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"The Rain Dance Play" is the first story in the thirteenth episode of the first season of Little Bear. It was written by Nancy Barr with a story by Else Holmelund Minarik. In the United States, it premiered on 12 February 1996 on Nickelodeon.

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Little Bear and his friends prepare for a play they are putting on by hanging a curtain for their backdrop and getting their props ready. Emily reminds Cat of the one, most important line he has to say. She and Little Bear worry about the lack of rain, which wilts their corn plant props. Cat is annoyed that he does not appear in the play and only has one line, though it is the most important part of the play.

The play is about Brave One (Little Bear) and Princess Sadawa (Emily) lamenting that the corn will not grow because of a drought. The chorus, Hen, Owl, and Duck, echo their concerns. At the end of the play, Cat, the Great Cloud, is supposed to hear their pleas for rain and say his one, important line: "Dance!" Then the rest of the cast will do a rain dance, and Cat will dump the bucket of water he has behind the stage like its rain. But due to Cat's mischievous nature, Cat first says, "Somersaults! Backflips! Stand on your heads!" Hen is annoyed, but Duck explains to the audience that Cat is supposed to say "dance", making them burst out in laughter. Cat asks them why they don't dance if they want to.

The rest of the cast does the rehearsed rain dance, and a thunderstorm hits just as Cat dumps the bucket. Duck is impressed with the size of Cat's bucket, as it is pouring. Emily wonders aloud to Little Bear whether or not the play and the rain dance was what made it really rain, and Little Bear responds that he does not know.

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