Global Worming
By: Jeff Bonnor
Global Worming is a fun and quirky musical that puts a hilarious slant on the humdrum routine of the schoolroom. The show may be performed by a class or the whole school. The show features 10 songs and 16 roles. The scenes all take place in the school in various classrooms which may be easily depicted by projected images or by one school room backdrop with different props to indicate the different classrooms.
The 10 performance items in the show are written in such a way that each performance group can rehearse separately and come together at the end of production to create a cohesive story.
The show highlights the importance of learning in a lively and entertaining manner while also learning about issues such as relationships with your peers, friendship and realising your own strength and power.
Running time: 70 minutes
What's Included?
The complete script including extensive production and director's notes
A version of the script for students
A songbook featuring simple sheet music and lyrics for each of the show's songs
Instrumental only and vocal guide music tracks for each song plus sound effects
All items are delivered as easy and convenient digital downloads
- The full master version of the script for you to peruse
- Vocal guide music tracks for each song
- All items are delivered as easy and convenient digital downloads
Hard copies, video licences, production packages and poster packages can be purchased during checkout
The new school year begins with a new school principal, Mr Wrathmore. The teachers are summoned to a staff meeting only to find that they are to be replaced by substitutes and imprisoned within the school. The children welcome this new change as the substitute teachers are strangely uninterested in teaching the children anything. The children enjoy this new freedom of doing what they want to do, whenever they want to do it.
Only Alan and Ana are suspicious. With some investigation they realise that something sinister is going on in the school. Wrathmore has an evil plan that could change the world as we know it. Can Alan and Ana free the teachers and then battle the forces of ignorance and apathy with knowledge and logic? Or will Wrathmore and his minions succeed in enslaving the minds of our children?
The first of the main characters is The Principal who only performs in the first scene but the role requires a strong and charismatic performer.
Wrathmore is a diabolical villain (actually a worm) disguised as a school principal. It is his mission to feed the brains of the students to his worms. A fun character to play, he is the archetypal evil genius.
His sergeant-at-arms is Wrigley. This role requires someone with a good sense of comedy.
The two main students are Alan, who is the hero of the play, and Ana. Alan is bookish and sees himself as weak but he proves himself able to think his way out of trouble. He is helped and encouraged into his heroism by Ana. These two roles require strong actors.
Wilson and Phillips are the archetypal comedy bullies, interested in taking lunch money off others, harassing those weaker than they are and trying their best to not learn anything at school. They love it when the new teachers take over the school.
There are six teachers who take various classes and one substitute teacher who of course is one of Wrathmore's villains.
There are a ten songs in Global Worming, which may be rehearsed separately.
Here you're able to listen to a small sample of vocal backed music tracks featured in the show.