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Scenario-Act 1 Something is very wrong in Storyland. Jack and Jill are on their way to the hill when they come across a very upset Bopeep. Bopeep has lost all her sheep and this time, when she left them alone, they still didn't come back. They decide that the sheep may have gone to visit Mary and her little Lamb and that would be the best place to look for them. Mary hasn't seen Bopeep's sheep and to make matters worse Lolly, Mary's lamb is missing too. So they all set off to get Little Boy blue to blow his horn to get the missing sheep to return. This plan is ruined when they discover Boy Blue's horn is also nowhere to be found.At this very moment Mary Mary quite contrary arrives to ask a favour from Jack and Jill. Bopeep, Mary and Boy Blue continue to search for the sheep. Mary's beautiful garden of talking flowers needs to be watered but she can't find her watering can. Jack and Jill save the day by borrowing the Butcher,Baker and Candlestick maker's Tub because thier bucket has also mysteriously vanished. Old Mother Hubbard also has a problem, her dog is missing. Mary Mary's flowers suggest they go and ask Old King Cole for help so Jack, Jill and Mary-Mary set off for the castle. They haven't gone very far when they find another one ofthe storyland townsfolk requiring assistance. Jack be Nimble has been trying to find something else to jump over since the disappearence of his candlestick. He decides to join the others in their journey to the castle. Boy Blue, Mary and Bopeep haven't had much luck either, but decide things could be worse when they meet up with the woman from the shoe and her fifeteen children who have somehow managed to misplace their shoehouse. Not knowing what else to do she is taking all her children to king Cole to ask for help so they all travel together. It seems everyone had the same idea, they were all hoping that Old King Cole could solve the mysterious disappearances. But Old King Cole had problems of his own. Things were not all merry at King Cole's Castle, his fiddler's have lost their fiddles, Suzie can't take the kettle off because she doesn't know where it is and when he opens his favourite kind of pie, four and twenty blackbirds weren't there to sing. The problems only get bigger. Jack Horner put in his thumb and pulled it out empty and poor Miss Muffet is missing her curds and whey, her bowl and spoon, her tuffet and even her spider. King Cole is left with no option but to send a group to ask Mother Goose for help. This is when Eensy Weensy Spider tells us of her plans.She is stealing everything so she can put an end to nursery rhymes and never be washed down the spout again. Jack, Jill, Mary, Bopeep and Mary-Mary set off at once. Jack-B-Nimble, Miss Muffet, Boy Blue and Mother Hubbard form a search party to look for all the missing things. |
Act 2 Jack-B-Nimble, Miss Muffet, Boy Blue and Mother Hubbard find Miss Muffet's Tuffet, Humpty Dumpty has been using it as a wall. Someone seems to have moved his. He refuses to give it back until his wall is returned. Humpty even manages to fall off the tuffet but only one of the king's men arrives to try to put him back together the others must be on holiday. Jack, Jill, Mary, Bopeep and Mary-Mary are taking a very long time to reach Mother Goose. They keep bumping into people who need their help. The three blind mice have lost their canes and can't get back to the farmer's house so the friends decide to walkthem home. Eensy Weensy has nearly completed her plan.At her web in the water spout we see all the missing items, including a flock of sheep, lolly lamb and Mother Hubbard's dog.When Eensy leaves to collect the last few things the sheep escape. The three blind mice are safely home when Jack, Jill, Mary, Bopeep and Mary-Mary meet the farmers wife. She is looking for the poor little mice. Jill agrees to tell her where they are if she promises not to cut their tails off. The wife agrees, she couldn't if she wanted to, she can't find her carving knife. They are nearly at Mother Gooses house when they hear the cry of three little kittens. The kittens found their mittens and were about to have pie for dinner when there mittens went missing again. This time the pie did to.Bopeep gives the cat family some food and they all set off once again for Mother Gooses house. Jack-B-Nimble, Miss Muffet, Boy Blue and Mother Hubbard have had some luck finding things and come across Boy Blue's horn. Boy Blue blows his horn and the sheep come running. Baa Baa Black sheep runs off and they follow her towards Eensy's lair. Jack, Jill, Mary, Bopeep and Mary-Mary have finally reached Mother Gooses House and the only help she can give them is a riddle to solve. It doesn't take them long to work it out and they set off for Eensy Weensy's house in the water spout. exactly the same place that Baa Baa black sheep was leading our other group of friends to. Jack-B-Nimble, Miss Muffet and co. have just finished talking to Wee Willie Winkie, who can't send the children to bed because his watch is missing and he doesn't know the time, when they are captured by the spider. Eensy Weensy ties Miss Muffet, Mother Hubbard and Jack B Nimble up with web and takes them back to her lair. Our other brave friends were almost at Eensy Weensy’s house when they ran into Baa Baa Black sheep. Bopeep can talk to her sheep and Baa Baa quickly explains the situation. Jack comes up with a plan. All they have to do was say the Nursery Rhyme and the spider wouldn’t be able to help it, she’d have to play her part, while she was busy with Miss Muffet they could set the others free then convince Eensy Weensy to stop trying to ruin Nursery Rhymes and to give everything back. A risky plan but the best one they can think of. With the help of the children in hte audience the plan works, they convince Eensy to return the stolen property. Now everyone is happy again, everything is back to normal and it's time to do their nursery rhymes again.So they do. |
