Roles:

• Uriko-Hime, The Melon Princess, as a baby
• Uriko-Hime as a young teenager
• Obaasan, the Old Woman
• Ojiisan, the Old Man
• Chuuken, the Dog
• Saru, the Monkey
• Kiji, the Pheasant
• Oni, the Head Monster
  

Additionally, the cast plays the rest of the characters” and narrative voices: The Onigashima Monsters, the Flying Fish, the Forest Trees, the Two Birds, the
Waterfall, the Flower, the Cloud, Etc.

The following resources are included in each performance license:

• Permission to photocopy the PDF script/score for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.
• Vocal demo tracks for rehearsal

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:

• Professionally recorded performance tracks for backtracking, underscoring, and sound effects.
• Logo/Media package

A performer and composer, Gary Rue has been playing music for audiences throughout the western hemisphere since the mid-’60s, beginning with various town halls in the upper Midwest and graduating to East Coast “tent” tours that included the Big Apple (Carnegie Hall as music director and duet partner for Gene Pitney) and on to far-flung points in Canada and the Caribbean. Early along the way, Rue began writing music of his own and was rewarded with some of his songs being recorded by (among others) Nick Lowe and Helen Reddy, as well as many prominent regional artists. He is the author of nearly 80 scores for music theatre, including The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fair(l)y (Stoopid) Tales, which toured the U.S. and China with Dallas Children’s Theater. Rue is also a 2010 Minnesota Music Hall of Fame inductee and an active touring musician and educator.

Originally produced by Steppingstone Theatre