Videos

Recorded live at the Kaye Playhouse in New York City. FORTUNATELY has suspenseful stories, happy endings, topsy-turvy dancing, intriguing costumes, magical scenery, top-notch performers, and great music. 55 minutes of comedy, songs, and audience involvement. A rich and happy entertainment.

“The Paper Bag Players can do no wrong”—New York Magazine

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On Top of Spaghetti    
VHS $10/DVD $10

"On Top of Spaghetti," cited for excellence by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Video, is a rollicking revue that combines short plays, rousing ragtime songs, freewheeling dances, audience participation and amazing sets, props, and costumes into an hour of unstoppable fun. Recorded live at The Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY.

“...truly inventive, not to be missed.” -- Time Out.

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CD

Brand-New CD!!
The Paper Bag Players
$10

A collection of The Paper Bag Players most rousing music and most sing-alongable songs! Donald Ashwander and John Stone’s musical compositions with lyrics by Judith Martin are performed by The Paper Bag Players. This CD contains such “bags” favorites as: Hot Feet, Bananas, Ice Cream Cone, I Won’t Take Bath, Big Red Day and Dandelion. Catchy melodies and funny lyrics will have everyone singing and dancing along.

“Donald Ashwander’s music is of the toe-tapping variety which leaves tunes dancing in your head.” -New York Magazine

“John Stone’s music is irresistible his melodies vibrate with happiness.” –Family Magazine

Sample music:

Bicycle Race

Christmas All Over the Place    $6

Contains the songs “Christmas All Over The Place”, “Wrap and Tie”, “Snow”, and “The Christmas Squeeze” performed by The Paper Bag Players.

Sample music:

Christmas All Over the Place

Christmas Script

Christmas All Over the Place    $6

Four short plays make up this delightful collection: Christmas All Over the Place, The Runaway Presents, Wiggle Worm’s Surprise, and The Lost and Found Christmas. They come complete with songs scored for the piano and costume and scenery ideas. Perfect for classroom presentation or for that wintery afternoon at home.

Scripts

Dandelion     $6

The Paper Bag Players prize winning musical tells the history of the world in little more than one hour, and does so amusingly and imaginative and —most amazingly of all —truthfully." — London Sunday Telegraph. This is a delightful fantasy based on the Life Cycle, and is made up of ten separate dramatic playlets. Each is a complete dramatic entity on its own, dealing with themes of evolution and culture. An enormously entertaining children's theater piece of insight, imagination, wit and charm. The script is profusely illustrated with designs for making props and costumes from boxes and paper bags.

Everybody, Everybody     $6

The Paper Bag Players take a fast moving, kid's eye view of various aspects of American life, including such things as "Plain Good Manners," fat vs. thin, bringing up babies, and a family's pursuit of an elusive Big Burger sign. This musical has enchanted critics and audiences alike. "...brimful and zany. They never underestimate their audience... There is fun in it for everybody, everybody." —New York Times. "

I Won't Take a Bath!     $6

Written and designed by Judith Martin, music by Donald Ashwander. Flexible casting, paper/cardboard props and sets. What's it really like being a kid? Well, this delightful romp from the OBIE Award-Winning troupe takes us on a journey only a kid can appreciate, from "Friends" to "The Real Me" to the amusing sketch, "I Won't Take a Bath!" Wild imagination and wit are the cornerstones of the ingenious talent of the Paper Bag Players. Whether fanciful or realistic, their work is always inspiring, their humor kindly and good natured. "Wildly amusing, terrific entertainment." -- The Village Voice.

Reasons To Be Cheerful     $6

Written and designed by Judith Martin. Music by Donald Ashwander. Eleven separate theater pieces dealing with contemporary themes for children. Flexible cast of four or more. The Kansas City Times best describes this ingenious theater piece by stating: "Reasons To Be Cheerful is delightful with yarns about a woman who buys a bunch of uncooperative beans (they keep leaping from the pot and dancing around the kitchen) to an instructive skit in which the audience ends up instructing a stubborn child to take her medicine if she wants to get well."