CINDERELLA
A PANTOMIME BY TRACY ROGERS & HELEN DUNN
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CHARACTERS
Cinderella – our principal girl
Prince Charming – the principal boy
Dandini – servant to the prince
Buttons – manservant to the Baron
Cruella – Cinderella’s ugly
stepsister
Ursula – an equally ugly stepsister
Baron Cecil Hardup –
Cinderella’s down-trodden father
Baroness Prunella Hardup – Cinderella’s cruel step mother
King & Queen Charming – Father
& Mother to the Prince (Act 2 only)
Grime & Slime – Two useless pest exterminators
Fairy Godmother – with a comic touch
Plus Chorus as servants,
villagers etc.
Dancers as Hamlyn the rat,
PomPom the cat, mice, fairies, ghosts etc.
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ACT 1 |
ACT 2 |
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Scene 1 – The Market Place of Village Charming Scene 2 – A Scene 3 – The Kitchen of Hardup
Hall Scene 4 – The Ugly Sisters’ Boudoir Scene 5 – The Kitchen of Hardup
Hall again |
Scene 1 – The Ballroom of Castle Charming Scene 2 – A Corridor in the Castle Scene 3 – An Attic Room in the Castle Scene 4 – The Kitchen of Hardup
Hall yet again Scene 5 – The Scene 6 – Return to the Ballroom of Castle Charming |
ACT 1 Scene 1 – The Market Place of Village Charming
A full stage market set with stalls, including a hat stall and an apothecary. Chorus are dressed as market traders and a fortune teller, with dancers as village children.
Song 1 suggestion – Who Will Buy
WOMAN
1: Roll up, roll up. Ladies and
gentlemen, welcome to market day at Village Charming.
Cruella and Ursula enter DL, followed by Buttons carrying a huge pile of parcels, which he drops.
CRUELLA: You stupid boy, you’ve dropped all our new
make-up.
BUTTONS: No wonder it weighed a ton. I thought you
were going to the Beauty Parlour.
URSULA: We did.
BUTTONS: Oh, was it shut? You spend a fortune on Max
Factor but there’s only one thing that really works.
URSULA: What’s that?
BUTTONS: A total eclipse!
CRUELLA: Is that a new perfume? I must try it.
WOMAN
2: Ladies, come and try my beautiful
hats.
BUTTONS: Hope they’ve got veils on to cover up their
ugly mugs.
The sisters move upstage to the hat stall.
CRUELLA: Look Ursula, I’ve always wanted a poke
bonnet. (Ursula pokes her). What did you do that for?
URSULA: I thought you said you wanted a poke on it!
CRUELLA: You’re just being spiteful.
URSULA: I’m not.
CRUELLA: You are.
The sisters continue to bicker as Buttons talks to the audience.
BUTTONS: Hello everybody, my name’s Buttons. Is there
anybody there? You can do better than that, let’s try again. Hello everybody!
That’s better, I was starting to feel lonely. I work
for those two dragons – they’re a fiery pair. I much prefer their step-sister
Cinderella, she’s beautiful. We live at Hardup Hall
just north of the village. Baron Hardup’s alright but
his missus Prunella – Prune for short- always on the
go. Cinders and I have to work our fingers to the bone while those two live a
life of luxury. It’s very sad. (Audience hopefully say ahhh)
No, it’s much sadder than that.
The sisters move to Buttons and add some hat boxes to his pile of parcels.
CRUELLA: I feel much better now. Every time I’m down
in the dumps I
buy
myself a new hat.
URSULA: I wondered where you got them from.
WOMAN
3: Ladies, can I tempt you with some of
my delicious cakes?
URSULA: Oh yes, I’ve got a sweet tooth to match my
sweet nature.
CRUELLA: Do you think you should dear with your
figure?
URSULA: I’ll have you know I’ve got an hourglass
figure.
BUTTONS: Looks like all the sand’s run to the bottom.
URSULA: I’m not staying here to be insulted.
BUTTONS: Well stand over there while I do it then.
Ursula punches Buttons on the arm.
CRUELLA: Come along sister,
stop brawling in the street like a fishwife. Let’s go home and show mumsie what we’ve bought.
URSULA: Hurry up with those parcels Buttons and don’t
dawdle.
The Ugly Sisters exit DR as Fairy Godmother is entering the same way, dressed as an old woman. The sisters knock her out of the way.
CRUELLA: Out of my way peasant!
Fairy Godmother meanders around the stalls. Cinderella enters L carrying a shopping basket.
CINDERELLA: Hello Buttons. What a beautiful morning. Have
you seen my sisters?
BUTTONS: (Rubbing his arm) Seen
them? They left a lasting impression.
Fairy Godmother stumbles and drops her basket. Cinderella rushes over to help her.
CINDERELLA: Let me help you.
GODMOTHER:
Thank you my dear, you’re very kind and kindness never goes unrewarded
you know.
Fairy Godmother continues to walk around the stalls but watches the following business.
BUTTONS: You’re such a wonderful friend to have
Cinderella, always thinking of others. It’s so unfair that you are always dressed
in rags while your horrid step-sisters have just spent a fortune on finery.
CINDERELLA: It would be nice to have some pretty clothes
to wear but I don’t let it get me down.
BUTTONS: All you need to make you look beautiful is
your smile.
Song 2 suggestion – Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
BUTTONS: Oh no, it’s the boss. I’m off!
Buttons exits
BARONESS: Hurry up Cecil. I hope you’ve got plenty of
cash with you. I’m in a spending mood.
BARON: Just coming my dear.
Your wish is my command darling. How much would you like my sweet one?
WOMAN 4: Ripe strawberries, 2p a basket. Buy some
strawberries for your lovely lady sir?
BARONESS: I must have some Cecil – now!
BARON: Yes light of my life. Immediately
my little pomegranate. Strawberries to match your ruby
lips my turtle dove. (He buys some strawberries and catches sight
of Cinderella) Ah Cinderella, you’re here.
Would you like some strawberries too?
BARONESS: What, waste money on this lazy good for
nothing? She hasn’t finished her chores yet. Get back to the kitchen straight away,
the grate needs polishing and the floor needs sweeping.
BARON: (Sadly) You’d
better go my dear, we don’t want to upset your step-mother.
Cinderella exits DR. The Baroness starts shopping at the stalls.
BARONESS: Over here Cecil, I need some cash – NOW!
BARON: Coming my primrose.
How much do you need my petal?
Slime and Grime enter carrying a poster advertising their services as pest exterminators.
SLIME: Here we are, this’ll
do. Put the poster up over there. Plenty of people should see it on market day.
Grime puts the poster up on the flat upside down. They both stand back and look at it from several different angles, finishing by looking at it upside down through their legs.
It continues …….
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