Whether you're staging your first or your fiftieth children's musical production here's an indispensable planning guide that will ensure a successful performance. Includes techniques for staging characterization customizing for your particular cast using children's artwork costumes make-up sound systems developing self esteem and more. Comes unbound so you can place it in your own loose-leaf binder.

Express Musical for Young Voices-An Express Musical for Young Voices. ?Move that car! We're ready to begin. A garage is a place to make music in. With keyboard drums guitar and bass; add a singer and we're all in place!? Explore the instruments of arock band and start your own garage band. This unique musical revue features fresh new arrangements for unison voices with optional harmony that are accessible and appropriate for upper elementary and middle school singers. Usethe program dialog for performance options; connect to the standards with teaching objectives for each song; and extend learning with online video interviews featuring John Jacobson and the studio musicians who recorded the songsin musical revue. ?Here we go; the band is complete. We got the singer and we got the beat! Let's twist and shout and harmonize too. We're ready to play a tune for you.? Songs include: We Got the Beat Twist andShout Stand By Me Your Song Livin' on a Prayer Making the Band. 25 Minutes. Suggested for grades 4-8.

10 magical songs to make you really smile.-A brilliant new collection of songs to make you really feel good!If you want a happyschool then these are the songs for you! Funny magical inspiring playful these songs are designed to get all your singers smiling and feeling good about life! Many of these exciting new songs for 5-11 year-olds also supportaspects of the PSHE curriculum.From thinking about the things that make you feel great to making our world a better place; from laugh-out loud nonsense to songs that bring the magic out from inside us; from songs that getyour toes tapping to songs that make you feel like you can change the world . . . sing to feel good!Includes CD with backing and vocal tracks. With unison and 2-part arrangements.

The traditional Nativity story retold in narration and song for performance by children of mixed ages and abilities. The music is easy to learn and has an up-to-date feel which makes it instantly appealing. 

Kids 'Rock the World' for a Better Environment-Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! A lot has changed since 1989 when the popular Assignment: Earth hit the stage! We now have cellphones (and what to do with old ones) the internet (for a wide range of information on theenvironment) and hybrid and alternative fueled vehicles. Are we keeping up with the times? What are we doing to make our world a better place to live? Update: Earth is a 30-minute musical review about our ongoing quest tobetter the world's environment. It features 7 original pop/rock songs with simple dialogue and characters flexible enough to perform with one class or the entire student body. Kick-off the Fall with Update: Earth to set anenvironmental theme that will last throughout the year or perform it in the Spring in conjunction with Arbor Day. The Teacher Edition comes complete with piano/vocal arrangements script and John Jacobson's choreography andstaging tips. Publications printed on recycled paper. Available: Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals) Performance/Accompaniment CD. Performance Time: Approx. 30 minutes. For Gr. 3-8.

Words to 200 popular songs-Transform your school singing with these great CD sets that give EVERY teacher the confidence to introduce singing. Each includes top-quality backing tracks which make singing them along really easy!

A Musical Celebration of America's Westward Expansion-There's gold in them thar hills! Gold has been discovered in the hills of California. Land is being given away to settlers willing to make a fresh start in the newly explored regions of the American West. Cowpokes andminers farmers and trappers gamblers and adventurers of all kinds are making their way west to chase the promise of the American Dream. They come by way of wagon train horseback stream boat and rail. Go West combines music history and drama to explore important facts about the westward expansion of early United States and discovers that real gold is not always the kind made into ingots and baubles. Real gold is discovered in the ideas andinspiration derived from new lands fresh starts and attainable dreams abundant in the promises of the land of the free. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school performers this historic and entertaining 35-minute musicalfeatures 7 original songs connecting script John Jacobson's choreography and a helpful production guide. The Teacher Edition includes full script accompanied songs Production Guide and choreography suggestions. Available:Teacher Edition Singer Edition 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals only) Performance/Accompaniment CD Performance Kit/CD (Teacher 20 Singer books P/A CD). Performance Time: Approx. 35 minutes. For Grades 4-8.

A Blockbuster Musical for Young Voices-Grab your cameras! We're makin' a movie about the one and only Santa Claus ? but what style of movie fits the greatest elfin hero of all time? Thanks to a little help from Cecil B. DeGrille Alfred Pitchfork Steven Reelbergand a few other illustrious filmmakers a young group of aspiring directors experience movie-making like never before from Epic Extravaganza and Film Noir to Spaghetti Western and Super-hero-adventure film. Watch out Hollywood!This musical offers options for a simple or elaborate production including the choice of two endings and suggestions for producing your very own movie. We'll even show you how! Either way ? it will be a blockbuster! This40-minute musical features six original songs and connecting script with over 50 speaking parts. The Teacher Edition includes piano/vocal song arrangements and choreography script helpful production guide and teaching objectiveslinked to the National Standards for each song. For added value the ready-to-use student books include songs and script and will enhance the musical experience for your young aspiring actors/singers! Available separately:Teacher Edition Singer 5-Pak Preview CD (with vocals