Scene 1: The Pleasant Peasant Girls
The curtain was raised, revealing a quaint little village. From the audience's viewpoint, there was an Inn on the far right of the stage, a gateway on the far left of the stage, and a well in the center. Several boxes of plastic flowers were scattered all around, and the backdrop of a lovely spring day completed the quaint little scene.
Standing completely still in the midst of all this were five lovely young maidens: Trimp, Songbreeze, Nasturtium, Brookflow, and Viola. All of them were either sitting daintily on the ground holding a pail, or picking flowers, or leaning gracefully against a tree. Each maiden was dressed in a gown with a long flowing skirt of green or purple. Some had blossoms tucked behind their ears.
Then they all started to move, whirling and twirling gracefully as they went about their tasks. Song, who bore two buckets on a pole resting on her shoulders, bowed to Nasturtium and Brookflow, who were by the well. The mousemaid and ottermaid bowed back, smiling, and bent over to get water out of the well. Song turned and bowed to Trimp and Viola, who were picking flowers. They too bowed back, and Song twirled around gracefully - and ended up smacking Nasturtium on the rump with one of her buckets.
"OUCH!" the plump little mouse cried, but before anything else could be said or done, the piano's tune became lively, and all five maidens jumped to the front of the stage, and sang.
We're the pleasant peasant girls
Happy pleasant peasant girls
We're so happy we could fly
With an H-A-P-P-Y
We're the pleasant peasant girls
Happy pleasant peasant girls
With a happy mum and a happy pappy
We're so happy that we're almost sappyyyyyyyyyyyy
We're the pleasant peasant giiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrllllllllllssssssss
The five maidens then curtsied prettily and returned to their original tasks.