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DREAM A LITTLE DREAM
Narrator: .......... Welcome everybody to St Thomas Aquinas’s first school
production of “Dream a little dream”.
We hope you all enjoy the performance tonight but to make
it a little more enjoyable for everybody could you please turn
off all mobile phones and keep younger children from
coming onto or around the staging area. Thank You
ACT 1
SCENE 1- Room scene
Song: ”In my dream” by Pancake Manor
CURTAIN OPENS
Five children in position
SCENE 2- Bedroom scene
Five leads: ......... (In sleeping bags lying on stage floor, chatting and
laughing)
Mum: ................. (Off stage) Ok guys time to settle down now, It’s late! Go to
sleep “Sweet Dreams,” Don’t let the bed bugs bite”
Five leads: ......... Laugh at last comment
Walter: ................ I never remember my dreams
Danny: ................ I always dream about what I want to be
Walter: ............... What are you going to be
Danny: ................ I’m going to be a V8 supercar driver and win Bathurst
Lucy: ................... I am going to win “so you think you can dance! And be a
super star”
Genevieve: ......... I can’t wait to grow up, in my dreams I am already old
enough to be doing my own thing
Peter: ................. I don’t want to ever grow up, parents are boring
All: ..................... (Lie down to sleep)
SCENE 3-Bedroom scene
Song; “What happens when you grow up” by Peter Pan a Musical
Peter lying down asleep wakes up when music begins, Wendy walks on stage
just after Peter wakes up, Peter and Wendy sing the song.
Wendy exits end of song, Peter lies back down and drifts off to sleep
SCENE 4- Bedroom scene
Peter: ........... Mumbles (In Sleep)
Lucy: ............ (Wakes up and talks to Peter)
Lucy: ........... Peter are you awake
Peter: ........... Mumbles to himself
Lucy: ........... Peter were you talking in your sleep
Peter: ........... I don’t know, I was asleep
Lucy: ........... I need to go back to sleep, I have dance lessons in the
morning
Peter: ........... On a Sunday?
Lucy: ........... Yes I am practising for my audition
Peter: ........... What audition?
Lucy: ........... I’m auditioning for a part in a music video- I’m so excited
Peter: ........... That’s cool, Well stop waking me up and go back to sleep
Lucy: ........... (Excited giggles)
SCENE 5-Making a music video
Song, “Dancing Queen” by ABBA
Make Up Lady: ............ (Applying powder to Lucy)
Scene Starter: .............. (Claps scene starter)
Make up lady: ............ (Runs off stage)
Lucy: .......................... (Stands in pose ready for song to start)
Director: ..................... ACTION!
Song begins
Camera Men: ........... (Move cameras a little bit on side stage)
Director: .................. (Moves across stage holding hands in square shape
eyeing up Lucy, talks to cameramen and sits back in
director’s chair)
(When song finishes director calls)
Director: ................. Cut! That’s a wrap
All: ........................ Clap at Lucy’s performance
SCENE 6-Bedroom scene
All in sleeping bags asleep
Walter: .............. (Farts very loudly)
All: .................... Laugh at Walter
Walter: ............. (Puts head under the sleeping bag embarrassed)
Walter: ............. Oh Dutch oven!!
All: ................... Laugh again
Peter: ................ It’s ok Walter, Don’t Worry about it
SCENE 7- School Corridor
Song, “Hakuna Matata” By Lion King
Song begins
CURTAIN CLOSES
MINI PLAY (Ties in with play)
Narrator: ........... As time goes by (looks at person walking as though not
expecting and never seen before)
Clock: ............... (Stands up and walks from one side of room to the other)
Narrator: ........... Well the story goes so far
Book: ............... (Walks across stage)
Narrator: .......... We have Peter who doesn’t want to grow up
Baby: ............... (Crawls/ flies across stage)
Narrator: ........... Lucy who wants to dance the night away
Dancer: ............ (Dances across stage)
Narrator: .......... And there’s Walter who can’t stop farting PoohWe! (waves
hand in front of nose and looks for next walker)
Narrator: ........... LUCKY there’s no player for that part!! What does the
second half of the story hold for us!! (Gestures for curtain to
open)
CURTAIN OPENS
ACT 2
SCENE 1- Bedroom scene
Genevieve: ........ (Sitting on stool looking out window, sad face)
Walter: .............. What’s wrong Genevieve, you look a little sad
Genevieve: ......... No not sad, just confused
Walter: ............... What’s to be confused about we are only 12
Genevieve: ......... I feel like I do the same things all the time, nothing changes
Walter: ................ We’ve got plenty of time to worry about grown up stuff
Genevieve: ......... I can’t wait until I’m older, then life really begins
SCENE 2- Genevieve bedroom
Song, “When will my life begin” by tangled
SCENE 3-Bedroom scene
Danny: .................... Sits up in bed and starts (A sleep) driving a car holding a
steering wheel driving crazy and changing gears
Peter: ...................... Danny, Danny?
Danny: ................... (Still driving a car in his sleep)
Peter: ...................... Danny, Danny(A little louder)
Danny: ................... (Wakes up and looks around, wondering what’s going on)
Peter: ...................... What are you doing?
Danny: ................... I don’t know
Peter: ...................... You were driving a racing car in your sleep
Danny: ................... “Cool” Was I any good?
Peter: ..................... You’ll never win Bathurst
Danny: .................. Oh well there’s always thunder road
SCENE 4-Mechanics Garage
Song “Greased Lightening” by Grease a musical
SCENE 5-Bedroom Scene
(Parents down stage chatting drinking coffee)
Lucy’s Mum: ........... Hurry up Lucy we have to get going; you have an audition
today
Lucy: ................. Ok –Coming Mum
Peter: .................. I had the strangest dream last night
Genevieve: .......... Maybe we ate too much food
Danny: ................. I know someone who ate too much food last night
(All look at Walter and laugh with him)
Walter: ............... WHAT! (Looking very sheepish)
Lucy: ................... Nah seriously I swear I saw Danny sit straight up in bed
pretending to drive a race car
All: ........................ WOOW, YEH!! Go Danny!
Genevieve: ............ This is all just too weird, I think we should keep this to
ourselves
All: ....................... Don’t worry “where all in this together”!!
SCENE 6- Finale
Song, “All in this together” from High School Musical
All cast and crew stay on stage take a bow