Babes in the Magic Wood
February 2005 Pantomime
Babes in the Magic Wood is a musical play for the family using a mixed cast. Widow Crockett and her babes, Simple Simon and Contrary Mary, run a toyshop, their biggest job being the making of toys for Father Christmas's order.
One Christmas Eve they are very behind with their work and wish Fairy Godmother could help. She appears and, under her spell, three magic toys, Jack-in-the Box, Ragdoll and Clockwork Panda, finish the job while the Crockett family are asleep. Later the rascally robbers Pick and Nick see a chance, impersonating Father Christmas, to grab the toys for themselves. They are foiled, but much more perilous dangers follow.
The Fairy Godmother turns out to be a wicked Superwitch, who almost makes a cauldron meal of the Children in the Magic Wood. After many adventures the Children, aided by the magic toys and a clever donkey, triumph. They find themselves back in the toyshop - and it was all a dream. But was it? The magic toys have the last word!
