The Mice from Outer Space (Musical) - Teacher's Edition

The Mice from Outer Space (Musical) (Teacher's Manual). By Kenneth Jennings (1925-). For Choral (TEACHER ED). Expressive Art (Choral). Children's Musical. Softcover. 40 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Young imaginations run wild when the subject is outer space. That's just one reason this is the perfect K-4 musical for this spring...or any other time of year. The story revolves around a group of space mice who crash (safely and comically) on earth. They are rejected by the local mice because they look and sound different. Just then, the Bad Cat threatens a baby earth mouse and a chase ensures. When the space mice join in to scare off the cat, the earth mice realize that they were wrong about their strange new firends, and they learn a valuable lesson about acceptance.

Created by Teresa Jennings, this 20-minute musical features five easy, original songs and simple script with short, natural lines for a variable number of speaking parts. The fully orchestrated ShowTrax CD can make your rehearsals easier and your performance more polished. The recording features the musical in 3 ways (full performance with and without dialogue, and accompaniment only) as well as special chase music and a terrific cartoon-style sound effect for the offstage crash of the space ship.

Available: Teacher's Manual, Singer's Edition 5-Pak, Preview Cassette (full performance) and Performance/Accompaniment CD. Performance Time: 20 minutes. For Grades K-4.

Contents: Let's Be Friends * Happy as Mice Are We * Tale of the Space Mice * No Way * She's a Bad Cat.