The Princess and the Frog
Fifteen-minute rhyming pantomime
Songs: two optional songs are suggested.
Available from Lazy Bees Scripts
It's Princess Gwendolen's birthday. But she is not happy because she has no friends. The King and Queen give her a very special birthday present – a golden, bouncing ball. The Princess goes off to play with the ball but it bounces into a pond. A helpful Frog agrees to bring the ball back to her, but only on condition that the Princess invites him to a meal and shares all her food with him. What she doesn't know is that, by doing this, she will free the Frog from a spell.
Will it all end happily? What will the Princess and the Frog think of each other, when the Frog is transformed into a handsome Prince?
The traditional story is given a few twists. Running time: about 15 minutes. Four main characters plus a Narrator and two flunkeys. Extra Frogs can be added.
Seven characters: Princess, King, Queen, Flunkey 1, Flunkey 2, Frog, Narrator
Artwork by Simon Bond
Queen: It's time to celebrate and play
On this, your extra special day!
(Princess Gwendolen sobs very loudly)
Princess: Will my loneliness never end?
Will I never find a friend?
King: My dear, you have everything you need.
An Ipod, an Ipad, a Kindle to read.
Queen: An X-Box, an Android, computer games,
Hundreds of them – I can't remember the names.
King: A plasma television with satellite dish -
Why, whatever else can a girl possibly wish?
Princess: (howls again)Here I sit, completely alone.
No-one to talk to on my smartphone.
Who wants to watch movies on Sky TV
When you're as lonely and sad as me?
Queen: My dear, you mustn't be so miffed.
It's time to open your special gift.