Terry Pratchett's The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (A & C Black Musicals)

Sir Terry Pratchett's ingeniously upended tale of the Pied Piper, has a roving band of highly intelligent rats as its heroic protagonists. Matthew Holmes' script and songs capture the plot in a captivating musical for children to perform and everyone to enjoy. Under the lazily, streetwise command of Maurice, a speaking cat, the rats prepare to pull their practiced scam on the town of Bad Blintz. But something's up and our heroes are scampering straight into someone else's scam - and it's not nice. Perfect for upper primary school performances, there are parts small and large for rats - heroic, villainous and oppressed - for humans on the good side and the bad, and of course for a cat named Maurice. The complete performance pack with its photocopiable script and piano vocal score includes everything you need for rehearsing and presenting the final show, plus there's full audio support on CD so you don't need to read a note of music. ** Enter Series Index : 28 of 39 Test Search : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents / Terry Pratchett Series Parm A : Discworld Calc Series Group : Discworld Calc Series A (group): Discworld ES Genre : Scifan Title Post Pound : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Words in Author Name: 2 Number of Words in Auth: 2 Previous Series Index: 28 ES Cover Quality : ICBF Quick Search : Terry Pratchett Discworld Test Compare Series to Entered: eq Has Cover : Yes All Identifiers : amazon:1408145634, google:ybu1MQEACAAJ, isbn:9781408145630 Test Text Series Index: 28 Series Parm B : 28 Words in Title : 6 Single Author : Terry Pratchett Raw Title : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Calc ESI Part 2 : of Sorted Author by LN, FN: Pratchett, Terry EBook : Have Number of Formats : 1 ES Group : Serified_AnE Whole Title : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Title Pre Pound : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Num of Aut : 1 Title Suffix : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Calc ESI Combined : 28 of 190 Formats : EPUB, ZAB Record ID : 480 Enter New Series (Calced): Serified_AnE.Discworld.Scifan.28 of 39..ICBF Author Parm Cn : Pratchett ES Name : Discworld Author Parm A : Terry Pratchett Uncomma Author : Terry Pratchett Calc New Series : Discworld.... Calc ESI Part 3 : 39 Compare Author : eq Calc ESI Part 1 : 28 ABook : Have Title Pre Parend : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Title Length : 40 Title First Parm : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Title Parm A : Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Maurice and the rats have teamed up with a young lad named Keith to implement a clever moneymaking scheme. Upon entering a town, the rats make a general nuisance of themselves -- stealing food and widdling on things -- until the townsfolk become desperate to get rid of them. Then Maurice and Keith appear on the scene and offer to save the day by ridding the town of its infestation for a small fee. It seems like a surefire plan until the group arrives in the town of Bad Blintz and gets hooked up with Malicia, a young girl with a vivid imagination and a knack for finding trouble. When it's discovered that Bad Blintz already has a rat problem -- one that a couple of shifty-eyed rat catchers claim to have under control -- things turn deadly. For lurking beneath the town's streets is an obstacle course of mangling rattraps and noxious poisons. And beyond that is a monster so powerful and ugly, even Malicia couldn't imagine it. As Maurice and the rats battle for their very survival, a number of provocative themes surface: life after death, good versus evil, and the sacrifice of the few for the many.