a teacher who was one of the best drama 
directors around.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT 
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" 
size=2&gt;Meanwhile, the playwriting contest kept on bringing in more and more 
drama for young audiences. It was obvious to Dad that teachers were looking for 
drama lessons to use drama in the classroom as a teaching tool. Drama teachers 
and their student actors wanted everything to help them in drama training, drama 
workshops, and student theatre. Though we did not have any books 
with&amp;nbsp;monologues, we had plays that contained&amp;nbsp;scenes that were 
excellent for&amp;nbsp;school performances like an all-school&amp;nbsp;play musical. The 
company began to purchase&amp;nbsp;theatre books which we advertised 
in&amp;nbsp;Dramatics Magzazine. Dramatists who were teaching theatre&amp;nbsp;in 
classroom drama classes for&amp;nbsp;classroom performances enjoyed them. But it 
even stimulated young actors into writing plays for young audiences and young 
performers.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Youth theatre meant a lot to Pioneer Drama Service. We 
would always go and watch classroom shows, especially when they used 
our&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;play resources. Personally, I loved watching the creative 
dramatics by these amateur performers. Dad would even help directing kids with 
dialogues.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT 
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size=2&gt;When Dad tragically died in 1989, I took over. The company was still 
growing and theatre education was always important to Debra (my wife) and me. We 
knew the importance of theatre arts. Whether a play was for a church, high 
school or professional theatre,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;we wanted to make sure Pioneer Drama 
Service had playwrights writing a one act, full length, musical or a melodrama. 
&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size=2&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt"&gt;&lt;FONT 
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;FONT 
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to Dave Barton and Matt Bond who wrote the musical Tom Sawyer. They have been 
friends of our family for years. Dave looked at me and said, "Your Dad loved 
Shakespeare. He always used to say 'The play's the thing." And believe me, the 
play was his thing. It shows with Pioneer Drama Service's&lt;/FONT&gt; &lt;FONT 
size=2&gt;success story. Below are a number of his 
plays.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</Description>
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pirate musical, with the score by Bill Francoeur is also going to come out in 
the near future. Give me a call if you want to find out what additional shows 
will be popping up.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Below are some of my favorite high school musical comedies and our 
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in our new textbook catalog. Perhaps some of the more popular ones are theatre 
texts for elementary schools. The following textbooks below are worth looking 
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         <Name>Enjoyed talk with Nikki Mondschein, former winner of Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest</Name>
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When she was in high school, she won the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting 
Award with her play CHARACTERS. It was a thrill to call her, almost ten years 
ago, to tell her the news. What an honor. She has now gone on to do some amazing 
things, go to some incredible colleges and is heading towards being an attorney. 
Get to know Nikki! She's quite a person.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</Description>
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         <Name>Meeting new playwrights and being with Terry Dodd, Playwright, Lee Blessing, Playwright and Steven Dietz, Playwright on Panel</Name>
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the amateur theater stage and the professional theater stage. The people on the 
panel included Lee Blessing, playwright. Lee Blessing's play, A WALK IN THE 
WOODS, was on Broadway and London's West End. He has many off-Broadway 
Productions and has received many awards including the American Theatre Critics 
Award and the Great American Play Ward. I was also honored to be with Steven 
Dietz who has won the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. Perhaps 
one of the finest panel members was Aoise Stratford, playwright. Though no one 
can pronounce her first name, she is a wonderful person to have on a panel. She 
gives wonderful feedback.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As I said, as publisher of Pioneer Drama Service, I was thrilled to meet and 
work with Lee Blessing, playwright, Steven Dietz, playwright, Terry Dodd, 
playwright, Nagle Jackson, playwright, Jane Page, director, Aoise Stratford, 
playwright and Edith Weiss, playwright. It was a fun weekend. Have fun meeting 
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&lt;P&gt;So, here I am. It's time to start choosing plays. I have decided to do one 
act plays ideal for middle school students. I will also do melodrama. I think 
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them started in something fun. Melodrama is ideal for schools, churches and 
community theaters which need large cast plays with comedy.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Down below, I have some wonderful websites to explore. These websites are 
fantastic for the novice director or experienced theater director. They are 
excellent resources for starting a theater or simply finding perfect books and 
products to help out. I know I'll have fun. You too! It's always a great feeling 
to get kids involved in theatre.&lt;/P&gt;
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                   <Title>Ben Nye Company, Inc.</Title>

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                   <Title>Curtains, rigging and theatrical supplies</Title>

                   <Synopsis>They are one of the best in backdrops, digital printing and fiber optics</Synopsis>

                   <URL>http://www.iweiss.com</URL>

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                   <Title>Rose Brand</Title>

                   <Synopsis>Rose Brand manufactures custom drapery, scrips, backdrops, cycloramas, star drops, and digital murals used in school theaters</Synopsis>

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about 30 kids. In middle school, they tend to be mostly girls with a scattering 
of boys. I needed to find a play that would meet their needs.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;This past weekend I chose a melodrama. This melodrama gave me the flexibility 
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melodrama also allows for a lot of extras including a master of ceremonies, a 
warm-up sing along and possibly some olios at the end. Wednesday I'll put on my 
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                   <Title>PAPERBAG BANDIT RIDES AGAIN</Title>

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                   <Title>Between Hisses</Title>

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                   <Title>Melodrama: Beyond the Boos and Hisses</Title>

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                   <Title>Chase M. Mitchell</Title>

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         <Name>Music Education Madness -- Doing Musical Theater Plays on a high school level</Name>
         <Summary>A call from one of the top websites on Music Education</Summary>
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&lt;P&gt;Yesterday I received a wonderful call from the people at Music Education 
Madness. It's as they say:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;Teaching the Wonders of Music and Surviving It 
with a Smile On Your Face&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;Music Education is so important in this day and age. Part of 
that music education can be reinfoced by performning a musical theater play. 
Pioneer Drama Service offers tons of resources, including musicals for middle 
schools and high schools, that can be part of a musical education 
program.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT face=Arial&gt;I have co-written a number of musicals that have been 
extremely popular. Below are places you can explore that include some of my 
musicals, as well as valuable resources when working in musical education for 
the elementary schools, middle schools and high schools.&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</Description>
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                   <Synopsis>A wonderful website where resources for music education can be found</Synopsis>

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                   <Title>DUCKTAILS AND BOBBYSOX </Title>

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                   <Title>FRIDAY KNIGHT FEVER -- A musical written with composer Bill Francoeur</Title>

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                   <Title>LITTLE LUNCHEONETTE OF TERROR -- A spoof of Little Shop of Horrors</Title>

                   <Synopsis>I came up with the title when I was dating the future Mrs. Fendrich -- Debra Fendrich</Synopsis>

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Creek School District), two teachers came in to Pioneer Drama Service that would 
be a perfect elementary school playscript for a large cast. After a long talk, 
we decided on a show that would be perfect for an elementary school musical. It 
was decided that they would do Kokonut Kapers, a musical theatre farce by Tim 
Kelly, with music by composer Bill Francoeur.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It was then dediced that I would do my Melodrama Workshop at the school. I 
have done my Melodrama Workshop at the International Thespian Conference and 
have done it many times since for high school drama departments, middle school 
drama students and elementary school drama thespians.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;It was a great time. They left with a musical theatre play for elementary 
schools and a future melodrama workshop!&lt;/P&gt;</Description>
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                   <Title>Remember that I did my melodrama theatre workshop at a thespian festival</Title>

                   <Synopsis>Interested? Give me a call at 800-333-7262</Synopsis>

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         <Name>Middle School Play using melodrama is drawing many students</Name>
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&lt;P&gt;It's been a few days... maybe even weeks... since I kept you informed about 
my volunteer work at Newton Middle School. I decided that the school needed a 
drama program. Because of a lack of funding in our Littleton School District in 
the performing arts, a drama club disappeared from Newton. I felt that it was 
important to me and important to the school that I generate interest. After 
putting out an announcement and with the help of Debbie Getzel, the Gifted and 
Talented teacher at the school, we attracted close to 30 kids. Of course, some 
of them dropped out. That&amp;nbsp;comes with the shifting of middle school 
interests. It was no surprise to me that the majority of the kids in the club 
happened to be girls. That's no surprise. It's quite normal for a drama club to 
have more girls than boys. In fact, most of our plays in Pioneer Drama Service 
have more female roles than males. However, many of the parts are flexible. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;The most difficult aspect of the club is the limitation of time. This is 
because the club can only meet once each week and can only meet for an hour. To 
work with this I chose a large cast melodrama that was 30 minutes long. The show 
is THE PAPER BAG BANDIT, a melodrama by Tim Kelly. Tim was a genious when he was 
writing plays. When I asked him to write a 30 minute play with a lot of 
characters, Tim came out with this melodrama and RASCALS UNDER THE BIG TOP. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I have started rehearsals and they are going fairly well, though some of the 
kids have not started to memorize lines. A lot of this is because I didn't put 
out a decent schedule. I'm going to pull out a number of our play directing 
textbooks and will work on being more organized. (I've listed a number of the 
books below.)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I wasn't surprised at the high energy the kids have. However, it's working to 
control the after-school energy and get the kids in the same track for an hour. 
Things seem to be shaping up. To add to this, I started an olio group as well. 
This group meets on Tuesday. They are taking short comedy skits and a large 
variety of jokes for blackout purposes and making it into a nice selection of 
olios. Want to know what an olio is? Or facts about melodrama. I also have links 
to other sources.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</Description>
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