Play Card #6: Once Upon A Lilypad

mask club #4 saw on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at BYU

Once Upon A Lilypad
Written by Jon-Michael Rutter

Prince Tristan is in the forest with his right-hand man and is turned into a frog. Princess Lillian is wandering in the forest with her lady in waiting. As a frog, Prince Tristan meets Princess Lillian and tries to get a kiss from her. They end up getting to know each other very well and find out that they are each other's arranged fiances. Happy ending with several musical numbers and dancing.
3 Characters:

• Prince Tristan
• O: to become human again
• T: 1) to ask princess to kiss him; 2) to bother/chase princess; 3) to provoke sympathy
• Princess Lillian
• O: to avoid her arranged marriage
• T: 1) to delay her time in the forest; 2) to read her book; 3) to allow herself to get caught up in fairytale
• Adelaide -- lady in waiting to Princess Lillian
• O: to keep Lillian safe and get her to the city
• T: 1) to warn Lillian about dangers of forest; 2) to exaggerate, 3) to defend the princess from

Scenes/Monologues/misc:

i liked the musical number at the end. reminded me of Ella Enchanted with the random dance at the end.