Welcome to The Lion King Experience

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e’ve created this Mini ShowKit® to give educators like you a chance to sample The Lion WKing Experience, an innovative and rigorous theater curriculum coupled with a stage musical designed to help schools and community groups bolster their arts-education offerings. Through The Lion King Experience KIDS Edition, the African savanna comes to life on your stage in our 30-minute musical for elementary school students. This easy-to-use program combines a curriculum with a show to give you all the tools you need to EXPLORE, CREATE, and SHARE the arts with your students.

EXPLORE theater through educational sessions! A complete curriculum, including detailed lesson plans and corresponding student materials, allows you and your students to explore the varied aspects of theater.

CREATE theater through rehearsing a musical! Apply what you’ve learned! Use the foundations of theater-making explored in the curriculum to rehearse and build your own production of The Lion King KIDS.

SHARE theater through a performance! See your hard work come to life on stage when your students put on the show!

In this Mini ShowKit® of The Lion King Experience, you will have the opportunity to EXPLORE (through two lesson plans), CREATE (through two rehearsals), and SHARE (through a performance of a scene and song) the arts with your students! You don’t need to have a theater background to do The Lion King Experience with your students – all you need is time, space, and a few eager collaborators. Even with this brief exploration and rehearsal process, you will be surprised by what your students can do! And then you will discover that building a theater program in your school is within reach.

LionKingExperience.com Mini ShowKit® Contents Introduction

How to use the Mini ShowKit® Table of Contents

EXPLORE INTRODUCTION ...... 1 Over two 45-minute sessions, your students will EXPLORE the world of The Lion King through project- based learning. In this section, you will fi nd step-by-step instructions for how to facilitate the two sessions using provided lesson plans. EXPLORE

Getting Started...... 3 Challenge Sheets Session 1 ...... 5 In each session, students are divided into three groups, called Prides, to work on a project related to the session’s theme. Each Pride receives a Challenge Sheet outlining their task for the day. Session 2 ...... 17 Provided Materials Each session includes additional provided materials, such as script excerpts. (Please note: materials that you will need to provide, like writing utensils, are listed as additional materials at the top of each CREATE Lesson Plan.)

Getting Started...... 23 Mini ShowKit® Materials Disc Each session launches with a video introduction to set the tone for the day’s learning. These videos can be found on the Mini ShowKit® Materials Disc. Also included on the disc are electronic copies of Rehearsal Overview ...... 24 Lesson Plans and Challenge Sheets, in addition to optional Character Signs that you can choose to use in Session 1 or hang around the room as visual aids. Rehearsal 1 ...... 28

Rehearsal 2 ...... 31 CREATE In two 45-minute rehearsals, your students will CREATE the world of The Lion King by staging a scene Script ...... 34 and a song from the musical The Lion King KIDS. In this section, you will fi nd ideas and tools for facilitating rehearsals and sample outlines for the two rehearsals that you will complete. SHARE

Dress Rehearsal & Performance ...... 51

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to thestoryandcharactersofTheLionKingKIDS . theater, andthevariousjobsintheater. Additionally, thevideowillintroduce yourstudents The videowillintroduce yourstudentstoTheLionKingExperience,thefundamentalsof The videowillintroduce studentstotheirdailywarm-up. Play video:1Introduction. The LionKingKIDSforuseinthedailywarm-up. 45 minutes

10minutes Students will... : familiarize yourstudentswiththestoryandcharactersofTheLionKingKIDS. INTRODUCTION

10minutes PREPARATION: CopyorprintScriptExcerpt:Scar’s LastStand(one CopyorprintScriptExcerpt:TheStampede(onefor CopyorprintScriptExcerpt:Grasslands(onefor CopyorprintChallengeSheetA,B,andC(onefor Pre-assign studentsinto one ofthree groups: Pride for eachstudentinPrideC). each studentinPrideB). each studentinPrideA). each Pride). This sessionbeginsasawholeclass.) for thedurationofTheLionKingExperience.(Note: A, PrideB,orC.ThePrideswillworktogether LESSON PLAN 5 SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION LESSON PLAN SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION GROUP ACTIVITY

PRIDE WORK: Scene Study 10 minutes STORY CIRCLE SYNOPSIS • Divide your students into their Prides and distribute a Challenge Sheet to one student in each Pride. These students are the Pride Leaders for today’s session. In the great African savanna, Rafi ki, the wise old mandrill, calls together the animals of the • Prompt the Pride Leaders to read the Challenge Sheet aloud to their Prides. Pridelands to welcome the king Mufasa’s newborn cub, Simba. Show me how Rafi ki feels. Under the rule of Mufasa, the Pridelands were a happy and prosperous place. However, there • Distribute the corresponding scene to each student. Pride A will perform a scene from the was one who was discontent. The king’s brother had darkness in his soul, and the news of the beginning of the show, Pride B will perform a scene from the middle of the show, and Pride C lion cub’s birth made him terribly jealous. Show me how Scar feels. will perform a scene from the end of the show. Time passes, and Simba tells his uncle Scar that he will one day be king. Show me how Scar feels. Show me how Simba feels. The cunning Scar encourages the young cub to disobey his father, and so, Simba and his friend Nala sneak into the dark Elephant Graveyard, where they SHARE: 10 minutes encounter three hungry hyenas that want to eat the cubs for lunch. Show me how Nala feels. • Invite each Pride to share its scene. Luckily, Mufasa arrives just in time to save them, scaring the cackling hyenas away. Show me • Review audience etiquette with the class, and following each performance, ask the observing how Mufasa feels. Show me how the hyenas feel. Prides to summarize what happened in the scene. Later, Scar leaves Simba alone in the gorge and signals the hyenas to start a stampede. • Hundreds of wildebeest head right toward Simba! Show me how Simba feels. Scar tells Mufasa • that Simba is in danger. Show me how Mufasa feels. Mufasa saves his son, but is trampled to REFLECTION: 5 minutes death by wildebeests when Scar pushes him from a ledge. Show me how Scar feels. Distraught by his father’s death, Simba is convinced by Scar that he is guilty and must leave the Pridelands Use these prompts to facilitate a discussion with your class: forever. Show me how Simba feels. This is the saddest day the Pridelands has ever seen. The • In The Lion King KIDS, what is something that happens in the plot between Pride A and Pride deceitful Scar is now king. Show me how Scar feels. B’s scenes? • What is something that happens in the plot between the scenes that Pride B and Pride C Timon and Pumbaa discover Simba in the desert and, offering him their friendship, help Simba perform? to leave his troubled past behind him. Show me how Timon and Pumbaa feel. Show me how • What questions do you have about the story of The Lion King KIDS? Simba feels. As Simba grows up happily in the jungle with Timon and Pumbaa, the Pridelands fall into decay. The lionesses are forced to overhunt, while the hyenas eat more than their fair share. Show me PRIDE JOURNAL 1: how the hyenas feel. Show me how the lionesses feel.

Invite your students to complete a journal entry in response to these prompts: When Nala leaves the Pridelands to fi nd help, she discovers Simba in the jungle, and the two are • Draw a picture of the beginning, middle, and end of The Lion King KIDS. joyously reunited. Show me how Nala feels. Nala urges Simba to take his rightful place as king • Write a sentence for each picture to explain what is happening. of the Pridelands. Rafi ki then appears, helping Simba to see his father inside of himself. With newfound courage, Simba agrees to return home. Show me how Simba feels.

When they arrive in the Pridelands, Timon and Pumbaa distract the hyenas while Simba confronts Scar, forcing Scar to admit to everyone that he was responsible for Mufasa’s death. Show me how Simba feels. Simba banishes Scar from the Pridelands for good. Show me how Scar feels. With peace restored, the Pridelands return to their original state of beauty and prosperity. Simba takes his rightful place as king with Nala, and their newborn cub, by his side. Show me how Simba feels. THE END.

6 7 SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION CHALLENGE SHEET SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION PRIDE A

PRIDE PRIDE NAME: ______SCRIPT EXCERPT: GRASSLANDS PRIDE

DIRECTIONS: Work with your Pride to perform a scene from the beginning of The Lion King KIDS. RAFIKI 1 Simba grew quickly into an eager young cub . . . A A (MUFASA marches through the grass, followed by YOUNG SIMBA.)

YOUNG SIMBA Hey, Dad – wait up!

RAFIKI 2 1. As a group, read the scene aloud once. ...with boundless energy... 2. Select one member of your Pride to play each character in the scene. YOUNG SIMBA 3. Brainstorm the other types of animals that would be in this scene: ______Where’re we going?

______RAFIKI 3 ...who adored his father... 4. Determine the setting of the scene: ______YOUNG SIMBA Why’d we get up so early? ______5. Anyone not reading a part should act as one of the other animals or create the setting using RAFIKI 4 ...followed him everywhere... his or her body and voice.

6. Work with your group to act this scene out. Stand up and move around the space as you YOUNG SIMBA practice. When do we eat?

RAFIKI 5 ...and wanted to know everything about everything!

YOUNG SIMBA Are we there yet?!?

(MUFASA climbs Pride Rock.)

MUFASA (chuckling) Yes, we are. Come sit by me. (looks out over the Pridelands) Look, Simba: Everything the light touches is our kingdom.

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PRIDE YOUNG SIMBA PRIDE NAME: ______Wow... DIRECTIONS: Work with your Pride to perform a scene MUFASA from the middle of The Lion King KIDS. A king’s time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba, the sun will set on my time here and will rise with you as the new king. B YOUNG SIMBA And this’ll all be mine?

MUFASA Everything. 1. As a group, read the scene aloud once. 2. Select one member of your Pride to play each character in the scene.

3. Brainstorm the other types of animals that would be in this scene: ______

4. Determine the setting of the scene: ______5. Anyone not reading a part should act as one of the other animals or create the setting using his or her body and voice. 6. Work with your group to act this scene out. Stand up and move around the space as you practice.

10 11 SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION PRIDE B SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION PRIDE B

SCRIPT EXCERPT: THE STAMPEDE PRIDE SCAR Of course you didn’t. But the king is dead. And if it weren’t for you, he’d still be alive. Oh, what will your mother think? RAFIKI 4 Mufasa dashed into the stampede and got his son to safety. YOUNG SIMBA B (guilty panic) RAFIKI 5 What am I gonna do? However, the wildebeest carried the king deeper into the gorge... SCAR RAFIKI 1 Run! Run away, Simba. Run away and never return. ...until he saw his brother and leaped to grab a rocky ledge.

MUFASA Scar! Brother – help me!

RAFIKI 2 Scar dug his claws into Mufasa’s great mane and whispered:

SCAR Long live the king.

RAFIKI 3 And then...he let go!

(MUFASA falls, disappearing beneath the river of wildebeest.)

MUFASA Aaaaaaah!

(The RAFIKIS part to reveal MUFASA’s body, represented by his crown. YOUNG SIMBA runs in.)

YOUNG SIMBA Dad! Dad? (rushes to MUFASA’s side and tries to be playful) Dad...? Come on. Dad. (starts to panic when MUFASA doesn’t respond) Come on, Dad. You gotta get up. Please. Help! Somebody! Anybody? Please! Help me!

(SCAR enters)

SCAR Simba. What have you done?

YOUNG SIMBA There were wildebeest...It was an accident. I didn’t mean for—

12 13 SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION CHALLENGE SHEET SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION PRIDE C

PRIDE PRIDE NAME: ______SCRIPT EXCERPT: SCAR’S LAST STAND PRIDE

DIRECTIONS: Work with your Pride to perform a scene from the end of The Lion King KIDS. SIMBA C Tell them the truth. C SCAR I killed Mufasa!

SIMBA You don’t deserve to live. 1. As a group, read the scene aloud once. 2. Select one member of your Pride to play each character in the scene. SCAR But, Simba – I am family. The hyenas are the real enemy. It was their idea. You wouldn’t kill your 3. Brainstorm the other types of animals that would be in this scene: ______old uncle, would you?

______SIMBA No, Scar. I’m not like you. 4. Determine the setting of the scene: ______SCAR Oh, Simba, thank you. How can I make it up to you? 5. Anyone not reading a part should act as one of the other animals or create the setting using his or her body and voice. SIMBA Run. Run away, Scar. Run away and never return. 6. Work with your group to act this scene out. Stand up and move around the space as you practice. SCAR Yes. Of course. As you wish...Your Majesty.

(As he exits, limping, he is surrounded by SHENZI, BANZAI, and ED.)

Ah, my friends, help me...

SHENZI Friends? Friends?!?

BANZAI I thought he said we were the enemy.

14 15 SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION PRIDE C SESSION 2: CharacTer LESSON PLAN

SHENZI, BANZAI USE THIS LESSON TO: explore the tools actors use to create strong characters. Ed? 45 minutes (ED laughs manically. Gnashing their teeth, the HYENAS chase SCAR away.)

OBJECTIVES: Students will... ADDITIONAL MATERIALS: SCAR No! Let me explain! Nooooooooo!!! Describe the traits of characters from The Lion King Smartboard or blackboard KIDS. Work in groups to complete a character analysis. PREPARATION: Use their bodies, voices, and imaginations to bring characters from The Lion King KIDS to life. Copy or print Challenge Sheet A, B, and C (one for each Pride). Print Pride Journal 2: Character Crest (one for each PROVIDED MATERIALS: student). none

VIDEO: 5 minutes • Play video: 2 Character. • The video will lead students through their warm-up. • The video will then introduce the three tools an actor uses to create a character: voice, body, and imagination. The video will also introduce the character development process and the concepts of given circumstances and actor choice.

GROUP ACTIVITY: Voice, Body, and Imagination 15 minutes • Write the names “Pumbaa,” “Simba,” and “Timon” along the top of your smartboard or blackboard. • Solicit three traits for each character from the students (examples: mean, scary, funny, proud). Write these words under the appropriate character header. • Place your students in a horizontal line on one side of the space. (If you are working in a small space, you can make two lines facing each other.) • Tell your students to imagine the space in front of them is the vast African savanna. • Ask your students to silently walk across the savanna as if they are each of the following characters, encouraging them to use their bodies to make strong physical choices: • Pumbaa • Simba • Timon

16 17 SESSION 2: CharacTer LESSON PLAN SESSION 2: CharacTer LESSON PLAN

• Next, using the same characters from the list above, encourage your students to create • Act as if you are a talk show host and interview your students. Have fun! Use an everyday strong vocalizations. Have your students cross the savanna, this time stopping center stage object as a microphone, and use the following prompts to engage the class: and saying, “Remember your Pride.” Encourage your class to consider how each of the three • Welcome to the Savanna Show! Today we are joined by many animals from the Pridelands. characters might say the line. • Could you tell me your name? And how do you feel about Scar? • Repeat the activity one fi nal time using the same three characters - this time with both the physical movement and the vocalization. Use the following prompts to add a magic “if”: • What is your biggest challenge? • Cross the savanna as if you are Pumbaa running from a hungry predator. Remember to say • What is your goal in life? the line! • Who are some of your friends? • Cross the savanna as if you are Timon trying to distract the hyenas. Remember to say the • If time allows, add your own questions of these characters. line! • Cross the savanna as if you are Simba and you’ve just reunited with Nala. Remember to say the line! Teacher Tip: Seeing their teacher in a role as a character can be an engaging and • After the activity, take a moment to refl ect on the work with your students. What character rewarding experience for students. If this is outside your comfort zone, start small. A simple choices did they make? How did one line mean something totally different each time? way to go into role is to add a prop or costume piece. Tell your students that when you are wearing a scarf or holding a microphone, you are the talk show host. When you remove PRIDE WORK: Developing Characters 10 minutes those items, you return to being their teacher. • Divide your students into their Prides and distribute a Challenge Sheet to this session’s Pride Leaders. • Prompt the Pride Leaders to read the challenge aloud to their Prides. REFLECTION: 5 minutes • The Challenge Sheet will ask the Prides to create an online profi le page for an assigned Use these prompts to facilitate a discussion with your class: character in The Lion King KIDS. (Note: Each Pride receives a different character.) • What information about your character came from the story itself? • What information did you invent within your Pride? • How did you use your voice, body, and imagination to perform as your character? SHARE: 10 minutes • Invite each Pride to share its work in a creative way. You will go into role as a talk show host, and each Pride member should assume his or her character’s role (example: all students in Pride A talk as if they are Simba). PRIDE JOURNAL 2: • Remind your students to use their bodies, voices, and imaginations to bring their characters to Invite your students to complete an entry in their journal in response to this prompt: life. • Complete the Character Crest template with a character of your choosing from The Lion King KIDS and with information about yourself. Use words and drawings to complete the Crest. Use your own imagination to complete anything you don’t know.

Teacher Tip: This exercise requires all the members of a group to work together on one item. Side-coach your students and encourage them to generate systems and solutions for working as a team. If your students need more guidance, assign someone to be a timekeeper and someone to be a peacekeeper.

18 19 SESSION 2: Character CHALLENGE SHEET SESSION 2: character CHALLENGE SHEET

PRIDE PRIDE PRIDE NAME: ______PRIDE NAME: ______

DIRECTIONS: Work with your Pride to create an online DIRECTIONS: Work with your Pride to create an online profi le for Simba. A profi le for Timon. B

1. Complete this online profi le using what you know about the story. Use your imagination to 1. Complete this online profi le using what you know about the story. Use your imagination to complete anything you don’t know. Write and draw! complete anything you don’t know.

Profi le Picture: Profi le Picture: Current Status: Current Status: # of Friends: # of Friends: Determine a moment in the story Determine a moment in the story and update the character’s status. and update the character’s status. Example: If you pick a moment Names of Friends: Example: If you pick the middle Names of Friends: toward the beginning of the story, of the story, Timon’s status might Simba’s status might be: “Nala be: “Looks like a great day to go and I found the cooooolest hiding bowling for buzzards!” spot, bet ya can’t fi nd us!”

About Me: Favorites: About Me: Favorites:

Birthday: Places: Birthday: Places:

Family Members: Animals: Family Members: Animals: Messages from friends: Messages from friends: Create messages from friends to Create messages from friends to Birthplace: match the moment in the story you Activities: Birthplace: match the moment in the story Activities: selected. Example: Mufasa: “Proud you selected. Example: Pumbaa: of the lion you are becoming, my “I’m starving, want to head to the son.” watering hole later?” Biggest Fear: Foods: Biggest Fear: Foods:

Greatest Wish: Interests: Greatest Wish: Interests:

20 21 CREATE 23 LionKingExperience.com Getting Started Find an open space to use for rehearsal. If neither the auditorium or gym is available, push desks If or gym is available, neither the auditorium rehearsal. use for to an open space Find ne the stage (acting and the house (where area) defi to Be sure classroom. of your the perimeter to sits). the audience arrive. students before and space scripts, the CD player, Prepare tips. schedule and the rehearsal review time to yourself Give of the class will rest The Simba, and older Simba. Young Pumbaa, Timon, Select play to students of the play. world the the ensemble which helps create form and blocking in the next section the tips found choreography Using of this Mini ShowKit®, prepare cient an effi ensure to planned in advance It all movement song. is important the entire have to for process. rehearsal The team leader who has an artistic the story She team how The onstage. will take place vision for Director: when. go and to the actors and tells where elements creative all of the coordinates with underscoring (the songs together the score of teaching person in charge The Music Director: the performers. music) to and transition numbers and other the dance teaches and individual who creates The Choreographer: the score. accompanies that movement rehearsals, during your employ Rehearsals Overview: and ideas to best practices, Including tips, ection, and refl music directing, choreographing, the basics of directing, this section covers management. classroom Lion King The KIDS of Disney’s taking guide to This enclosed excerpts the Rehearsal Schedule: and song of the scene read-through rst a fi from students and your stage will lead you page to from fl you exible structure, Within this or other students. teachers, for family, of nal presentation fi a to teach to ectively time eff manage your to style own – just make sure in your content can rehearse cast. and your you for best works that in the way content the complete

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Complete this online profi le using what you know about the story. Use your imagination to Use your imagination le using what you know about the story. Complete this online profi know. complete anything you don’t Greatest Wish:Greatest Biggest Fear: Birthplace: Family Members: About Me: Birthday: Profi le Picture: Profi Work with your Pride to create an online create with your Pride to Work DIRECTIONS: for Pumbaa. le profi ______NAME: PRIDE SESSION 2 SESSION 1. 22 CREATE 25 LionKingExperience.com First, have the actors read the scene aloud. The teacher can read the stage directions the stage desired. if can read teacher The aloud. the scene the actors read have First, character“What is feeling, your think do you example, For characterInquire about intentions. or thinking now?” right wanting, musical. is in the the performers the scene the action,Make sure and why understand the scene, cast Your rehearsals. with lyricsand staging – in both music this same process Go through (Note: actneeds to as scenes!) during songs as well and exit in their scripts write entrance – their them to the actors encourage with – and Provide notes. which will be based on your locations, but and exits, them perform using their entrances Next, without interruption have the scene their blocking. of the rest improvising sessions. the Experience from such as character backgrounds, ideas, utilize them to Encourage as director meeting during you which with a brief company should culminate Each rehearsal feedback, constructive your share further you As can give performance reminders. and notes all performers, to trumpet little equal attention give of the cast, work the hard praise to remember as needs you company your good team, Like any note. end on a positive and always triumphs, their head cheerleader! blocking about stage about information students and an optional activity more your teach to For 27. directions and parts see pg. of the stage, the simplest head Even be compelling. to moves dance elaborate require doesn’t Choreography performgroups with precision. ective when large is eff or gesture step, nod, your varietytexture and to to add positions or stage pictures erent can also use diff You choreography. and polish your review, help teach, captains to as dance dancers stronger your Assign cast members. with fellow choreography It is the story. help tell the music and movement musical theater, in that Remind students important in character and acts everyone stays during the song. with learning the sections alternating (see vocally in small chunks, choreography the Teach Rehearsal Schedules on pages 28-33).

• • • • • • • • • • • • • Teaching Content Teaching Directing Choreographing Rehearsal OverviewRehearsal The Lion King The KIDS Mini ShowKit® Disney’s Breathe in, then exhale with four short breaths, followed by one long “sss” sound. Repeat this sound. “sss” long one by followed short with four in, then exhale breaths, Ssss: Breathe times. four pattern your to and back down highest, your up to note lowest your sing from sound, “eee” On an Siren: the pitch. to track nger fi with using your Experiment lowest. the sound (“brr”), air out and feel blow lips to your allowing lips together, your Putting Lip Trills: and sing step up one half move Then the scale. up and down move On a lip trill, vibrate. freely range. your through Reach up to the sky with your right hand, then your left. Reach then your up diagonally with your sky the Reach: Reach hand, right up to your with right Reach your legs straight. keeping your the ground, left. to Reach then your down right hand, foot. right left your then your hand to left your foot, hand to counts. eight for “no” head Shake your counts. eight for “yes” head Shake your Maybe: No, Yes, counts. eight for “maybe” shoulders Shrug your counts. eight Shake out each leg for counts. eight Out: it Shake out each arm for Shake

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The Lion KingThe JR., Harlem School of the Arts, Harlem, NY Regardless of your rehearsal schedule, always begin in a circle and lead your cast through physical and physical cast through and lead your in a circle begin always schedule, rehearsal of your Regardless some are Below and builds ensemble. discipline, encourages establishes focus, This warm-ups. vocal warm-ups. ideas for Warm-Ups Physical Warm-Ups Vocal Warming Up Warming 24 CREATE CREATE 27 LionKingExperience.com In the theater, actors, directors and and directors actors, In the theater, to terminology c use specifi stage crew of the stage. areas talk about various or be raked, used to theaters Many like a the audience toward tilted, call the still we Because of this, ramp. the audience farthest from area away the closest to upstage and the area right . Stage downstage audience the actor’s and stage left from are The facing the audience. perspective, middle of the stage is called center Review these partsstage. of the stage with the class. Move cream. like ice if you downstage Lion King The . seen the movie stage leftCross if you’ve a dancer. are if you stage right Cross blue. wearing upstage left are Cross if you before. acted in a play stage if you’ve center Stand

• • • • • Directions a student, is true for If with stage directions. the statement paired Make statements a series of general own: your fun creating or have these prompts, the direction. Use he should follow Optional Exercise: Parts Stage of the Optional Exercise: do onstage each actors to tell what directors – is when a scene Blocking of staging the process – or and use the information rehearsal, rst fi your before additional time If have you of a play. moment about parts students your teach stage directions. of the stage and to below exercise Gaining Focus & Transitions & Gaining Focus The Lion King The KIDS Mini ShowKit® Disney’s “Put your eyes on the ceiling, put your eyes on the fl oor, put your eyes on me.” your eyes put oor, the fl on eyes put your on the ceiling, eyes your “Put focused. all are until repeat students and have Clap a rhythm everyone until if they can hear you complete to the students an instructionQuietly for repeat can hear me”). if you once “Clap (e.g., is focused in 10… 9… 8…”). sit in a circle “Please (e.g., a behavior to down Count How did you grow as a performer today? What did you learn? did you What as a performer today? grow did you How during this scene/song? character feel does your How character get along with the other characters onstage? does your How improve? can we practice? How need more areas What today? of from most proud you are What You do not need to play the piano to successfully teach this music! Use the rehearsal and the rehearsal Use music! this teach successfully to piano the play need to do not You song. the teach to Disc, included in the Materials tracks, accompaniment one the song teach tracks, or using the music a keyboard, , playing a cappella singing Whether response. call and section through a time at story the tell music to use the just as to – character and objective students are Encourage important as diction and projection. personal connections should make the story to They as actors while learning song. the certain how consider sing. sound when they characters them to might Ask will reinforce This track. rehearsal sing along with the students have the song is taught, Once the lyrics. memorize and help students pitches is a section A measure of music number.” “measure m. is used for the abbreviation In sheet music, bars. by separated

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Use attention-getting techniques to gain students’ focus during rehearsal and help navigate and help navigate during rehearsal focus gain students’ to techniques attention-getting Use one activity include: from tools transitions the next. to Successful

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Guided refl ection is a key component of the rehearsal/educational experience and a key skillexperience for rehearsal/educational ection of the component is a key Guided refl ection questions include: refl ective Eff success. student Refl ection Refl Music DirectingMusic 26 CREATE CREATE 29 Time 4 minutes 4 minutes 3 minutes 4 minutes Suggested LionKingExperience.com Tips/Your Notes Tips/Your Ensemble can sing along as Timon and Timon can sing along as Ensemble learning this section. are Pumbaa ______them react to Include having by ensemble the main action. ______direct these include the ensemble, To the jungle. through walk characters to ______all comfortable, the actor make more To solo as he is Simba’s Young can sing students learning it. ______Tasks/Goals While standing in standing in While positions, opening m. 1-17 vocally teach using call and response. Sing along with Rehearsal track. Block/choreograph m. 1-17. Block Simba, Timon Pumbaa, dialogue on Actor’s 6. Script pg. 28-45 m. Teach using call and vocally response. Sing along with the track. rehearsal Time 2 minutes 7 minutes 5 minutes Suggested Tips/Your Notes Tips/Your 45 Minutes ONE REHEARSAL Warm-up ideas: Warm-up ______the of how notes take mental to students Ask voices use their Track actors on the Rehearsal character. communicate to ______to Set up ensemble in poses and groups the jungle. represent ______Rehearsal ScheduleRehearsal The Lion King The KIDS Mini ShowKit® Disney’s Tasks/Goals Place cast in opening Place positions. Read through the Read through with the class. scene Listen “Hakuna to rehearsal Matata” and have track along follow students in their scripts. time a second Listen students and have sing along. Physical and vocal and vocal Physical warm-ups

28 CREATE CREATE 31 Time 5 minutes 5 minutes 2 minutes Suggested LionKingExperience.com Tips/Your Notes Tips/Your 45 Minutes REHEARSAL TWOREHEARSAL Warm-up ideas: Warm-up ______least twice. at content Run through the story. on telling focus Remember to ______should build Intensity note: and volume Vocal solo. older Simba’s toward ______Tasks/Goals Physical and vocal and vocal Physical warm-ups from Review content Rehearsal One: the Sing along to track, rehearsal and then add choreography. 47-65 m. Teach using call and vocally response. Sing along with the track. rehearsal Time 3 minutes 7 minutes 6 minutes Suggested Tips/Your Notes Tips/Your ______cast to the to notes encouraging helpful, Give help them improve. ______ectionquestion ideas: Refl ______The Lion King The KIDS Mini ShowKit® Disney’s Tasks/Goals Refl ection Refl Review: Run the number from (multiple the top times), reviewing everything learned today. Teach choreography choreography Teach m. 28-45. for

Every student should memorize the full scene and song, along with today’s choreography. Ask students students Ask choreography. along with today’s and song, Every the full scene should memorize student (especially the ensemble!). backgrounds c ideas about their characters’ up with specifi come to Homework 30 CREATE CREATE 33 Time 5 minutes 7 minutes 3 minutes Suggested LionKingExperience.com Tips/Your Notes Tips/Your Review directing tips on pg. 25. Review directing on pg. tips ______help the cast to to notes encouraging Give elicit feedback If time allows, them improve. themselves. the students from ______ectionquestion ideas: Refl ______Run from the Run from and sing top along with the Rehearsal Track. the Run from and sing top along with the Accompaniment Track. Tasks/Goals

• • Block opening scene. Block opening Review/polish: ection Refl Homework students Ask choreography. along with today’s and song, Every the full scene should memorize student (especially the ensemble!). backgrounds c ideas about their characters’ up with specifi come to Time 5 minutes 3 minutes 5 minutes 5 minutes Suggested Tips/Your Notes Tips/Your Give encouraging notes to the cast to help the cast to to notes encouraging Give after each run. them improve ______Split the cast into two evenly-numbered evenly-numbered two Split the cast into and Ensemble 2). (Ensemble 1 groups ______various levels, with nal pose a fi Create can be seen. Makeensuring all students sure the can be held throughout that a pose it’s applause. ______Find a creative way to show time passing time passing show to way a creative Find using the consider during this section. Also, cub from transition hide Simba’s ensemble to adult. to ______The Lion King The KIDS Mini ShowKit® Disney’s Tasks/Goals Review: Run the section of the number learned today you multiple times. Teach m. 66-end Teach using call and vocally response. Sing along with the track. rehearsal Block/choreograph m. 66-end. Block/choreograph Block/choreograph m. 47-65.

32 CREATE Characters VILLAGERS – a company of storytellers who transform into the animals of the Pridelands, as well as the desert, jungle, and tricksters Script RAFIKIS – fi ve mysterious and wise mandrills; narrators of the story MUFASA – a lion, king of the Pridelands, and Simba’s father On the subsequent pages, you will fi nd a script for a scene and song from Disney's The Lion King KIDS. We've also included Production Tips to help you through the SARABI – a lioness, queen of the Pridelands, and Simba’s mother process of directing your students. ZAZU – a hornbill; Mufasa’s loyal yet fretful attendant Synopsis SCAR – a lion; Mufasa’s jealous brother VILLAGERS enter (One by One) to share their favorite story. RAFIKI narrators gather all the animals to welcome the newborn cub of the king and queen of the YOUNG SIMBA / SIMBA – a curious, eager lion who will one day be king Pridelands, MUFASA and SARABI (Circle of Life with Nants' Ingonyama). Mufasa’s jealous brother SCAR refuses to attend the ceremony, which angers the king. As time passes, YOUNG SIMBA grows into a curious young lion. Mufasa explains the YOUNG NALA / NALA – a spunky, brave lioness and Simba’s best friend circle of life to his son and how one day he will become king of the Pridelands. Out for revenge, Scar encourages his nephew to visit the forbidden Elephant BANZAI – a scruff y male hyena who serves Scar Graveyard. Young Simba takes his best friend YOUNG NALA there after ditching ZAZU, Mufasa’s loyal advisor (I Just Can’t Wait to Be King). At the graveyard, three SHENZI – a tough female hyena who serves Scar hungry hyenas – SHENZI, BANZAI, and ED – corner the cubs, but Mufasa arrives and takes them home. Scar emerges to recruit the HYENAS in his murderous plan ED – a dimwitted male hyena who serves Scar to become king himself (Be Prepared). Back in the safety of the Pridelands, Mufasa reprimands Young Simba then tells him HYENAS – stinking, mangy animals who live outside the Pridelands to look up at the stars: The great kings of the past will always be there to guide him. The next day, Young Simba gets trapped in a wildebeest stampede started by Scar. TIMON – a sarcastic, outgoing meerkat who lives in the jungle Mufasa rescues him but is pushed by Scar into the stampede, where he is trampled to death. Scar blames Young Simba and tells him to run away and never return. Scar PUMBAA – a gentle, kind-hearted warthog and Timon’s best friend then assumes the throne, uniting lions and hyenas under his dark reign. Lost in the desert, Young Simba meets TIMON and PUMBAA, who take him to their “worry- free” home in the jungle (Hakuna Matata). Under Scar’s rule, the Pridelands are nearly destroyed. NALA, now grown, leaves to get help and fi nds SIMBA alive in the jungle (Can You Feel the Love Tonight). She urges him to come back home to take his rightful place as king, but still ashamed, Simba refuses. Rafi ki appears and helps him remember his father He( Lives in You). With newfound courage, Simba returns to the Pridelands. Timon and Pumbaa distract the hyenas (Luau Hawaiian Treat) while Simba confronts his uncle. The truth of Mufasa’s murder is revealed, and Scar runs away, pursued by angry hyenas. With peace restored in the Pridelands, Simba takes his place as king and the circle of life continues (Finale).

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34 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 35 NOTES Begin Script Excerpt

(YOUNG SIMBA enters and collapses on the ground. PUMBAA and TIMON enter and approach SIMBA.) TIMON Yikes, it’s a lion! Run, Pumbaa! Move it! PUMBAA Aw, Timon – look at him. He’s so cute and all alone. Can we keep him?

TIMON Pumbaa, are you nuts? You’re talking about a lion! Lions eat guys like us! PUMBAA (gently pats YOUNG SIMBA) You okay, kid? YOUNG SIMBA (disoriented, getting up) I... guess so. TIMON (his fear decreasing) So… where ya from? YOUNG SIMBA Doesn’t matter. I can’t go back. TIMON Ah, you’re an outcast! That’s great! So’re we! PUMBAA Whad’ja do, kid? YOUNG SIMBA Something terrible. But I don’t want to talk about it. TIMON Okay… then just repeat after me: Hakuna matata. SOUND CUE YOUNG SIMBA Music Track: "Hakuna Matata" What? Cue – PUMBAA: It means "no worries." PUMBAA The cue line is when you press play on the CD. Ha-ku-na ma-ta-ta. It means “no worries.” Use the rehearsal track when your students are still learning the music, and the (TRACK - HAKUNA MATATA ) accompaniment track for the fi nal run- throughs and performance.

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36 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 37 NOTES Hakuna Matata

Slowly TIMON: 1 # # j & # # C Ó ‰ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ Œ Ó Ha - ku - na ma - ta - ta,

3 3 # # & # # Œ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ | Ó what a won - der - ful phrase!

PUMBAA: 3 5 # ## # Œ & ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ Ó nœ œ œ Ha - ku-na ma - ta - ta, ain'tœ noœ pass -ing

8 A Tempo TIMON: #### j & ∑ Œ ‰ ‹œ œ œ œ œ ˙. It means no wor-ries # ## & # w ∑ ∑ craze! BOTH: 11 # ## # Ó & œ œ œ œ w œ œ forœ the rest ofœ your days. It's our

14 #### j j & œ œ œ ˙ ˙ Œ œ œ œ œ ˙ pro-blem free phi - los - o-phy: 17 8 #### j & Œ ‰ œ nœ œ œ œ œ ˙. ∑ Ha-ku - na ma - ta -ta.

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38 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 39 NOTES (As TIMON and PUMBAA take YOUNG SIMBA for a walk, the VILLAGERS transform the desert into a lush jungle.) YOUNG SIMBA Hakuna matata? PUMBAA SET TIP Yeah. It’s our motto! Your villagers can transform into the jungle using umbrellas, grass skirts, large leafs, etc. YOUNG SIMBA to create diff erent tableaus. What’s a motto? TIMON Nothin’! What’s-a-motto with you?! PUMBAA Hakuna matata: These two words will solve all your problems.

ALL: 3 28 # ## # j j ACTING TIP & Œ ‰ œ nœ œ œ œ œ. Ó Œ œ œ nœ œ The ensemble actors are portraying scenery Ha-ku - na ma - ta - ta, whatœ a won-der-ful but can have physical responses to what the characters are saying. For example, they can laugh – or roll their eyes! – at Timon's joke. 31 # ## # j & w Œ ‰ œ nœ œ œ phrase! Ha - ku - na ma -

33 #### j & œ œ. Ó œ œ œ œ ˙ Ó ta - ta, ain'tœ no pass - ing craze.

(YOUNG SIMBA begins to accept this new lifestyle.)

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40 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 41 NOTES

YOUNG SIMBA: 36 # # j & # # Œ ‰ œ œ œ œ œ Ó It means no wor - ries

38 #### œ & œ œ œ œ œ œ ˙ Ó for the rest of your days!

ALL: 40 # # # # Ó j j & œ œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ Œ œ It's our pro-blem free phi -

TIMON, PUMBAA, 43 YOUNG SIMBA: # ## & # ∑ Ó Œ ‰ j Ha¿ - ENSEMBLE: #### j & œ œ œ ˙ œ ‰ œ nœ œ œ los - o - phy: Ha - ku - na ma -

45 # ## & # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ENSEMBLE 1: # # # # j Ó Œ ‰ j & œ œ. ˙ ta - ta! Ha¿ -

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42 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 43 NOTES TIMON, PUMBAA: 47 # ## & # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ -

# ## & # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ -

ENSEMBLE 2: # ## & # ∑ Ó Œ ‰ j Ha¿ - (YOUNG SIMBA exits.) COSTUME TIP 49 To demonstrate this change in actor, # # consider having Young Simba pass off # # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j a costume piece or prop – such as a hat & ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ – to an older Simba as a symbol of their ku - na ma-ta - ta. Ha - ku - na ma-ta - ta. Ha - transition. Their overall costumes should be similar to preserve the continuity of # ## the characters, but be sure to include & # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j indicators that Simba has grown. For ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - example, both can be wearing yellow shirts – Young Simba can wear a t-shirt, while older Simba can wear long sleeve. # ## & # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ -

(Time passes. An older SIMBA enters.)

ACTING TIP Older Simba's entrance should be big and full of energy! Try using a cartwheel or summersault so that he enters with a scale that supersedes that of Young Simba.

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44 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 45 NOTES

51 SIMBA: # # # # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j #œ œ BLOCKING TIP & ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ œ Ensure that older Simba is onstage before ku - na ma-ta - ta. Ha - ku - na! It means no he needs to sing. He should be in place by m. 51. # ## & # ‰ j ‰ j Œ Ó ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na!¿ # # & # # ‰ j ‰ j Œ Ó ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ - ku¿ - na!¿ 53 # ## # œ œ. ˙ œ & J œ œ œ œ œ œ w wor-ries for the rest of your days!

ALL: 56 # ## # Ó j j Œ & œ œ œ œ œ ˙ ˙ œ œ œ œ ˙ It's our pro-blem free phi - los-o-phy:

TIMON, PUMBAA, SIMBA, ENSEMBLE 1: 60 # ## # j & Œ ‰ œ nœ œ œ œ œ ˙. Ha-ku - na ma - ta - ta! ENSEMBLE 2: # ## & # Ó Œ ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j Ha¿ - ku¿ - na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ¿ta. Ha¿ -

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46 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 47 NOTES (TIMON, PUMBAA, SIMBA, ENSEMBLE 1): 62 #### j & Œ ‰ œ nœ œ œ nœ œ ˙. ∑ Ha-ku-na ma - ta-ta! (ENSEMBLE 2): # # & # # ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j ‰ j Œ ku¿ -na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ -ta.¿ Ha¿ - ku¿ -na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ -¿ta.Ha¿ - ku¿ -na¿ ma¿ -ta¿ -ta.¿

65 #### MUSIC TIP & ‰ j Œ Ó Œ ‰ j Think of this moment as well as a call- We¿ say¿ ha¿ -ku¿ -na!¿ Ha¿ - and-response battle. Have each ensemble group match the intensity of the group # before them and then raise it. Work with ## # your cast to ensure this is exciting and & ∑ ‰ j Œ fun, but also that it does not result in We¿ say¿ ma¿ -ta¿ - ta!¿ screaming.

67 # ## & # Œ Œ ‰ j Œ Ó ku¿ - na!¿ Ha¿ - ku¿ - na!¿ # ## & # Œ ‰ j Œ Œ ‰ j Œ Ma¿ -ta¿ - ta!¿ Ma¿ -ta¿ - ta!¿

ALL: 69 # ## # Œ Ó ∑ Ó Œ & œ œ œ œ Ha-ku-na maœ -ta...œ ta!

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48 Disney’s The Lion King KIDS Mini ShowKit® LionKingExperience.com 49 Dress Rehearsal and Performance

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the fi nal section of the Mini ShowKit® – Share. Here, you will put the fi nal touches on the scene and song in preparation for a performance. Your students will then share the results of their hard work through a performance for family, teachers, or other students.

Use the following tips and sample schedule to help make your dress rehearsal and performance successful:

Suggested Tasks Directions Time

Introduction • Remind students of how much they 1 minute learned in a short amount of time and congratulate them on their hard work! • Explain the purpose of a dress rehearsal – the fi nal run-through before an audience sees the work. • During the dress rehearsal, the cast will practice everything without stopping.

Dress Rehearsal • Start with a quick warm-up. 20 minutes • Ask your actors to get into positions for the top of the scene. Practice the entire scene, including the music and choreography. • Resist the urge to stop – if someone forgets a line, or the dance falls apart, allow your cast to work through it. • After your fi rst run-through, give specifi c notes to your cast and take it from the top. • Run through everything two or three times. • After the fi nal run-through, give your cast a pep talk. Remind them that their job is to tell the story – if someone makes a mistake, the most important thing is to keep going. • Develop a cue to give the cast to signal when the performance will begin.

LionKingExperience.com 51 Suggested Tasks Directions Time

Focus Exercise • Have students sit quietly in a circle 10 minutes onstage while the audience fi les in. • Direct cast to use this time to focus and mentally review the scene and song.

Performance • Introduce the show: Explain how long 10 minutes you’ve been rehearsing and what moment of the story they are about to see. • Once everyone is in place, give your students the cue to begin. Be sure someone is ready to play the Accompaniment Track. • Make sure your cast takes a bow!

Refl ection Use the following questions, or come up 4 minutes with your own: • What was challenging about this process and how did you overcome these challenges? • How does this process relate to other aspects of school or life? • Did you surprise yourself during this process? What are you most proud of? • Do you like this kind of work? Would you like more opportunities to perform musical theater in school?

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