Here's part two of a fun Readers Theater version of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "The Bremen Town Musicians," with a different twist at the end.  Guaranteed to sprinkle giggles into your day, this talking animal script comes complete with curriculum links for easy lesson plans.  Perfect for elementary students, ESL, and family fun "The Bremen Town Detective Band–Parts 1 and 2" can be a launching point for a creative writing assignment for part three. 

TIME:  about 5 minutes           CAST:  3–12          TONE:  light and lively      READABILITY:  grade 4.3 (because of nonsense words and silly names)  Think third grade readability.

Here's an excerpt of this exclusive Script Buffet Club members' script:

Narrator:  Once the Bremen Town Detective Band scared the robbers away from the house the robbers ran straight to the sheriff.

Robber 1:  Sheriff, Sheriff!  You have to help us!  Quick!

Robber 2:  Put us in jail.  We’ve been stealing.

Robber 3:  And the Snuffle-buffle-box Roostasaurus is chasing us to eat us!  Warn the town!

Sheriff:  Hold your horses.  Are you the robbers who have been stealing from all our townsfolk?

Robbers:  Yes, sir!   Yes, sir!

Robber 1:  Put us in jail!  Quick!

Sheriff:  (slowly)  Be my guest.

Narrator:  And the sheriff unlocked a jail cell.  The robbers rushed into the cell.

Robber 1:  Lock the door, Sheriff!  Hurry!

Robber 3:  And don’t let the Snuffle-buffle-box Roostasaurus inside!

Robber 2:  The Snuffle-buffle-box Roostasaurus should be guarding the loot at the little cabin in the woods.

Sheriff:  Is that right?  And how long have you known this Sniffle-biffle Brontosaurus?

Robber 1:  It’s a Snuffle-buffle-box Roostasaurus.  And we don’t KNOW it.  It scared us out of the little cabin in the woods where we are hiding the loot.

Robber 2:  WERE hiding the loot!  We’ve given up our life of crime!

Robber 3:  That’s right!  Just protect us from the Snuffle-buffle-box Roostasaurus, PLEASE!

Sheriff:  Relax. There’s no such thing as a Snaffle-baffle Rockasaurus.

Robbers:  Snuffle-buffle-box Roostasaurus.

Sheriff:  Whatever.

Robber 1:  We saw it!  It had eight eyes!

Robber 2:  A frizzy face.

Robber 3:  And terrible teeth!

Sheriff:  There must be some mistake.  I’ll send a couple of my deputies out to the cabin to check.

Robber 1:  Tell them to be careful.

Robber 2:  The Snuffle-buffle-box sounded mad.

Robber 3:  And hungry!

Narrator:  So, the sheriff sent two deputies out to the little cabin in the woods.  When the deputies arrived they peeked in the window and found...
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***Click on the PDF link below to see the full printable version of the fun Readers Theater script "Th Bremen Town Detective Band–Part 2".  Perfect for grades 2, 3, 4, 5, ESL, and family fun, this Script Buffet Club fairy tale comes with annotated curriculum links for easy lesson plans.

Download the PDF "The Bremen Town Detective Band--Part 2," an elementary script based on the fairy tale "The Bremen Town Musicians."

Here's a link to the description of Part 1 "The Bremen Town Detective Band–Part 1"