Snow White in the 70s

This is a very funky play.

It’s one of those shows where I suddenly came up with the title first, and the rest of the play wrote itself. I had written more than my share of princess stories:

Cinderella in New York

Mermaid in Miami

I started to realize that I was retelling fairy tales but setting them in a particular time and place. So why not those Disco Dancin’ 1970s?

The show is a great deal of fun. It;s not a musical, but drama teachers and performers are encouraged to include dance numbers if they wish to get down and boogie — which I highly recommend. Writing the Dwarves was the funnest challenge, because I wanted them each to have their own 70s flavor. My favorite: the “Grumpy” dwarf is named Nixon.

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