| Race | Fairy |
| Gender | ♀ Female |
| Series | Showtime Fairies |
| Magical Item(s) / Animal(s) | A magic Star |
| Symbol(s) | Red hearts |
Leah the Theatre Fairy is the second fairy in the Showtime Fairies series.
Blurb[]
Jack Frost's pesky goblins have stolen Leah's magic star, causing chaos at the auditions for the Tippington Variety Show! Kirsty and Rachel must find the star and stop the goblins creating mayhem!
Appearance[]
Leah has long, curly brown hair in a half-ponytail, with a heart shaped hair clip on one side. She wears a white, strapless dress covered in red hearts with full underskirts and a pair of red heeled sandals. Her wings are round-edged and red tinted.
Symbol: Red hearts.
Magic Object/Job[]
Magic Object: A rainbow-striped star with two masks etched on each side, one happy and one sad.
Job: Leah's job is to make sure the drama auditions are fun for everybody.
Story Summary[]
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Mrs Walker drops Kirsty, Rachel and Rachel’s schoolmates Zac and Tanya off at a beautiful Victorian theatre called the Swan. The drama act in the Tippington Variety Show is to be a short play based on a fairytale and Rachel had helped write the script for her school’s performance of “Cinderella”. Miss Patel, the teacher in charge, tells Rachel she’ll be the backstage prompter in case someone forgets a line and accepts Kirsty’s offer to help look after props. The girls get permission to look around the theatre before the dress rehearsal starts and Rachel leads Kirsty into the ornately decorated auditorium. What looks like a small spotlight over the stage turns out to be Leah the Theatre Fairy, who greets the girls and hides behind Rachel’s clipboard when the rest of the “Cinderella” group enters the auditorium.
The dress rehearsal begins poorly, as Leah had feared due to her missing star. Props come apart, actors can’t keep in character and Zac seems to be having trouble getting the lights to work. It isn’t long before four Goblins disguised as schoolboys burst into the auditorium, one pretending to sell ice cream and the others following him. Miss Patel tries to send them away, but instead the goblins rush past her and out of sight backstage. Kirsty tells Miss Patel that she and Rachel will try to fix the broken props and Miss Patel announces a short break. Once the girls are hidden from view, Leah repairs the props with her magic and turns the girls into fairies to follow the goblins.
The goblins are in one of the dressing rooms, playing with stage makeup. The three fairies overhear one goblin remind another that Jack Frost said they should only use the stars to ruin auditions, not win them. They’re unable to find Leah’s star, though and Leah has to turn the girls human quickly when Miss Patel announces a second run-through of the play. This time, Rachel has to keep prompting people, Tanya trips on her Fairy Godmother dress and tears it and the pumpkin prop is missing and after the scene transition when Cinderella’s carriage is brought onstage, five goblins in costumes stolen from the dressing room have appeared with it, announcing that it’s their turn for a Cinderella rehearsal and they’ll turn the Tippington group into various vegetables if they don’t get out of the way. Kirsty notices that the godmother goblin has Leah’s star on the tip of his wand and tells Rachel and Leah while Miss Patel announces that she’ll bring the organisers to make the intruders leave. The rest of the Tippington group follows her out of the auditorium.
Trying to get the goblins’ attention, Kirsty interrupts an argument over which goblin is the star of the show and asks if the goblins have a script, since even stars need one to act properly. Rachel offers to use hers to help direct them and picks the scene where the godmother tells Cinderella to be back by midnight (to the disappointment of the stepsister and prince goblins, who aren’t in that scene). She suggests that the godmother throw her wand in the air after her final line for a dramatic flourish, but the prince goblin sees Kirsty and Leah hiding in the scenery to catch the wand and alerts the godmother goblin. Thwarted, the girls leave the stage with Leah as the goblins again begin to argue about who is the star.
Kirsty gets an idea and relays it to Leah, who turns her and Rachel into fairies. Kirsty flies to the lighting booth and begins turning spotlights on and off at random. At first the goblins try to rush into the bright beams, but they soon become disoriented by the blinking lights and keep running into each other. Realising where the lights are coming from, the godmother goblin points his wand at Kirsty in the lighting booth, but Rachel and Leah are there to lift the star off the tip and return it to Leah’s wand. The defeated goblins leave the stage, arguing over who’s to blame for losing the star and Leah thanks the girls before returning to Fairyland.
The audition performances go well, even though Tippington School doesn’t win. Zac and Tanya wonder aloud what happened to the Icy Towers entrants and Rachel suggests they decided the magic of the theatre just wasn’t for them.
Trivia[]
- Leah is best friends with Faith the Cinderella Fairy and the two of them often put on performances together.
- She is the 100th fairy in normal-length order.
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