The Wizard of Oz
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KJK Productions Presents THE WIZARD OF OZ Name: ____________________________________ ALL LINES, SONGS, and THE NUMBER OF THE SCENES YOU ARE IN MUST BE MEMORIZED BY THE FIRST DAY OF REHEARSALS!!! Company Numbers - 1st and 2nd Graders - Prologue (on stage) - Munchkinland - Off to See the Wizard 1 - Optimistic Voices 2 - Poppies - Merry Old Land of Oz - Winkie Song (Yo-He-Oh) - Merry Old Land of Oz Reprise - Finale Company Numbers - 3rd, 4th, 5th Graders - Munchkinland - Off to See the Wizard 1 - Optimistic Voices 2 - Poppies - Merry Old Land of Oz - Jitterbug - Merry Old Land of Oz Reprise - Finale PROLOGUE SCENE 1 SONG: FOLLOW THE YELLOW DOROTHY BRICK ROAD - Children's Choir Only Oh Jeepers! My heart’s thumping so (Music Track 1) loud I can’t hardly breathe. Oh, Toto! No need to be scared Children's Choir anymore. She ain’t followin’ us. Did FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK she hurt you? She tried to, didn’t ROAD! she? She must be the meanest old FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK woman that ever was. Let’s go tell ROAD! Uncle Henry and Auntie Em. They’ll take care of her. Come on Toto. FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW, FOLLOW, DOROTHY FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK Aunt Em! Aunt Em! Aunt Em! Just ROAD. listen to what Miss Gultch did to FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK Toto! She— FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK AUNT EM ROAD. (counting baby chickens) Fifty seven... fifty eight... Dorothy, YOU’RE OFF TO SEE THE please! We’re trying to count! WIZARD THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ DOROTHY YOU’LL FIND HE IS A WHIZ OF A Oh, but Uncle Henry, she hit him— WIZ’ IF EVER A WIZ’ THERE WAS. UNCLE HENRY IF EVER, OH EVER, Don’t bother us now honey. You A WIZ’ THERE WAS, see, this old incubator’s gone bad THE WIZARD OF OZ IS ONE and we’re likely to lose a lot of our BECAUSE chicks. BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE,…. DOROTHY BECAUSE OF THE WONDERFUL Oh, -- oh, the poor little things. Oh, THINGS HE DOES…. but Aunt Em, Miss Gultch hit Toto YOU’RE OFF TO SEE THE right over the back with a rake just WIZARD, because she says he gets in her THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF garden and chases her nasty old cat OZ. every day! But he doesn't do it every day -- just once or twice a week. UNCLE HENRY Dorothy, dear, stop imagining things. You always get yourself into a fret over nothing. 2 AUNT EM SCENE 2 Now, you just help us out today and find yourself a place where you won’t MISS GULTCH get into any trouble. (Em and Henry exit) I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy. DOROTHY Some place where there isn’t any UNCLE HENRY trouble. Do you suppose there is Dorothy? Why, what has Dorothy such a place, Toto? There must be. done? Not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It’s far, far away – behind MISS GULTCH the moon – beyond the rain – What’s she done? I can barely walk from the bite on my leg! That dog’s a SONG: OVER THE RAINBOW menace to the community. (Music Track 2) DOROTHY Dorothy That’s not true. SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW, WAY UP HIGH, MISS GULTCH THERE’S A LAND THAT I HEARD I’m taking that dog to the Sheriff and OF ONCE IN A LULLABY. make sure he’s destroyed. SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW, SKIES ARE BLUE DOROTHY AND THE DREAMS THAT YOU Destroyed? Toto? Oh, you can’t! DARE TO DREAM REALLY DO You mustn’t! Uncle Henry! Auntie COME TRUE. Em! You won’t let her will you? He didn’t know he was doing anything SOMEDAY, I’LL WISH UPON A wrong. I’m the one that ought to be STAR punished. You can send me to bed AND WAKE UP WHERE THE without supper – CLOUDS ARE FAR BEHIND ME. WHERE TROUBLES MELT LIKE MISS GULTCH LEMON DROPS, If you don’t hand the dog over now, AWAY ABOVE THE CHIMNEY I’ll bring a legal suit that’ll take away TOPS, your whole farm! There’s a law THAT’S WHERE YOU’LL FIND ME. protecting folks, against dogs that bite! SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW, BLUEBIRDS FLY, AUNT EM BIRDS FLY OVER THE RAINBOW How would it be if she keeps him tied WHY THEN – OH, WHY CAN’T I? up? He’s really gentle – with gentle folk that is. IF HAPPY LITTLE BLUEBIRDS FLY BEYOND THE RAINBOW MISS GULTCH WHY, OH, WHY CAN’T I? Well, that’s for the Sheriff to decide. Here’s his order allowing me to take 3 him. Unless you want to go against AUNT EM the law. Come inside, honey. AUNT EM DOROTHY We can’t go against the law, I’m not going anywhere with you. If Dorothy. I’m afraid poor Toto will you really loved me, you wouldn’t’ve have to go. let Toto go. MISS GULTCH AUNT EM Now you’re seeing reason. She had an order from the Sheriff, Dorothy. What did you expect us to DOROTHY do? Wave a wand and make it No! disappear? (Em and Henry exit) MISS GULTCH DOROTHY Here’s what! I’m taking him in – so You still could’ve tried at least. Toto he can’t attack me again. was the only friend I had in the world. Now I got no one to talk to, DOROTHY no one to play with. And I’ll never Oh please, please Aunt Em…… see him again as long as I live. (running off stage) Oh, Toto! (sees Toto coming on stage) Toto? Toto, darling! Oh, you came back! SCENE 3 You got away from that horrible woman, you wonderful dog. But AUNT EM she’ll be coming back for you any Almira Gultch, just because you own minute. We’ve got to get away! half the county doesn’t mean you We’ve got to run away! We need have the power to run the rest of us! food for me and a bone for you and For twenty-three years I’ve been then we’ve got to get far, far away dying to tell you what I thought of from here. And we’re never, ever you! And now… Ohhh I can't say it! comin’ back. UNCLE HENRY SCENE 4 Well I can. So if you don’t want to hear it, you better pedal yourself off UNCLE HENRY my land. It’s a twister!! And it's heading straight for us!! MISS GULTCH AUNT EM I don’t take kindly to that kind of talk, Dorothy! I can’t find Dorothy, Henry! Henry Gale. Just you remember, I have friends in high places. UNCLE HENRY You can't look for her now! Come UNCLE HENRY on, in the storm cellar! Then why don’t you climb on your broomstick and go visit ‘em. AUNT EM We can’t leave her out here, Henry! 4 UNCLE HENRY DOROTHY There’s nothing else we can do. But I’ve already told you, I’m not a Come inside, Em! witch at all. Witches are old and ugly. DOROTHY Auntie Em!... Auntie Em!... Auntie MUNCHKINS Em!... Where is everybody? (they laugh) He, he, he, he, he, he (She passes out and falls to the floor) DOROTHY What was that? SCENE 5 GLINDA DOROTHY The Munchkins. They’re laughing Toto – I have a feeling we’re not in because I am a witch. I’m Glinda, Kansas anymore. We must be over the Witch of the North. the rainbow! (seeing Glinda) Now I – I know we’re not in Kansas. DOROTHY You are! I beg your pardon! But I’ve GLINDA never heard of a beautiful witch Are you a good witch, or a bad before. witch? GLINDA DOROTHY Only bad witches are ugly. The Who, me? I – I’m not a witch at all. Munchkins are happy because you I’m Dorothy Gale, from Kansas. have freed them from the Wicked Witch of the East. GLINDA Oh! Well, is that the witch? DOROTHY Oh. But – if you please, what are DOROTHY Munchkins? Who, Toto? Toto’s my dog. MUNCHKINS GLINDA (they laugh) He, he, he, he, he Well, I’m a little muddled. The Munchkins called me because a new GLINDA witch has just dropped a house on The little people who live in this land. the Wicked Witch of the East, and This is Munchkinland, and you are there’s the house, and here you are, their national heroine, my dear. It’s and those legs are all that’s left of all right – you may all come out and the Wicked Witch of the East. And thank her. so, what the Munchkins want to know is, are you a good witch or a bad witch? 5 SONG: MUNCHKINLAND IT LANDED ON THE WICKED (Music Track 3) WITCH IN THE MIDDLE OF A DITCH Glinda WHICH COME OUT, COME OUT, WAS NOT A HEALTHY SITUATION WHEREVER YOU ARE FOR AND MEET THE YOUNG LADY, THE WICKED WITCH. WHO FELL FROM A STAR. (Munchkins walk forward) Munchkins THE HOUSE BEGAN TO PITCH. SHE FELL FROM THE SKY, THE KITCHEN TOOK A SLITCH. SHE FELL VERY FAR, AND IT LANDED ON THE WICKED KANSAS, SHE SAYS, WITCH IS THE NAME OF THE STAR. IN THE MIDDLE OF A DITCH, WHICH Munchkins WAS NOT A HEALTHY SITUATION KANSAS, SHE SAYS, IS THE FOR NAME OF THE STAR.