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snow white - the plotok here we go...........................
So there is this king who has a wife (like you do) who has a baby (at long last) that is named Snow White.
As often happened in ancient times, the queen dies in childbirth and the king is left with aforementioned Snow White, a really nice looking child.
But being a king and needing a queen (I know this sounds like an episode of “The Tudors” but stay with me here) the king takes unto him another woman to be queen who, despite being a reasonably good looking lady is in fact an absolute harridan and jealous besides.
The queen spends loads of time in preening in front of her magic mirror, constantly making sure the eyeliner is in place and also making sure that she is indeed the best looking bird in the parish. The child grows up with her nurse, kept out of the queen‘s way, best idea. The king dies and the queen’s eye lights upon a handsome prince who would do as a toy boy but he fancies the insipid snow white and tells the queen to bog off.
But one day the worst happens as far as the queen is concerned and the mirror announces that the fair Snow White is indeed a better bet than she herself is. Apoplexy, brain storm, call it what you will, the queen is not best pleased and decides that the kid has to be eliminated so gets the captain of her royal yacht to take the kid to the beach and send her out with the tide. Also that he is to bring her proof of the kid’s demise pronto.
Yacht captain not happy but as he knows what side his hard tack is buttered on, takes the kid walkies down to the beach, is about to top her when he bottles it and just leaves her there. To cover his tracks with the queen he stops on the way home and picks up something that the queen will accept as part of Snow White thereby keeping her happy and him off the hook.
So there is Snow White, the innocent party in all this, wandering up and down the beach (good chance for a bit of “woe is me, woe is me” drama here) until she eventually comes across a little cottage by the sea that she goes into and finds the plates, cups, etc of the occupants and finally being tired wanders upstairs where she finds 7 little hammocks all in a row, manages to get herself into one and drifts off.
Homecoming is next. Seven retired dwarf pirates come home from a fishing trip. They have been living for many years on the proceeds of their many pirate years at sea and have accumulated all kinds of jewels and stuff (good chance I think here for pirate swashbuckling of the shorter variety)
They find Snow White and after conversation, invite her to stay with them where she is safe from the wicked queen. They keep telling her not to let anybody into the cottage but frankly Snow White, though she looks good, suffer a lot from blond moments.
Meanwhile the captain has come back to the queen and assured her that the kid has bee eliminated and presents her with whatever it was he bought, the queen thinks all is well, checks in with the mirror only to be told the captain has been telling her porkies and the kid still lives. (Enormous chance for evil paranoia here.) the queen changes herself into an old crone and makes 3 attempts to top the kid herself, each time checking with the mirror, on the third attempt she gets it right and Snow White eats the apple (or whatever) falls into a dead faint.
The pirates come home and smell something fishy, find the girl passed out on the floor and are so grief stricken that they build a big crystal coffin and wack her into it thereby to stand guard over it forsaking the sea and all the girls they probably have left in every port in the seven seas from which they came.
Meanwhile…………………..
The nurse who is worried about Snow White goes to see the handsome prince and begs him to go and seek her little baby, he does, wanders down to the beach (why- I haven’t a clue) and finds the little cottage and the coffin and the pirates, does the kiss thing, there is a miracle cure, everybody is happy, happy, happy. The queen dies of food poisoning or something equally unpleasant, there is a song and a high kick off and everybody else lives happily ever after except the pirates who blew the whole wad on the coffin that didn’t get much use after all.
Curtain and rapturous applause.
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Jojo
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Thats brilliant Nannie you a writer on the quiet 
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browneyes
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yep very good Nanny it should be a good laugh......now somone please tell me when it is and whos playing who......iv lost the plot over tha past few days sorry all  and can somone put me a christmasy picture by my name cos i cant do it ta ta ever so ta 
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Kathy
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I LOVE IT................. 
Browneyes, we just make it up on the night. There are a lot of dwarf pirates so some people might need to do more than one role. And then there's the offstage and makeup people too, it does get hectic but Nanny provides refreshments in the form of gold liquid and after a couple of those it all goes swimmingly......
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browneyes
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now Kathy i know its late but WHEN IS IT.. 
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Becki
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Isn't it on Monday? I won't be able to get here until 9 
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lloyd
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Last year I had three roles and changed my avatar for each one before posting. A Hoot!!!!!
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nanny
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nobody knows who is playing who until the night in case people suddenly can't make it
i don't care how many pirates there are, it doesn't matter as long as there i some business with cutlasses, knives and a bit of the old yo-ho-ho
it is traditional for the director (me) to have a breakdown at some point in the evening.............
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lloyd
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I don't want to be a pirate. I want to be Snow White, or maybe a pumpkin or a bean or something.
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lloyd
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What role for El Ratso, then? 
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nanny
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ummmmmmmmmmm
don't know
there weren't any mice in the plot
i will have to post a list of the characters, haven't done that yet
like all pantos there arent that many characters as such but everybody still gets a speaking part.........
p.s.
there were no beans or pumpkins either however i am sure that snow white would have enjoyed eating one............
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lloyd
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Maybe she filled one with vodka and saved it for a party?
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nanny
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who can say
i think snow white was a very dark horse indeed despite her seemingly innocent ways
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Jojo
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| browneyes wrote: | | now Kathy i know its late but WHEN IS IT.. |
It's Monday night thought I had told you once,now lay of the booze won't you,we don't want a drunk Snow white  oh may be that would be fun
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browneyes
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EXCUSE ME can somone tell me when it is and at what time other wise im going to start getting a right strop on and any way i dont want to miss the start
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browneyes
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OH Jojo im sorry i wrote the last one befor i saw that you had told me.......im SO silly......
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Kathy
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browneyes
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its alright for you to laugh Kathy you dont know what im like.....nutty as a fruit cake thats me.....
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Jojo
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I'm not saying anything
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nanny
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right that's me back again
i reckoned 8pm to 9.30 i think so casting on the night just before 8
we will need:
snow white
wicked queen
prince of any name
nursey
the captain of the royal yacht
magic mirror
as many dwarves as want to take part but you should all name yourselves and it must be nautically inclined
anybody else who wants to take part is welcome. i shall start you all off and then sit back and have a breakdown
make up your own lines as you go along and enjoy
edited once to include magic mirror in the cast list
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Kathy
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I've set up the wireless network, YIPPEEE, Coco will join in and I just might be able to coax Greenlady onto the PC!
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nanny
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| Kathy wrote: | | I've set up the wireless network, YIPPEEE, Coco will join in and I just might be able to coax Greenlady onto the PC! |
great kathy
nothing like a family event
i forgot- i shall have to edit the cast list....
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Ratman
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Can I be the handsome Prince please xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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alison
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Nanny, any chance of it going a little later, as I have just realised I have my evening course on tomorrow, and I won't be back till 9.30
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Cabbagepatch
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| Ratman wrote: | | Can I be the handsome Prince please xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
Not a chance matey
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Ratman
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I dont even mind being the one who eats pumpkins
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Becki
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You do seem to be the token male though
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