Description
The Love Note is a hilarious and touching tale of young Jessie's arrival at a new and outlandish middle school where there is a colorful and zany cast of characters. The ruthless bullies run the cafeteria, the unique bookworms stick together behind their books, and the watchful Lunch Lady wields a mean soup ladle. Meanwhile there is a cute boy named Peter who looks Jessie's way during math class. Jessie sits alone in her new school cafeteria, but gains some comfort from the tiny pink love note that her mother packs into her lunch bag. As soon as the head bully Brittany steals her love note and bites into her tasty sandwich, Jessie knows she is in trouble. In the musical The Love Note, Jessie and her lively imaginary friend, Airy, invent a spicy strategy to overcome the lunchroom bullies who pilfer her lunch and laugh at her precious love note. Bolstered by her ever-growing hunger, and cheeky advice from Airy, Jessie decides to take lunch preparation into her own hands and serve the bullies a new “hot lunch.”
Thematic Content
Anti-Bullying theme.
Cast Breakdowns
CAST (Cast size of “tweens” is flexible - 15 minimum) *The characters are all between 10 and 12 years old but may be played by older actors much like "Spelling Bee"
JESSIE – The new girl at school
BRITTANY – Bully
AIRY – JESSIE’S imaginary friend (boy or girl)
NATTY – BRITTANY’S friend
PATTY – BRITTANY’S friend
KATTY – BRITTANY’S friend
(*NATTY, PATTY and KATTY all aspire to be BRITTANY)
PETER – Boy who likes Jessie.
ADAM – Bully boy who likes Brittany.
BOOKWORM 1 – Boy or Girl - Band geek
BOOKWORM 2 – Boy or Girl - Science nerd
BOOKWORM 3 – Girl – Math wiz
BOOKWORM 4 – Boy or Girl - A foreign exchange student
BOOKWORM 5 – Boy or Girl - Hippie
BOOKWORM 6 – Boy - Super hero (complete with cape!)
BOOKWORM 7 – Girl – Princess
(BOOKWORMS sit together at their lunch table.)
BULLY BOYS – 10-12 - Boys who appear in the opening, the lunchroom and detention scenes.
BULLY GIRLS – 10 -12 - Girls who appear in the opening, the lunchroom, detention and the Girl Talk scenes.
LUNCH LADY – She works in the school lunch room. The only adult in the show.
*Ensemble numbers can vary. Consists of actors who can sing and dance in the five ensemble numbers. (WALK DON’T RUN, FOOD FIGHT, DETENTION, WE ARE CHEFS, and THE LOVE NOTE FINALE.)
How can I find it?
http://www.thelovenote.com
