Enter Cinderella, scrubbing the floor
Enter Fairy G, centre stage with her wand
Cinderella freezes
Fairy G:Once upon a time in the kingdom of [Your School Name]-a
There was a young girl named Ella
Goodness and kindness burst out the seams of her
This is her tale that we will tell ya’
She had the perfect family
Loving mother wonderful dad
Her days were bright and happy
Such fun and games were had
In to each life some pain must fall
It comes to one it comes to all
Her mother died
Her dad married again
A woman with two daughters
Life was never the same
Ella was crushed
And became the servant
Her life became small
Devoid of all wonderment
She slept by the fire
Her stepsisters would tell her
She must change her name
To the cruel Cinderella
But who am I
This beautiful woman you see
I’m Ella’s fairy Godmother
But you can call me Fairy G
It might all seem sad for Cinderella now
But do you know what boys and girls
I think her lucks about to change!
Music: Cilla Black – Something Tells Me (Something's Going to Happen)
“Something tells me, something's gonna’ happen tonight
I read in the papers that Gemini people will make it tonight
Stars will be shining, my sign is aligning with love
So come on and make it
Let's take everything that we've been dreaming of
Oh baby, something tells me, something's gonna’ happen to you
The smile on my face is the smile you'll wear in a moment or two
So get it together, you see it's gonna’ be alright
Something tells me, something's gonna’ happen tonight”
Hang in there you kind hearted girl, good things come to good people in the end!
At the end of the song Fairy G leaves, andBaron Hardup enters
Cinderella un-freezes and is washing the floor
Baron H:Oh Ella, my darling daughter, I hate to see the way you are treated in this house. It is not what I wanted for you. I wish I could stand up to my wife
Cinderella:No father, please don’t. You are too old and too week. Besides, I like helping people. It is like mother always said to me, ‘be kind and nice to everyone and good things will come to you’
Baron H:You are so like your mother. I love you my dear child
Cinderella:And I love you, father
Buttons enters with arms full of packages
Buttons:Hello
Cinderella:Oh, hello Buttons
Buttons:Sorry to ruin this family moment, but warning - the gruesome twosome are on their way, and her sourness is right behind them. They’ve been shopping all morning:‘hold this Buttons, carry this Buttons, chew my sandwidge Buttons’, I’m surprised they didn't ask me to go to the toilet with them and wipe their bums!
Cinderella:Oh Buttons, they aren't that bad
Baron H:I don’t know Cinderella, those girls expect the world on a plate and it’s left to me to pay for it
Buttons:They got through six credit cards this morning, and that was all on make-up
Baron H:They don’t need make-up, they need a plasterer!
Buttons:Haha, yeah, they are so ugly, when they were born they put tinted windows on the incubator
Baron H:They are so ugly, they make onions cry
Buttons:They are sooo ugly, I took them to the zoo and the zookeeper said, ‘thanks for bringing them back’!
Cinderella:Right,that’s enough you two, you’re just being mean. They can be unkind sometimes, but that doesn't mean you can be cruel to them
Buttons:You’re right Cinderella, I will try to be nice
Baron H:You’re so good, my darling girl.They are so horrible to you yet I never hear a bad word about them crossing your lips
Cinderella:Be kind and nice to everyone and-
Baron H:And good things will happen to you… I do hope your mother was right. I’m going to disappear before your stepmother and her girls arrive; they will only ask me for more money and I am skint. Goodbye, my daughter. Buttons, good luck with those girls
Exit Baron Hardup
Buttons:I’ll need it!
Speaking directly to the audience
Finally, all alone with Cinderella! Can I tell you all a secret boys and girls? Can I? I can’t it’s too embarrassing… I can’t. Oh, maybe I can. Boys and girls, I am in love with Cinderella!
Cinderella:Buttons, what are you talking to them about?
Buttons:Nothing!
Cinderella:It didn't seem like nothing to me! What did he say boys and girls?
They say you love me!Aww! Buttons, I love you too, you are my best friend and friends always love each other. Right pal?
Buttons:Yes pal… Just friends…
Enter Stepmother, Rankeener, and Mingeler
Stepmother:Cinderella, of course standing around chatting as usual! You really are a lazy, useless good for nothing excuse for a girl. So sad you can’t be beautiful and driven like me and my daughters. I must be so kind to take on one so dull and plain and for what? Your father’s money is drying up, we finished of five credit cards this morning
Cinderella:A successful shopping trip then, Stepmother?
Mingeler:Yeah, I got a Wii
Rankeener:No Mingeler, you had a wee!
Mingeler:Oh yes Rankeener, you’re right
Rankeener:I got some lovely Jimmy Choos
Mingeler:She had eaten up to the buckle before she realised it wasn’t chewing gum
Rankeener:Hey Buttons, why are our bags still in the dirty, smelly kitchen?
Stepmother:Yes Buttons, explain yourself, you good-for-nothing pleb
Buttons:Ooo, careful Stepmother, people have lost their jobs for that
Stepmother:I don’t have a job, I’m a kept woman
Buttons:Thank goodness!You defiantly need a zookeeper!
Stepmother:What was that?
Buttons:I said the Baron’s lucky to have found you, you’re a real keeper!
Stepmother:Enough flattery.Take those bags up to our rooms
Buttons:Yes ma’am
Buttons exits with the bags
Stepmother:Cinderella, have you done the laundry?
Cinderella:Yes Stepmother
Stepmother:The ironing?
Cinderella:Yes Stepmother
Mingeler:Did you take out my dress?
Cinderella:Yes Mingeler
Rankeener:Did you take in my dress?
Cinderella:I’m sorry Rankeener, I haven’t yet, but it is next on my list though
Stepmother:You haven’t taken in my daughter’s dress?
Cinderella:No I said, I’m sorry, it’s next on my list, I’m so sorry
Stepmother:You hateful girl, how you treat your step sisters so badly, I think you deserve a spell locked in the cellar
Mingeler
Rankeener:Yeah, throw her in the cellar!
Cinderella:No please no, not the cellar again! It’s dark and cold and scary, I hate it, please!
A trumpet sounds
Enter BaronHardup and a Royal Herald
Baron H:What’s going on in here?
Stepmother:Nothing, just us girls were having a gossip
Mingeller:Ye, thatHarry Styles
Rankeener:Phworrrr
Baron H:Is that right, Ella?
Cinderella:Yes dad, we were just chatting and joking around
Baron H:Well my girls, this man has some rather exciting news for you all.He has come straight from the palace
Mingeler:Ooo, the palace!That Price Charming lives there
Rankeener:He! Is! Gorgeous!
Mingeler:I wonder what it’s about
Stepmother:Girls, shut up! Then we might all find out what news this fine Royal Herald has for us
Royal Herald:Thank you, kind lady. I come with a royal decree
Stepmother:A royal decree - how exciting!
Royal Herald:Yes, it is actually… I don’t get to read out many
Stepmother:What are you doing normally then?
Royal Herald:Well I spend a lot of time polishing the bugles
Stepmother:Oh how lovely, a big brassy instrument
Royal Herald:And I get to rub it down daily
Baron H:If we could just have the decree, we don’t need all this flim-flam
Royal Herald:Yes sorry Baron. The decree is that every unwed maiden in the land is attend a ball at the palace tonight in honour of the Princes’ 21st naming day. At this ball, the Prince shall choose his bride
Stepmother:His bride?How exciting girls! You can go now, we have work to do
Royal Herald:No chance of a cup of tea?
Stepmother:Get out, I said!
Royal Herald leaves, in a huff
Baron H:That wasn't very nice
Stepmother:I don’t care, we have a lot to do
Mingeler:A ball! A ball! I’m going to be a princess!
Rankeener:How can you be, for the Prince shall pick me
Mingeler:No, me
Stepmother:No matter girls, as long as he picks one of you we are made! Now where is Buttons? That man is so lazy!
Cinderella:You asked him to take your bags upstairs,Stepmother
Stepmother:Who asked you, you impertinent little girl?Buttons?!Buttons?!
Buttons enters, out of breath
Buttons:You called, your hideousness?
Stepmother:What was that?
Buttons:You called, your loveliness?
Stepmother:Flattery will get you nowhere, boy. We need to go back to the shops
Buttons:Oh come on, we just got back!
Stepmother:Know your place servant! My daughters need new dresses and we will need you to carry our bags and boxes!Now Baron, I’ll need some cash - your silly cards have stopped working
Baron H gets out his wallet, beginning to look for some money, and Stepmother takes the whole thing
Stepmother:That should just about cover it. Girls, Buttons,let’s go.[Local Shopping Centre] will be rammed, everyone from [Local Area 1] to [Local Area 2] will need a new frock!
Baron H:What about Ella?
Stepmother:What about Cinderella?
Baron H:Well, she will need a dress for this ball
Stepmother:Trust me, you can’t afford it.Besides, she would only embarrass me and my daughters. You wouldn't expect us to be associated with the mucky little kitchen wench. Don’t be ridiculous!
Baron H:Hang on just one second, she is my beautiful daughter and that is my money!
Stepmother:Girls, we are leaving
Exit Stepmother, Rankeener, and Mingeler
Baron H:Buttons, you had better go…It’s not worth you being in trouble
Buttons:Ella, are you alright?
Cinderella:I’m fine! Go on Buttons, I’m used to it!
Baron H:Ella, I am so very sorry
Cinderella:Don’t worry father! I have a plan; I know exactly what I am wearing. I will take up mother’s old dress.It’s so beautiful she can’t possibly object to me going in that, and I will do everything she needs. She will come around
Baron H:You are your mother’s daughter alright, so kind. Right what chores can I help you with?
Cinderella:Well, I need to turn down the beds
Baron H:Come on then, let’s get it done
Exit BaronHardup, and Cinderella
Enter King, Queen, and Prince Charming
Prince:I just don’t see why I should have to marry at all
King:Please don’t start again son. Let’s not upset your mother
Queen:We just want to see you properly settled and happy, we’re not getting any younger
King:Plus, I thought this ball was a good compromise
Queen:It’s not like we are picking your bride for you
Prince:No, but I am under pressure to find her in one night, with the eyes of all [Your School Name]-a watching
King:You have had time to do this your way and you have forced our hand
Queen:You must be married
King:It is part of your duties as Prince Regent
Queen:And besides... I want grandchildren
Prince:Crikey mum! One thing at a time. So look, what happens if I don't meet anyone tonight then?
King:Well, then you will force my hand
Queen:Your father and I will choose your bride ourselves
Prince:That’s ridiculous! That could never work
King:Careful, it’s how your mother and I met
Queen:And I don’t think we’ve done to badly
Prince:No, I didn’t mean too
Queen:We know, but we are giving you this opportunity, aren’t we?Please don’t be ungrateful. It was hard enough to talk your father into this
Prince:Let’s just hope the girl for me turns up tonight
Queen:I know she will
King:Of course she will, every maiden in the kingdom will be here! Chin up son, tonight you meet the love of your life.
Queen:Do you remember the night we met?
King:How could I forget?It was the end of loneliness and the beginning of meaning in my life
Queen:See it’s worked pretty well for us. See you later darling.We are very proud of you
Exit King, and Queen
Prince:I really must get ready for this ball…
Music: TheNolans - I'm in the Mood for Dancing
“I'm in the mood for dancin', romancin'
Ooh I'm given' it all tonight
I'm in the mood for chancin'
I feel like dancin'
Ooh so come on and hold me tight
Dancin', I'm in the mood, babe
So let the music play
Ooh I'm dancin', I'm in the groove, babe
So get on up and let your body sway”
Exit Prince Charming, dancing
Enter Cinderella, and Buttons. Cinderella is wearing her mother’s dress
Buttons:Coor Cinderella, you look gorgeous
Cinderella:Aww Buttons, do I?
Buttons:To audience:She really does, doesn’t she boys and girls?
To Cinderella: You will be the belle of the ball. You’re gonna’ bag yourself that Prince and I shall be heartbroken!
Cinderella:Oh Buttons, there’s no need to be heartbroken - you will always be my friend
Buttons:Always just friends
Cinderella:You’re so funny, Buttons
Buttons:Right, I better go and prepare the carriage
Enter Rankeener, and Mingeler, both in ball gowns
Mingeler: Oh Cinderella, what a beautiful dress
Rankeener:And you look beautiful
Mingeler:Too beautiful I’d say
Rankeener:Can’t have competition from the kitchen girl, can we?
Cinderella:But I’m your step-sister
Mingeler:You’re no sister of mine
Mingeler rips Cinderella’s dress
And look now, your dress has a rip in it
Cinderella:Please no please, this was my mum’s dress, please don’t!
Rankeener rips Cinderella’s sleeve off
Rankeener:Look now you’ve ruined that pretty dress of yours. How careless, you can’t possibly come to the ball now
Cinderella collapses on the floor, in floods of tears
Enter Stepmother
Stepmother:Good girls, you did what must be done. My girls will always shine brightest. Cinderella, I have explained to your father how you spoiled the dress and cannot come.He is very upset that you tore the dress. Let’s go girls, the ball awaits…
Exit Stepmother, Rankeener, and Mingeler, laughing
Cinderella:Oh mother, I have tried so very hard to be good, polite and kind. You said if I did that good things would happen. I wait and wait and wait, and everything seems just to get worse. Should I be cruel, ruthless like them?They seem to get everything…And I am left with absolutely nothing
Enter Fairy G
Fairy G:Eyes up Ella, it’s time for those good things to start happening, don’t you think?
Cinderella:Who… Who are you?
Fairy G:I am your fairy godmother, child, and I am here to help
Cinderella:You can’t help.They have all gone to the ball and left me here in a tattered dress
Fairy G:That’s what magic is for! It helps us make the impossible possible. Right, where shall I begin? The carriage I’m thinking - you must arrive in style!
Cinderella:But I don't have a carriage!
Fairy G:You haven't quite understood the whole magic thing have you, dear? I fear though you are very nice, you are rather dim. Go and get me a pumpkin
Cinderella:A pumpkin?
Fairy G:Yes, a pumpkin, and do hurry up…
Exit Cinderella
Right,what’s the spell for this one?
Carriage in a hurry
Don’t you worry
Get a pumpkin or squash
Then wave your wand and watch
Say the magic word
Though it sounds absurd
And have no fear
Your carriage will appear!
Now if only I could remember that magic word, that’s the problem with the rhyme, it leaves out the most important bit. No, I remember now. Hubby bubble warble table. That’s it…Where is Ella?
Cinderella:I’m here,Fairy Godmother
Enter Cinderella, with a massive pumpkin
Fairy G:Right, we’ll take this outside
Cinderella:You’re kidding?
Fairy G:No, we don’t have the budget for a transformation like in the films; we will simply show it with our look of shock
Cinderella:So… I could have just left this where it was?
Fairy G:Oh yes... I suppose you could have
Cinderella:Right… I’ll just take this back then
Fairy G:Good idea, and while your off, I may just cast a spell on your dress… Yippahh!
Magical sound emits
Exit Cinderella
Ah, you!Mouse on the floor…Shazam!
Magical sound emits
Enter Footman 1
Footman 1:Coor, I was just eating a crumb on the floor over there and then…Blimey, I’m talking!
Fairy G:Yes, yes, yes. Look, go outside and wait for the horses to appear. Oi, mouse boy on the floor there…Alakazzooo!