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James E Grote

JAMES E GROTE

  
Nationality:    USA
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James E Grote's plays including theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of James E Grote's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Click, Clack, Boo         Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type         Deep In The Jungle         Dirty Cowboy, The         Dooby Dooby Moo         Duck For President         Giggle, Giggle, Quack         How To Survive A Fairy Tale         Montauciel Takes Flight         One and Only Ivan, The         Piano Tuner, The
Click, Clack, Boo

Synopsis:
Duck, Pig, Hen and Cow are throwing a Halloween party. Farmer Brown does not like Halloween - it is scary

Notes:
Music and lyrics by George Howe; book by James E Grote. Based on the book "Click, Clack, Boo" by Doreen Cronin

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     19 Oct 2013

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type

Synopsis:
Cow 1 and 2 and Hen are tired of their freezing accommodation. Duck is tired of his lily pond and wants to spice it up. The animals have problems in communicating this to Farmer Brown

Notes:
Music by George Howe; lyrics by James E Grote; George Howe; book by James E Grote. Based on the book "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type" by Doreen Cronin

1st Produced:
Manhattan Childrens Theatre, New York     19 Sep 2009

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Deep In The Jungle

Synopsis:
Lion bullies all the creatures in the jungle - if they do as he wants he eats them. The Lion leaves to join a circus to seek fame

Notes:
Based on the book "Deep In The Jungle" by Dan Yaccarino

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Dirty Cowboy, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Music by Victoria Toy Delorio; lyrics by Victoria Toy Delorio; Jane Baxter Miller; book by James E Grote. Based on the book "The Dirty Cowboy" by Amy Timberlake

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     23 Feb 2008

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Dooby Dooby Moo

Synopsis:
The farm animals enter a talent show

Notes:
Music by George Howe; lyrics by James E Grote; George Howe; book by James E Grote. Based on the book "Dooby Dooby Moo" by Doreen Cronin

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     17 Oct 2009

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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Duck For President

Synopsis:
Duck, Pig, Hen and Cow have all been given umpteen chores to do by a tired Farmer Brown. The animals decide that they want someone else to run the farm and Duck is voted in as leader

Notes:
Music by George Howe; lyrics by James E Grote; George Howe; book by James E Grote. Based on the book "Duck For President" by Doreen Cronin

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     11 Oct 2008

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Genre:
Childrens musical

Parts:
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Giggle, Giggle, Quack

Synopsis:
Farmer Brown goes on holiday he leaves a handwritten letter for his brother Bob who will be looking after the farm. In the letter he tells his brother to watch out for Duck as he is trouble. But Duck has read the letter and as he can also write he changes it. So now the cows have a movie night, the pigs bubble baths and the hens pizza

Notes:
Music and lyrics by George Howe; book by James E Grote. Based on the book "Giggle, Giggle, Quack" by Doreen Cronin

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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How To Survive A Fairy Tale

Synopsis:
Jack's Father is a frog and his mother says she is a princess. Jack grew up not knowing anything about fairy tales but now he is lost in the forest and threatened by bears and tolls and witches

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1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     07 Jan 2012

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Montauciel Takes Flight

Synopsis:
Montauciel is a young sheep with ambition and an enquiring mind. Her name mean "Climb Into The Sky". One day she meets the Montgolfier Brothers and begins to help out with their experiments to make a flying balloon. Montauciel is the pilot for the first experimental trip together with co-pilots a chicken and a duck

Notes:
Music and lyrics by Russell J Coutinho; book by James E Grote

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     13 Jan 2018

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Genre:
Childrens musical

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One and Only Ivan, The

Synopsis:
For twenty seven years Ivan a gorilla has been kept in a small cage in a shopping mall. One day Ruby a young elephant captured in the wilds is there. Ivan determines to get Ruby back to the wilds and freedom for himself

Notes:
Based on the book "The One And Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     Mar 2015

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Genre:
Childrens play

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Piano Tuner, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Based on the novel "The Piano Tuner" by Daniel Mason

1st Produced:
Lifeline Theatre, Chicago     02 Feb 2007

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Genre:
Adaptation

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