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Twice Upon a Time (Neuman)

The spells of three whimsical witches go awry and Snow White, the Princess from Princess and the Pea, Beauty, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty all appear out of nowhere, much to their aggravation.

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 30 minutes

  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
  • Cautions: No Special Cautions

  • Performance Group:
  • Large Stage, Elementary School / Primary, Community Theatre, Jr High/Primary, High School/Secondary, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Church / Religious Groups
In Twice Upon A Time the spells of three whimsical witches go awry and Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty (from Beauty and the Beast) and Princess (from Princess and the Pea) all appear out of nowhere, much to their aggravation. Unhappy dwarfs, soldiers and a frog materialize when even more spells get confused. The frog has turned into a prince and the princesses are all turning into frogs when the witches finally stumble on to the solution to this fine kettle of fish.

Published in The Princess Plays.

  • Casting: 5F, 15M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Reduced casting (Doubling Possible), Ensemble cast, Flexible casting, Room for Extras, Features Teens, Expandable casting, Features Children, Color blind casting, Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: The cast for Twice Upon A Time is very flexible.  The play can be performed by a larger cast by using more actors as STORYTELLER or SOLDIERS.

  • STORYTELLER (gender neutral)
    FERMELDA (gender neutral)
    SLUG (gender neutral)
    GRUB (gender neutral)
    CINDERELLA
    SLEEPING BEAUTY
    SNOW WHITE
    ALLERGIC (gender neutral)
    SARCASTIC (gender neutral)
    STUPID (gender neutral)
    DEPRESSED (gender neutral)
    BORED (gender neutral)
    JUST PLAIN MEAN (gender neutral)
    EXHAUSTED (gender neutral)
    BEAUTY
    PRINCESS AND THE PEA
    ABRA (gender neutral)
    CA (gender neutral)
    DABRA (gender neutral)
    FROG (gender neutral)