HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY MONEYBAGS!
(In the restaurant, the tables are set with tablecloths andlittle pots of flowers. The narrator stands on the left.)
Narrator : This is the Hungry Horse restaurant. It isn’t a popular
restaurant because the food isn’t very good and the
staff are crazy.
(The manager, Pedro, Suzie and Mick walk on. The manager is talking to his staff. They are Pedro the cook, Suzie the waitress and Mick the waiter. The manager is telling them some important news).
Manager : Today is a very special day for the Hungry Horse
restaurant. Lord Moneybags wants to eat here.
Mick : Why does he want to eat here? The food is terrible!
Suzie : Maybe his wife’s cooking is terrible too!
Manager : Lord Moneybags wants to eat here with his family and
friends because it’s his wife’s birthday today!
Pedro : Oh super! A birthday party! Let’s make a cake!
Manager : Yes, Pedro – you make a cake. Mick and Suzie you set the
tables.
(They all walk off the stage).
(Mick and Suzie throw plastic plates, cups, knives and forks on the tables. Pedro runs on and off the stage and throws flour around and at the staff.)
Narrator : Now people are coming for the party!
(The manager, Mick, Pedro and Suzie stand and welcome Lord and Lady Moneybags, their son Jimmy and the grandmother to the restaurant.)
Manager : Welcome and Happy Birthday, Lady Moneybags!
(Jimmy fires a toy gun and walks away).
Pedro : You’ve got a lovely little boy!
(Pedro makes a face, takes the toy gun and walks away.)
Lady Moneybags : Thank you! This is my mother. She’s a bit deaf!
Suzie : I’m happy to meet you.
Grandmother : No meat for me! I don’t eat meat!
Suzie : Come with me, please!
Grandmother : No cheese for me! I don’t eat cheese!
(Suzie takes the grandmother, Jimmy and Lord and Lady Moneybags to the table. They sit down. Then other people start to come into the restaurant. Suzie and Mick show them where to sit but not in a polite way.)
Suzie and Mick : This way! Over here! Sit here! Hurry up!
(Mick pulls out a chair quickly and one person falls on the floor!)
Narrator : Now the people are sitting and talking.
Mum : Excuse me, can I have the menu, please?
Suzie : Here you are!
Mum : Can I have a chicken salad, please?
Suzie : Ok.And what do you want sir?
Dad : Can I have sardines with salad please?
Suzie : Ok. How about you ?
Girl : I want sausages with chips, please.
Boy : And I want a tuna sandwich, please.
Girl : Tuna sandwich. Yuck! Why don’t you eat sausages and chips like me?
Boy : What do you care?
(Suzie, Mick and Pedro bring plates of food and bottles of juice and put them on the table. Everybody starts eating very quickly and pouring the juice into the cups.)
Jimmy : Hey, look. There are flies in this orange juice.
Mick : Oh, no!(Mick runs to the table to look.)
Oh, it’s ok! They can swim!
Guest 1: Hey, there’s a mouse in this food!
(shouting and pulling out a toy mouse)
Suzie : Don’t worry, sir! There’s a cat under your chair!
(Guest 1 jumps with fear)
Guest 2: (shouting and holding a plate up)This cheese is horrible.
It’s got holes in it.
Mick : Well, eat the holes and leave the cheese!
Lady Moneybags : This food is very hot!
Lord Moneybags : This food is very cold!
Manager : Enjoy your meal with your wife, please. Today is her birthday.
Lord Moneybags : This restaurant is terrible! We’re leaving!
(Two robbers run into the room. They are wearing masks. Robber 1 runs and grabs Jimmy from his seat.)
Robber 1: You aren’t leaving! Give us your diamonds, Lady Moneybags
or your son is dead meat!
Grandmother : I don’t eat meat!
Robber 2 : Put your diamonds in this bag!
(Lady Moneybags starts to take off her jewellery but Pedro is behind Robber 2. Pedro sticks Jimmy’s toy gun in the robber’s back.)
Pedro : (shouting at the robbers) Free the boy or your friend is dead meat!
Grandmother : I don’t eat meat!
(Robber 1 lets Jimmy free. Mick grabs robber 2.)
Lord Moneybags : (taking on his mobile phone) Is that the police?
Please, come to the Hungry Horse restaurant –
right now!
(Two police officers run on )
Police officer 1: Are these the robbers? Come here, you two!
Police officer 2 : Put your hands up and move this side. Hurry up!
(police officers take away the two robbers. Pedro collapses and Suzie catches him. Jimmy runs and takes his gun.)
Lord Moneybags : Thank you, Pedro! You saved my wife’s diamonds.
This is a wonderful restaurant.
(The manager walks into the room with a big birthday cake with one big candle in the middle.)
Manager : Happy Birthday, Lady Moneybags!
All : Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, Lady Moneybags!
Happy birthday to you!
( Lady Moneybags blows out the candle and all of the people cheer. Jimmy shoots his toy gun in the air.)
Come to my restaurant song is sung at the end.
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