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Hansel and Gretel run away from their parents' healthy meals. The forest creatures they meet share facts about nutrition, exercise, and hygiene. Learn more! |
MusicalGr. K-325 Min.
Musical Play: “The Nutrition Show”
Complete Script & Audio: $45 (other items also available)
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Synopsis
Nutrition, exercise, and hygiene lessons are threaded throughout this fun version of a familiar tale. In The Nutrition Show, Hansel and Gretel leave home because they don't like the food their parents provide...it's way too healthy! So they head for the forest in search of junk food. On the way they meet a variety of creatures who attempt to teach them important lessons about eating and exercise choices. Will Hansel and Gretel pig out on the witch's house of candy, or will they finally realize that junk food cannot be the center of their diet?
Preview the script and songs!Key Concepts
The Nutrition Show: Hansel and Gretel Eat Right is a great complement to your curriculum resources in the vitally important subject of nutrition. And, like all of our plays, this show can be used to improve reading, vocabulary, reading comprehension, performance and music skills, class camaraderie and teamwork, and numerous social skills (read about it!) -- all while enabling students to be part of a truly fun and creative experience they will never forget!
Aligned with national standards! View the standards and vocabulary.Publication Info
Author: Ron Fink (Composer) and John Heath (Book and Lyrics)
ISBN:
978-1-886588-29-5
© 2003
Bad Wolf Press, LLC
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The Show
We want you to know what you're getting, so the cast list and first third of the script are available here! Bad Wolf shows are written for flexibility and can be edited however you like to meet the needs of your actors, school, curriculum, parents, astrological chart, latest whim, etc. If you have questions about the portions of the script not shown, please contact us.
Casting
Flexible casting from 11-40 students. Use as many Rabbits, Elves, etc. as desired. Actors can easily play several roles, or a single role can be divided between multiple actors. All parts can be played by any gender. The Storyteller will be played by many students (who may also play the role of a character as well).
CHARACTERS:
Storytellers (many students share the role)
Hansel
Gretel
Parents of Hansel and Gretel
Rabbits
Elves
Compost Pile
Birds
Raccoons
Squirrels
Witches
and a CHORUS comprised of all students who are not playing roles on stage
at the time.
Script
This is the first one-third of the script.
(CLASS gathers in front of audience and sings. HANSEL and GRETEL stand a bit apart from the rest of the CLASS. We see a sign or banner that reads "Hansel and Gretel")
Song 1
Listen to
a sample!
ONE-HALF CLASS:
Hansel and Gretel
You know the tale
Witches and ovens
It’s growing stale.
Hansel and Gretel
Out on a limb
It’s a bit scary
And very grim.
OTHER-HALF CLASS:
So we’ve gone and changed things
Slightly re-arranged things
Given the story some bite
Wrote a new edition
All about nutrition
Hansel and Gretel—Eat Right!
(The sign is unfolded so we can see the entire title: "Hansel and Gretel Eat Right!)
ENTIRE CLASS:
Hansel and Gretel eat right
Hansel and Gretel eat right
Learning to be shrewd
When it comes to food
Hansel
And Gretel
Hansel and Gretel eat right.
Hansel and Gretel eat right
Hansel and Gretel eat right
Learning what we chew
Makes us healthy too
Hansel
And Gretel
Hansel and Gretel eat right.
HANSEL and GRETEL:
We like sweets
Lots of treats
CLASS: That’s not good for you.
HANSEL and GRETEL:
We like junk
Lots of gunk
CLASS: You’ll change before we’re through.
Hansel and Gretel eat right
Hansel and Gretel eat right
Learning to be shrewd
When it comes to food
Hansel
And Gretel
Hansel and Gretel eat right right right right
Hansel and Gretel eat right.
(CLASS exits/sits. HANSEL and GRETEL remain on stage. Their PARENTS step forward.)
STORYTELLER: Hansel and Gretel live in the woods with their mother and father. They only eat junk food, no matter what their parents try to feed them.
Song 2
Listen to
a sample!
PARENTS:
Have some rice
Have some meat
Have some beans
Come and eat.
A couple bites of salad wouldn’t hurt
HANSEL and GRETEL: I wonder what we’re having for dessert.
PARENTS:
Have some nuts
Have some cheese
Have some milk
Drink some please.
It’s fresh right from the cow and good for you
HANSEL and GRETEL: But ice-cream is a dairy product too.
PARENTS:
You need good food for fuel
You need good food for fuel
You need good food for fuel all day, hey!
PARENTS and CHORUS:
Have some rice
Have some meat
Have some beans
Come and eat.
A couple bites of salad wouldn’t hurt
HANSEL and GRETEL: I wonder what we’re having for dessert.
PARENTS and CHORUS:
You need good food for fuel
You need good food for fuel
You need good food for fuel all day, hey!
(During instrumental, PARENTS try to get HANSEL and GRETEL to eat some
good food, but they refuse.)
Food is fuel so eat what’s good for you.
Food is fuel so eat what’s good for you.
(PARENTS exit.)
STORYTELLER: Hansel and Gretel decide to run away from home so they can eat only junk food. They soon run into some rabbits.
RABBIT #1(munching carrots): Hello. What are you doing in the woods?
HANSEL: We’re running away from home.
RABBIT #2: Running? That’s good.
GRETEL: It is?
RABBIT #1: Sure. It’s exercise!
Song 3
Listen to
a sample!
RABBITS:
Run
Kick
Hop
Skip
I love exercise.
Jump
Slide
Roll
Glide
I love exercise.
Swim
Leap
Dance
Creep
I love exercise.
Swing
Throw
Stop
Go!
I love exercise.
Here is a little secret
Here is a big surprise
What all you kids call fun
Grown-ups call exercise, woh-oh-oh.
RABBITS and CHORUS:
Run
Kick
Hop
Skip
I love exercise.
Jump
Slide
Roll
Glide
I love exercise.
Swim
Leap
Dance
Creep
I love exercise.
Swing
Throw
Stop
Go!
I love exercise.
(RABBITS exit.)
NARRATOR: Hansel and Gretel continue on their way, looking for junk food. Soon they run into some forest elves.
(ELVES enter)
GRETEL: Hello. Do you have any snacks? We’re starving.
ELF #1: Sure we do. Here, have a pineapple.
HANSEL: A pineapple?
ELF #2: You’d prefer a kumquat?
GRETEL: Don’t you have anything but fruit?
ELF #3: Why would you want anything else! Apples, bananas, oranges—and so much more!
Song 4
Listen to
a sample!
ELVES:
Gonna eat some fruit
Gonna eat some fruit –oot –oot.
I know it’ll make us strong
Gonna make us cute.
Gonna eat a fig
Isn’t it a beaut –oot –oot?
Yeah I’m gonna munch a bunch
Gonna eat some fruit.
Peaches are peachy, grapes are great
Plums are my chums, and I’ve got a date.
Cherries are cheery and a raisin will hope
I’d marry a berry but I cantaloupe.
Have a nectarine
Isn’t it a hoot –oot –oot?
Yeah I’ll have a pair of pears
Gonna eat some fruit.
ELVES and CHORUS:
Peaches are peachy, grapes are great
Plums are my chums, and I’ve got a date.
Cherries are cheery and a raisin will hope
I’d marry a berry but I cantaloupe.
Gonna eat some fruit
Gonna eat some fruit –oot –oot.
I know it’ll make us strong
Gonna make us cute.
(ELVES exit.)
STORYTELLER: Hansel and Gretel do not want to eat fruit, so they continue on their way. Before long they run into a compost pile.
(COMPOST PILE enters)
COMPOST PILE: Who are you? You’re not from the witches, are you?
GRETEL: Witches? Oh no. Are there really witches in this forest?
COMPOST PILE: Of course. Mean, nasty witches. They live in a house made completely out of junk food.
HANSEL: That sounds great!
COMPOST PILE: It ISN’T great. They invite kids in to eat their house, but the kids grow so weak they can never leave.
GRETEL: I’ll risk it.
COMPOST PILE: And the witches throw all their plastic wrappers and juice boxes into the forest. That junk will last hundreds of years. It’s as if I didn’t exist.
(This concludes the first one-third of the script.)
The Songs
Click on any song to listen to a snippet. Click the cart icon to purchase any track for $1.
Standards
Common Core and Other National Standards
Health/Science
- National Health Education Standard 1, 7, and 8
- National Science Content Standard F for K-4th
Language Arts
- Common Core Reading Standards for Literature: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
- Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational Skills:
- Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards: Comprehension and Collaboration - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
- Common Core Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
- Common Core Standard 10: Range, Quality & Complexity: Range of Text Types for K-5th
National Core Arts Standards
- Music - Anchor Standards 4-6
- Theater - Anchor Standards 3-6
- Dance - Anchor Standards 1-6
Vocabulary
a beaut
bio-degrading
compost pile
crêpe suzette
dairy product
date (the fruit)
decompose
edition
elves
enchilada
grim
gunk
hoot
hygiene
Irish stew
junk food
kumquat
nutrition
raccoons
recyclable
sauerkraut
shrewd
stale
sushi
"Swedish meatballs"
tandouri
vitamins
wantons
“out on a limb”
“give the story some bite”
“give the soap a spin”
“eat us out of house and home”
Brooke Brooks (verified owner) –
My Kinder-2nd grade students love singing the songs in Hansel and Gretel. The melodies are simple enough to learn for this age group and the lyrics also teach valuable lessons about nutrition and hygiene. We’re performing this in December and I know that my students can’t wait. Thank you for writing a version of Hansel and Gretel that is appropriate for young children!
Jennifer (verified owner) –
Really a great way to tie in nutrition and fairy tales!