CBeebies Alice in Wonderland

RHYTHMIC CLAPPING

Ho-ho-ho.

Hello!

Hello.

AUDIENCE: Hello!

How many rabbits do you think there are in this field?

Oh, look, Dad, there's one with really big ears.

Oh, and there's a little cheeky one holding her mummy's hand.

Why did we have to come here for a family picnic? I'm bored.

Look, Alice, what is this?

It looks like a caterpillar.

But it's blue.

Maybe it's magic.

-Oh, come and see.

-Use your imagination...

with us.

Well, I can't, I don't have any imagination.

-Everyone has an imagination.

-Well, I don't, I can't make-believe at all.

-How about we have a game of cards?

-Oh, yes.

-Ah, yes, we all like cards, don't we?

-I don't.

Why can't we do something fun, like go to a party?

-We could have a party right here.

-But it's just a river bank.

-You have to use your imagination, Alice.

-Try closing your eyes.

I find it much easier to imagine things when I just close my eyes.

-Do I have to, Mum?

-It's just an invitation.

An imagination invitation.

# Dream of a thing you're longing to do

# Curious things could happen to you

# Use your imagination

# Let this be your invitation

# To go to a place you're longing to be

# Think of a world you're longing to see

# Fun and adventure could be there

# In your hand

# Alice in Wonderland

# Well, what if a caterpillar could talk?

# A caterpillar?

# It's a wonder

# Or if a pack of cards could suddenly walk?

# Walk?

# What would you say?

# If you suddenly turned incredibly small

# Or incredibly tall

# It's a wonder

# And I wonder

# What on earth would you think of today?

# Just dream of a thing you're longing to do

# Curious things could happen to you

# Use your imagination

# Let this be your invitation

# To go to a place you're longing to be

# Think of a world you're longing to see

# Fun and adventure could be there

# In your hand

# Alice in Wonderland

# Close your eyes, Alice. #

APPLAUSE

Use your imagination.

What can you see?

A rabbit. A white rabbit.

Wearing a waistcoat. Huh?

Oh! Oh, I'm so late. Oh, dear.

Oh, my dear, I am so late.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness me.

I'm so late and won't the Duchess shout?

BOING, BOING, BOING!

Hello.

Hello.

Oh! Hello.

AUDIENCE: Hello!

Now, are you all going to the Queen's annual garden party?

Yes!

Have you got your invitations?

Yes!

Jolly good. Oh, my buttons and buckles, I'm so late.

I can't stay here and talk to you.

I have to deliver this invitation to the Queen's sister, the Duchess.

Must dash.

I'm late, I'm laaa... Oh!

Well, I've never seen a rabbit with a waistcoat and pocket watch before.

Excuse me, my dear, I should have asked before,

-do you have YOUR invitation?

-No.

-Oh, awkward.

Well, I haven't got one for you,

but perhaps you could be the Duchess' plus one.

Plus one?

Yes, one plus one means you can go, TOO!

Everybody's going. Well, after tea, that is.

Oh, oh, my watch and waistcoat! And it's almost tea-time already.

I'm so, so late. Oh!

I'd love to go to the Queen's garden party. Mr Rabbit?

Mr Rabbit?

Mr Rabbi-rabbi-rabbit...

I do believe I'm falling down a rabbit hole.

Whoa!

# Oh, what a curious sight

# It's such a peculiar flight

# I'm twisting and twirling right into this world of delight

# I'm flying and falling fearless and free

# Swooping and soaring effortlessly

# Journeying who knows where

# It's curious

# Free as a kite and lighter than air

# It's day and it's night I'm here and I'm there

# And when my journey is complete

# Who will I meet?

# Who will I meet? #

APPLAUSE

Well, that was a gentle landing.

Oh, curiouser and curiouser. Look at this teeny-tiny door.

I wonder what is on the other side.

Oh, a beautiful garden.

It must be the Queen's, where the party's going to be.

I wonder if I can open it.

But I couldn't even get my hand through this tiny door.

How can I go to the Queen's garden party? I'm too big.

If only my imagination could get me through that door.

Oh, what's that?

"Eat me."

How curious.

But I suppose all cakes want to be eaten.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if this cake made me

small enough to go through that door?

Shall I eat it?

AUDIENCE: Yes!

Looks tasty. Mmm. It IS tasty.

Oh, crumbs, it's raining cake.

Oh, I AM shrinking, how wonderful.

APPLAUSE

Wow.

-Oh, hello again.

-Hello.

-Is this the Queen's garden?

-Yes.

But don't get caught at her party without an invitation or

it will be off with your head.

But wait, wait, how can I get an invitation?

APPLAUSE

Morning.

Ah...

-Wow.

-Ooh.

Whoo...aaare...you?

I don't know exactly.

I knew who I was this morning, but now I'm not so sure.

Why not?

Well, I thought I was a little girl, and usually we grow quite

slowly, but only a minute ago I was huge, I was enormous.

And now I'm just teeny-tiny. I can't be more than five centimetres high.

Just the same as me.

But you're a caterpillar, you're supposed to be small.

Whoa-whoa-whoa.

It's cool to be small.

# Just you chill, little Alice

# Things are going to be just fine

# I've got a mushroom home but I'm never here alone

# Got me friends around me all of the time

# So cast aside all your troubles

# And your imagination can run free

# And you might just find that whatever's on your mind

# Can be just about as cool as me

-# It's cool to be small

-Cool to be small

-# It's cool to be small

-Cool to be small

-# It doesn't matter at all

-Matter at all

# If you're tiny or tall

# Whoa-whoa-whoa

-# Just call

-I'll call

-# If you're worried at all

-I won't worry

# Cos I'm having a ball

# Oh, yeah, yeah

# It's cool to be, cool to be

# It's minuscule to be

# Cool to be, cool to be small

# Yeah. #

CHEERING

Wait, wait, where are you going?

To the Queen's garden party.

I'm hoping to win first prize this year.

First prize? For what?

For the games, my dear.

Don't you, erm, play?

Well, I love playing games, but which one?

Well, that's up to the Queen.

She chooses a different game every year.

How are you getting there?

By...

invitation.

Oh, invitation, I don't have one of those.

Unless... Perhaps you could invite me?

-Oh, yes, yes, I would.

-Yes?

-But I can't.

-Oh.

I don't have a plus one, you see.

Well, the rabbit said I could be the Duchess' plus one.

The Duchess?

Ha-ha-ha!

You'd be lucky.

-Where can I find her?

-Well, just keep going that way.

Follow the sound of the crying baby.

CRYING

Follow the sound of the crying baby.

APPLAUSE

BOING, BOING, BOING!

HE MUTTERS WITH EXHAUSTION

There you are.

No, I'm not.

-But you are.

-I am here, but yesterday when this arrived.

Here, turn this.

HE REWINDS

So I pay monthly and I get unlimited carrots?

POP MUSIC PLAYS

Yeah, I mean, I pretty much run Wonderland. Yeah.

MUSIC: I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue

Oh, I love this song!

There, it's yesterday and now I'm not late any more.

Very curious.

So, would you like me to knock?

-Oh, they'll never hear you.

-Why?

-They're so noisy.

That baby is always crying. Their cook is terrible.

Always puts too much pepper in the...the...

food.

Which makes them all sneeze.

Ah-ah-ah...choo!

-Which makes the poor baby cry.

-BABY CRIES

See? Achoo!

Who's out there?

Your invitation, kind Duchess,

from your sister, the Queen of Hearts.

Oh, wait right there.

POSH ACCENT: We shall be out directly.

The invitations are here.

I don't know why they can't make these things the right size to

get through doors.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

Ah-ah-achoo!

BABY CRIES

All right?

-Are you a baby?

-Six weeks and a day.

But, yeah, he is big for his age.

HE BABBLES

You know what I mean?

HE GIGGLES

HE CRIES

HE STOPS SUDDENLY

HE CRIES

HE STOPS SUDDENLY

Oh, an invitation.

Cook, the party invitation is here.

Whoo-hoo! I love parties.

My sister, the Queen, has decreed that this year, the game will be...

HE MIMICS A TRUMPET

..croquette.

I think you mean croquet, the T is silent.

Well, it should speak up for itself.

There's no point being silent, is there?

Oh, do you play?

I don't know, what is cro...cro...

Croquet. It's the game at the Queen's garden party this year.

Oh, I so want to go to the Queen's garden party.

And the grand prize is...

a lifetime supply of jam tarts.

Peppery jam tarts.

Pepper in jam tarts?

And it is my honour and privilege to be the cook asked to make them

by the Queen of Hearts herself.

Come on, then, I need your help.

No jam for baby!

No pepper in the jam!

No jam for baby!

Ah-ah-achoo!

BABY CRIES

Ah...

No jam for baby.

Ah, no jam for baby.

LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

BABY CRIES

COOK LAUGHS

You think that's funny, do you? OK.

THEY GASP

-Ah...

-Ah...

-Ah...

..choo!

-Can I come to the party with you?

-No.

Oh, er, she could be your plus one.

But I'm already plus one.

And two.

Oh, Baby, get in your party costume.

Oink, oink, oink.

Oink, oink, oink.

Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink.

Are you going to the party as a pig?

How curious.

Are you just going as you? Oh, that's not very imaginative.

-Well, I'm not very imaginative.

-Oh, don't be boring. Come to the party.

It's going to be massive fun.

Oo-oo!

-But I don't have an invitation.

-Just use your imagination to get one.

But I don't know how.

Oh, you'll work it out. I'll see you there.

Oink, oink, oink.

Oink, oink.

Well, you know what they say, Alice,

if you want to get to the party, follow the jammy pig baby.

APPLAUSE

-Oh, hi there, rabbit.

-Oh, hi.

-What's the time?

Let me just have a look for you there. Oh, my ears and espadrilles!

It's tomorrow already. And it's nearly tea-time!

I'm so, so late.

-Oh, hi there, little girl.

-Hello, cat. You are a cat, aren't you?

-Nope, I'm an aeroplane.

-Are you?

No, I'm a cat. Cheshire.

That's brilliant, you were using your imagination there, weren't you?

Yes.

Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.

No, it's not you, it's me.

I don't have any imagination. I don't know how it works.

Well, I don't know how I do this.

But I can do it.

Well, you've either got an imagination or you haven't.

And I haven't.

Maybe I lost it?

# It's such a very tricky situation

# And every single day is just the same

# I guess I must have no imagination

# There's nothing popping into my brain

# You dream of fairy tales and tell them to me

# You think up any fantasy you choose

# But me I've got to sit here feeling gloomy

# I've got the no-imagination blues

-# Thinking

-You're thinking

-# I'm thinking

-You're thinking

# I'm thinking what my family said

-# I'm wishing

-You're wishing

-# I'm wishing

-You're wishing

# I'm wishing something wonderful would pop in my head

# Well, listen to me

# I've got a great idea

# Everybody's got imagination

# Do you want to go and party with the Queen?

# Yes, yes, I do

# Well, listen and I'll help your situation

# And you'll be just as smiley as me

# Alice, don't have any hesitation

# Even you can dream up anything you choose

# If you would like to join the celebration

# Use your imagination

# I'll try, I'll try

# You'll get an invitation

# Oh, I'd love that

# And no more imagination

# Blues! #

APPLAUSE

I wish you'd come back.

I wish all of you would come back.

It's amazing how you can do that. Are you invited to the party?

Oh, no, but I don't need an invitation.

I can sneak past all the Queen's horses...

..and all the Queen's men.

Well, if you can't invite me,

can you at least tell me what direction to go in?

Well, if you go that way, you can ask the Hatter or the Hare.

They're both very clever.

If they can't help you find your imagination, no-one can.

Well, I've seen a cat without a grin

but I've never seen a grin without a cat before.

APPLAUSE

Erm, excuse me,

sorry to interrupt, are you going to the Queen's garden party?

-Yes.

-Yes, after tea, of course.

-Anyone for tea? Dormouse?

-Dormouse?

Dormouse?

Oh, ahem!

Dormouse?

SHE YAWNS

Excuse me, are you going to the Queen's garden party?

-Do you have invitations?

-Yes, we do.

-Can I come with you?

-Yes.

-No.

SHE SQUEAKS: Don't know.

Would you like a sausage roll? Er...

Alice, pleased to meet you.

-Astrid.

-Alice.

-Arnold.

-Al-ice.

Mi-chael.

-Yes, Michael.

-Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, Brian. Sausage roll?

Well, I am feeling a bit peckish.

But I can't see any there.

Aren't they right in front of you?

-Erm, no.

-Then you'll have to imagine the sausage rolls.

We've been here so long, we've eaten all our tastiest make-believe food.

-I think you've run out of made-up tea, too.

-Eat up, eat up, dear.

You can't imagine imaginary food on an empty stomach.

It's hungry work imagining things.

But if there isn't any there, then how can I?

Just give it a go, why don't you?

SHE SIPS

Oh...

Oh, not bad for a first attempt. Now, sausage roll?

Er, actually, I'd like a cream bun.

-My word.

-Bravo, well done, Alice.

We must keep playing.

Yes, do you know the game Ring Around The Tea Table?

-We have to keep time.

-Keep tea-time.

THEY GULP AND CHOMP

Follow us, Trevor.

Ready?

# Ring around the table

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee... #

Are you getting the idea, dear?

Yes.

# Be as fast as you are able

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee... #

Look, he's got it.

# Smile as sweetly as an angel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# If you're last we call you Mabel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee. #

THEY SIP AND CHOMP

Mabel!

Now you know what to do, Bernard,

you can join in, and so can you, Robert.

-Rabbit.

-Ribbit.

Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit!

Raspberry ready?

# Ring around the table

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Be as fast as you are able

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Smile as sweetly as an angel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# If you're last we call you Mabel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee. #

THEY SIP AND CHOMP

Mabel!

Mind my Battenberg.

Mind my macaroons!

Marmalade fondue ready?

# Ring around the table

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Be as fast as you are able

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Smile as sweetly as an angel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# If you're last we call you Mabel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee. #

-Mabel.

-Mabel!

Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha! Oh...

Chocolate cupcakes with hundreds and thousands and roly-poly jam ready?

# Ring around the table

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Be as fast as you are able

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Smile as sweetly an angel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# If you're last we call you Mabel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee. #

-Mabel.

-Mabel.

Oh, oh!

Ready?

Wait, if I win, then what's the prize?

Anything your heart desires.

-Really?

-Yes, as long as you can imagine it.

-Ready?

-I'm ready.

# Ring around the table

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Be as fast as you are able

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# Smile as sweetly as an angel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee

# If you're last we call you Mabel

# Fiddle-dee-dee dee-dee. #

-Mabel.

-Mabel.

-I win, I win, I win, I win!

I win! I win! Yes!

-SHE SQUEAKS:

-Ah! Ah!

What?

What is your prize?

Oh, well, I imagine that it isn't tea-time any more.

CLOCK CHIMES

I imagine that it's time to go to the Queen's garden party.

Hooray!

Hooray!

Dear, now I'm never going to go to the Queen's garden party.

What's the matter?

-Oh, look, it's only a game. No need to be blue.

-Alice, dear,

if you had won, what would you have imagined?

An invitation to the party, of course.

Can you describe it?

Erm... It would be golden with a red heart on it.

And...?

Oh, oh...

-and I imagine that you would take it out of your pocket...

-Yes?

..and give it to me.

Well done, Alice.

This is for you.

APPLAUSE

You see, in Wonderland, your imagin...

SHE YAWNS

Yes, yes, in Wonderland,

your imagination IS your invitation.

This is fantastic. It's amazing.

I wish my family were here to see this.

I imagine three more invitations to the party.

Well done.

See you at the party.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Thank you.

Welcome.

Welcome, boys and girls.

Welcome to the most wonderful annual garden party of

the Queen of Hearts.

CHEERING

Well, hello, everyone.

There we are, down I come.

Yes.

Hello, everyone.

CHEERING

Let's get this party started. Clap your hands, come on, everyone.

Here we go.

Very good.

And here we go.

# I'm the Queen and it is said

# I'm amazingly well-bred

# I'm the royal boss Don't make me cross

# For it's off with your head

# When you're dressed as well as me You're the best of royalty

# What a thrill to be Her Majesty the Queen

# Oh, the Queen, oh, the Queen

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts... #

Sing along, everyone, let's hear you. Let's raise the roof.

# The Queen, the Queen The Queen of Hearts

# Oh, the Queen, oh, the Queen

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

# Oh, the Queen, oh, the Queen

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

# The Queen of Hearts

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

-# The Queen

-That's me

# The Queen

# The Queen, the Queen of Hearts

# Hello, over here

# Oh, the Queen, oh, the Queen

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

# Oh, the Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

# The Queen Oh, the Queen of Hearts

# That's me, the Queen of Hearts Yay! #

CHEERING

Let me see you all marching. Put your hands on your hearts...

diamonds, clubs and spades.

Quick march.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,

let's have a huge round of applause for our wonderful pack of cards.

APPLAUSE

Oh, well done, well done.

Hello, loyal sy-ubjects.

AUDIENCE: Hello!

Oh, I say! And welcome to my lovely party.

Now, has everyone got their royal invitation?

AUDIENCE: Yes!

Good, otherwise, of course, it's off with your head.

Between you and me, my subjects are very scared of me. Yes...

Oh, no, we're not.

I'm the Knave of Hearts, pleased to meet you,

and we're not scared of you, Queenie, are we?

AUDIENCE: No!

-Well, you are scared, too.

-Oh, no, we're not.

-Oh, yes, you are.

Oh, no, we're not.

TAUNTINGLY: Oh, yes, you are.

-MIMICKING:

-Oh, no, we're not.

Oh, yes, I am. Oh! Wha.. What?

Oh, I don't know.

You're all tricking me and, as for you, you are such a cheeky

knave. In fact, you know what? It's off with your hea...jammy tarts.

Oh, I do love jam tarts.

TRUMPET

-Indoor voices, indoor voices, please.

-The guests are arriving.

Oh, the guests are arriving. Quick, a big cheer for the guests.

Oh!

Clap your hands, everyone, here they come.

Now, here is our first guest.

Yes, it's the Blue Caterpillar with his magical bubbles. Welcome.

Welcome.

Looking lovely there. Very regal.

Now here comes the Hatter and the March Hare.

And, yes, the sleepy, sleepy Dormouse.

And bringing up the rear, it's the Duchess, her gigantic baby

and her normal-sized cook, who is carrying this year's grand prize.

Yes, we're all super-excited

because this year's grand prize is a lifetime supply of jam tarts.

AUDIENCE: Ooh!

That's right. Oh, and, for the first time ever this year,

we have Alice and her lovely family.

So glad the invitation arrived in time. Welcome, welcome.

Now, the game this year is...

DRUMROLL

..croquet.

Eh?

It's a bit like golf.

Oh!

Here are the rules.

The aim is for the players to knock their ball through their hoops

and then through the golden hoop...

Whoo!

..to win the game.

You'd better look after these for us.

-Great party.

-Great party food.

I love jam tarts.

Right, as tradition has it, the Queen starts play.

Her knave is just dusting off her mallet now

and it's shaped like a flamingo and I must say that shade of pink

really brings out the colour in Her Majesty's eyes.

And Her Majesty addresses the ball.

Dear ball...

She winds up...

..she swings...

Oh, she misses.

Eh? Ooh! Ahem!

I mean... No, no, she misses nothing and hits it superbly well.

Who would have believed it? The first hit of the day

and the Queen has knocked her ball through the hoop.

Congratulations, Your Majesty.

-Hooray! Thank you, thank you.

-My turn.

Yes, erm, the Queen's sister is up next.

She takes her stance.

Oh, come here.

Pure class.

She winds up.

And she misses.

-Now the Hatter is up next.

-My turn!

Oh, dear.

It's a good approach. That's his favourite bird.

And it's a bold choice.

For what are the chances?

-Now, the Queen is up to play again.

-Yes, my go again.

Coming through, excuse me. That's it, back you go. And you.

-She approaches the ball.

-Oh, right.

She takes her famous stance.

She winds up.

And I don't believe it,

the Queen has knocked the ball through the golden hoop, she wins!

CHEERING

Thank you, thank you. Oh, I won!

I wonder where my prize is.

I want my jammy tarts. Where are my jam tarts?

Your Majesty, here is your prize.

Oh, thank you, Cook.

Oh! EVERYONE GASPS

Ah!

Oh, no. It would appear, Your Majesty,

that all of your jam tarts have been stolen!

Who stole my jam tarts?

Was it...

-you?

-No.

Was it...you?

-SHE SQUEAKS:

-No.

-QUEEN SQUEAKS: No, it wasn't you.

Well, was it - of course, I might have known -

you, sister?

BABY OINKS

I might have eaten one or two.

Three.

Lifetime supply.

Well, I'm afraid, everyone, there's only one thing for it. It's...

AUDIENCE: Off with their heads!

Yes, yes.

-Erm, excuse me.

-Oh, what is it, child?

-What is your name?

-Alice...

-..Your Highness.

-Oh.

-And that's my family.

I see, they're with you, are they?

Was it you, too? Did you steal my jam tarts?

No, no, but, please, don't blame my family.

They didn't know the tarts were your prize.

And, you see, I didn't tell them.

All of this is in my imagination.

Oh.

-But don't worry. Close your eyes.

-All right, OK.

Everyone, close your eyes.

-Look, look up there, in the trees.

-What is it?

It's a lifetime supply of jam tarts.

-There's enough for everyone for ever.

-Oh, that's all right.

Thank you, Alice. Did you hear that, everyone?

There's a lifetime supply of jam tarts, enough for everyone for ever!

Hooray!

Oh, well done, Alice.

Thank you all for coming to play with me in Wonderland.

# Dream of the thing you're longing to do

# Curious things could happen to you

# Use your imagination

# Let this be your invitation

# To go to the place you're longing to be

# Think of a world you're longing to see

# Fun and adventure could be there

# In your hand

# Alice in Wonderland

# Dream of the thing you're longing to do

# Curious things could happen to you

# Use your imagination

# Let this be your invitation

# To go to the place you're longing to be

# Think of a world you're longing to see

# Fun and adventure could be there

# In your hand

# Alice in Wonderland. #

APPLAUSE