There's a twist at the end, where we discover that the jailers of the island are actually Winnie the Pooh and Tiger in disguise. In the story, these characters simply want to return to the "hearts and minds" of children everywhere, but they can't escape the island until they overcome a weakness or change in a meaningful way. The plot is designed to give each actor in the cast a chance to play a well-known characters like: Goldilocks, Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Humpty Dumpty, Flat Stanley, Mother Goose, Princess and Pea, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Fozzie Bear, Tinkerbell, Dorothy and Glinda (Wizard of Oz), Jack and the Beanstalk, Prince Charming, Pinocchio, Little Bo Peep. The songs are adaptations of existing music, and the instrumentals/karaoke versions can be found online. It's about today's technology (apps, phones, youtube) distracting kids from reading childhood stories. This is a script for a one-hour comedy and musical (called "Land of Lost Stories") that I wrote for children's community theater (ages 8-15).
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