PLOT SYNOPSIS
Each play
is about an hour in length, a brief intermission, and has some
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"
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!
"Harry Pottar Meets The Wizard of
OZ"
In this rare mash-up, the 'boy who
lived' and his best friends, Hermione Gringer and Ron
Weasely
are blown from Potions
class to the Land of OZ where they meet Dorothy Gale
& Toto from Kansas
and her new friend, the
Scarecrow. When Harry and friends her about a 'wizard'
in the Emerald City,
they all decide to go, but the Wicked Witch has other
plans. BUT, she's obviously never tangled with
kids from Hogwarts before!
A hilarious send-up of both classics featuring many
surprises!
"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??
"CSI: WONDERLAND"
It's not your typical day in Wonderland (but
what is?). The Mad Hatter had just discovered that
Alice Crumpett has disappeared! Calling out the
crack CSI team, the investigation is on its way
with TweedleDee and TweedleDum
as apprentices to team leader, Bob Jabberwocky.
Where is she?
Was the March Hare to blame?
The Caterpillar? How about The Red Queen and her
sudden hatred
of mushrooms? Everyone's a
suspect and the clues are mounting up!
"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!
"The
Little Mermaid 2: Ursula's Revenge"
It's
been years since Ursula, the sea witch,
was defeated by King Triton and Ariel
and Prince Erik have settled down in
their new
castle by the sea. BUT! Ariel's
best friend. Flounder, has been been
tricked by Ursula into stealing the
King's trident and now the sea
witch has all her evil magic
powers back! Uh-oh!! Now Ursula wants
her revenge and it's a race against time
to get that trident back
before she can any more harm!
They're all back (yes, even Crabby) for
another go-round in this exciting
sequel!
"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?
"Peter Pan 3: The Switcheree"
In a sequel to "Peter Pan 2", it's looks like things have gotten
sillier on Never Never Land for Captain Hook. THIS
time, not only has he still got his infamous band of
cut-throat girl pirates, but he's also got....a daughter! Daisy
Hook!
And all she wants from her daddy is a pink hook! But
trouble looms when Smeegle reveals that Peter Pan wrote a
tell-all book about Hook and he's coming to Never Land to
sign copies. Hook kidnaps Tinkerbelle to force her to
cast a spell that will turn Pan into a snail to be crushed,
but something goes terribly wrong! It's mayhem and hijinks
galore as each of the crew gets mind-switched with each
other! Odds-bodkins!
"Peter Pan 4: Hook's War"
In part four of the Peter Pan/Captain Hook saga, we find Wendy
& Peter at odds with other. It seems that Peter longs
for his "war" with Captain Hook while Wendy just wants a
spider killed! Bingo! Peter sneaks away to do battle with
his arch-nemesis, but finds (to his horror) that Hook has
been "domesticated", due to his life with an all little girl
pirate crew....and a daughter! Desperate, Pan tries to
coerce Hook back to being his old self, while Wendy (in disguise)
infiltrates the pirate crew to get Peter back...with
disastrous and hilarious results!
"The Princess
and The Frog"
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!
"Cinderella 2: Bibbity Bobbity Oops!"
It's been a a treasued life for
Prince Charming and Cinderella after the wedding, and
apprentice wizard to the Fairy
Godmother, Bibbity Bobbity Boo
(or "Bob", for short), is on assigment to make sure
everything is still okay. But! His
magic wand is stolen by Lady
Tremaine, Cinderella's nasty step-mother, and she uses
it to make Prince Phillip think ugly
step-sister Anastasia is
Cinderella and vise-versa! Cinderella's world is
thrown topsy-turvy as she's back home in poverty while
Bob tries to get his wand back.
While the "happily ever after" ever happen again??
"Cinderella Meets The Avengers"
The
classic story of
Cinderella gets a MARVELous spin when
Cinderella, desperate to go to the Prince Bob
Charming's ball
uses a magic incantation in her spell book. .
. and gets the surprise of her life! Thor
shows up! Then Captain America is
called upon, but
it seems that neither of these superheroes can
help a fairy tale princess-to-be! So, what's a
girl to do? Call
for The Black
Widow, of course! Natasha Romanoff arrives to
set things right...with hand grenades and
razor-wire! Will
Cindy make it to the ball? Will she get a
chance to meet Prince Charming? And what's up
with Drusilla, her ugly step-sister
hitting on
Thor? Ewwww!!
"The BRAVE
Princess: Merida's Adventures"
It's
been six month months since Merida had that
great adventure where she accidentally turned
her mother into a bear!
Now
she
faces
another
great adventure with her parents setting her up
to marry a crazy King from over the hill and at
the
same
time
meeting
up with a strange young man in the forest! And
just when she thought she was going to have a normal
day
for
once!
There's
kidnapping, feats of archery, a crazy ol' witch,
and a fight to the finish in this wacky sequel
to the
terrific
animated
Scottish
feature
film!
"Sleeping
Beauty 2: Maleficent's Revenge"
Prince
Phillip
destroyed
evil Quen Malificent and rescued Princess Aurora
from that tower like all the books say...but
what
really happened after?
Well, what the fairy tales didn't
tell you is that Malificent wasn't destroyed!
She got amnesia and
wandered the forest until
Bob, her faithful henchmen, found her and
restored her memory. Now, Malificent wants sweet
revenge! In this wild 'n'
crazy tale, Prince Phillip must battle the evil
Queen again, but without the help from the three
good fairies, Flora, Fauna,
and what's-her-name, the third one.
"The Snow
Queen: A Frozen Adventure"
Anna
and
Kristof
are best friends, but their friendship is put to
the test when the Grand High Exhaulted Evil
Scientist in the sky
rains down a flurry
of evil mirror shards disguised as snowflakes!
Bob the goon, the G.H.E.E.S.'s assistant, goes
down to Earth to
stop it, but can't
and Kristof is infected with evilness! This
prompts Anna's sister, the Snow Queen, to come
down from her
mountain
castle
and
take Kristof away! Will Kristof be saved? Will
Bob win his bet with his boss? And why's that
giant snowman
petting a butterfly?
Yes, it's all here! Madness, mayhem, and even an
Adele Dazeem reference!
"The Snow Queen 2:
Trouble in Arendelle"
In a sequel to "The Snow Queen: A Frozen
Adventure", looks like there's trouble back home
in Arendelle with the unscrupulous
Duke of Weselton!
Yes, he's up to his old tricks of trying to
usurp the throne again, this time by selling
exploding rubber chickens!
The fiend! Luckily,
Kristof saves the day, but not before the Duke
finds hidden in the Enchanted Forest, Ember, a
naive and magical
girl that has FIRE power! The Duke tricks Ember
into taking the throne away from Crystal and
Anna, and now it's a race against time
to get the throne
back by getting the Rock Troll King, Pabbie, to
tell Ember the truth about who she REALLY is!!
"Pinocchio 2: The Return of Stromboli"
Y'know, it's lonely being the single
child of a toymaker, and Pinocchio is no
exception. Every since he became a real
boy, he's been
wanting a sister, so Ghepetto
carves him out a brand new one! It's Pinocchia!
The Blue Fairy gives this newest wooden
puppet life,
but Stromboli, the wicked
showman, kidnaps the girl and forces her
to perform for his failing puppet show.
Only.....she LIKES it!
Pinocchia becomes a runaway
success and such a royal diva that it's
up to Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket to
save her from a life of
social media chaos and paparazzi!
Or CAN they!?
"Rapunzel Meets
Spider-Man"
Intrepid reporter and Daily Bugle
photographer, Peter Parker, has just
been given a weird assignment by his
boss: photograph a strange
long-haired girl locked
away in a tall tower and ruled over by a
crazy witch! But this girl, named
Rapunzel, is problems of her own.
Some nutty Prince has come
to rescue her and hasn't the first clue
on how to do it, which is bad enough
when her cantankerous mother,
the witch Grizzelda come
back! Good thing Spider-Man shows up!
Oops! But so does The Green Goblin,
looking for some revenge!
Looks like ol' Spidey's
gonna need some help on this one and
calls a special DC friend with a sword
and a golden lasso!
"Beauty &
The Beast (and Bob)"
You THINK you know the classic
tale of Belle and the Beast, do you?
Well, not told the Gypsies way! In this
fractured retelling, Belle
is hounded by the
narcissistic Gastron and his lovable
sidekick, Laflu, until Belle's father
goes to the inventor's convention (he
just
invented the Iphone!).
Thanks to the Narrator, who keeps things
in check, the story takes us to the
Beast's castle where we meet his
lively servants, Lumiere
and Clocksworth. Oh, and did I mention
the crazy antics inside the castle and
the nutty battle between Gastron
and the Beast later on?
Well, that happens, along with this
"Bob" fellow who....well, I won't spoil
it for you......