Rapunzel
Pantomime Script
19 Characters • 15 Principals, 4 Supporting plus Ensemble • Running time ~1h 50m
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Rapunzel is a less-familiar panto title, which is exactly what makes it worth doing. Audiences arrive without expectations, but this script doesn't disappoint: Dame Betty Beehive's hair salon hosts a hilarious and original panto set-piece, Gothel is a wonderfully wicked villain, and Rapunzel’s tower is the dramatic centrepiece with a rabbit hutch load of hair/hare jokes. A large-cast script with a real sense of spectacle.
Rapunzel Pantomime Script Synopsis
Rapunzel dreams of escaping the tower she has known all her life, but the vain and wicked Gothel wants to keep her captive and harvest beauty potions from her magical hair.
Meanwhile, in Quiffendale, Dame Betty Beehive is struggling to keep her salon afloat, Silly Billy is dishing out dodgy hairdos, and Prince Leo is doing everything he can to avoid his royal responsibilities.
When Rapunzel finally escapes, Gothel is furious and vows to take her revenge. With an enchanted forest, a talking rabbit, and a load of super-strength hairspray, the only guarantee is a hair-raising adventure for everyone involved.
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Rapunzel Characters and Scenes
Principal Characters
Rapunzel: Titular heroine with magical hair
Prince Leo: Rapunzel’s love interest and Prince of Tangle-land
Dame Betty Beehive: A flamboyant yet terrible hairdresser
Gothel: Obsessed with eternal youth and beauty
Silly Billy: Betty’s son and trainee hairdresser
Fairy Stardust: Spiritual guide and storyteller
Sidney: Gothel’s reluctant son, caught between good and evil
Drip and Dribble: Gothel’s hapless henchmen
Rascal: Rapunzel’s human-sized, talking pet rabbit
Bob the Barber: A suave and skilled barber
King Otto and Queen Agnes: Rapunzel’s parents
King Reginald and Queen Marjory: Prince Leo’s parents
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Mildred and Gertie: Suitors for the Prince
Granny Mavis: An elderly woman who longs for adventure
Sat-Nav: An enchanted compass (Voice only)
Townsfolk, Salon Customers, Guards and Ghosts etc
Scaleable to suit your company size
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Act One
Prologue
1) The Village Square
2) The Enchanted Forest
3) Rapunzel’s Tower
4) The Edge of Town
5) Betty Beehive’s Hair Salon
6) The Enchanted Forest
7) Rapunzel’s TowerAct Two
8) A Royal Celebration
9) The Edge of Town
10) Back in the Tower
11) The Enchanted Forest
12) Showdown in the Tower
13) Songsheet
14) Finale/Bows
Rapunzel Pantomime Script Excerpt
GOTHEL is pacing in her lair. DRIP and DRIBBLE enter carrying a tray of magical potions.
DRIP: Good evening, your beautiful-ness!
DRIBBLE: How can we serve you, your radiance?
GOTHEL: Give me my youth potion, I want to look young and fresh, and have skin smoother than a saxophone solo!
DRIP: Yes ma’am, right away! (Choosing a potion) Er… I think’s it’s this one.
DRIBBLE: (Taking it and putting it back) No, that one makes the young look older, we want the older to younger one.
DRIP: Right. And what if we give her the wrong one, or too much?
DRIBBLE: Then she’ll either turn into a baby or a granddad!
DRIP: Either way, she’ll be wearing nappies!
GOTHEL: Your incompetence is as bad as your incontinence. Now shut it, and give me my potion!
DRIP and DRIBBLE both grab a bottle from the tray and offer it to GOTHEL.
DRIP: It’s this one!
DRIBBLE: No, it’s this one!
GOTHEL snatches both bottles.
GOTHEL: One of these better be correct, or you’ll find yourselves swimming in a cauldron of disappointment! (She reads the labels) ‘Eternal Elegance’… Yes, that’s the one! And what’s this? ‘Liquid Laxative?!’ (She turns on DRIBBLE) You tried to feed me THIS?!
She thrusts the bottle back into DRIBBLE’S hands.
DRIBBLE: (Sheepishly) Well, technically, it does make things run smoother…
DRIP: And it’s very cleansing.
GOTHEL: Enough! I don’t know why I bother with you two, I should’ve left you in the enchanted forest!
DRIP: Oh please don’t, it’s really scary in here; there’s twisting paths, eerie noises, and an awful stench!
DRIBBLE: No, Drip, that was you.
GOTHEL: This Forest is all that stands between the pesky people of Quiffendale and the tower I’ve got Rapunzel locked up in. I wouldn’t be surprised if sooner or later some of them try to rescue her.
DRIBBLE: (Confidently) They will, ma’am.
GOTHEL: How do you know that?
DRIBBLE: I read the script!
GOTHEL: Don’t be such a smarty-pants! (Beat) Thanks to my enchantment no one will ever make it through the forest and find her!