Darby O'Gill and the Leprechaun Queen a musical based on the original Darby O'Gill folk tales Act One - abridged music by Ron Barnett book and lyrics by Scott Guy CAST: Darby O’Gill, 17 ...............................................................................................Christopher Maikish Pegeen O'Gill, Darby’s sister, 18 ................................................................................. Noel Britton Kinsman ...................................................................................................................... Sari Rose Poll Kinsman 2 .................................................................................................................. David Holmes Other Kinsmen ........................................................................................................................... ALL The Leprechaun Queen ................................................................................................. Rachel Tyler The Leprechaun King ..................................................................................................... Tedd Szeto Murtagh, next in line for the leprechaun throne ...........................................................Peter Welkin Durga............................................................................................................................ Andrea Press Daigle ......................................................................................................................... David Holmes Hobb ................................................................................................................................ Tedd Szeto The Banshee ...................................................... Evelyn Halus, (possibly add Noel, Sari & Andrea) The Goblin King ........................................................................................................ David Holmes Goblin .......................................................................................................................... Evelyn Halus Goblins (sounds; battle) ............................................................................................................. ALL Narrator ............................................................................................................................. Scott Guy TIME: early 18th-century PLACE: Mythic Ireland MUSICAL NUMBERS Darby O'Gill ...............................................................................................Darby, Pegeen, Kinsmen Goblin Attack .............................................................................................................. All but Queen Peeky Peeky Crocky ...................................................................................... King, Murtagh, Durga Chuala Mé Tú ......................................................................................................................... Queen I'll Be the King ............................................................................................ Murtagh, Durga, Daigle Never Be Lost ......................................................................................................................... Queen We'll Do Battle Together ............................................................................................ Darby, Queen 1 ACT ONE ABRIDGED NARRATOR This is an abridged version of Act One of "Darby O'Gill and the Leprechaun Queen," written with Cathy Rigby in mind for the role of the Leprechaun Queen, music by Ron Barnett and book and lyrics by Scott Guy. It's based on the original Darby O'Gill folk tales, which are in turn based on old Celtic legends and myths. We're going to present bits and pieces of scenes and songs, summarizing a lot of the action along the way. We begin on a mountain ravine in mythic Ireland; early 18th-century. Darby O'Gill rushes in, triumphant, followed by his sister, Pegeen, and a giddy band of fellow kinsmen, shedding various bits of orange goblin costumes: masks, claws, and so forth. DARBY Tricked 'em! Tricked the goblins I did! PEGEEN So an' y'did, brother! Fool ME for a goblin! KINSMAN Fooled us all. KINSMAN 2 I never thought it'd work, Darby, disguisin' ourselves up as to pass for goblins under their noses. DARBY Under their stinkin' flatsy orange noses. KINSMAN Well I never doubted ye, Darby O'Gill. DARBY Liar, liar! Y'all doubted me. (Laughter. Darby O'Gill.) 2 ALL NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD UNFOLD TO SEE A HUMAN STEAL THE GOLD. CREPT INSIDE THE GOBLIN HOLD DID DARBY. GATHER ROUND YE YOUNG AND OLD TO SING HIS PRAISE A HUNDREDFOLD. WHO'S THE LAD WHO STOLE THE GOLD? IT'S DARBY. BRR-AH! BRR-AH! BRR-AH! BRR-AH! DARBY. DARBY. DARBY O'GILL RR-RAH! TELL THE TATTLE, THE TALE BE TOLD T-TAH, T-TAH, T-TAH! 3 NARRATOR Darby feigns false modesty, saying surely others before him have stolen goblin gold. DARBY Y'mean NO one before me's done a such a thing? ALL No, you're the first, Darby O'Gill. DARBY But what ye're saying can't be true, else I'd be the cleverest, I'd be the trickiest, I'd be admired by all of Eire as the bravest -- ALL You are! DARBY The strongest. ALL You are! DARBY The handsomest! (Sudden silence.) DARBY In all seriousness, boys, fact is, it's only a pinch o' gold. Tain't going to do us much at all. KINSMAN 2 A pinch is more'n I woulda gotten. DARBY A pinch is poot, a nothing, a naught. We need more! There's one thing goblins fear. An' that's leprechaun gold. Large enough piece of it'll kill 'em. We know this. That's why the goblins try to steal it from the leprechauns. Not to be rich. But so it can't be used as poison against 'em. PEGEEN Very well then, Darby. Let us pilfer more. 4 DARBY What! This from my cautious sister! KINSMEN (amusement) NARRATOR Darby's sister tells the kinsmen about a hidden stash of leprechaun gold which the goblins have stolen and hidden. PEGEEN As a matter of fact. Y'see that darkening ravine down there, thrusting into the bracken grove? DARBY Aye. PEGEEN I've been there. DARBY Y'haven't. PEGEEN A hundred yards into the bracken, there's gold. DARBY What're y'talkin? PEGEEN Camouflage! That ain't all gnarly trees. Some of it hides a mausoleum. DARBY Makin it up. PEGEEN Old, ancient gathering place for druids. Gone now. Goblins got 'em. But in the mausoleum, oh, Darby, a trove of gold! More'n we could never want. Ours for the taking. Come, follow me. Follow, Darby. Follow me, follow.... NARRATOR But Darby doesn't follow his sister. 5 DARBY Something's not quite right with ye, Pegeen. PEGEEN Aww, but wait, don't you want the gold? Is it poor all your life ye be wanting, and forcing all of us, not just you, all of us to be poor now and ever then and evermore, never having enough, clothes never warm enough, all the while the rich rich leprechauns strutting around in fancy jewel-buckled shoes and trim-n-tip-top hats, and us begging and scraping for a hint o' meat in our soup? NARRATOR Darby's suspicions about his sister's uncharacteriscally bold behaviour turn out to be well-founded, for just at that moment, Pegeen's face turns dark, then darker still, an ochre shade of orange. And Pegeen whisks off her head of hair to reveal she's no human at all, she's in fact, a goblin, and the real Pegeen is gagged and tucked under the goblin's skeletous arm! At the same moment, multiple GOBLINS appear, outnumbering Darby and his kinsmen. We're not going to stage the battle sequence which happens here, but instead we're going to play an instrumental track, during which a lot of action happens. The goblins attack; the kinsmen put up a brave front. But when one of the goblins corners Pegeen and bites her, she gnarls up and begins before our very eyes to turn into a goblin. Darby tries to leap to her side, but she and the battle are both lost, and in order to save Darby, the kinsmen drag him away. DARBY Pegeen! I'll come back. I'll come back for you, Pegeen, if it's the last thing I do! NARRATOR You'll hear in the music where the goblin attacks Pegeen and the kinsmen carry Darby away...and Pegeen's soul begins to separate from her body and float away. The next thing that happens is the entrance of the Leprechaun Queen, who comes to Pegeen's rescue, gathering up her body, and making attempts to gather up her soul as well, but a terrifying spectral ghosty figure sweeps in, snatching up portions of Pegeen's soul, while the Queen opens up the entire side of the mountain with an incantation, pulling what's left of Pegeen and her soul into the safety into the side of the mountain. Here's that battle sequence, beginning from the moment the goblins attack. (Goblin Attack.) 6 GOBLIN Elvakított a Csak Csak! DARBY Pegeen! GOBLIN Kapzsiság egy kraak ekk frelka! (The GOBLIN points downwards into the ravine, which begins to glow with a nasty orange firelight.) GOBLIN Kövess kövess! DARBY Not goin' without a fight! (A battle ensues. Darby is unsurprisingly agile, and eludes the first onslaught. But the tide soon turns, his kinsmen are outnumbered and Darby grows desperate.) DARBY I've got a pinch! (HE holds aloft the pinch of gold. The goblins recoil.) DARBY I'll use it. Stand back or I'll use it! (The goblins make thrust-and-parry moves. One goblin closes in on the throat of the Second Kinsman.) KINSMAN 2 Use it on my goblin...! (But DARBY already has his mark: the goblin holding Pegeen. DARBY throws the pinch upon the goblin.) KINSMAN 2 Or that one. 7 (The gold has an immediate effect upon the goblin, like acid upon its skin. The goblin howls in pain, and his muscles lock and tumble him to the earth, writhing him, which frees