GOLDEN AGE GROUP Children of Pinocchio
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1 GOLDEN GOLDEN AGE GROUP Children of Pinocchio: WOODY PINES CEDAR PINES CYPRESS PINES SUGAR PINES Doc’s Nephews: STEALTHY DWARF SPRIGHTLY DWARF Snow White’s Daughters: ROSE RED SKY BLUE DISNEY’s DESCENDANTS - GOLDEN AGE GROUP SCRIPT SCENE ONE - Fairy Godmother’s Welcome FAIRY GODMOTHER: Did you know that every fairytale you’ve ever heard really happened? Every prince, princess, and dwarf! Even every villain! You might recognize some of our PTA members. Here comes Snow White with her children Rose Red and Sky Blue! (Each PARENT mentioned enters with their CHILDREN, who carry backpacks. Each PARENT takes their spot at a mic and waves goodbye as CHILDREN exit SL) SNOW WHITE: Now remember, kids. Whistle while you work, and don’t eat any strange apples. 2 GOLDEN ROSE RED and SKY BLUE: We won’t, mother. FG: And here’s my dear friend Cinderella dropping off her children, Chad and Cindylou Charming! CINDERELLA: Listen to the Fairy Godmother, kids. And don’t be late for class. CHAD: We know, we know... CINDYLOU: Fairy Godmother has a thing about curfews. FG: Sleeping Beauty and her lovely daughters... SLEEPING BEAUTY: Wake up, girls! Classes are about to start! AUDREY/SUNNY/RORY (snoring loudly): Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... FG: Tinker Bell, and her children, Flutter Bell and Flitter Bell... TINK: Have a great year, girls. Don’t forget to write. You do remember the home address? FLITTER BELL: Second star to the right... FLUTTER BELL: And straight on til morning! FG: Here comes our head boy, Prince Ben. Would you believe his parents are Beauty and the Beast? BEN: Another perfect school year. Perfectly boring, that is. Nothing interesting ever happens at this school, mom! Once, just 3 GOLDEN once, I wish I could come face-to-face with a dragon, or a villain, or anything! BELLE: Kids! Always trying to grow up too fast. It’s a tale as old as time! FG: Yes, this is where fairytale children go to school! This is where new stories begin! SCENE TWO - “Ever, Ever After” FG and PTA (3 groups overlapping): Ever, ever after! (x3) (JANE enters from SR) BELLE: Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true SLEEPING BEAUTY: Deep down inside we want to believe they still do ALL PTA (TINKER BELL/BELLE/SNOW WHITE/CINDERELLA): Still do...still do...still do… TINKER BELL: In our secretest heart, SNOW WHITE: it's our favourite part of the story 4 GOLDEN CINDERELLA: Let's just admit we all want to make it too... ALL PTA: Ever ever after If we just don't get it our own way Ever ever after It may only be a wish away JANE: Start a new fashion, wear your heart on your sleeve! FG: That’s my daughter, Jane! She’s a first year! (JANE curtsies to audience) PTA: Ever after! BEN: Sometimes you reach what's realest by making believe! (BEN bows to audience) BEN and JANE: Unafraid, unashamed There is joy to be claimed in this world BEN, JANE, and FG: You even might wind up being glad to be you! 5 GOLDEN (ALL STUDENTS charge in from three different locations, filling audience, greeting one another with hugs and high fives. They wear blue shirts made to look like uniforms, cut at unusual angles. Many wear fanciful hats, scarves, crowns, gloves, skirts, tutus, or capes. Some wear backpacks. These are the offspring of the Disney characters we know so well returning to school after summer break) STUDENTS: Ever ever after PTA: Though the world will tell you it's not smart STUDENTS: Ever ever after PTA: The world can be yours if you let your heart Believe in ever after BELLE: No wonder your heart feels it's flying! CINDERELLA: Your head feels it's spinning! SLEEPING BEAUTY: Each happy ending's a brand new beginning! FG: Let yourself be enchanted, SNOW WHITE: You just might break through... ALL: 6 GOLDEN To ever ever after Forever could even start today Ever ever after Maybe it's just one wish away Your ever ever after... STUDENTS: I believe! I believe! PTA: Ever, ever, ever after! STUDENTS: I've been dreaming of a school like this! ALL: For ever ever after! Ever, ever, ever after! (ALL form a class picture on front steps of stage, FG steps down to take a flash photo as music ends. Immediately after applause all STUDENTS sit except JANE and BEN. FG steps up to the stage, addresses seated students “Dumbledore style”) SCENE THREE - School Assembly FG: My goodness, so many familiar faces. Let’s take attendance! Pinocchio’s kids, Woody, Cypress, and Cedar Pines? WOODY/CEDAR/CYPRESS: Here! 7 GOLDEN FG: Stealthy and Sprightly Dwarf? STEALTHY/SPRIGHTLY: Hi-HO! FG: The Little Mermaid’s daughters, Coral and Shelly? CORAL/SHELLY: Here! FG: I’m so glad you were both able to be part of our world. Rapunzel’s daughters, Tressa and Loxley? TRESSA/LOXLEY: Here! FG: Alice in Wonderland’s children, Alister and Allison? ALISTER/ALISON: Present! FG: And of course Elsa’s younger cousin, Frosta! FROSTA: Brrrrrrrr! TAD and POLLY: What about us?! FG: Oops! How could I forget the Frog Prince’s children, Tad and Polly? And now for a few start of the year announcements from our head boy and girl. (STUDENTS golf clap) JANE: The enchanted forest behind the castle is strictly forbidden. BEN: No swimming in the moat. 8 GOLDEN JANE: All glass footwear must be approved ahead of time. BEN: All students must be in bed by midnight. JANE: She has a thing about curfews. FG: And finally, my magic wand...quite possibly the most powerful wand in existence. Would you like to touch it? WELL TOO BAD! Nobody must ever, EVER touch this wand without my express permission. In the wrong hands, this wand could spell destruction! POLLY: And I thought it just made pretty dresses! JANE (pointing up): Mother, look! A huge black raven! (CAMPER enters from SR manipulating a creepy looking raven puppet, which carries a black and red envelope. STUDENTS gasp. FG opens the letter, reads it, as raven flies away off L) FG: That’s strange. It says here four new students will be joining us this year at Auradon Prep. ALL STUDENTS: Oooooh! FG: They come from...from...The Isle of the Lost? (ALL gasp!) 9 GOLDEN JANE: The Isle of the Lost? But that’s where all the evil villains live! (ALL STUDENTS begin to panic. In the chaos, ALL STUDENTS relocate from the front steps to their line spots on stage, freeing when FG calls out...) FG: QUIET! Wherever these four mystery students come from, they are your classmates. I’m sure these new students are kind, loving, trustworthy, and completely good-- SCENE FOUR - “Rotten To The Core” DESCENDANTS (from off stage): Did somebody say “good”? BAD IS THE NEW GOOD! (THUNDER SOUND EFFECT! The DESCENDANTS enter, taking center stage and striking their signature poses! MUSIC IN - “Rotten to the Core”. As rhythm catches, MAL, EVIE, JAY, and CARLOS snatch microphones, and stomp through the dirt down front, getting close to audience members. They wear spikes, boots, leather and denim, and sport wild and vividly colored hairstyles. In short, they are not to be fooled with) MAL: They say I'm trouble They say I'm bad They say I'm evil And that makes me glad 10 GOLDEN JAY: A dirty no-good Down to the bone Your worst nightmare Can't take me home EVIE: So I've got some mischief In my blood Can you blame me? I never got no love CARLOS: They think I'm callous A low-life hood I feel so useless FULL COMPANY: Misunderstood! (The DESCENDANTS have reached Front Center Steps. EVIE holds up a hand mirror that she keeps chained to her belt. DESCENDANTS gaze into it as STUDENTS lean in to watch them) EVIE, MAL, JAY, CARLOS: Mirror, mirror in my hand Who's the baddest in the land? Welcome to my wicked world, wicked world I'm rotten to the core, core 11 GOLDEN Rotten to the core! I'm rotten to the core, core Who could ask for more? I'm nothing like the kid next—like the kid next door I'm rotten to the... I'm rotten to the... I'm rotten to the core! (Short percussion bit. The DESCENDANTS break away from center, moving around stage to examine the students, who cower in fear) JANE: Ben, who ARE they? BEN (gleefully): It’s the Descendants! Their parents are the most evil villains EVER! Finally, an interesting school year! (MUSIC CUT TO - ) EVIE, MAL, JAY, CARLOS/ALL STUDENTS: Mirror, mirror in my hand Who's the baddest in the land? Welcome to my wicked world, wicked world (DANCE BREAK) JAY: What a bunch of stiffs! CARLOS: Boring! EVIE: Why isn’t anybody dancing? 12 GOLDEN MAL: This calls for a spell! We beguile. We entrance. Everybody start to dance! (The DESCENDANTS dance in revil or violate property, STUDENTS dance in fear, breaking away from their four clumps under MAL’s spell, until the magic wears off and they all sing...) ALL STUDENTS: They’re rotten to the core, core Rotten to the core! They’re rotten to the core, core Who could ask for more? They’re nothing like the kid next—like the kid next door They’re rotten to the core, they’re rotten to the core, They’re rotten to the core! (BUTTON - The DESCENDANTS freeze in their signature poses Front Center, Students frozen in their terrified clumps behind) SCENE SIX - Locker Gossip #1 - GOLDEN AGE GROUP (Counselors turn flats to reveal a panel of colorful lockers.