Roles:

• Diana, most popular girl in town
• Soo-Yong, newcomer to town
• Quincy, lives on a farm at the edge of town
• Beatrice, AKA the brain
• Ariel, her mother runs the pageant
• Renee, pushed into the pageant by stage mom
• Venus, popular girl
• Jasmine, previous winner of the pageant. sister to Ariel
• Miriam, previous winner of the pageant
• Nichole, previous winner of the pageant
• Pierre, Brother to Renee
• Alex, editor and journalist
• Jo/Joe, journalist
• Barbie, photographer and loves to gossip
• Robby, loves mindfulness and Sudoku
• Bobbi/Bobby, loves Sudoku and community service projects
• Dobby, passion for pickle ball
• Minnie, Diana's groupie
• Daisy, Diana's groupie

The following resources are included in each performance license:

• Permission to photocopy the PDF script and score for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.

Janet is a freelance director and playwright based in the Washington, DC, area dedicated to opening hearts, inspiring minds and igniting imaginations.  For 30 years, she served as the Founding Artistic Director of Imagination Stage (ISI), a regional theatre arts company dedicated to positive youth development.  Janet’s plays and musicals for ages 5-10 are adaptations of classic tales which she seeks to make relevant to contemporary American audiences.  Aladdin’s Luck with a score by Turkish composer, Fahir Atakoglu, has been produced from Hawaii to Pennsylvania.  Her versions of Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Dickens’s Davy Copperfield all premiered at ISI.  In 2012 Janet partnered with Septime Webre of the Washington Ballet (now the Artistic Director for the Hong Kong Ballet) to create a dance theatre version of The Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe with original composition by Mathew Pierce.  The innovative production featuring both ballet dancers and actor/singers proved a tremendous success, garnering 5 Helen Hayes nominations and winning 2 Awards.  This was followed in 2016 by a second dance theatre adaptation of The Little Mermaid which broke all ISI previous box-office records.  In 2008 with the help of a TCG grant, Janet introduced Theatre for the Very Young to the USA with Wake Up, Brother Bear. She firmly believes in the importance of introducing live theatre to pre-schoolers such that they experience an impactful alternative to digital media.

Janet is the 2017 winner of the Harold Oaks Award for Excellence and Innovation in Theatre for Young Audiences, the 2024 Imagine Award, and the inaugural 2024 Adventure Theatre Leadership Award.  She currently serves on the Maryland Arts Council.

Website: https://janetstanford-directordramatist.com/

Hannah Epstein is a published composer, lyricist, music educator, and musician. Her works include two full-length musicals, Doctor Blackwell and Walker Road, as well as the twenty-minute musical collaboration On A Train. Hannah participated in the Maestra Music Mentorship Program and is a member of Maestra Music. She was a semi-finalist for the 2025 SHE ARTS Festival and a finalist for the 2026 SHE ARTS Festival, and was accepted as a digital participant for the Rogue Theater Festival. She also co-wrote a musical for a theater class at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, Maryland entitled Charmville Pageant Rebellion. Hannah currently teaches third and fourth grade music at Norwood School in Bethesda, MD.

Originally commissioned and produced by Imagination Stage as part of the Speak Out On Stage project.

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