PLOT SYNOPSIS
Each
play
is
about
an hour in length, a brief intermission, and has audience
participation.
"The
Emperor's
New
Clothes"
The
Emperor
loves
his clothes! His outspoken obsession is overheard
by two con men
on
the
lam.
They convince the monarch to use the kingdom's fortune
to buy their
remarkable cloth...a
cloth SO magical that only intelligent people can see it! Only Lady
Dierdre
(the
lady-in-waiting) notices something fishy is going on.
"The Adventures of Hansel
and Gretel"
Through
a
misunderstanding,
Hansel and Gretel think their poor parents
(Prince Charming
and Sleeping
Beauty) are plotting to get rid of them. The kids escape and get lost
in
the
forest
and,
with
no
help from the Big Bad Wolf, find themselves in the clutches of
Grizzelda, the Wicked
Witch
of
the
forest! Gretel, thinking quickly, rescues her
captured brother and pushes
the
witch
into the
oven...but is she finally destroyed?
''Fearnot!
The
boy
who left
home to
find out about the shivers"
Fearnot
Ofnuthin
was
born with no fear whatsoever and decides that it's time to
leave home and
find
out
what
being scared is all about! On the way he meets Angus McGregor, a
conniving con man
with
a
heart
of gold. He agrees to help Fearnot and soon they
learn of Castle Evil, a scary
castle that no
man has spent a night there...and lived! Could this be the answer to
Fearnot's
problem?
"Mr. Toad's
Wild Adventure"
Mr.
J.
Thaddeus
Toad of majestic Toad Hall has fallen in love with a
new fangled thing
called an
'automobile' and going fast, fast, fast! His friends Ratty, Mole, and
McBadger
try to help him
with his speed addiction, but to no avail. Soon he is framed by wicked
bar owner Winky
and his gang of wise-cracking weasels and thrown in jail for grand
theft auto!
Will Toad get
out of jail? Will he lose beautiful Toad Hall toWinky? And why is his
best
friend Cyrill
dressed like a old lady?
"The Golden Goose"
Siblings Doofus, Deplorable, and Dementia are in the
forest one day
and are put to the "friendly"
test by
the Elfin Wizard King. When simple-minded Doofus shows the most
kindness, the King
grants
Doofus a
great gift...a golden goose! But Doofus gets lost with the goose and
winds up in a
castle
where the
Queen has offered a great award to anyone who can make
her
laugh.
"Androcles and the Lion"
Runaway Roman slave Androcles has a problem:
he's pulled a thorn from a ferocious
lion's
paw, abducted by his slave master, and THEN sold to the great Circus in
Rome...
where he
can't figure out why there are no clowns anywhere. "It ain't that kind
of circus,
kid" is
what he keeps hearing. Soon both Androcles and the Lion are forced to
fight
each
other (ala "WWE") in the arena with the great Emperor Caesar watching!
"Little Red
Riding Hood meets
Goldilocks"
In
this
original
play, the sweet, but porridge-obsessed Goldi Locks
accidentally runs into
Red Riding Hood and the trouble begins. They're caught by the Big Bad
Wolf, escape,
and get hopelessly lost in the forest. Meanwhile back home, both Ms.
Hood and Ms.
Locks team up
rescue their daughters after the not-so-brave Prince Charming turns
up and turns chicken!
"The Shoemaker and the Elves"
Poor Manolo Blahnik and his wife Mary Jane are at their
wit's end! All shoemaker
Manolo
does
is
procrastinate about getting shoes finished for a trio of
demanding
customers:
a
ego-maniacal
ballerina, a sue-happy lawyer, and the Duke
to the King!
But it so just so happens that three very
unusual elves show up the next night and
do
the work for Manolo while he's asleep. Say...do those elves look
familiar? Hmmmm?
"The Wizard
of OZ"
Yes,
it's
the timeless telling of L. Frank Baum's immortal tale of
Dorothy, the Scarecrow,
the
Tin Man, The Cowardly Lion, and the Wizard of Oz...except
in THIS tale, it
gets
the ol'
Gypsies twist: a confused Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow are at odds
over
"Three's
Company" cast members, and the Wicked Witch has
issues with Glinda
and...what's up with Toto?
A very goofy
retelling
of the classic tale as only re-told by the Gypsies
in a Trunk players!
"The Fisherman
and the Little
Mermaid"
Bob, a henpecked
and generally
unhappy fisherman, goes to the sea and catches...Ariel,
the little mermaid! And when she
grants him three wishes for his kindness, Bob wishes
for
incredible
fame
and for unbridled fortune...but the results are NOT
what he expected!
Will
Bob
find
out that fame and fortune aren't what they're cracked
up to be? Will his hopelessly
dysfunctional family finally find happiness at the
end? Will Ariel get over Sebastian's awful
limerick's? Watch and find out!
"Goldilocks and the
Three Bears"
Goldilocks has an
appointment with her Gramma to bring her some cookies but her friend,
Little Red Riding Hood, has other ideas! Meanwhile, the
Three
Bears are celebrating Papa
Bears
birthday...with
disastrous
results (thanks to Junior Bear). The
girls arrive after the
Bears leave for a walk and chaos ensues when the Bears
return
home and find the unwanted
guests!
Yes,
it's
all here! Madness! Misunderstanding! Comedy! And porridge!
"CSI:
Mother Goose"
Gordon Goose (son of Mother) has discovered
that his mother has disappeared! He
calls for the elite forensics crime lab experts
Jack Spratt and his
partners, Jack and Jill Hill.
Through clues left throughout
the crime scene, the team question Nursery Rhyme Land's
oddest characters like Little Bo
Peep, the 3 Blind Mice, Peter Piper, and more! Can you figure
out what happened to Mother
Goose??
"The Little Mermaid"
Ariel the mermaid has just fallen in
love...isn't that nice? BUT! It's with a PRINCE who also
happens to be HUMAN!
Ariel's father, King Triton, is none-to-keen on the idea and
gets
Crabby the lobster and Flounder the fish to keep an eye on her. Talk
about pressure!
Meanwhile
(and right on cue) Ursula the Sea Witch
shows up and offers Ariel a deal that she cannot refuse: be changed
into a human (with no
voice) and woo
Prince
Erik into loving her...or fail and be Ursula's slave
forever!
"Rumpelstiltskin"
Millicent
has
a
boisterous,
bragging father that tells the Royal Prime Minister
that she can
spin straw into gold!
Oops! The Prime Minister then throws her into the dungeon to spin the
straw
into gold, but she
can't! Awkward! Elfin imp Rumpelstiltskin appears and strikes a deal
with the lady:
"Give
me
your first born and I'll spin the straw into gold!" Yikes! She
agrees, but a year later has
some terrible regrets
when the crazy little dude comes a callin' for his baby!
"Peter
Pan
2:
Hook's
Revenge"
It's been ten
years and Captain James Hook is looking for revenge! He has found Peter
Pan...but there's
just
one little problem...Peter Pan doesn't know he's Peter
Pan anymore! Worse yet: all of Hook's pirates have
retired to
Florida leaving the captain with their pirate daughters! Hook decides
to
kidnap Wendy and jog Peter's
memory.
Will Peter remember who he really is? Will Wendy be rescued? And why is
Tinkerbell acting so strange?
"The Frog Prince"
Vain
and spoiled Prince Eric Charming has
fallen afoul of the evil Swamp Witch and her dimwitted
brother, Bob. The prince is turned into a frog and must find his true
in order to be turned back into a prince!
But the
Swamp Witch has plans
of her own by hijacking a nearby castle, putting a spell on the King
and Princess,
and ruling
in their place! A
year later who shows up but the frog prince still looking for his true
love. The princess
meets
him...and they can't
stand each other! Will true love prevail?
"Rapunzel:
A
Tangled Tale of Split Ends"
It's all about
the vegetables! When Father Frank takes the witch's prized vegetables
to feed
his pregnant wife, the
witch zaps the
couple
and steals their daughter Rapunzel and then shuts her up in the highest
tower in the land!
18 years later Rapunzel is
getting bored and suspicious about her "mother" and wants to see the
world! Enter Prince
Bob Charming and
his
faithful steed, Fred! Together they free the trapped girl and are
instantly on the run when the
witch
returns to find her stolen daughter gone!
"Chicken Little"
Just in time
for the faux 2012 doomsday scare, it's the ultimate in
worry-warts...Chicken Little! Just outside
Uncle Bob's Poultry Farm lurks the crazy-hungry Foxy Loxy with one
thing on his mind...LUNCH! When he sees
young and gullible
Chicken Little, he put his plans into motion and gets Little to believe
that the sky is falling!
Wearing a rooster disguise, Foxy Loxy infiltrates the farm and prepares
to trick all the animals in leaving the safety of
the farm and into his
shelter...all with Chicken Little leading the pack! A cautionary tale
with wacky results!