Every year, I am the adult director and sound designer for our church Sunday school play.

To be precise, our Dharma School presents a play each Hanamatsuri with a Buddhist theme. Each class from the youngest through 4th grade "dances"/performs to a song which interrupts the 5th grade (and older) students performance. Until last year, the play was written my one of the reverends; for the past two years, my daughter, wife and I have written the play. There have been parodies of Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Giving Tree, Pirates of the Caribbean, baseball, TV animation awards, American Idol, Japanese folk tales, etc. The script is usually 14-18 pages long, with breaks for Nursery II, Nursery I, Kindergarden, 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th grades to perform. Older kids direct, run spotlights, get classes from the classrooms, open/close curtains, etc. We have two sets of performers: one set in costume on stage, another offstage with scripts and microphones. Each character has two performers: the one who mimes the performance, and the one who sits and reads the lines into the microphone.

This next year we are producing "Alice in Dharmaland" a parody, mashup between Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Alice will shrink and grow, and meet the White Rabbit, the Duchess, Humpty Dumpty, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, and many other characters from the two books (but not all). The reverend likes the idea: the Caterpillar's "Who are you?" is a basic question of Buddhism.

So far, we think we'll use "A Very Merry Unbirthday" from the Disney film (we don't want many songs from the same source), Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit", Donovan's "Under the Greenwood Tree" (ends on the Lobster Quadrille), and the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus."

What we need is at least seven songs total which will match characters or situations Alice would encounter in this play... hoping that they will have a Dharma message.

Can anyone here add to my list of possible song choices? Remember, these are 3-year-olds through 4th graders in a church setting.

Thanks!

Thank you -- a friend suggested "Who Are You" by The Who -- whichs works for the Caterpillar as soon as I can fade it out before the "Who the f*** are you" line.

Make Me Smile (come Up and See Me) - Steve Harley for the Cheshire Cat?

Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen (with the Don't Lose Your Head intro) for the Red Queen?

Madness - Madness for the Mad Hatter?

Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac for the Tweedledum/Tweedledee scene (IIRC one lies the otehr tells the truth?)