The Myth And The Legend

Professor Nick Burkhardt: The legend begins at this very training school,
Eight score minus one-hundred and eleven years ago.
Legend has it that there once was a lonely servant girl
Who received twenty copies of a script from a mailman in the terraced garden below.
The play based upon “Jack and the Beanstalk” was called “The Giantess”.
It was the scariest and funniest of the most romantic comedy shows.
Is that how it started and finished? Nobody knows.
But that’s how both the myth and the legend goes.
Sadie Mae Scroggins: Legend has it the girl showed her employer,
And the story that the Brothers Grimm wrote has finally captured his soul.
He and his wife vowed the school would perform it,
With the servant girl in the late title role.
But before the play could open,
A Gypsy warned them of a catastrophe that might force it to close.
Is that the real  truth? Well, there are those
Who kept saying that’s how both the myth and the legend goes.
Professor Nick Burkhardt: It’s a story, nothing more.
Just the stuff of an ancient urban legend and a foreign folklore,
The silliest kind that always follows scary romantic comedy shows.
Some swear it with conviction,
Others say it’s only fact and fiction.
Just a rumor, but a rumor always grows.
And that’s how both the myth and the legend goes.
Legend has it that when the Brothers Grimm applied for funds,
The Grand Kaiser refused to grant them as if he’s not impressed.
But Jacob and Wilhelm bravely held their ground,
Resolved to produce “the Phantom”.
But on the opening night of the play that finally ended,
Well, the curtains had been split like they’d never been closed.
What really happened next, I can’t even expose.
But that’s how both the myth and the legend goes.
Bianca-Jade & Rosaliet: (spoken) You guys can’t end the story there!
Shaggy Rogers: (spoken) Yeah! Tell us! What happened next?
Professor Nick Burkhardt: (spoken) I’m not sure I should tell you all about it.
Billy-Bob Scroggins: (spoken) Ha! Well, if you won’t tell them, my little sister Sadie Mae and I will.
The girl who was playing the “Giantess” had recently vanished!
They searched everywhere, but she couldn’t be found.
And when the Brothers Grimm got applauded by their fans for ending their play’s performance,
Their announcement got stopped by a frightening, gun-shooting sound:
The most terrible scream rang out!
Every face in the audience froze.
Was it really her? Well, nobody else really knows…
But that’s how both the myth and the legend goes.
Professor Nick Burkhardt: The police forbid the grand Kaiser from closing down the entire production
And he tried to demand the script’s destruction.
But they refused to allow it as they let all of them secretly survived, right underneath his nose.
And even though it was truly forbidden,
The Brothers Grimm were glad that their biggest fans kept all safely hidden,
And when they passed away, 
They are found a century later beside a mask and a red rose…
Or so both the myth and the legend goes.
Billy-Bob Scroggins: (spoken) Professor Nick Burkhardt, let’s tell them the reeeeally scary part! About the girl!
Professor Nick Burkhardt: (spoken) Oh, I don’t know for sure…
Just remember,
It’s a story, nothing more.
Just the stuff of an ancient urban legend and a foreign folklore,
But some say her restless spirit remains here in repose.
Sadie Mae Scroggins: Now she haunts the school where she vanished,
Just to make sure that the play stays banished.
Professor Nick Burkhardt: That’s why some say it’s cursed, this play I chose.
Bianca-Jade, Rosaliet and Shaggy Rogers: (spoken altogether) Is it true??
Professor Nick Burkhardt: Well, I suppose
That nobody knows,
Not even those
Who swear that
That’s how both the myth and the legend,
Professor Nick Burkhardt/Sadie Mae Scroggins/Billy-Bob Scroggins: That’s how both the myth and the legend,
That’s how both the myth and the legend goes!