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Nuncrackers

The Little Sisters of Hoboken are here to make your holiday season merry and bright! All the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil and four students, take the stage to celebrate the season with warmth and hilarity.

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy, Christmas/Holiday
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Orchestra Size: Small/Combo

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
The Nunsense Christmas Musical Nuncrackers is presented as the first TV special taped in the Cable Access Studio built by Reverend Mother in the convent basement. It stars the nuns you love, plus Father Virgil and four of Mount Saint Helen's most talented students.

Featuring all new songs, including "Twelve Days Prior to Christmas," "Santa Ain't Comin' to Our House," "We Three Kings of Orient Are Us" and "It's Better to Give than to Receive," this show is filled with wacky Nunsense humor, some of your favorite carols, and a "Secret Santa" sequence featuring audience participation. Certain to tickle your funny bone and likely to tug at your heartstrings, Nuncrackers is the perfect way to make your holiday season merry and bright!

Nuncrackers is also available in a Large Cast Edition.


Premiere Production:

Nuncrackers is the fourth show in Dan Goggin's series of Nunsense musicals.

  • Casting: 1M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Roles for Children
  • Casting Notes: 2 Girl(s), 2 Boy(s)
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

  • SISTER MARY REGINA - Reverend Mother
    SISTER MARY HUBERT
    SISTER ROBERT ANNE - also voice of the puppet nun, Sister Mary Annette
    SISTER MARY PAUL - also known as Amnesia
    SISTER MARY LEO - optional role
    FATHER VIRGIL MANLY TROTT

    CHILDREN: Louise, Maria, John, Billy
  • Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Piano Conductor's Score
    1 x Prompt Book


    $24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    10 x Prompt Book & Chorus-Vocal Parts
    1 x Piano Conductor's Score

    $250.00 +$75.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    1 x Piano
    1 x Keyboard Synthesizer (Lower keyboard - Bass, Upper keyboard - Color Registrations)
    1 x Violin (one solo violin and optional percussion: Bongo Drums & Tambourine ring)

    1 x Percussion (Bells, Crotales, Chimes, Xylophone, Grandfather Clock Chimes)
    Trap Drum Set - Snare Drum, Bass Drum, Bongo Drumes, Tom Toms (mounted & floor), Cymbals (Splash, Crash, Ride & Hi-Hat), Triangle, Sleigh Bells, Sandpaper Blocks, Tambourine, Tambourine Ring, Cow Bell, Wood Blocks, Mark Tree, Bell Tree, Car Horn, Slide Whistle

    Piano-Conductor's Score sent with Rehearsal Material.

    $100.00 +$75.00/pm