Say hello to our most Christmassy musical, written to knock your Christmas socks off and have you singing and smiling all the way into the New Year. This festive production for 7-11s has a hysterical script, unforgettable characters and songs that are packed with creativity and quirk! This show is festive fun through and through, so if you’re looking for a little bit of magic at this wonderful time of year, you’ve found it!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT
It’s festive, it’s feel-good, it’s undeniably funny!
About No One Wraps Like An Elf
From the writing team that worked on I'm Gonna Shine!, Don’t Be Afraid! and Peter Pan The Musical, this Christmas adventure is one you’ll want to add to your wish list!
THE SONGS
These 8 songs have been creatively and carefully crafted to get your 7-11 year olds singing along – they’re modern, they’re theatrical and (as you may have guessed) there’s a rap to be learnt too! With a jazzy, sneaky villain number, and a weatherman reindeer song, you’ll have audiences humming all the way home!
THE STORY
Far away in the frozen North Pole, Santa’s elves are working long and hard to find the perfect wrapping for each child’s hand-picked gift, while closer to home in the town of Wimpole, a wicked plan is underway to replace the beautiful gifts with tacky toys from Plasticopia, and so to destroy the magic of Christmas!
Could this be the end of the roll for the elves? Can the greedy Smash and Grab twins really succeed in tearing out the heart of Christmas and replacing it with a £ sign? Will their Ninja Knights on oily bikes replace Santa’s reindeer? Or can brave Little Elf undo the evil doings and finally save the day?
THE CHARACTERS
From scheming conmen Smash and Grab, to the MINT Spies and weatherman reindeer, there’s a whole community of vibrant and unique characters to join Little Elf and his elf buddies in this cast!
THE EXTRAS
Whether you’re looking to size up or scale down your cast, we’ve included exactly how you might want to double up on parts or expand the cast list to help cater for the number of children you’re working with. We’ve also provided choreography videos and all the other Out of the Ark extras to keep your performance preparation as easy and enjoyable as possible.
THE VERDICT
‘The best Christmas performance to date. My daughter and Year 4 performed this and it was such a funny, energetic play. It was obvious that the children have loved this as much as the parents. I think ’No One Raps Like An Elf‘ will be sung throughout Christmas. If you’re thinking of purchasing this you will not be disappointed.’
‘We really enjoyed the production of No One Wraps Like An Elf last year. It was fun, engaging and the songs were particularly creative. The children loved how the songs were upbeat’
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a Premium or Online Pack that includes an eSongbook.
There are 48 speaking parts plus 5 essential non-speaking reindeer roles, 3 essential non-speaking child roles (Child 4, 5 & 6) and an essential non-speaking floor manager, so a cast size of 57 as a minimum.
INCREASING THE CAST SIZE
The speaking parts can easily be increased to 60 if you allow for additional workers and shoppers and split the lines accordingly. Have as many additional non-speaking elves, reindeer, children, shoppers and workers as you like.
DECREASING THE CAST SIZE
The cast list can be reduced to 42 (42 speaking parts, doubling those up for essential non-speaking parts) by doing the following:
- Reduce number of teachers to 3 and reallocate lines accordingly
- Reduce number of shop assistants from 4 to 2 and split lines between them
- The 3 teachers and 2 shop assistants double up as the 5 essential non-speaking reindeer
- Just have Press 1 who says all ‘Press’ lines and doubles as Child 6
- The 2 shop assistants double as the 2 Ninja Knight Riders and Child 4 & 5
- Different children to take the role of Floor Manager when they are free to do so
(Total length of music: 22 minutes approx)
Licence Information
Annual Performance Licence Information - What You Need To Know
- A current Annual Performance Licence is required to perform a musical or nativity to an audience (other than to pupils & staff), including an online audience, and irrespective of whether admission charges are made.
- It is more cost effective to purchase an Annual Performance Licence as part of a complete product pack.
- An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
- To renew your Annual Peformance Licence, log into your account if you have one and go to your My Licences section.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
All of our eSongbooks come with a Single User Licence
- This means you can install our Words on Screen™ software onto ONE computer only, or it can be streamed by a single user.
- If you would like to install this software onto your network server and/or two or more computers, or allow multiple users to stream Words on Screen™ songs, this will be covered by your Annual Performance Licence which includes extended digital rights. For more information, click here.
The following items are available for this product:
Teacher's Book
- Character list
- Costumes and percussion ideas
- Staging and prop suggestions
- Curriculum links
- Script and song lyrics
- Music score for 8 songs (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Sound Effects: Announcement Alert, School Bell, Blizzard, Doorbell, Santa Vortex
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online Words on Screen™ product to stream or download
- Extractable MP3s, printable lyrics, scores, scripts (including editable script*) & additional resources
- Words on Screen™ versions of songs so that you can display song lyrics on any whiteboard, computer screen, television or interactive touchscreen. The lyrics synchronize with the music as it plays making them easy to teach and easy to learn
- Flexibility to create an expandable library of Words on Screen™ song collections, nativities and musicals in your Out of the Ark online account
- Enhanced operation features including ‘double-click’ to hear and teach a single line
- Words on Screen™ user guide
- Single-User licence (Please note a Performance Licence is still required to perform this musical)
- Licence & copyright details
Annual Performance Licence
An Annual Performance Licence covers any number of performances of a particular musical or nativity within 12 months of the date of ordering. A separate Annual Performance Licence is required for each product title.
Find out more about what your Annual Performance Licence will legally cover you to do.
Rehearsal CDs
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Sound Effects: Announcement Alert, School Bell, Blizzard, Doorbell, Santa Vortex
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20
Fantastic
The best Christmas performance to date. My daughter and year 4 performed this and it was such a funny, energetic play. It was obvious that the children have loved this as much as the parents. I think “no one raps like an elf” will be sung throughout Christmas. If you’re thinking of purchasing this you will not be disappointed.
Really Fun!!
Me & my Class preformed this in yr 6 and it was really Fun & Funny!! I really enjoyed this Play, and it was realyy fun singing the songs with my Freinds! I defiently recommend this play!! :)
Fun, engaging and creative!
We really enjoyed the production of No one Wraps like an Elf last year. It was fun, engaging and the songs were particularly creative. The children loved how the songs were upbeat and the audience also enjoyed them. We really liked the message behind the play- personally I think it was one of my favourite plays we have produced recently.
Absolutely Fantastic!
We had P5 & P6 perform they thoroughly loved it. The songs were ideal and the kids particularly loved the rapping aspect incorporated into the songs. They found the songs cool & upbeat. The other teachers & parents found it very entertaining and received lots of laughs!
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