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Ric Averill

RIC AVERILL  

 Nationality:    USA
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Ric Averill has been the artistic Director of the Seem-To-Be Players professional children's Theatre company since he and his wife, Jeanne, founded the company in 1973. Mr. averill writes plays and music for children, youth, and adults, and has degrees in both Music Composition and Playwriting. Mr. Averill has received numerous playwriting fellowships and been selected for six professional play development symposiums, including the Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival New Plays Competition (Rough Stock), the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices, and the Indianapolis Bonderman Youth Theatre Playwriting Symposium. Mr. Averill's published plays include the Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor; Bird Woman: the Story of Sacagawea; Pixies, Kings, and Magical Things: Four Tales by H.C. andersen; the Princess and the Pea and other short plays; Alex and the Shrink World; and T-Money and Wolf (with Kevin Willmott). Two of Mr. averill's screenplays are currently optioned in L.A.: Riding the Pine, with Will averill, and the Man She Was, a Civil War screenplay, of which there is a stage play by the same name. Included among Mr. Averill's many commissions are the Kennedy Center's alice in Wonderland,First Stage Milwaukee's Little Drummer Boy, the Kansas Health Foundation's Red Blood and High Purpose, and most recently an opera for children based on the story ofthe emperor's New Clothes, commissioned by the Kennedy Center.

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         Alex And the Shrink World         Bird Woman: the Story Of Sacagawea         Bremen Town Musicians: Nothing Is Worthless         Cats and Bats         Elves and the Shoemaker, The         Elves and the Shoemaker, The         Emperor's New Clothes         Frankenstein         Great Alphabet Robbery, The         Little Drummer Boy, The         Magic Wood, The         My Two-Tailed Halloween Cat         No T.V.         O Henry Holiday         Pedro's Magic Shoes (Los Zapatos Magicos)         Pixie and the Grocer, The         Princess and the Pea, The         Reliable Junk         Robin Hood: the Courtship of Alan A' Dale         Rough Stock         Seven Voyages Of Sinbad the Sailor, The         Sitting With Bertie         Swineherd         there's an Eyeball in my Soup         T-Money And Wolf         Tom Sawyer         Turns         Ugly Duckling, The

Alex And the Shrink World

Alex And the Shrink World
a young boy shrinks to the size of an ant. He is made King of Shrink World. But then King Brown Spider threatens his world.

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Bird Woman: the Story Of Sacagawea

Synopsis:
a Shoshone girl plays an important part in the trek of Lewis and Clark

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Organisations:
Making Books Sing

1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  13 either sex; extras

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Bremen Town Musicians: Nothing Is Worthless

Synopsis:
A dog, a cat, a donkey and a rooster are kicked out as being useless - they decide to form a band

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  6-37 either sex

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Cats and Bats

Cats and Bats
Calico the cat is content and lazy. Her owner brings home a new pet Belfry who is a hyperactive bat. they do not get on - but have to band together against neighbourhood bully Ranger the dog

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Contained in: "Princess and the Pea, No TV and Other Plays" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Fifteen minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Elves and the Shoemaker, The

Synopsis:
A good deed by an elderly shoemaker is rewarded when elves take over his shop and make a wonderful range of designer shoes

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1st Produced:
Repertory Theatre, St Louis    07 Nov 2011

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Elves and the Shoemaker, The

Elves and the Shoemaker, The
the elves take pity on an elderly shoemaker

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Childrens one act

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  36 either sex

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Emperor's New Clothes

Emperor's New Clothes
the King is in the all together

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Contained in: "Pixies, Kings and Magical Things: Four Tales by Hans Christian Andersen" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein
Student Frankenstein seeks to re-animate life and creates a monster. the monster is befriended by one of the university professors.

Notes:
Based on the novel by Mary Shelley

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Childrens one act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Great Alphabet Robbery, The

Great Alphabet Robbery, The
Archibald and Oscar are stealing letters of the alphabet - but each time they steal one they are unable to that letter when speaking

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Contained in: "Princess and the Pea, No TV and Other Plays" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Little Drummer Boy, The

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First Stage, Milwaukee    -

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Magic Wood, The

Synopsis:
Time travel and Robin Hood

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Theatre Arts" published by National Textbook Company 1997   -

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Genre:
Youth one act

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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My Two-Tailed Halloween Cat

My Two-Tailed Halloween Cat
Sydney is bullied by the older girls at school. An eccentric visiting professor says he will give a parrot to the pupil who brings in the oddest animal specimen. Sydney says her cat has two tails. With the help of a junior witch - Simon - a spell is cast. But was it the right thing to do?

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Youth one act

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Male:  6            Female:  17            Other:  1 either sex

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No T.V.

No T.V.
Serenity has been told no more television until she tidies her room. She starts using her imagination to entertain herself

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Princess and the Pea, No TV and Other Plays" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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O Henry Holiday

Synopsis:
a junk man and a bag lady on a date

Notes:
Based on the writings of O Henry

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Theatre Arts" published by National Textbook Company 1997   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  1 boy or girl; doubling

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Pedro's Magic Shoes (Los Zapatos Magicos)

Synopsis:
Pedro must prove that he is the greatest trickster of all time.

Notes:
15% in Spanish

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  doubling

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Pixie and the Grocer, The

Pixie and the Grocer, The
A pixie lives in a grocery shop. It hears a student reading his own poetry one day and is enraptured with it. the shop catches fire and the pixie runs back in to the shop to rescue the note book with the poems in

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Pixies, Kings and Magical Things: Four Tales by Hans Christian Andersen" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  2 either sex

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Princess and the Pea, The

Princess and the Pea, The
Twelve mattresses and she can still tell if there is a pea in the bed

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Princess and the Pea, No TV and Other Plays" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Reliable Junk

Synopsis:
Brainy student, Michael is trying to come to terms with his grandfather's illness. He meets an eccentric inventor who is building a flying machine for another cancer sufferer.

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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  1 either sex

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Robin Hood: the Courtship of Alan A' Dale

Synopsis:
the duke's daughter Genevieve dreams of her perfect man. Her father has promised her to the Sheriff of Nottingham. Robin Hood in Nottingham in disguise is invited to a feast at which the engagement will be announced. Alan A' Dale a young minstrel in Robin's gang begs to be taken to the feast

Notes:
Music by Ric Averill; lyrics and book by Jeanne Averill; Ric Averill

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  13            Female:  18            Other:  extras

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Rough Stock

Synopsis:
Ray has left school to live with his father, Wally, on the rodeo circuit. Wally is a hard-living, big-talking, bull-riding cowboy with incorrigible attitudes and appetites. Over the course of a tumultuous weekend, Ray becomes aware of the alcohol and drugs eroding Wally's life and relationships, finds a little romance, and begins to make some choices about how his own life may be similar or different from his father's.

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1st Produced:
Lawrence Community Theatre (Lawrence, KS, United States)    1990

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
95-105 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  4 males, 4 females

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Seven Voyages Of Sinbad the Sailor, The

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatic Publishing,    -

Music:
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Genre:
Childrens play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 to 40 actors

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Sitting With Bertie

Sitting With Bertie
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1st Published:
Contained in: "10 By 10" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Swineherd

Swineherd
the boy swine herder compares the Princes to his pigs

Notes:
Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Pixies, Kings and Magical Things: Four Tales by Hans Christian Andersen" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  pigs

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there's an Eyeball in my Soup

there's an Eyeball in my Soup
Roxxi is really in to gross out foods and wants to open a restaurant serving only things that people would want to eat

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

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T-Money And Wolf

Synopsis:
In their respective jail cells the stories of a gang member from New Jersey and a Nazi War Criminal

Notes:
Written by Ric Averill And Kevin Wilmott

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer
Tom gets his friends to whitewash a fence that he was supposed to. Runs away and comes back to watch his own funeral

Notes:
Based on the novel by Mark Twain

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  13            Female:  9            Other:  21 either sex

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Turns

Synopsis:
Marta finds she is competing with best friend Kelly for the lead role in a dance version of "the Snow Queen"

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Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Youth play

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  6            Other:  extras

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Ugly Duckling, The

Ugly Duckling, The
A very fine swan indeed

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1st Published:
Contained in: "Pixies, Kings and Magical Things: Four Tales by Hans Christian Andersen" published by Dramatic Publishing Company   -

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  doubling

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