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SYNOPSIS OF CHARLIE CINDERFELLA
CHARLIE CINDERS: has been put down and humiliated ever since he can remember by his STEPMOTHER AGATHA CINDERS who has two children of her own, PRUDENCE (Negativity) and FREDDIE (Opportunist). They have taken all of CHARLIE’S money. Starting when he was receiving a Carer’s Pension while looking after his bed ridden father, then with CHARLIE’S inheritance after his father’s death, plus CHARLIE’S cleaning job and partial unemployment money. Upon meeting a friend at SURVIVELINK, CHARLIE makes up his mind he is going to improve his skills and find some sort of permanent employment to help his family even more. Unfortunately, whenever he applies for a permanent job, CHARLIE’S efforts are always sabotaged by his STEPMOTHER and STEP BROTHER and even his loving STEPSISTER (who Charlie adores) They are worried that once CHARLIE gets a job, he will leave them. (AGATHA and FREDDIE out of greed and not waiting to lose their personal slave and PRUDENCE out of insecurity and fear she will lose her only real friend. CHARLIE receives a letter that he needs to see his new consultant JOY HELPFUL (Fairy Godmother) as he is due for Mutual Obligation and she needs to do a new agreement to cover his part time job as his Mutual Obligation. CHARLIE meets JOY HELPFUL and is referred to a course to improve his office skills. At last, due to a new belief in his own self-worth, with the assistance of JOY HELPFUL, CHARLIE applies for a job at THE GLASS SLIPPER FACTORY. At first CHARLIE does not get the job, a relation to one of the staff is hired instead, but BILL SCOTT the factory foreman and assistant manager ,is impressed with CHARLIE and recommends him for a job with HENRY BRILLIANT the fabulous GLASS SLIPPER FACTORY shoe designer. CHARLIE is over the moon when he is offered a position working part time in design and part time in accounts, The moment he meets her, like so many other males, CHARLIE falls madly in love with the beautiful SAMANTHA GLASS, the owner of the GLASS SLIPPER FACTORY. but he must admire her from afar in the belief SAMANTHA does not even realise he exists. (AGATHA has done a great job of always putting CHARLIE down!) Intent on her business, SAMANTHA has always brushed off any eager admiring males by stating she has no time to fall in love, THE GLASS SLIPPER FACTORY is all she thinks about day and night. SAMANTHA is also overly concerned about the possible take-over of her business by the greedy businessman BURTON TAKEOVER (The takeover King!), who once he takes hold of a company, seizes all assets, fires staff, and moves all the factories production overseas. Last year BURTON tried to destroy SAMANTHA by stealing her designs before the shoe show. So, this year SAMANTHA decides nobody is to know (including Samantha herself) where the designs are kept, except for HENRY BRILLIANT. While employed at the Glass Slipper Shoe Factory CHARLIE suggests PRUDENCE for the position as HENRY’S Secretary, as HENRY’S personal secretary is on maternity leave. PRUE turns out to be the best personal secretary HENRY has ever had. Once PRUDENCE and CHARLIE are both working at the Glass Slipper Factor, and excitedly telling AGATHA and FREDDIE all that is happening at the factory. FREDDIE makes an appointment to see BURTON TAKEOVER. He is introduced to BURTON through the family lawyer LEON SWIFT (Agatha has secret plans to marry Leon!). At the meeting FREDDIE makes a deal with BURTON, for $50,0000 he will steal the Glass Slipper Factories shoes designs, before the big Shoe Convention. BURTON agrees to the deal, but with one provider, if FREDDIE fails, BURTON will withdraw his very lucrative account with LEON SWIFT. FREDDIE accepts the deal. When AGATHA learns that LEON will suffer the consequences if her son fails, she sets out to help FREDDIE and manages to persuade the negative PRUDENCE she is extremely ill and therefore AGATHA generously offers to fill in for PRUDENCE as HENRY’S assistant until her daughter is feeling better. Of course, HENRY quickly falls under the devious AGATHA’S feminine spell and agrees to show Agatha some of his shoe designs for the Show Designer Show. As he works in the design department with HENRY and BILL, CHARLIE watches all they do and soon discovers he has a real talent for shoe design. He proudly shows some of his work to PRUDENCE who is extremely impressed, and excitedly tells AGATHA how talented CHARLIE is. While on a date with AGATHA, HENRY suffers a heart attack and is rushed to hospital. He then cannot remember where he hid the shoe Designs for the Show and therefore SAMANTHA faces ruin. JOY HELPFUL knows of CHARLIE’S design talent so she tells SAMANTHA she has found a brilliant new shoe designer and she will send him to meet SAMANTHA at the GLASS SLIPPER CONVENTION BALL. Wanting her son FREDDIE to be the one who wins SAMANTHA’S heart, AGATHA orders CHARLIE a tuxedo far too small, so that he will be unable to attend the Ball. Luckily JOY HELPFUL appears and saves the day by arranging for CHARLIE to be outfitted in a suitable tuxedo by the Salvation Army Thrift Shop, with the promise the tuxedo must be returned by Midnight as it is needed for a Wedding the following morning. At the Ball CHARLIE manages to dance with SAMANTHA, and they soon become smitten with each other. Encouraged by JOY, CHARLIE is about to show SAMANTHA his shoe designs, but is called away as AGATHA is suddenly feeling faint and wants to go home, and FREDDIE is nowhere to be found. Instead FREDDIE meets with SAMANTHA and show her CHARLIE’S shoe designs and takes the credit for the designs as his own. CHARLIE eventually does nothing about this deception, as AGATHA has managed to convince him, that his stepbrother really needs the break, and that PRUDENCE will suffer great humiliation if CHARLIE does not keep his mouth shut. The new designs save the GLASS SLIPPER FACTORY from the clutches of BURTON TAKEOVER, and soon orders come into the factory from every major department store in Australia. SAMANTHA is so grateful she agrees to go out with FREDDIE, despite her intense feelings for CHARLIE. BILL having seen a new side of the negative PRUDENCE at the ball, falls madly in love with her and asks the now self-assured and happy PRUDENCE to be his wife. PRUDENCE does not know what to do , she has also just been offered a promotion as SAMANTHA’s personal assistant, and feels s extremely guilty about not saying anything and letting her brother take credit for CHARLIE’S incredible show designs. Feeling extremely guilty PRUDENCE bursts into tears and locks herself in her bedroom. JOY HELPFUL has a chat with PRUDENCE and assures her, she must tell SAMANTHA about the deception. PRUDENCE eventually goes and tells the truth. Now that she realises how foolish she has been ,thinking FREDDIE was the hero who had saved her company. SAMANTHA and CHARLIE work closely together and soon sparks fly , and despite her declaring she had no time for love CHARLIE and SAMANTHA become romantically involved. CHARLIE and SAMANTHA, and PRUDENCE and BILL marry in a joint wedding . HENRY soon retires and CHARLIE takes over as head shoe designer. The factory wins a coveted Government Shoe contract, and fitting this fairy tale CHARLIE wins the Young Australian of The Year Award AGATHA marries BURTON, and shortly after BURTON and FREDDIE are arrested in an Internet Fraud Scam , and AGATHA gets her own TV Show “Let’s Bitch with the Bitch”. . At curtain call SAMANTHA, PRUDENCE and AGATHA are all pregnant. The ENTIRE CAST SING (Short versions) “If it’s to be, It’s Up to Me”. “I Believe in You”. AND ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER! THE END © 3rd Draft © Elizabeth Waterhouse 2021 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: ELIZABETH WATERHOUSE 59 Kanangra Street Redbank Plains , Queensland 4301 Tel. (07) 3389b 2435 Mobile 0403 899 763 E-Mail shadowlightbooks@gmail.com |