“Perfect, Proper Panto”
The Times
RAPUNZEL PANTOMIME SCRIPT
This very funny Rapunzel pantomime script is packed with romance and adventure. Cast size is super flexible as the built in doubling will allow you to cast between 7 – 12 principals.
The love story is great fun, with a fabulous ‘Will they? Won’t they?’ theme developing between Rapunzel and her would be rescuer, Rudi.
The Witch Gothel is a wonderful Baddie, aided and abetted by her comic sidekick Waylon, a thoroughly crazy pet weasel, who constantly changes between human size and weasel size.
The Dame, Nannie Hilda and her son Max are an hilarious double act, with Max’s entirely ludicrous scouting prowess often saving the day!
CAST SIZE: 7 – 12 Actors (lots of doubling possible) plus Chorus Etc.
RUN TIME: 2 hrs plus interval
“This is a show that adults can enjoy just as much as children, intelligent, warm, and very, very funny!”
Banbury Guardian
EXCERPT - RAPUNZEL PANTO SCRIPT
For eighteen years the Princess Rapunzel has been lost - stolen away by the Witch, Gothel.
Nanny Hilda (Dame) enters excitedly. She carries a big pair of binoculars…
HILDA:
This is it, Max! This is it! We’ve found Rapunzel! Eighteen years searching and we’ve finally found her! The binoculars never lie! (Looks through binoculars at Audience and starts back.) Yugh! It’s you lot again! (Shouting off.) Maxwell, will you hurry up!
(ADULT MAX enters dressed as a Scout.)
(To Audience) You remember Max, don’t you? Of course, he’s grown up a bit in the last eighteen years… Got all his badges and everything. Oooh, I’m famished!
MAX:
HILDA:
MAX:
HILDA:
(producing sandwich) Cheese and pickle sandwich?
You, see? Always prepared.
Chef Activity Badge.
(takes bite appreciatively) Mmmm. Anyway, back to business. (Pointing at tower.) She’s in there, Max. I know she is!
MAX:
How do you know it’s her? You haven’t seen her for eighteen years.
HILDA:
Are you saying I wouldn’t recognise my own little baby!? She’s got eighteen years’ worth of hair on her head! Isn’t it obvious?!
MAX:
What?
HILDA:
No one’s cut her hair – and that’s how the old witch gets in and out! She’s imprisoned her in there and climbs up her hair! It’s despicable, Max! Completely despicable! It’s horrible! It makes me want to chew my own arm off!
MAX:
Alright, Mum, calm down! It’s maybe not as bad as it sounds.
HILDA:
What do you mean?
MAX:
HILDA:
MAX:
Say Gothel weighs a hundred and forty pounds.
(bewildered) What…?
And say there are ten thousand hairs on Rapunzel’s head – I mean, there are probably more, but say ten thousand…
HILDA:
MAX:
HILDA:
MAX:
HILDA:
OK…?
That’s a loading of less than a quarter of an ounce per hair.
Where did you learn that?
Quantifiable Mechanics badge. You see, it’s not so bad.
Yes, it is! It’s like a fairy tale gone wrong! When I think of my poor little baby princess… It’s no good, Max – I’m going to have one of my turns –
MAX:
No, Mum –
HILDA:
Yes, Max - I’m going…! I’m going…!
(Audience shout. HILDA breathes deep.) Thank you, thank you, thank you! But please shout quietly! We need to be discreet. How are we going to get in, Max?
MAX:
Why don’t you pretend to be Gothel?
HILDA:
Brilliant, Maxwell! That’s what I love about you. Clear thinking, solution focused… What shall I say?
MAX:
HILDA:
MAX:
HILDA:
How about – Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair!
Maxwell, that is genius! I’ll do it now!
Hold on, hold on. Isn’t Gothel in there at the moment?
You’re absolutely right. We’ll come back when she’s gone. Come on, Max. (To Audience.) We’ll see you all later!
LIST OF CHARACTERS
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Rapunzel (Principal Girl)
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Rudi O'Malley (Principal Boy. A rakish, charming chancer)
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Brunnhilde Blunderberg (Dame. The Royal Nannie, known as Hilda.)
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Young Max (Cameo role for a child. Only in scene 1)
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King of Evergreen (Also plays King of England on the Wold)
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Queen of Evergreen (Also plays Queen of England on the Wold)
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Gothel (A witch)
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Waylon (A weasel. Belongs to Gothel)
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Max (Hilda’s son)
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Landlord John Deere
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Landlady Janey Deere
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Customs Officer Jobs
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Customs Officer Worth
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King of England on the Wold
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Queen of England on the Wold
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Chorus, as Citizens of Evergreen, Knights, Sailors, Citizens of England on the Wold etc.
A Note on Doubling. The show allows for a lot of flexibility in cast size. There are roles for 12 principal actors, but this can easily be reduced to 7 or somewhere in between. Waylon and Max can be doubled – and of course the King and Queen of Evergreen can also play John and Janey Deere and Jobs and Worth. Both pairs of Kings and Queens, however, should always be played by the same actors.
LIST OF SCENES
ACT 1
PROLOGUE. A Tower with a Window
SCENE 1. The Town Square in the Kingdom of Evergreen
SCENE 2. Back at the Tower. Eighteen Years Later
SCENE 3. Inside the Tower
SCENE 4. Outside the Tower
SCENE 5. The Old Black Spot
ACT 2
SCENE 6. Aboard the Thunderbolt
SCENE 7. Adrift at Sea
SCENE 8. The White Cliffs of England on the Wold
SCENE 9. The Strawberry Cream Tea Joust
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