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Narrator: "Gerda struggled through the snow, for soon it was winter again. Suddenly she saw a big black crow, which flapped its wings and cawed at her."

Gerda comes onto the stage, with a big fluffy jacket to show that its cold and in winter. A person all in black (possibly wearing a black feather boa) comes onto the stage (bird-like) and says:

Crow: "CAW CAW, What are you doing little girl, all alone in the snow?"

Gerda: "Im looking for Kay, have you seen him"

Crow: "Is he a a boy with bright eyes like your, and golden hair?"

Gerda: "Yes, yes! That's him"
Gerda: "Can you take me to him?"

Narrator: "The crow took Gerda up to the Palace and showed her to the Princess, as he suspected that that was where Kay would be. Gerda peeped into the Princess's room and in the bes were the Princess and a golden haired boy."

Gerda: "It must be Kay"

Narrator: "Gerda went into the room and up to the bed. It wasnt Kay. Gerda was so dissapointed that she began to cry.

END OF FIRST PART.

I think that the first half of the Snow Queen story should end here. Then for the second half of the story it begins with Gerda crying on the floor of the Princess's bedroom.

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Transition from the Snow Queen's kiss and The Enchanted Flower Garden scene

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Transition from the Snow Queen's kiss and The Enchanted Flower Garden scene

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I think that after the Snow Queen kisses Kay on the forehead everyne on the stage should exit - taking the white cloths and fabrics with them (showimg the change of season).

On the stage should come a group of people who pose as a house, the door of the house, a river and cherry trees - freeze frame. Gerda then walks onto the stage and goes up to the door of the house. The people who are the door creak open - making sound effects. Gerda is greeted by an old woman.

Gerda: "Have you seen Kay?"

Old Lady: "No,"
Old Lady: "But why don't you hav some of my cherries?"

Gerda goes into the old lady's house and eats her cherries whilst  the lady combs her hair.

Out side the house the cherry trees become people holding a calendar. They tear off month after month - starting with june and ending in october - while Gerda is inside the Old Lady's house.

Narrator: "The old lady, who was in fact a witch, had an enchanted garden where it was always summer. Every flower you could think of grew in it, including some lovely roses. The witch knew that if Gerda saw them, the roses would remind her of Kay. So she thumoed her with her stick and the rose bushes dissapeared under the ground. But, the witch had forgotten she had  red rose painted on her hat."

Whilst the narrator says all of this the actors are doing what the narrator is saying.

Person 1 (holding calendar): "One day gerda saw the witches hat and remembered about Kay."
Person 2 (holding calendar): "So she ran away from the ld witch and the beautiful garden, where it was always summer."
Person 3 (holding calendar): "In the world outside it was Autumn."

While Person 1 and 2 (the people holding the calendar) say this the other people who were trees, the door and the river change into a different position and pick up orange and red things from the side of the stage  -and drape them over themselves to show the change in season.

Gerda: "Oh, dear!"
Gerda: "What a lot of time I've wasted!"

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Narrator: "The Snow Queen gave Kay a cold kiss on the forehead. It made Kay forget all about Gerda and his home, as he fell under her spell"

Person: wolf howl
Person: raven croak - caw caw

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Kay run away from where Gerda and his Grandmother are. He runs off the stage one way whilst Gerda and Grandmother run the other - spreading out the rolled up white fabric on the way off stage - to create a snowy area.

Kay runs arounf the back of the stage and comes back onto the stage from where Gerda and Grandmother went off.

When he comes back on the stage he is carrying a sledge.

On the stage is now a horse and a sleigh (made of people)

Narrator: "A big white sleigh came past, drawn by a swift horse. The driver had a white hooded cloak. Kay could not see the face. Kay fastened his sledge to the back, to get a free ride. The horse went faster than the wind and they were soon in the countryside"

Whilst the narrator says 'Kay could not see the face' The people that are the sleigh cover the face of the Snow Queen with white fans.

The sleigh stays still throughout the jouney to the country side but using fabric the two people behind the sleigh will change the fabrics colours and movements to show the sleigh moving. There will also be music and sound effects that sound like wind.

Snow Queen: "You must be cold, little Kay!"
Snow Queen: "Come inside my coat!"

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A piece of the magic mirrow falls into Kay's eye

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A piece of the magic mirrow falls into Kay's eye

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Kay and Gerda are playing in the snow: Kay is making snowballs (rolled ub fabric) and Gerda is making a snowman (Fabric bundled together on top of each other)

When a piece of the magic mirror falls into Kay's eye, Kay says:
Kay: "Something went in my eye! And I felt a sharp pain in my heart"

When this happens Kay falls to the ground whilst he says the words above. Then he kicks over Gerda's snowman and she cries.

Kay: "Shut up cry-baby!" (Kay says to Gerda)

Their Grandmother rushes out of the house when she hears Kay saying that he is in pain.

She comes towards him trying to calm him down - after knocking down Gerda's snowman.

Kay: "Stop fussing, you silly old woman!"
Kay slaps Grandmother's arm away from him.

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I think that after the people making the window change into a circle, Kay should press his eye in the hole and look out.

Behind the people making the window with the hole in it there should be a pile of white fabric - that looks like snow. When Kay looks out the window hole, and the narrator says 'He saw a huge snowflake settle on the edge of the window-box. It grew and grew into a wonderful white-coloured woman. She was dressed in a cloak of star shaped snowflakes and her eyes glittered like icy diamonds.' the pile of fabric - which actually has and actor underneath it playing the Snow Queen - emerges from the fabric.

Narrator: "One night Kay was looking out through his peep-hole. He saw a huge snowflake settle on the edge of the window-box. It grew and grew into a wonderful white-coloured woman. She was dressed in a cloak of star shaped snowflakes and her eyes glittered like icy diamonds. "

"She beckoned to Kay, but her was afraid and ran back into the room, As she flew away, her shadow passed over the window like a great white bird."

When Kay runs away from his peep-hole the actors that are the window should close us again - shutting the circular hole that was created with the hot penny.

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I think that for the scene  where Kay is heating up pennies to make a peep-hole through the foggy glass, there should be a narrator dictating what he is doing whilst he does it.

Narrator: "Sometimes the children would heat pennies on the stove, and press them against the frozen window-panes to make peep-holes to look through."

During this Kay would be holding a penny - pretending it was hot by giggling it between his hands like a hot potato - the he would hold it up the window.

I think that for the window we would create a window pane with a few people together and when Kay holds up the penny the poeple forming the window would change shape to show a circlar hole in the frozen glass.

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After the Snow Queen exits the stage, leaving the dropped petals, Kay and Gerda shout out - interrupting their Grandmother's story.

Kay: "Yes we've seen them"
Gerda (scared) : "Could she get in here?"

Kay: "Don't worry," hugging Gerda "If she does, I'll put her on the stove and she'll melt!"

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I think that for this scene we could have Gerda and Kay huddled together by the 'fire' whilst their Grandmother tells them a story.

Gerda: "In the winter the snowflakes fell like feathers from the sky, and the wind howled"
Kay: "The children could not play outside, so Grandmother told them tales of the Snow Queen"

Grandmother: "She is the biggest snowflake of all,"
Grandmother: "and she flies in the centre of the snowstorm."
(Actors act like a group of snowflakes, one wearing something different to the others and acting like they are more important than the others, then when Grandmother says 'she flies in the centre of the snowstorm' the important-acting one stands still in the middle of the stage whilst the other snowflakes continue moving around them - until grandmother says 'When the wind dies, she goes up into the black clouds' - then the moving snowflakes float away to the side and the Ice Queen snowflake stays.)

Grandmother: "When the wind dies, she goes up into the black clouds. But on winter nights, she flies through the streets and looks in at the windows. When she has gone, they are covered with ice flowers"

As the Grandmother says 'But on winter nights...' The Snow Queen gets up and scattters some blue and white petals behind her as she leaves the stage. The Snow Queen with have the petals in her pocket beforehand and take them out whilst she is stationary and the other snowflakes surround her.

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For the opening scene I think that we could create 2 tall houses with people and sticks to show the house in which Gerda and Kay live in. I also think that at the beggining of the story either Gerda or Kay should take the journey to the other ones tall house.

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Frozen person 1: (unfreezing when speaking but freezing again after talking) "But in the corner, leaning against the wall,"
Frozen person 2: "sat the little girl with red cheeks and

smiling mouth, frozen to death on the last evening of the old year."

Frozen person 3: "The New Year’s sun rose upon a little pathetic figure."

Frozen person 4: "The child sat there, stiff and cold,

holding the matches, of which one bundle was almost burned."

Everyone at the same time (everyone un-freeze): "All she wanted to do was to warm herself."

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I think that after the scene with the little girls grandmother, where the flame becomes bigger due to the little girl striking more matches, the actors playing the flame should rise up - move, the lights become brighter, the sounds become louder, then everyone freezes and the lights change from orange to blue - and the little girl falls into a pile of snow.

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I think that after the second image created, the one with the little girl's grandmother, the little fil should try to grab onto the image. When she grabs onto an actor in the image they should ignore her even though she is tugging on their clothes/leg.

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I think that there could be the loud "R-r-ratch" sound when she strikes the match. I think that when she stikes the match, a chorus of people rise up like a flame. After this they change into the memory that appears, the iron stove. Differnet people from the chorus say:

Person 1 "Sitting before a great iron stove with shining brass knobs and a brass cover."
Person 2: "How wonderfully the fire burned!"
Person 3: "How comfortable it was!"
Person 4: "The youngster stretched out her feet to warm them too"

The scene changes back to the girl surrounded by the people acting like a flame.

Person 5: "The little flame went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the burnt match in her hand."

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In this scene I think that the ugly duckling should realise he is a swan like the others, be joyful then become even happier when he is included

Ugly duckling: "Do not worry! I will go now. I will not make trouble for you."
Other swans (all together): "Why are you going so soon?"
Swan 1: "Stay here, with us!"
Swan 2: "We’ll be great friends."
Swans (all together): "Come with us"
Swan 3: "Take the lead!"
Ugly duckling: "Say! Who’s an ugly duckling now? Surely, Not I!"

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In detail, Ugly duckling transformation. 

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In detail, Ugly duckling transformation. 

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I think that for this we should have a person, portraying the ugly duckling, start on the ground wearing a grey outfit and covered in grey feathers. (underneath their grey outfit is a white top?) everyone else in the group surrounds the ugly duckling rising up from the ground with them, surrounding the ugly duckling chararcter - hide the character from the audience - when ugly duckling has changed from grey to white, surrounding cast fall to the floor. Ugly duckling, now a swan puts their arms in the air - elegantly - and says "Gosh I feel strong. Why, I never felt as strong as I do right now!"

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I think, to show the changing seasons in this story, we should use freeze frames then a small moving scene for each season.

These seasons:

- Autumn
- Winter

Then the icy lake where the ugly duckling almost drowns - but is saved by the farmer - then

- Spring

After this there should be a scene where the ugly duckling has a transformation then says "Gosh, I feel strong, why, I never felt as strong as I do right now!".

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Ugly duckling sits looking into the lake (fabric sheets being waved around like a lake) then a group of people carrying white books or fabric way throught the fabric lake like a flock of birds

Ugly duckling "I wish I looked like those birds, but no, Ill always be an ugly duckling."

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Start with cat saying "“Who do you think you are, coming in here and taking up room by the fire!”

Then a chorus of cats and hens

Cats: "Get out!  Get out!"
Hens: "Squawk!"

Cats: "Miow" (shreiks)
Hens: "Get out of here, pretender!"

Then cat says "Then why are you still here?" the all the cats and hens usher the ugly duckling out of the barn.

Ugly duckling sits down and cries "No one ever wants me"

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This story has many oportunities for freeze frames to motion to another freeze frame ideas.

Here is an example :

"The sky turned dark" - one frame
"CRACK" everyone says it in unison and there is a movement that goes with it
"A bolt of lightning" - another frame
(use the "CRACK" to change from the first image to the second)

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Scene with 2 yellow ducks being chased by a dog. 2 ducks are chased by the dog quacking nervously - ducks fly off then the dog chases after the Ugly duckling. The ugly duckling is chased for one second, catches up with him, sniffs him, then the dog changes direction abruptly and leaves. After this, ugly duckling says "I am too ugly even for the big hungry dog to want,"

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A scene with ducks (wearing yellow feathers to difrenciate with the ugly duckling wearing grey) circling around the ugly duckling. Ugly duckling crouched on the floor crying sad (levels : bottom). Yellow ducks go round flapping their wings repeating "Go away! We will not play with you! You are ugly. And you walk weird, too!" After repeating twice, flap away saying "Ugly, ugly, ugly" on the way out.