Rotary Club of Millcreek—Service Project
March 28th 5-7pm
For this month’s service project, we’ll be putting on a Readers Theater
-- a dramatic presentation of a
written work in a script form –
with 15 elementary aged children at Sunnyvale. Readers read from a "script"
and reading parts are divided among the readers. No memorization, costumes, blocking, or special
lighting is needed. Scripts are held by the readers. The focus is on reading the text with
expressive voices and gestures. It will help students become more confident in
performing, while doing something fun
How the evening will go:
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5:15pm: Arrive at Valley Center Park (just South of the Sunnyvale Center-- 700 W, and south of 3900 S.)
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5:30pm : Pair Rotarians with
students
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5:35pm: Practice run through
script (below)
·
5:50pm: Each child makes their own
costume or helps make set/decorations
·
6:15: Families arrive
·
6:30: Students perform
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6:45: Cookies and clean up
- Hold your script at a steady height, but make sure it doesn’t hide your face. If there’s anyone in the audience you can’t see, your script is too high.
- While you speak, try to look up often, not just at your script. When you do look at it, move just your eyes and keep your head up.
- Talk slowly. Speak each syllable clearly.
- Talk loud! You have to be heard by the little old deaf lady in the back row.
- Talk with feeling.
- Stand and sit straight. Keep your hands and feet still, if they’re doing nothing useful!
- If you’re moving around, face the audience as much as you can.
- Characters, remember to be your character even when you’re not speaking.
- Narrators, make sure you give the characters enough time for their actions.
- If the audience laughs, stop speaking until they can hear you again.
- If someone talks in the audience, don’t pay attention.
- If someone walks into the room, don’t look.
- If you make a mistake, pretend it was right.
- If you drop something, try to leave it at least till the audience is looking somewhere else.
- If a reader forgets to read, see if you can read their part instead, or make something up, or maybe just skip over it. But don’t whisper to the reader!
- If a reader falls on their rear end, pretend they didn’t.
CINDERELLA BIGFOOT
By Mike Thaler
Parts(15): Narrator 1
Narrator 2 Narrator 3 Narrator 4 Narrator 5 Narrator 6
Cinderella Elsie Wheny Whiny Moe Prince Smeldred
King Queen Mom
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Narrator 1: CINDERELLA BIGFOOT By Mike Thaler
Narrator 1: Now, there were a lot of funny-looking
people in the Land of Make Believe, but
Cinderella was the funniest.
Narrator 2: Her most outstanding feature was her big
feet. When she stood up, she looked like
a seaplane.
Narrator 3: Cinderella lived with her beautiful
stepmother and three beautiful stepsisters,
Weeny, Whiny, and Moe. She had a beautiful stepcat, a stepdog, and a
stepladder.
Narrator 4: The size of Cinderella's feet caused her
many problems. She bounced off the
ceiling
in ballet class, she always lost
at hopscotch, and she had to buy a sock for every
toe.
Narrator 5: However, the worst problem for everyone else
was that when Cinderella's bunions
bothered her, she'd take off her
shoes and leave them around town.
Narrator 6: The giant, smelly shoes would block
doorways, stop traffic, and take up four parking
spaces at the mall.
Narrator 1: So, when the King and Queen of the Land of
Make Believe gave a dance party, they
naturally didn't invite
Cinderella.
King: "What about Cinderella?"
Narrator 2: asked the King.
Queen: "No, it just wouldn't be
safe,"
Narrator 3: replied the Queen.
Narrator 4: As soon as they were gone, Cinderella put
her feet up and turned on her favorite
TV show, Lifestyles of the Royal
and Famous.
Narrator 5: Suddenly a cow wearing a blond wig and a
pink tutu appeared on top of the TV.
Cinderella: "Would you please move your tail? You're blocking the screen,"
Narrator 6: said Cinderella.
Elsie: "I'm Elsie, your Dairy Godmother,
and I'm here to send you to the ball."
Cinderella: "I wasn't invited,"
Narrator 1: said Cinderella.
Narrator 2: The cow waved her golden wand. Just then, an invitation dropped through the
mail
slot.
Cinderella: "I don't have a thing to wear,"
Narrator 3: whined Cinderella.
Narrator 4: Elsie waved her golden wand again. Cinderella was suddenly wearing a glamorous,
glittering gown.
Cinderella: "I can't find my other sneaker,"
Narrator 5: sniveled Cinderella.
Narrator 6: The cow twirled her wand. On Cinderella's feet sparked two glass
sneakers.
Cinderella: "I don't have a carriage,"
Narrator 1: moaned Cinderella.
Elsie: "Take the bus,"
Narrator 2: said her Dairy Godmother, handing Cinderella
some change.
Cinderella: "Thank you, Dairy Godmother,"
Narrator 3: said Cinderella. She turned to leave.
Elsie: "One more thing,"
Narrator 4: said the cow.
Elsie: "You have to be back before the
clock strikes twelve,"
Cinderella: "Sure, sure. Bye,"
Narrator 5: said Cinderella.
Narrator 6: When Cinderella arrived at the ball,
everyone pointed and said,
Narrators 1 and 2: "Who's
that funny-looking girl?"
Narrator 3: Prince Smeldred, who was quite funny-looking
himself, raised his head from the
punch bowl and sputtered,
Prince: "Who's the doll! Wanna dance?"
Cinderella: "Let's trip the light fantastic, big
boy,"
Narrator 4: said Cinderella, twirling.
Prince: "Ouch! You stepped on my foot!"
Narrator 5: said Smeldred.
Narrator 6: The two began to dance.
Prince: "Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!
Maybe we'd better sit this one out,"
Narrator 1: howled Smeldred, hopping up and down.
Narrator 2: Just then the clock struck twelve. (Time
goes fast when you're having a ball.)
Cinderella: "I have to go,"
Narrator 3: shrieked Cinderella.
Prince: "But who are you?"
Narrator 4: cried Smeldred, rubbing his feet.
Cinderella: "I'm late!"
Narrator 5: she replied.
Prince: "That's a funny name,"
Narrator 6: said Smeldred, who wasn't too swift.
Prince: "What's your address? What's your
phone number? What's your sign?"
Narrator 1: But Cinderella was gone.
Narrator 2: She'd left behind one glass sneaker- size
87, triple A- that blocked the doorway, so
everyone had to leave through the
back door.
Prince Smeldred: "I'm
going to find that girl,"
Narrator 3: vowed Smeldred.
Narrator 4: Using a "toe" truck, he hauled the
sneaker to every maiden in the kingdom.
Narrator 5: Each girl would put in one foot, then two
feet, then both hands.
Narrator 6: Finally, Smeldred arrived at Cinderella's
house. Weeny sat in the sneaker.
Weeny: "It fits!"
Narrator 1: she shrieked.
Prince: "Next,"
Narrator 2: said Smeldred.
Narrator 3: Then Whiny and Moe stood in the sneaker
together.
Whiny and Moe: "It
fits!"
Narrator 4: they shouted.
Prince: "Next!"
Narrator 5: sighed Smeldred, feeling a little
discouraged.
Narrator 6: Just then, Cinderella lumbered into the
room.
Cinderella: "Oh, there's my other sneaker!"
Narrator 1: she cried, and slipped it on. Everyone stared at Cinderella's foot.
Wheeny, Whiny and Moe: "It
fits!"
Narrator 2: they gasped.
Prince Smeldred: "Will you
marry me?"
Narrator 3: said Smeldred, throwing himself at her feet.
Cinderella: "Only if you'll marry me,"
Narrator 4: replied Cinderella.
Narrator 5: The Prince grabbed a doughnut and put it on
her finger. Then they rushed out the door
to live happily ever after.
Wheeny, Whiny and Moe:
"Well, at least the Prince will be our stepbrother-in-law,"
Narrator 6: cried Weeny, Whiny, and Moe.
Mom: "Yeah, but it's going to be hard
to fill Cinderella's shoes,"
Narrator 6: sighed their mom.
Narrator 1: Just then, Elsie appeared on top of the
refrigerator.
Elsie: "The shoe must go on,"
Narrator 2: she uttered with a wink, and poured them
each a glass of milk.
Scripted by Jill Jauquet
