Cinderella pantomime script

CINDERELLA
by Gill Morrell
A new version of the much-loved tale, but unusually set in the 1920s.

PLOT RESUME
Baron Hardup is up to his ears in debt. His daughters, Smelly and Snotty, the Ugly Sisters, are bent on going to the Ball and on preventing their step-sister Cinderella from doing the same. But of course she does go, with the help of Buttons and her Fairy Godmother. All this despite the efforts of the evil Demon King and the rascally Broker's Women.

CAST 7 MALE 7 FEMALE 1 M/F PARTS

King Desmond
Queen Norma
Major-Domo (PG)
Prince Charming (PB)
Dandini
Germaine)
Greer), Brokers' Women
Baron Hardup Smelly)
Snotty), the Ugly Sisters
Cinderella (PG)
Buttons
Puddle, the poodle
Demon King
Fairy Godmother

3 MAIN SETS
Production notes inc FX and musical numbers suggested.

SET PIECES
Ballroom scene
Kitchen scene

Script Sample - A Day's Shopping

Buttons is onstage as the Ugly Sisters burst in, laden with innumerable bags and boxes

Snotty Get over here and give us a hand, you lazy idiot. We've been shopping till we dropped.
Buttons(to himself) It looks like it.
Smelly We've been to the sales and we cleared them out. I needed a new spring wardrobe -
Snotty And I needed a new summer wardrobe -
Smelly And then I had to get an autumn wardrobe -
Snotty And I had to get a winter wardrobe -
Snotty And, of course, once we'd bought all those wardrobes, we had to buy the clothes to go in them. John Lewis has never seen anything like us. What do you think would go best with these turquoise, pink and orange leggings?
Buttons Try thigh-high boots.
Snotty Oh, very funny.
Buttons Smelly, what are you playing with in that pocket?
Smelly Not what you're thinking of, you cheeky boy. I bought a few sweets while we were out, but if I'm going to fit into those leggings, I think I'd better give them a miss. Have you got any ideas what I could do with them?
Snotty No. I wonder if they've got any ideas. (She speaks to the audience) You lot, what do you think we should do with all these sweets? Give them to you? But what will your mums and dads say if you take sweets from strangers?
Smelly Quite right. We'll just have to eat them ourselves after all. What a sacrifice. Ummm, delicious. You don't know what you're missing.
Buttons They do, you know. Go on, give them the sweets - you're not strangers, you've been introduced.
Smelly Have we? I don't remember any of them. They look a very unsavoury lot to me.
Snotty You can see they don't like sweets.
Buttons Stop being so mean and chuck them the sweets.

The sweets are thrown out to the audience

Snotty Well, if I'm not allowed any sweets, go and get me a little snack.
Buttons Aren't you supposed to be on a diet?
Snotty I'm on a seafood diet - it's really good - whenever I see food, I eat it. Get me a crocodile sandwich - and make it snappy!

Exit Buttons

Smelly I think you really should consider your waistline, my dear; after all, they say that all the big women die young.
Snotty Whatever gave you that idea?
Smelly That's why we're left with little old ladies.
Snotty Piffle. Besides, I'm not afraid to die young - I just don't want to be there when it happens. Anyway, you're one to talk. You're like that Joan Collins - you've discovered the secret of eternal middle age.
Smelly How dare you! I'm only pushing forty.
Snotty Pushing forty? You're clinging on to it for dear life.

Buttons returns with a tray with a large teapot and four mugs. Audience shout "Button up!"

Buttons Thanks, and now tea's up as well. Shall I be mother?
Smelly What are all those mugs for? You're not expecting to drink tea here with us, are you?
Buttons Yes, I suppose you are the only mugs around here. Oh, go on, let Cinders and me have a break - we've both been up and working since before dawn.
Smelly All right, just this once, but we're not having you two getting above yourselves. After all, there's even a little song about our elevenses, isn't there, Snotty, my dear?
Snotty There certainly is, Smelly, my sweet.

Song 6

from Cinderella, Act 1 Scene 3

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