Spring Chicken The Musical
This chicky is no longer yellow and small (well, still yellow!) and is well and truly on her way to a stage near you! This end-of-year and leavers’ musical is one you won’t want to miss. Join the feisty Chickalita in this story of unlikely friendships, big dreams and a whole lot of singing!
Teachers, get ready to cast some dancing flamingos, a thieving old grandma, a goat with a business brain and SO many more characters that’ll have audiences on the edge of their seats, and eventually up on their feet!
An Annual Performance Licence is required to perform this title. For more information, please click here.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT
It’s Broadway meets leavers’ production!
About Spring Chicken The Musical
From the team that brought you Peter Pan The Musical, A Hint Of Snow White and You Are Special comes this original musical with a whole lot of heart!
THE SONGS
This musical for 7-11 year olds is FULL of catchy, feel-good showbiz numbers, from the dancing flamingos’ opening number to a song exploring the age-old question: what DID come first... the chicken or the egg? The show closes with a hearty finale song championing ambition, dreams and positivity – ‘The world needs people with dreams!’
P.S. You might even find a song you already know and love hiding in the soundtrack there... it’s yellow and small!
THE STORY
Chickalita is desperate to get out of her small farm and off to the big city, to do what she’s always dreamed of – singing! Follow her as she faces the singing-hating collies and the riff-raff of Scallywag Alley, and even as she tries to cross the road in the big city to get her one shot at her dream!
THE CHARACTERS
We’ve got a dreamer of a chick, controlling collies who hate singing, the unlikely group from Scallywag Alley, dancing flamingos, rapping bunnies – the whole lot! There is truly something for everyone in this production, so get your casting director’s hat on and get egg-cited!
THE EXTRAS
As well as an overture to blow your socks off, we’ve also included some dance videos to inspire you for an ovation-worthy performance! You can check them all out here!
An editable script is available for this product when you purchase a package that includes an eSongbook.
View cast list, props and costume ideas.
There are 42 speaking parts plus at least 11 essential non-speaking parts (at least 3 flamingo dancers, four chicks, Bunn E. Bugs and 3 bunnies), so a cast size of 53.
Increasing The Cast Size
The speaking parts can easily be increased to 64 if you have 12 chickens instead of 4 and split the lines evenly between them; and 6 rats instead of 3, with each rat having one line. Have as many non-speaking extra chickens, pigs, sheep and Scallywag Alley characters as you like.
Decreasing The Cast Size
The cast list can easily be reduced to 31 speaking parts (with all the speaking parts doubling up as the essential non-speaking parts) by doing the following:
- Director, Choreographer and Voice Off double up as Dougal, Dooley and Doomer (the cockerels)
- Henrietta, Egglantine and Chicksy double up as the flamingo dancers
- Eggs 1-4 double up as Chicks 1-4
- Sheep 1-4 double up as Foxy Gran, Benny, Charlie and Lois
- Pigs 1-4 double up as Bunn E. Bugs and the bunnies
- Clawris the cat doubles up as Agent
- Butch, Shep and Mac double up as the three rats
(Total length of music: 25 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.
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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 prop ideas
- Staging suggestions throughout
- Full script
- Song lyrics and music score for 10 songs, plus reprise and overture (Piano music score, melody and chords)
- Licence and copyright details
Audio CD
- Vocal tracks sung by children
- Professional backing tracks
- Sound Effects: City Noise
Words on Screen™ eSongbook
- An online version of your product to stream or download on-the-go
- 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
- Stream or download your songs on the go
- 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
*For your convenience, we have provided an editable script in Word format for this nativity or musical. The purpose of the editable script is to allow you to adjust the allocation of speaking parts for smaller or larger cast sizes and/or to make minor changes to the text for staging purposes.
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: City Noise
- Available in packs of 5, 10 or 20