St George's Players did this time
Present a special
Pantomime
About a reindeer, Rudolph named,
With reddened nose, so justly
famed.
Now Rudolph, everybody knows
Is really fed up 'bout his
nose.
No useful purpose, he can tell,
Beyond a reindeer's sense of
smell
Could come from such a shiny hooter.
And all in all, a dismal
future
Seems to beckon to this lad,
And leaves him feeling rather
sad.
Now Rudolph has a special dream -
To be included in the
Team
Of reindeers chosen for the sleigh
That brings the gifts on
Christmas Day.
He's practised daily, dreadfully hard
All sorts of
take-offs in the yard.
And cannot see the reason why
The others will not
let him fly.
Oh how he longs to be accepted
For the Team, and how
dejected
When they just laugh about his nose,
And so, down hearted, off
he goes.
The scene is Santa's factory,
And all the audience can see
The
elves are busy making toys
To send to all the girls and boys.
But wait,
there's one who isn't working.
That fellow Dean is surely shirking.
His
head is buried in a book.
It causes Foreman Fred to look
His way, and
mutter dire threats,
And in the end, the sack he gets.
So Dean sets off, with book in hand
To find a more welcoming
land.
Still intent in his belief
His future lies in pulling
teeth.
Eggbert, he has the best intentions
To fill the world with his
inventions.
But somehow he can never quite
Make anything that comes out
right.
Eggbert and Dean and Rudolph too
Will meet again quite soon, and
you
May be surprised, and that's a fact
At what is in the second
Act!
The Interval, and all are free
To get themselves a cup of
tea.
To stretch their legs, and have a chat
'Bout them and theirs and
this and that.
Or just to wander up and down
Or snooze, until the lights
go down.
I've just discovered, at my peril
I seem to have forgotten
Beryl.
How I missed her, I don't know
She's bobbing up throughout the
show.
(She tells our story all in rhyme
It must have taken quite a
time
To memorise that little lot.)
But now, lets get back to the
plot.
Act 2, Scene 1, the Misfits land.
An all together motley
band.
A Top who says she cannot spin,
A Jack who finds himself boxed
in.
A Teapot and a Teddy Bear
And lots of other toys are there.
And
all were broken, what a shame!
Until the day that Eggbert came.
But now, here's Eggbert come to stay,
To mend the toys will make
his day.
And now he's found his talent hidden.
But no invention yet can
rid them
Of one who's large and loud and fearsome.
The Giant longs to get
him near some
Girl or boy, a tasty snack.
But now they can get their own
back,
For Dean and Rudolph, heads together,
A plan will hatch, that will
forever
Rid them of this noisy pest:
I'll tell you how, if you've not
guessed.
Dean, a Dentist longs to be.
Takes on the dangerous task with
glee,
He pulls the Giant's "toothsies" out.
It makes the toys all laugh
and shout.
"That'll stop him now from eating me,
When he has nothing else
for tea."
So then the Giant, feared and ruthless,
Becomes Girus the
almost toothless.
Here I must mention, ladies four
The cleaners that we'd met
before.
When last we saw them they were cleaning
Santa's factory ˜
it was gleaming.
But not content with expert sweeping
Tonight a different
date they're keeping.
For now they have been transformed into
The Glacier
Girls and will sing to you.
Adorned with Christmas Decorations
And one of
them has Expectations!
The final scene is Christmas Eve,
At Santa's Factory party
we've
Arrived in time to see return
Dean and Rudolph, and will
learn
That Eggbert's found a place to stay
With Homemother and Skaj
˜ Hooray!
Where he will be appreciated
And his skills more highly
rated.
Mrs Christmas goes out shopping,
And Fred, he sings of reindeers
"dropping",
But "dropping in" or "dropping out"
Or "droppings" we'll not
talk about!
(The sort that it would be a blunder
If you should happen to
stand under.)
But since this is the Magazine
We'd better keep this poem
clean!
So now the party can begin,
The Christmas parcels all put
in
Dear Santa's sleigh, and piled up high
To sleeping children they will
fly.
The Does and Deers are glad when they
Hear Rudolph now will guide
the sleigh.
His flashing nose the sky will light
As they fly through the
wintry night.
And so they soon are on their way,
With Rudolph leading Santa's
sleigh
To bring the children Christmas cheer
At this very special time of
year.
And
we'll see you all again next year.
written by Janet Johnson
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