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 clothes to the extreme and his obsession is overheard
by two con men
on
the lam. They convince the monarch to use the kingdom's last fortune
to buy their
remarkable cloth that
is SO magical, that only intelligent people can see it! Only Lady
Dierdre,
the lady-on-waiting, notices something fishy is going on.
"The Adventures of Hansel
and Gretel"
Through
a misunderstanding, Hansel and Gretel think their poor parents
(Price Charming
and Sleeping
Beauty) are plotting to get rid of them. They escape and get lost in
the
forest and,
with
no help from the Big Bad Wolf, find themselves in the clutches of
the Wicked Witch
of
the forest. Gretel, the brains of the outfit, 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 has no fear whatsoever and decides that it's time to
leave home and
find
out what fear actually is! 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 sneaky 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"
Doofus, Deplorable, and Dementia are in the forest one day
and are put to the "friendly"
test by
the Elfin Wizard King. When 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 the
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 and then was abducted by his master and sold to the great Circus in
Rome...
and 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 (a la "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 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
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
unusal 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 age-old 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 menbers, and the Wicked Witch has
issues with Glinda
and...what's up with Toto? A very goofy
retelling
of the classic tale as told only 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 that fame and fortune aren't what they're cracked
up to be? Will his hopelessly
disfunctional 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!
"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
odd chararters 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 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 and woo Prince
Erik (with no voice) into loving her...or fail and be Ursula's slave
forever!
"Rumplestilskin"
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 Rumplestilskin 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 (looking for revenge) has found Peter
Pan...there's
just
one 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 daughters! Hook decideds 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?