Everyone knows the story of Cinderella, but have you hear about Bob? her long lonst twin brother?  Living in the same kingdom with different wicked stepfamilies, Cinderella’s cruel stepmother and evil stepsisters make her rotate tires and polish bowling trophies while Bob’s evil stepfather and cruel stepbrothers force him to make dried herb wreaths and organize their sock drawers.  When Lou the UPS Guy arrives with invitations from the Kingdom Cinderella crashes Princess Petunia’s birthday ball, Bob has similar designs on Prince Percy’s kingdom-wide baseball game.  When the two strangers disappear at midnight after Cinderella hits a game winning homerun, the search is on to find the feet that fit the glass slipper and the muddy cleat!  

What can anyone do when a  contestant responds correctly to a challenging question...  and immediately falls down dead?!  The next night, the same thing happens to another contestant.  And the next!.  After three murders, you have to wonder who would even want to be the next contestant!  With horror happening before everyone’s eyes, director Clovis Darnell has her hands full dealing with a police chief, the studio vice president and ratings that have never been better!   Contestants are dropping as fast as the wisecracks in a wild, riotous lampoon of quiz shows, politics and basic human nature.  After all, what would you answer if someone asked you,
”Are you dying to be a millionaire?”

Little Thinkers Theatre is an interdisciplinary project involving elementary students and middle/high School theatre arts students. Elementary students are invited to write and submit stories.

Middle and high school theatre students
will then turn the stories into short plays.