The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon

Brothers Grimm

For a picture overview: look at the album. To know what happened in the play: read on.

For those of you who have never heard of The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon before- here's a brief synopsis.

There are two narrators who present the stories, although they often find themselves involved in the stories. Rapunzel is a rebellious teenager whose mother made deals with the devil, and enchantress and Rumplestiltskin. Rapunzel is locked the tower by the enchantress, meets her prince, is banished to the desert, finds her prince, and runs away with him.

Rapunzel's mother used to be known as Gretel. Classic tale- kids eat house, witch tries to eat kids, kids kill witch. simple.

The witch from H&G used to be a fishergirl who caught a talking fish who granted her two wishes: to never go hungry again and to have magical power- thus- a witch in a candy house.

The Talking Fish used to be friends with the Frog Prince. The frog prince becomes human again when, you guessed it, he's kissed by a princess (after much coaxing).

The grandson of the Frog Prince and Princess was a dwarf- who worked in the mines. One day, he and his friend found snow white under the spell. However, this snow white is an emancipated princess and kills the wicked witch and takes her prince.

Snow white has a daughter who is kidnapped by a needy old grandmother. This daughter becomes Lil Red. Sharing and Rainbows is the moral of this story.

And the final scene: Cinderella. Except we're out of actors. Oh well, Matt will just have to play everyone in the show. Cinderella cooks and cleans, and birds bring her a dress and she walks to the ball. After the shoe is lost, the step sisters end up cutting of heels and toes to fit in the shoe-but the prince figures it out. So, Cinderella gets her prince.

And the finale- in 3 minute the entire plot is told again in reverse order.

I had a great time working with these kids. As you can tell from the pictures, everything looked great. Not only did everything look great- but the kids did a super job. I'm so incredibly proud to have worked with them. Do I ever want to direct a show again, that's up in the air. But I sure am glad I did this one!