Never After Happily - January 26 - January 28, 2024

Olive Branch Theatricals

 FAIRY TALE SYNOPSIS 

 

CINDERELLA

(The One With The Glass Shoe)

Poor Cinderella, can’t go to the prince’s ball because her stepmother and stepsisters won’t let her. With a bit of magic from her fairy godmother, Cindy is able to attend. It’s love at first sight for her and the prince who dance the night away until the clock strikes midnight. Cindy races off, leaving a glass slipper behind. So the prince searches the kingdom for the woman who fits the shoe. When they at last reunite, Cindy and the Prince marry. Cinderella’s family is forgiven and they all live happily ever after.

 

 

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

(The One With The Beanstalk)

Jack’s a poor country boy who trades the family cow for a handful of magic beans, which grow into an enormous beanstalk reaching into the clouds. Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds himself in the castle of an unfriendly and rather strange-speaking Giant. “Fe Fi Fo Fum,” the Giant smells Jack and races after him. Jack escapes down the beanstalk with the goose that laid the golden egg. But uh oh, the giant follows. Our quick-thinking hero calls for his Mother to throw him an ax before the giant reaches the ground. Jack chops down the beanstalk. Despite the giant’s untimely death, Jack and his mom live happily ever after.

 

 

CHICKEN LITTLE

(The One With The Chicken)

Chicken Little, a wise little chicken, gets bonked on the head by some acorns from a tree. She believes, “The sky is falling!” But with no evidence, nobody believes her. Eventually, she learns the sky is where it should be and will remain so. She, like everyone else (big surprise) lives happily every after. 

 

 

JACK HORNER

(The One With The Plum Guy)

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie. He stuck in a thumb and pulled out a plum and said, “What a good boy am I.”

 

 

HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE

(The One With the Kitchen Stuff)

Hey, diddle, diddle/The cat and the fiddle/The cow jumped over the moon/The little dog laughed/To see such sport/And the dish ran away with the spoon.

 

 

ARIEL

(The One With Cold Feet)

Deep beneath the sea lived a little mermaid named Ariel. She loved exploring her underwater home but dreamed of living on land as a human. Ariel went to a Sea Witch and exchanged her voice for legs, so she could go up the human world and marry a man she loved deeply but had never actually met.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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