As the stage lights dimmed, the students took their places to present the original version of The Gingerbread Man with costumes and props. The tale tells the story of the gingerbread man who outruns an elderly couple and hungry animals before being caught by the clever fox. In the re-telling of the story, the gingerbread man was an iPhone running away from businessmen in the technology industry and a runaway gingerbread car. The students performed additional iterations with the modern details of high-tech security, firewall and password protection, and special appearances by popstars Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift in the musical version.

The second story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff tells the story of three billy goats who outsmart a hungry troll under a bridge to cross the river and reach the meadow. The reimagined versions traded out animals for three billionaires and touring musicians. The final adaptation featured a banana, blueberry, and orange fruitbowl that must cross the river to rescue a cherry. The performance closed out with a musical presentation of the song Brave by Sara Bareilles with Lower School music teacher Rachael Jungkeit on the piano. 

The students engaged in a talk-back with the audience where they discussed the process of selecting the fairytales and how they developed and crafted the script. The preparation for the performance began several weeks earlier as the students learned about fairytales and the elements of storytelling in their Language Arts class and worked on taking those stories to the stage with theater teacher Lisa Daly. Ms. Daly noted that the students brainstormed all the creative decisions on their own with a little bit of help from ChatGPT and collaborated on the costumes, props, and staging.