Product Description
This is a one-act musical to be performed for children. It takes traditional nursery rhyme characters and interweaves their stories to create a fun, and sometimes poignant, tale of love and self-discovery.
The characters include Wee Willie Winkie, Jack and Jill, Mary (who had a little lamb) Georgy Porgy, Tom Tucker, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker.
This version is for voices and piano. There is also a version with a chamber ensemble score. Please contact the composer directly for more information.
Preface
Being a kid can be fabulous and frightening at the same time. There are so many new things to find and feel and life is an adventure that's exciting and scary. As adults, we've all been there, and have become what we are because of where we've been. It's sad though, to see "grown-ups" who have lost the child in themselves. There's something very healthy in being able to play, pretend, imagine, laugh without reservation, and cry without embarrassment. Once Upon a Rhyme was intended to speak to the child in us all, whether we're 6 or 60. We invite you to... "look and you will find visions in your mind of a day when love was play and life a nursery rhyme. Once upon a rhyme, forever in your heart. Find the child within yourself and let the visions start."
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.