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Oliver Twist (standing) battles the Notorious Fairy Tale Combo, while the Artful Dodger tries to pick Little Red Riding Hood's pocket, in the Hoover High School (Glendale, CA) production.
All photos by Dave Huber.

ABOUT THE PLAY

Comedy. Widely flexible cast of 14-50+ actors, though it is also possible to do an extremely multiple cast (and extremely fun!) version of the play that uses 8-9 actors. 90-100 minutes. Multiple suggested settings. Equally well suited to high school, college, community or professional theatre.

Tiny Tim rests from a training race against his mother, Mrs. Cratchit, while sister Martha, his trainer, waits for him to recover in the Hoover HS production.

SYNOPSIS

An abandoned set of crutches. Tiny Tim in training to run the marathon. A chance to inspire millions, unless...somebody already has that job. With the powers-that-be backing Oliver Twist, once lowly orphan and now panic attack-ridden pitchman for juicers and cereal who is forced to endlessly reenact his walk to London and his days in the workhouse--and the homicidal trio of Cinderella, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood on the loose--Tiny Tim may not make it to the starting line.

Marathon runner Tiny Tim holds off a late charge from Kenya Ethiopia, as Corporate Mommy and Daddy look on in the Hoover HS production.

A CUTTING FROM TINY TIM RUNS THE MARATHON

Read the opening of TINY TIM RUNS THE MARATHON as a PDF file using the free Adobe Acrobat reader.

The Artful Dodger, bat in hand, prepares to "take Oliver martyr" as Twist hyperventilates into a paper bag in the Hoover HS production.