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Halloween Assembly or Class Play – The Vanishing Pumpkin

Halloween Assembly or Class Play – The Vanishing Pumpkin Assembly has proved extremely popular – Customer feedback received 12.1014 AMAZING! Exactly what I needed. Well written, funny and great suggestions for music. I’m using this with a class of 31 and the suggestions for adaptations were spot on. The class love it and are super excited for our assembly on the 30th of October. Thank you

Cast: 30 (See Production Notes for smaller cast size)

Duration: 10 to 15 minutes. The play can be extended by the addition of jokes (see Halloween Jokes in free scripts section of website – these are a selection of my personal favourites)

Halloween Assembly or Class Play Characters

Judges (3)

Talent Show Contestants:

• • •             Witches (3)
    •             Ghost Hunters (3)
    •             Skeletons
    •             Devils
    •             Vampires
    •             Rats & Bats
    •             Were wolves
    •             Monsters
    •             Ghost

Halloween Assembly or Class Play Music:  1 Disney Haunted House

Judge 1:        Welcome!

Judge 2:        We are gathered here to behold the year’s spookiest show!

Judge 3:        Our very own …..

Whole cast:  (Shouting together) Halloween Talent Competition!

(Everyone cheers)

Judge 1:        Each year we have a different set of contestants – but all sharing one thing in common! They’re all

All Contestants:       (Yelling) Gruesome!

Judge 2:        That’s right! No prizes here for beauty – on the contrary…

Judge 3:        The more gruesome, the better!

Judge 1:        (Looking up and down the line of contestants) And I have to say, this year you have truly surpassed yourselves!

Judge 2:        (Nodding) Absolutely!

Judge 3:        What a grotesque lot!

(Everyone cheers)

Judge 1:        But are you truly scary?

Judge 2:        That is what will win you this coveted prize!

Judge 3:        A pumpkin – filled with every imaginable horror!

(Each judge walks over and holds up something from out of the pumpkin, before dropping it back in again; the showing of each ‘exhibit’ prompting  cries of admiration from the cast)

Judge 1:        A venomous snake!

Judge 2:        A warty toad!

Judge 3:        A blood-covered axe!

Judge 1:        Ah yes! There is something for everyone!

Judge 2:        But who is to be our champion this year?

Judge 3:        Let’s meet the contestants!

Music 2 Witch Queen of New Orleans – Redbone

(Enter 3 witches)

Witches:        (Together) We are the three witches of Macbeth!

(Three witches recite 2 lines from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, whilst bent over a caldron)

Witches:        Double, double, toil and trouble

Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Witch 1:        Evil we look!

Witch 2:        Ugly we are!

Witch 3:        (All sweetly) Choose us, kind judges

Witches:        (Screaming together) Or we’ll have yaaaaaaaaah!

(Witches race over to the judges, making menacing gestures)

Judge 1:        That’s enough!

Judge 2:        We will not be intimidated!

Judge 3:        You will not influence our decision!

Judge 1:        P’raps we should have said at the beginning

Judges:          (Together) No threatening the judges!

(Witches exit, sulkily)

Judge 1:        Next!

Music 3 Ghostbusters Theme Music

(Ghost Hunters dash onto stage, waving their weapons threateningly and stepping forward to shout the chorus ‘Ghost Hunters’!)

Judge 1:        Hold it! Hold it!

Judge 2:        What are you doing here?

Judge 3:        Where are the ghosts?

Ghost Hunters 1:    (Sarcastically) Well, DER!

Ghost Hunters 2:    Hiding from us lot!

Ghost Hunters 3:    You don’t think they’re stupid enough to show themselves

Ghost Hunters:       (Together) When we’re around!

Judge 1:        But you’re not scary!

Judge 2:        What are you doing here?

Judge 3:        Didn’t anyone tell you, contestants have to be scary?

Judges:          (Together) Like …. Ghosts?!

Ghost Hunters 1:    Oops!

Ghost Hunters 2:    Sorry!

Ghost Hunters 3:    Be sure to let us know

Ghost Hunters:       (Together) If you do have any trouble with ghosts!

(All exit)

Judge 1:        (Muttering) Chance would be a fine thing, with that lot around!

Judge 2:        Back to our show!

Judge 3:        Next!

(Enter skeletons, singing “Dem bones” song)