Rapunzel

Join Brooke & Hannah for our version of the beloved fairytale of Rapunzel! Brooke is about to get herself and Hannah in trouble with the witch next door. This story is told by award-winning storytellers from Little Supernovas, especially for children.

Transcript

Hello Adventure Tellers,

Brooke here.

Hello,

I'm here too.

I'm gonna have a baby.

Yes!

Oh,

A beautiful baby.

Thing is though,

I'm really hungry a lot of the time.

It's true.

I've eaten all the pickles,

Isn't that right Hannah?

Yep.

I've eaten all the cookies.

Sorry about that Hannah.

I've eaten all the frozen yoghurt.

Sorry about that as well Hannah.

And now I want Rapunzel.

You want Rapunzel?

Yes,

I want Rapunzel.

But there's only one place that we can get Rapunzel.

Yes Hannah,

You're right.

The only place we can get Rapunzel is in the garden next door.

The witch's garden you mean?

Yes!

The witch's garden next door.

Please Hannah,

Please.

No,

I'm not going.

I'll just keep nagging until I get it.

I'll become the bane of your life.

You already are the bane of my life.

Do you mean I'm already the bane of your life?

Go get me that Rapunzel and quick,

The moon's coming out.

Alright,

I'll go.

Brooke,

I'm in the garden next door.

Hope the witch doesn't turn up.

Okay,

I'm looking for a Rapunzel.

I don't think I know what a Rapunzel looks like.

Um,

What about this?

Hannah,

That's not a Rapunzel.

That's a potato.

I don't want a potato.

What if I make it into chips?

No,

Not even if you make it into chips.

I'll keep looking.

What about this?

What's that?

A strawberry?

Oh I do like strawberries.

Oh yes,

I love strawberries.

But I want Rapunzel.

You can eat the strawberry.

Well thank you,

I'll keep the strawberry.

What about this?

Oh,

What's that?

It's orange.

Oh,

It's a carrot.

No,

I don't want a carrot.

I want her.

What children?

That's right,

A Rapunzel.

Alright,

I'll keep looking.

I'll keep trying.

Maybe I'll go and look over here.

Oh no!

Hannah,

Be careful of the witch.

Stop!

Thief!

Get out of my garden.

Get your fingers out of my parsnips and potatoes and turn round and show yourself.

Oh,

Hannah.

Did Brooke set you up to this?

Oh she did.

Well,

You should never have listened to her because now I'm going to turn you into a frog.

Oh no,

Please don't.

It's because Brooke's having a baby and she's just craving some Rapunzel.

Brooke's having a baby.

Oh I love babies.

Yeah,

Coo coo coo coochie coochie coo.

Oh I love a baby.

I want a baby and I want Brooke's baby.

Yes,

Help yourself to whatever it is that you want from my garden.

But you have to give me her baby.

Otherwise I'll turn you into that frog.

She wants the Rapunzel.

Well,

Help yourself to it.

Take all of it.

I want that baby to be strong and extra coo coo coo coo coo coo coo.

But hurry.

Get out of my garden with your booty before I change my mind and turn you into a frog anyway.

Okay,

Thank you witch.

I'll grab the Rapunzel and I'll go.

Children,

I don't think we should tell Brooke the deal we've just made.

Let's just grab the Rapunzel and go.

Oh,

There's our little baby.

Yes.

Oh,

This little baby was born just a couple of days ago.

Yes,

Coochie coochie coo.

What's that Hannah?

What?

We've got to give it to the witch.

I beg your pardon.

What?

You didn't tell me.

Oh,

Oh.

Oh,

I love you my precious girl.

I better take you round to the witch.

Well,

Here you are.

Here's my beloved baby.

Yes,

Take good care of her.

Oh,

I will.

I'm going to call her Rapunzel.

Oh,

Well done for keeping your word.

I'm not going to turn Hannah into a witch.

That's good.

Well,

I know we'll meet again some sunny day my little baby.

Yes,

You will.

I'm going to call her Rapunzel.

After my Rapunzel.

Sixteen years later,

Rapunzel,

Perhaps what the witch has named the baby,

Is all grown up.

Let's go and see her.

Oh,

I love these enchanting sunflowers.

You can only get the enchanting sunflowers,

Unfortunately,

From the enchanting forest.

Yes.

Hello,

Adventure tellers.

I'm not allowed in the enchanting forest.

No.

My ma says it's too dangerous.

I don't think so.

I mean,

I think it's lovely that the trees can talk and that the spiders have really big fangs and that there's big bats that fly above your head.

You can just pretend that they're butterflies.

Anyway,

Nothing is going to spoil my day today.

Nothing,

Because today is my 16th birthday.

Yes,

The last time you saw me,

I was a baby.

Beautiful baby.

But now I'm 16.

I'm 16 and I will allow myself to go off into enchanting forests.

Why do?

If my ma finds me here,

I still think I'm going to be in trouble.

I can hear her calling.

Right.

You distract her.

Maybe you could pretend to be a wolf or a grizzly bear.

Anything.

Just put a block between me and my and I'll get a head start to get home before she truly does realize that I'm out in the woods with you.

Yes,

You.

I blame it on you.

Quick,

Children.

Let's distract the witch.

Let's pretend to be bears.

Show me your claws.

Witch,

Witch,

Look at our great impressions of a bear.

Pretty,

Everybody.

Rapunzel.

Rapunzel.

Where is that gorgeous birthday girl?

Rapunzel.

I've looked in her room.

I've looked in the cellar.

I've looked in the garden.

The only place last to look will be the enchanting forest.

What's that?

The jackal looking for Rapunzel.

She's not in the enchanted forest.

Just look at my bear.

Oh,

She's not in there,

Children.

Oh,

That's very good to know.

Thank you.

Great impression,

By the way,

Hannah.

Of a bear.

Very good.

Very good.

Thanks,

Everyone.

That bought me a bit of time.

Hi,

Mummy.

I was just I was just out in the garden.

Were you?

Well,

You don't get sunflowers from our garden.

Ah,

Ah,

Ah.

Nothing to see here.

Nothing to see here.

You were in the enchanting forest.

Oh,

Brooke.

Yes,

I'm going to put you in a tower and lock you up for the rest of your life.

Oh,

Can't you just send me to my room with no birthday cake?

No,

I don't trust you.

You need to be hidden away from the world.

You're too much trouble and you're far too beautiful.

Yes,

I'm putting you in a tower.

Can I keep the flowers?

At least can I keep the flowers?

You can keep the flowers.

Yes.

Right.

Off we go to the tower.

Oh,

Children.

Well,

You promised to come and visit me.

You promised to come and visit me.

So the witch took Rapunzel to a very tall tower,

A tower with no door,

Just a window right at the top.

And she keeps her there for years.

Oh,

Oh,

I've been in this tower for such a long time,

Adventure tellers.

I've definitely had at least four birthdays since I've been in here.

Look,

Look how long my hair has grown.

I spend my time putting it into plaits and then the rest of the time I sing.

I sing out to the birds in the trees and the beautiful enchanted forest.

Yes,

I sing.

I sing and I sing and I sing and I sing.

It's the only way I can keep myself company because Ma comes once a day,

Usually during the day,

To bring something nice for me to eat like tomato soup.

Yes,

With a little bit of bread.

Yes,

That's all I get.

Oh,

Children,

You don't think that's enough food?

I suppose you're right.

Well,

That's the life of living in a tower.

I suppose I could make friends with the rats.

Here,

Ratty,

Ratty.

Rats.

Ratty,

Ratty,

Ratty.

Oh,

I think that's Ma.

She's calling.

Rapunzel,

Rapunzel,

Let down your golden hair.

OK,

Ma,

Stand back.

I don't want to throw it down and pop you on the head again.

So the witch goes every day and calls those words and delivers delicious soup.

Yes,

But one day somebody in the woods is watching.

It's a prince.

Rapunzel,

Rapunzel,

Let down your golden hair.

Here it comes,

Children.

I'm going to climb all the way to the top.

I'm coming,

Fair beauty.

Well,

Adventure tellers,

I set down my hair moments ago and usually by now I can at least feel my Ma Ma coming up my hair because she tucks at it.

But I just can't feel anything.

Are you OK down there,

Ma Ma?

You're a Ma Ma.

You're a prince.

So the prince came every day after the witch had dropped off the soup.

They did this for weeks.

And every time the prince came,

He brought her some silk thread so that Rapunzel could make a ladder so that eventually she could put the ladder out of the window and climb down and go off with the prince to his kingdom.

But one day Rapunzel let their secret visits slip out in front of the witch.

Ow,

Ow,

Ma,

Steady.

That really hurts.

Mom,

Why is it so that when you come up my hair,

You tug at it,

You pull at it and it's so sore.

When my prince comes,

He's up like speed of lightning and he's feathery fast.

Not a single tug do I get.

What?

A prince?

You have betrayed me.

Right.

I'm going to push you out of that window and send you into a desert and you'll never ever ever see your prince again.

But before I do that,

I'm going to pull your hair out.

No!

So the witch pulls Rapunzel's hair and takes it for herself and sends Rapunzel out into the desert to live forever and waits at the top of the tower herself for the prince.

Right.

I'm going to start singing for that lover boy.

Here we go.

Just like Rapunzel does.

Yes.

I can sing better than her.

Here we go.

La,

La la la la,

La la la la la.

What do you mean Hannah?

Do you mean it's disgusting my singing.

It's awful.

Do you mean?

It's beautiful.

La,

La la la la,

La la la.

Here he comes.

No!

You think I should stop saying.

.

.

Oh,

Very well.

Oh,

He's calling Rapunzel.

Rapunzel,

Let down your golden hair.

Get him.

Okay,

Darling.

Here he comes.

Ah,

I can see him.

Hurry now,

Darling.

I've got that ladder ready.

Up we go,

Up we go.

Oh,

My darling.

Ah!

You're not the prince.

Oh,

You've been unjust.

I'm going to push you out of the window.

And you will never ever,

Ever see your beloved again.

Push!

The witch pushes the prince out of the tower window and he goes tumbling to the ground.

His fall is broken,

Luckily,

By some bushes.

But rather unluckily,

These bushes have thorns and they prick at his eyes so he can no longer see.

And he goes off in search of Rapunzel.

Rapunzel!

Rapunzel!

Wherefore art is my Rapunzel?

Oh!

Taughton,

You have to be my eyes,

For I was blinded on the thorns below that tower.

If you see Rapunzel,

You must tell me,

Okay?

Walk with me,

Be my eyes.

For Rapunzel,

Rapunzel,

If only,

If only I could see,

For I don't know where I am.

There seems to be on my feet hot sand.

Maybe I'm no longer in that forest,

The enchanted forest,

But instead a deadly desert.

La,

La,

La,

La,

La.

What is that?

What is that?

Is that your grown-up singing in the shower?

La,

La,

La,

La,

La.

It's not.

It's my Rapunzel!

Rapunzel,

Rapunzel,

Where are you?

I'm right here.

I'm right here next to you.

Why?

Why won't you turn your head?

Oh!

My evil mama,

Who I think is a witch.

I fear that she has blinded you.

Hold still,

Prince,

And I will kiss your eyes,

And hopefully those true love kisses will help you to see again.

Ah!

It worked!

Oh!

Let us be married.

By the way,

If we have children,

I've got some great names.

Yes,

I was thinking,

Just to keep with the theme of my name,

But parsnip,

You like it?

Okay,

Great.

Spinach,

You like that as well?

Great.

And beetroot,

Great names,

Aren't they?

Where's that,

Hannah?

Oh,

Of course,

Yes.

Potato,

That's a great name.

And if we could get a dog,

Maybe we could just call that Max.

So the prince takes Rapunzel back to his kingdom,

And they live happily ever after.

Thank you for joining us,

Everybody.

We've loved having you for all of our stories.

We'll see you pretty soon.

Bye!

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