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Award-Winning Children's Plays, Christmas Plays, Christmas Musicals for Young Performers, Children, Halloween Plays, School Plays and  Scripts for Large-Cast, Small-Cast Plays.  ArtReach Shows for Young Audiences.  One Act Plays, One Act Dramas,  Comedies for Middle Schools and High Schools. Plays for Touring to Schools, Educational Outreach Theatre.  ArtReach One Act Musicals for Children and Young People.


Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.


ArtReach Plays for Young People, Postive Plays for African American Students


Winner of five Ohio Arts Council Playwriting Awards.


Multicultural
Play for Children!


 Uplifting Children's Play for African American Children!


Play for Martin Luther King Day (MLK Day)


Ohio Theatre Alliance Award: "Outstanding Contribution to Theatre"


Musical Play for Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month!


Post-Corbett Award for "literary excellence in Playwriting."


Artreach
Children's Scripts and Plays!


Kathryn Schultz Miller's work has been Featured in Twenty Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreward Maurice Sendak


History Comes to Life on Your Stage!


"Thank you for such a wonderful script. Our performance was SPECTACULAR!  Thanks for your help in making it a magical evening for my kids."

Molly Callender, Langley Christian School


Large Cast Plays and One Acts for Black History Month!


"The children were fabulous! We had so much fun! Thank you! Thank you!"

Rhonda Smith
Bayside School
Stevensville, MD


Martin Luther King Play just for Kids, Schools!


"It was absolutely a wonderful experience from beginning The script was wonderful and easy to adapt so that everyone could participate!"

Donna Stafford
First Grade Teacher
Kinston, NC


Beautiful Music!  Simple Dialogue and Creative Staging!


"Your scripts are well-paced, clear, and fun for all!"

Greg Tutt
Buford Elementary
Lennox, CA


Plays for Young Audiences, for Martin Luther King Day (MLK Day)!


"My principal  asked me if my students would perform it one more time!"

Allison Sands
Stevens Brook Elem
Bridgton MEI


Includes the Inspiring Story of Rosa Parks!


"It was a huge success!  As a result of my volunteer efforts the school gave me the full time position as drama teacher!"

Sherri Alejandro
Carden El Encanto School
Santa Cruz CA


School Plays and School Play Packages include Stage Diagram, Teachers Guide and Background CD!


"Everyone was overwhelmed at how wonderful it turned out! Thank you!"

Brooke Iverson
Signal Mountain TN


Dramatic Play with a message of Love and Peace!


C"The students were great and you have a life long customer with our school. We are already getting ready for next school year's play.TThank you again for GREAT plays!!!"

Billy Foster
Balboa Academy
Panama


Multi-Cultural Play Children Can Relate To!


"Everyone loved it and thought that it was so creative!

Shari Glickman
PS 276
Brooklyn NY


Uplifting Stories that Inspire Kids to Fulfill Their Dreams!


"What a great compilation of music!"

Kennelyn Ceralde
Sacramento CA


Plays that Lift the Human Spirit!


"I cannot begin to tell you how perfect your plays have been to adapt to a larger cast -- we had over one hundred students audition Your plays have brought a lot of entertainment and joy to our school."

Pamela Nation
Woodward Academy
College Park GA


Musical Play for Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month!


Post-Corbett Award for "literary excellence in Playwriting."


Artreach
Children's Scripts and Plays!


Kathryn Schultz Miller's work has been Featured in Twenty Great Plays for Children, published by St. Martin's Press, Foreward Maurice Sendak


History Comes to Life on Your Stage!

 

Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Award.


ArtReach Plays for Young People, Postive Plays for African American Students

 

We Are The Dream:
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

School Play, Musical Play for Children, Young People to Perform!
ArtReach Play for Large Cast, Church Choirs, Community Outreach!
FULL DOWNLOAD - Entire Package with Soundtrack Audio Files

A Children's Play for Celebrations!
Martin Luther King Day!  Black History Month!

Teachers, this is what you are looking for!  A great play for kids to perform -- the story of Martin Luther King Jr's life written just for schools and churches!

Children's Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King Children's Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King Children's Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King
Ariel Community Academy, Children's Musical Play Production, Chicago, IL

"Through words he gave voice to the voiceless.
Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart. 
He inspired a nation to transform itself, and begin to
live up to the meaning of its creed."
US President, Barak Obama

Children's Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King
Seward Elementary School, Syracuse, NY


Children's Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King

As the Play Begins...

The year is 1968...  In a classroom in the rural South, children prepare for a visit from Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.


Seward Elementary School, Syracuse, NY

 Little do they know that by week's end the heroic figure they have so admired will be gone forever.

Children's Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King


Woodberry Down Community Primary School, London, UK


Through the telling of Dr. King's life the children begin to understand how his dream lives in their own hearts.


We Are the Dream, Woodberry Down Community Primary School, London

"I have a dream... I have a dream that one day little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers."

Children's Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King

"I have a dream... I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'"

 School Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King
Student "Dream" project on Martin Luther King Day.

A musical children's play, written for a large
cast of young performers, We Are The Dream weaves
soulful spirituals, gospel music, turbulent history and
meaningful audience participation into an event of
powerful emotional impact.

Children's Plays - Martin Luther King Week Children's Plays - American Civil Right Movement

Familiar music and songs such as My Lord, What a Morning, Oh Happy Day, Free at Last and We Shall Overcome may be sung by a choir, students and audience, lending great spiritual depth to this American story of hope, courage and triumph.


Woodberry Down Community Primary School, Black History Month Performance

"The premiere of a revolutionary play went down like a dream with its audience last week. We are the Dream was performed by youngsters at Woodberry Down Primary School.  It also featured the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man." 
Hackney Gazette, London

We Are The Dream UK Premier Performance:
Performance Photos and Video on School Website

 Our deepest hopes and dreams come alive in this celebration of Martin Luther King Jr's Life!

Children's Plays - Martin Luther King
Ariel Community Academy

 "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Children's Plays - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington DC

Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech
in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963.

READ SCRIPT SAMPLE, CAST LIST, HEAR SOUND CUES


 

 

 

 

 

 Includes the Inspiring
Stories of:
Rosa Parks
Vivian Jones
And other Courageous
Pioneers of the American
 Civil Rights Movement.


School Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King

School Musical Plays - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King

Ariel Community Academy, Musical Children's Play, We Are the Dream, Chicago

The dream lives on, in our new president and in the in the hearts and souls of every person on this Earth who believes in freedom - men, women, boys and girls, people in every land...brothers and sisters all.

WE ARE THE DREAM

We Are The Dream.


 This ArtReach School Play, a children's musical play, offers positive examples for children of all cultures!  It is written especially for a large cast of young performers.  It is especially powerful in churches when performers of all ages join the cast and perform together.


Seward Elementary School, Syracuse, NY

Appropriate Dialogue for Children: Speeches and vocabulary are appropriate for child performers ages 6 - 12.

A Flexible Cast of 25 or more children: (Doubling and extras possible.) Every role has a name and at least three spoken lines.

About 40-45 minutes long: Long enough to be a substantial project and short enough to accommodate your teaching schedule.

Great for Church choirs, Schools Choirs! You can use the plays suggested in the script or replace with songs your choir already knows!

Easy costumes and scenery: Many suggestions on how to create or find what you need to make a great looking production without breaking your budget!

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We Are the Dream, Woodberry Down Community Primary School


"Kathryn Schultz Miller is arguably America's leading playwright 
for children, with a career spanning more than 30 years."   
David Jacobson, Life Newspapers, Sacramento, CA

Kathryn Schultz Miller is the author of over 50 plays for young audiences. Her children's plays have received countless awards and have been produced by amateur and professional theatre companies around the world. Having served as Artistic Director of the professional ArtReach Touring Theatre for over 20 years, Ms. Miller is one of the nation's most produced playwrights for young people.

"You offer a great product that is affordable for our school."
 JoAnna Pillsbury, Brewster Elementary, Rochester Hills MI


School Plays for Children - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King School Plays for Children - We Are The Dream: Martin Luther King
Joshua Academy, We Are the Dream, Children's Musical Play, Evansville, IN 


"Thank you for providing outstanding children's plays, adaptations,  scripts, staging notes, background music and study guides.  Our school had 24 cast members and additional 20 kids involved in crew.  It is such a great way to engage so many children together." 
Sarah Lambrecht, Lincoln Elem, Wauwatosa WI



Seward Elementary School, Syracuse, NY

All of these schools have recently performed the children's musical play, We are the Dream:  Vickery Elem, Flower Mound TX;  Harbor School, Vashon WA;  John A. Johnson Elem, St. Paul MN;  Ramah Jr. Academy, Cleveland OH;  Liberty Elem, Liberty MS;  St. Therese School, Seattle WA;  Stratton Elem, Nashville TN; Lincoln Elem, Bellwood IL;  Pontiac Schools, Pontiac MI;  Raymond Park Middle, New Paletine IN; Wilson School, Beaver Dam WI;  Holy Child School, Etobicoke, ON Canada; Boys & Girls, Polar Bluff MO;  Ferndale Middle, High Point NC;  Kingsway Primary, Yorkshire UK;  Patrick Henry School, Long Beach CA; Lexington Middle, Lexington TN; Collins High School, Collins MS;  Westside Elem, Roanoke VA;  Gage Elem, San Diego; Peasantech Academy, Pleasantville NJ;  Francis Marion High School, Marion AL:  So. Conway Elem, Conway SC;  Hyde Park Neighborhood, Chicago; Coming Together Stark, Canton OH;  Freedom Family Worship Center, Greenville TN; Las Vegas City Schools, Las Vegas NM;  Boys & Girls of Brockton, MA;  NAACP, Lynchburg VA; and many, many more!


 "I recently purchased the We Are the Dream Play
Package.  You are a genius and a Godsend to a company
like ours! Thanks so much for your brilliant work!"
Jerry Stevenson, Artistic Director, Columbia Children's Theatre, SC


SCHOOL PLAY PACKAGE (Everything)

One payment for everything you need to perform the play at your school or organization. No need to purchase multiple scripts, no royalty quote, no separate royalty payment. Order the School Play Package and you're done -- start rehearsals immediately!

The SCHOOL PLAY PACKAGE Includes:
1. Master Script ($9.95)
2. Teachers Guide ($9.95)
3. CD Soundtrack ($29.95)
4. Performance License ($60.00)
(License: Rights to copy script, Royalty for one performance)
Get Everything ($109.85 value) - Only $99.95
( SAVE MORE $$$ WITH FULL DOWNLOAD - NO SHIPPING COSTS! )


"With all that has happened in our recent history -- 
this children's musical play becomes even
more meaningful for my students." 
Mary Thompson, Teacher, Farb Middle School, Santee CA

Children's Plays - Martin Luther King Week

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"Our Production of We Are the Dream was quite successful.  The editor of the Arts section of the Providence Journal
gave it a "Best Bets"!
All Children's Theatre, Pawtucket RI

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Info

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Audience

Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, Parents, Teachers, Families, Community

Cast

Flexible cast of about 25: 6 male, 5 female, all others m/f, easily adapted for smaller/larger casts, grades 1-6.

    Time

About 40-45 minutes

CD

Cues, sound effects, background music (spirituals & gospel)

Royalty

Royalty & Performance License Required (Details)
SCHOOL PLAY PACKAGE (Everything) - $99.95


  TEACHERS!
Looking for large cast plays & musicals for your students to perform?
We have scripts written just for you! Click on any title below...

A Christmas Carol * A Christmas Cinderella * A Christmas Wizard of Oz
A Snow White Christmas * A Thousand Cranes * Aladdin * Alice In Wonderland
Beauty and the Beast * Cinderella * Emperor's New Clothes
Little Mermaid * Princess and the Pea * Peter Pan * Pinocchio * Snow White
Sleeping Beauty * Twas the Night Before Christmas * We Are The Dream
Wizard of Oz * El Mago de Oz (Spanish Wizard of Oz)
Children's Christmas Plays & Children's Christmas Musicals


Links

Martin Luther King Day of Service, 2011

Martin Luther King Day - A Celebration

I Have A Dream Speech Text and Audio

Martin Luther King Jr. Wikipedia

Martin Luther King J. Nobel Prize.org

Martin Luther King Jr. Historical Examination

The King Center

Martin Luther King Jr. for Kids and Teachers

MLK Online

Timeline of the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - EnchantedLearning.com

Martin Luther King Jr. - FamilyEducation.com

Disney Educational Productions


The Life and Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.


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