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RENAISSANCE GROUP
Ariel’s Daughters: CORAL SHELLY Rapunzel’s Daughters: TRESSA LOXLEY
Elsa’s Younger Cousin: FROSTA Frog Prince’s Son: TADPOLE “TAD” WALLOW POLLYWOG “POLLY” WALLOW
Disney’s DESCENDANTS - Renaissance 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 either mic and waves goodbye as CHILDREN exit SL)
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SNOW WHITE: Now remember, kids. Whistle while you work, and don’t eat any strange apples.
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 send me your progress reports. You do remember the home address, right?
FLITTER BELL: Second star to the right...
FLUTTER BELL: And straight on til morning! 3 RENAISSANCE
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 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 4 RENAISSANCE
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
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)
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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!
(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:
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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:
To ever ever after
Forever could even start today
Ever ever after
Maybe it's just one wish away 7 RENAISSANCE
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!
FG: Stealthy and Sprightly Dwarf? 8 RENAISSANCE
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.
JANE: All glass footwear must be approved ahead of time. 9 RENAISSANCE
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!)
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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
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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
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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?
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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 THIRTEEN - “Did I Mention…?”
(SILVER AGE exits SL. GOLDEN AGE and RENAISSANCE STUDENTS filter in from SR holding flags. Some have signs with letters we do not yet see that spell out the word “ridiculous”. BEN moves to the central rock. STUDENTS cheer)
COACH PHIL and STUDENTS: Let’s Go! (clap clap) Let’s go! (clap clap clap) x3
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BEN: Stop the game! I can’t play until I say exactly how I’m feeling...in song. Hey, Mal! Will you go to the promcoming dance with me?
ALL: Oooooh!
MAL: Um...okay!
EVIE: OMG...it worked!
(MAL and EVIE high five, and run off stage. BEN doesn’t notice)
ALL: YAY!
(MUSIC IN -“Did I Mention…?”)
BEN: Did I mention... That I'm in love with you. And did I mention... There's nothing I can do. And did I happen to say I dream of you everyday? But let me (shout it out loud), if that's okay, hey hey (Hey!) That's okay (Hey!)
(BEN starts to hop excitedly around audience)
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He met this girl that rocked his world like it's never been rocked
SOLO: And now he’s living just for her and he won't ever stop
SOLO: He never thought that it could happen quite so fast, you see.
SOLO: But now look at what she’s done, he’s getting down on one knee...
BEN: Because my love for you is Ridiculous. I never knew (Who knew?) That it can be like this. My love for you is (Ridiculous) My love is R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S! (R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S!) It's... (RIDICULOUS!) Just... (RIDICULOUS!) And I would give my kingdom for just one kiss.
(LONG DANCE BREAK - There’s a big CUT here)
BEN: Because my love is truly Ridiculous. I never knew (Who knew?) That it can be like this. My love is truly Ridiculous My love is R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S! 16 RENAISSANCE
(R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S!) It's... (RIDICULOUS!) Just... (RIDICULOUS!) And I would give my kingdom for just one kiss. C'mon now!
(BUTTON. At this point, ALL have joined the dance that has brought BEN back on stage. On final chords, all faint on the floor, exhausted. During applause, ALL will count to three, then get up to exit, except RENAISSANCE GROUP. COUNSELORS flip flats into locker formation)
SCENE FOURTEEN - Locker Gossip #3 - RENAISSANCE GROUP
COACH PHIL: WE WON! Weeeee won! Finally I can retire!
SHELLY: Did you hear? Jay was voted most valuable player!
CORAL: He’s a natural on the tourney field! Did you see him steal those bases?
POLLY: Did you hear? Evie passed the big test without her magic mirror.
TRESSA: Highest score in the class!
LOXLEY: You know, she’s so much more than just a pretty face!
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FROSTA: Did you hear? Carlos trained the school dalmatians to tap dance!
TAD: What is he, a dog whisperer?
ALL: Those Descendants are awesome!
(RENAISSANCE GROUP exits SR, laughing and talking excitedly)
SCENE SEVENTEEN - “If Only”
(MUSIC IN - “If Only”)
MAL: Hard to believe this will be my first and last date. After we steal the wand, I don’t think there’ll be much time for dances.
EVIE: Is this what we wanted?
MAL: I don’t know. I wonder if anybody knows what they want.
A million thoughts in my head Should I let my heart keep listening? 'Cause up 'til now I've walked the line Nothing lost but something missing
I can't decide What's wrong, what's right Which way should I go?
If only I knew what my heart was telling me Don't know what I'm feeling Is this just a dream? 18 RENAISSANCE
Ah oh, yeah
(ALL STUDENTS slowly enter behind her, dressed for the dance. COUNSELORS move the gothic window flats to a new, open position, as STUDENTS fill the space in dramatically posed groups and pairs that break apart and move downstage on their respective solos)
EVIE: If only I could read the signs in front of me I could find the way to who I'm meant to be Ah oh, if only If only [2x]
(Various STUDENT SOLOISTS step forward to express their insecurities)
SOLO: Every step, every word
SOLO: With every hour I am falling in To something new, something brave
SOLO: To someone I, I have never been
SOLO: I can't decide What's wrong, what's right
SOLO: Which way should I go?
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Don't know what I'm feeling Is this just a dream? Ah oh, yeah If only I could read the signs in front of me I could find the way to who I'm meant to be
MAL: Ah oh, if only
ALL: Yeah
MAL and EVIE: Am I crazy? Maybe this could happen, yeah Will you all be with me when the magic's all run out?
MAL: If only I knew what my heart was telling me Don't know what I'm feeling Is this just a dream? Ah oh…
ALL: If only I could read the signs in front of me I could find the way to who I'm meant to be Ah oh...
MAL: ALL: If only… yeah... [3x]
(STUDENTS work their way back to their pair or group poses, frozen. EVIE and MAL remove their cloaks, revealing delicate blue and lavender gowns)
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If only…
SCENE EIGHTEEN - At the Dance
(DANCING as groups shift again. RENAISSANCE GROUP next. CRUELLA, EVIL QUEEN, and JAFAR sneak in from the rear of the audience like beggars at the feast, pushing their way to the stage and shushing the audience)
CORAL: Hey Shelly, what does the little mermaid like on her toast?
SHELLY: Easy. MERmalade!
TRESSA: I heard our mother Rapunzel went to a lot of dances.
LOXLEY: Guess she really liked to let her hair down!
FROSTA: Where does Olaf the snowman keep his money? Give up? In a snow bank!
TADPOLE: What did the frog prince like to eat with his hamburger?
POLLYWOG: French FLIES!
SCENE TWENTY - “Set It Off”...
JAY and CARLOS: 3, 2, 1, Uh
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(MUSIC IN - “Set it Off” from the dance break at apx 2:11, OR CAMP BAND and kids add percussion ON TOP of recording. After interlude, ALL CAST dances into the audience, encouraging them to clap along)
FULL COMPANY: Let's set it off Oh yeah (Let's set this off!) Start a chain reaction, Never let it stop! Let's set it off (Let's set this off!) Oh yeah Let's set this off! You can make it happen With everything you got! Let's set it off
(CAST begins to move back to the stage for a final tableau)
Get ready, set it off! Come on We go to set it off To the left Get ready, set it off To the right We got to set it OFF!
THE END
ENCORE: FULL COMPANY SINGS “EVIL LIKE ME”!