Plays in the Compass Creative Dramatics Collection

Written with flexibility in mind, each original musical adaptation can be performed by children
as young as 1st grade up through high school.
The plays can be produced with up to 75 student actors, with a variety of roles to accommodate every student's comfort level.

For Performance Residencies, a minimum of 25 students is required unless arranged in advance.
The run time for each play during a Performance Residency is approximately 60 minutes.

For Script Development Residencies, a minimum enrollment of 8 students is required.
Script Development Showcases run 30-60 minutes, depending on the number of student participants.
Adapted from the story by Lewis Carroll

When she wakes from her tumble down the rabbit hole, Alice can't believe her eyes: conversations with a caterpillar, races with dodos, and a picnic thrown by a mad court of playing cards turn Alice's world on its head.  Uncertain of her place in this foreign world of shrinking potions and never-ending tea parties, Alice confides in a wise Cheshire Cat, who helps her discover that it's not where we go in the world, but the things we do there that define us.
Adapted from the French Folk Tale

As their beloved books disappear off the shelves, Beauty and her team of local librarians embark on a quest to rescue them from the city sewers. There, they find the Beast and his henchmen searching desperately to cure the curse that has transformed them all into animals of the lowest degree. Amidst dancing pigeons, ticklish books, and enchanted blue roses, Beauty and the Beast learn that it's only by working together that they can save the day.
Chaos reigns as international rock sensation Goldirox and the Musical Chairs check in for a stay at the Bear Hotel and Suites. Searching for a room that's "just right," they wreak havoc on the hotel, leaving debris and discord as the fly from suite to suite. The hotel clerks and housekeepers scramble to meet Goldirox's demands and to avoid the ever-present paparazzi
determined to dig up a scandal.
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When it all comes crashing down, however, everyone learns that no matter who you are, a little kindness can go a long way to earning rock star status.
In 1926, as the reign of vaudeville comes to an end,
​The Jumping Jacks (the once-famous song-and-dance act) tour a shabby state fair circuit. Broke and hungry, they dream of a better life for their only family, the dancing cows that made them famous. When a mysterious stranger offers the cows a good home, the Jumping Jacks hold back their tears
​and reluctantly say good-bye. 
But is the deal everything it appears to be?

Faced with naysaying neighbors, scheming lackeys, ferocious fashionistas, and the biggest beanstalk they've ever seen, the Jumping Jacks fight their way through the land above the clouds to reunite their family once and for all.
Adapted from the short story by Hans Christian Andersen

The trumpets blare, and with them come swashbuckling jesters, dancing peas, a pompous royal entourage,
and a zany collection of other delightful kingdom characters!
Everyone's at odds when the time comes
for the comic-book-loving prince to find the right girl
​amongst a gaggle of silly princesses. 

Peas & Harmony is a quirky retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Princess & The Pea, 
in which showing respect might just 
pave the road to happily ever after!
Adapted from the story by JM Barrie

When the curious Darling children befriend a mysterious boy from 
​a distant planet called Neverland,
they never dream that they'll soon be fighting alongside him, battling injustices and turning the delicate balance
​of this faraway world on its head.
Adapted from the novel by L. Frank Baum

After a terrible twister roars across the dusty fields of her beloved Kansas, accidental traveler Dorothy Gale finds herself immersed in an unlikely tangle of friends and foes on her way to meet the mysterious Wizard in the Emerald City. 
As Dorothy and her ever-growing roster of travel companions follow the Yellow Brick Road, 
she discovers that sometimes it’s not about the journey itself, 
but the friends you make along the way.
For information on bringing any of these titles to your school or organization, 
please email residencies@ccdramatics.com or call us at 773.893.0535.