OBRA TEATRAL
Hansel and Gretel

READER
HANSEL
GRETEL
STEPMOM
FATHER
WITCH
ELF 1 – Bossy
ELF 2 - Smelly
ELF 3- Twitchy
ELF 4 - Clumsy
ELF 5 - Narcolepty
ELF 6 - Whiny
ELF 7- SNEEZY – Actions but no lines
FAIRY DOG MOTHER
FAIRY FROG MOTHER

(PROPS: Big pot, potato & carrot, hanky for Sneezy. Dog’s & Frog’s wands optional.)
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READER: Once upon a time, a long long time ago, there lived a brother and sister named Hansel and Gretel.

HANSEL: I’m Hansel.
GRETEL: I’m Gretel!
HANSEL: We’re Hansel and Gretel!

READER: Yes, just as I said. They lived in a cottage in the woods with..

HANSEL: I’m Hansel.
GRETEL: I’m Gretel! …ver más…

(WITCH walks bent over; HANSEL & GRETEL walk like her to her “house” back at center stage.)

READER: The nice old lady was really a wicked witch who liked to eat children. She took them into her house. Gretel looked around.

GRETEL: I thought you would have a gingerbread house.

WITCH : Oh, the property taxes on that thing were killing me!

READER: Hansel was getting hungrier so he asked again:

HANSEL: What’s for breakfast?

WITCH : Something delicious, but first you must wash up.

READER: The witch invited them to hop into a big pot of hot water. She said:

WITCH : Scrub a dub a dub, into the tub!

GRETEL: Why are there carrots and potatoes and celery...
HANSEL: floating in the bathtub?

WITCH : Oh, hee hee hee hee. Those are bath toys!

READER: So Hansel and Gretel, who never were the brightest candles on the cake, hopped into the pot.

(HANSEL & GRETEL climb in, standing, scrubbing potatoes under arms like soap):

HANSEL (singing): Rubber ducky, you're the one.

GRETEL: Quack! Quack!

HANSEL: Rubber ducky, you're lots of fun!

GRETEL: Quack Quack!

WITCH: For Pete's sake! Sit down or you'll never cook -- I mean get clean. Squeaky-deeky clean!

HANSEL & GRETEL (plopping down) OK! Kersplash!

READER: Unfortunately, this witch was not allergic to water like her 2nd cousin in the land of Oz.
She began to add ingredients while Hansel & Gretel played in blissful ignorance of their