Nuncrackers (Large Cast Edition)
- Full Length Musical, Comedy, Christmas/Holiday, Contemporary
- 2M, 9F
- ISBN: TW-8888
The Little Sisters of Hoboken are here to make your holiday season merry and bright! All the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil and several students, take the stage to celebrate the season with warmth and hilarity.
Description
- Full Length Musical
- Comedy, Christmas/Holiday
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Orchestra Size: Small/Combo
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Featuring all new songs, including "Twelve Days Prior to Christmas," "Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House," "We Three Kings of Orient Are Us" and "It's Better to Give than to Receive," this show is filled with wacky Nunsense humor, some of your favorite carols, and a "Secret Santa" sequence featuring audience participation. Certain to tickle your funny bone and likely to tug at your heartstrings, Nuncrackers is the perfect way to make your holiday season merry and bright!
REVIEWS:
"Laughs abound... a good-hearted spoof of just about everything connected with the holiday."
Barbara L. Fredricksen, Tampa Bay Times
"A must-see for anyone who can’t suppress a giggle."
Erin Hart, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"A holiday delight! This show lives more than Cats and Hello, Dolly! combined!"
Republican-American
"Goggin’s songs remain peppy...zinging from one moment to the next...The laughs remain miraculously steady."
Michael Phillips, St. Paul Pioneer Press
"A hilarious and unmissable musical...comedic numbers such as 'All I Want for Christmas' and 'Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House' keep the audience on the edge of their seat and roaring with laughter throughout the entire production."
Emma Suttell, BroadwayWorld
"A fun-filled frolic...playful, funny, and downright entertaining."
Paula F. Howard, Lake & Sumter Style
Nuncrackers is the fourth show in Dan Goggin's series of Nunsense musicals.
Characters
- Casting: 2M, 9F
- Casting Attributes: Flexible casting, Roles for Teens, Expandable casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Roles for Children
- Casting Notes: In the "Large Cast" productions there are five major roles, two featured roles, and four smaller roles, plus eight featured students and a chorus which can be as large or small as desired. The chorus can be made up of adults and/or children - adults playing priests, brothers and nuns - children as Mount Saint Helen's students.
Sister Julia, Child of God could be a nun played by a male actor impersonating Julia Childs. - Chorus Size: Large
SISTER MARY HUBERT - Mistress of Novices
SISTER ROBERT ANNE - Streetwise nun from Brooklyn
SISTER MARY PAUL - Amnesia. Nun who lost her memory
SISTER MARY LEO - Novice who wants to be a ballerina
FATHER VIRGIL - Sister Mary Leo's "real-life" brother, a Franciscan Father
SISTER JULIA, CHILD OF GOD - Convent Cook
SISTER MARY WILHELM - Convent Nurse
BROTHER BRENDAN JOSEPH - A teacher at Mount St. Helen's School
SISTER MARY LUKE - Also a teacher at Mount Saint Helen's
SISTER MARY CELESTE - A novice
FOUR GIRLS - Students at Mount Saint Helen's
FOUR BOYS - Students at Mount Saint Helen's
Available Material
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Perusal Material
Shipped immediately. This is optional.
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1 x Lib-Vocal Book |
$24.00 |
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Rehearsal Material
Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.
20 x Prompt / Vocal-Chorus Books (marked Large Cast) |
$250.00 +$75.00/pm |
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Orchestral Material
Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.
1 x Piano |
$100.00 +$75.00/pm |
