EXCERPTS from “The Frog Prince and the Princess Brat”
“You ever eat a fly? They’re all wiggly and dry.
Oooo-la-la! I’m gonna wallow in this blueberry pie” - FROG
A rhyming comedy by Jeannette Jaquish, © 2000
LENGTH: 20, 35, 50 or 75 minutes.
CAST: 5, 7, 8, or 12 actors.
COST: 1st performance: $40; additional: $20 each; or 1 year: $100.
Music Files as CD, thumbdrive or Google Share: $40
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Junior Version = SIMPLER WITH LARGE CAST
Simpler musical or non-musical versions with 3 cast sizes offer: 3 Sister Princesses, 3 Frog puppets, 3 Townfolk, 3 or 4 Servants, 1, 2 or 3 Narrators, a Queen & optional King, and lots of songs. CLICK TO SEE: “The Frog Prince and the Princess Brats, Jr.”
The Firehouse Theater in Fort Wayne, IN
Queen, Butler, Princess Conceita
About this script
Wartsalot! — The Frog Prince and the Princess Brat, by Jeannette Jaquish, is a funny, witty adventure about honesty, determination, silliness, and the joy of life. Every actor has good lines and every line progresses the plot which is full of very funny little tweaks. It is a sophisticated script appropriate for amateur or professional theaters.
The basic story is the one you are familiar with (with a jealous pet thrown in): Princess Conceita promises three days of friendship to a frog who retrieves her ball, then tries to renege on her promise. Eventually she grows to love the frog who turns into a prince when she kisses him.
In longer versions, Princess Conceita and the Frog give her tutor a hard time and shock visiting princesses. There is a rebellion in the land with deception on both sides. The princess and her friends are kidnapped and guess who rescues them?
The short version needs 5 or 6 actors. Longer versions need 8 more, though some can play multiple parts.
Cupcake, the Princess’s jealous pet in a production at the Firehouse Theater in Fort Wayne, IN.
The kids LOVED the scripts!! The only change we see we may need is that the Frog will be played by an actor in costume except scenes where the puppet is removed from the puppeteer and held by the actors..."
-------Diana Oswald, Event Coordinator , www. OnceinaLifetimeEvents. biz
SUMMARY
In this Frog Prince script, a bratty princess makes a false promise to an obnoxious frog, befuddling her jealous royal dog, infuriating the imperious Queen and vexing the sarcastic butler and two snotty visiting princesses, finally charming a grinning boy prince. This script is fast moving, creative, surprising and funny, funny, funny! AND it is in rhyme for easier memorization and lots of charm!
The longest version has a Villain, some bumbling but good natured Kidnappers, a Revolution sub-plot, and an exciting ending.
Four Lengths & Casts:
20 min.: Basic story: Princess, Frog, Dog, Queen, Butler
35 min.: add visit by 2 Foreign Princesses
50 min.: add lesson with the Tutor
75 min.: Exciting Kidnapping and Revolution subplot with 2 Additional Kidnappers, and 2 Diplomats
MUSIC CD A music CD has all songs in the script:
--Sparkle Sparkle
--Open the Bottle and Flush All the Pills
--Baby Princess
--When Cupcake Comes Crawling Home
--Growing Pains
--plus the Hilarious Intermission Song
Cost: $23, copies $3, postage in the U.S. included; $3 extra for outside the U.S.
FREE SCENE 1: The Frog in the Pond
Scene 1 is coming soon.
SCENE 2: The Castle
QUEEN (while whacking Butler):
The moat is a mess!
It needs a good scrubbing!
The yard boy was napping!
He needs a good drubbing!
(Whacks BUTLER)
Stand straight! You have the posture of an ape!
(Walking away)
Maybe shingling the North Tower will get you in shape!
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
(BUTLER ENTERS with food platters and tea pot.)
BUTLER: So sorry, Royal Queen. Here are your scones.
Butter, jam and jellied fish,
(simpering) I picked out the bones.
QUEEN: (whacking him) I don’t need the details of each culinary dissection!
Eeek! Wash your hands! You’ll give us all infection!
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
(PRINCESS runs behind QUEEN to try to grab FROG who dives under table.)
QUEEN: What?? Where are you going? You haven’t eaten a bite!
PRINCESS: So excited about the Harvest Ball, Mother. Lost my appetite!
And WHOOPS! Lost my bracelet! Fell on the floor!
(PRINCESS dives under table concealed by tablecloth. FROG puppeteer gives PRINCESS the puppet. Puppeteer grabs two table legs and wobbles table as PRINCESS crawls around, letting her feet show from under the tablecloth and making grunting sounds of frustration as if she is chasing the frog. Puppeteer makes occasional “Krrrbitt” sounds.)
QUEEN: Whooop! Something cold grabbed my knees!
That’s my leg, Conceita, that you’ve taken ahold!
(QUEEN abandons things sliding off table and jumps up from chair.)
Are you ill? Your hands are damp and cold!
Enough of this, daughter!
You come out right now.
Or I’ll call your father!
PRINCESS: (poking head out where QUEEN can’t see her.) Don’t have a cow.
(later excerpt)
FROG: (jumping onto table)
Sorry for crashing your party,
But a crime has occurred.
This sweet little princess,
Has broken her word.
QUEEN: What? Conceita! Tell me the truth!
What have you promised this frog, so uncouth?
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
(PRINCESS picks up fallen tea things and sits at table. FROG sits on table.)
FROG: Oh, baby, you got it made.
Shovel me some olives, and a sip o’ that lemonade.
You ever eat a fly? They’re all wiggly and dry.
Oooo-la-la! I’m gonna wallow in this blueberry pie
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
FROG: Snore ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
PRINCESS: (waking up and shaking him) Aaaah! I just got to sleep! And you’re snoring again!!
You are a noise little creep! Can’t you lie at the other end?
FROG: Pocket, pillow, plate.
Must your promise I repeat?
PRINCESS: Fine! OK! Great!!!
(Spins around putting feet on pillow and head at foot of bed.)
Share the pillow with my feet!
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
BUTLER: Great Scott! My poor bones! What’s all this string?
(sees CUPCAKE, releases him from the tangle)
Aha! The Princess’s neglected little pet. No need to sing.
I know it’s the frog you’re intending to snuff.
(toss CUPCAKE back to hidden puppeteer)
Well, tomorrow is his third day – and we’ve all had enough.
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
CUPCAKE: As the days passed it seemed the Princess,
(Princess twirls with frog)
Hated that horrible frog less and less,
(holds him and feeds bits from table)
At meals they would laugh, at games they would try,
(sets him on bed, covers eyes, counts to 5 while puppeteer pulls puppet down and puts it on, she looks around, FROG pops up to startle her.)
(pause until action catches up)
The frog even taught her to capture a fly, (both snap mouths at air)
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
FROG: It’s a brave and honorable girl you’ve been each day,
To put up with my tricks and let me finish my stay.
It ain’t part of your promise, but would you grant me this?
Just one little…..kiss?
PRINCESS: Like this?
(bends over (or picks him up) and kisses FROG.)
FROG: groan of pain (he falls into pond)
(LINES SKIPPED - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -)
PRINCESS: Oh, no!
Are you – Are you--- Are you the frog?
BOY: Croak! (Clears throat, removes fly (raisin or fake fly) from mouth. Croaking gradually wears off)
Fly. Yes, I was the frog. (removes more flies) More flies. Yes thank you. You saved me.
(They look at each other very shy and uncomfortable.)
PRINCESS: You’re a boy.
BOY: Yes.
PRINCESS: I kissed a boy?
BOY: I WAS a frog then.
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