We will sing "Happy Birthday" at the auditions if you choose to audition for a role with a solo. (You do not have to sing a solo if your role does not have a solo.)
Paper Airplane
Joan:
First, you take a standard piece of paper, not too think, not too thin.
Crease it down the middle, open, taper, bend the corners, bend them in.
Now you want to fold the point down neatly. Got to make a flap.
Then you fold it down the middle. See, it's just a snap!
A Kid's Life
Stayed up late! Feelin’ great!
Glad to be a kid today and just can’t wait.
Gotta say it’s my day
Menu on my Facebook tells me I’m okay!
Every dawn, up and gone.
Don’t hear anyone, I got my headphones on.
Gotta go. All I know,
everybody wins when we play Nintendo.
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Yeah!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life!
Lovin’ my kid’s life!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Yeah!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! Kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life! Kid’s life!
Feelin’ free, got my Wii ah----------------------------------------
You and me together with our MP3’s ah----------------------------------------
Anyplace! Anyhow! ah----------------------------------------
Feelin’ so excited,
So text me now!
Kate: Hey! What happened?
Jesse: Yeah! Who turned the lights out?
Amy: I can’t get my PDA to work.
Jerry: My laptop crashed.
Jennifer: So did my Xbox!
Laura: Even my cell phone quit!
All: (All gasp) What are we gonna do?
Emily: You mean, I can’t text message my friends?
Laura: (punching the buttons on her cell phone) It won’t send. IT WON’T
SEND!
Matthew: I can’t listen to my tunes?
Charlie: My mother won’t get my breakfast order?
Claire: This is a national emergency!
(Mom and dad walk across the stage on their way out for the day.)
Mom: Okay, everyone, have a great time here while we’re gone today.
Julia: But Mom, how can we have a good time when all of our tech
gadgets don’t work?
Laura: (Still punching cell phone button) It won’t send! IT WON’t SEND!!!!
Dad: Oh, I’m sure you’ll find something to do. And besides, grandma
and grandpa will be here any minute to spend the day with you.
You’ll have a great time!
Voiceover: And that was when panic REALLY started to creep into what had
begun as a great day in the life of a kid.
Hey, what’s up? Where’s the lights?
My PDA is crashing, nothing’s working right.
My cell phone quit! My laptop fried!
Spoken Solo: No Wii?
All: No way!
Singing Solo: My iPod died.
All: Ahhhhhh!
Out of juice. Now we’re stuck.
Everything is broken, now we’re out of luck!
What a crime! What a mess!
Being just a kid can be a whole lot of stress!
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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!------------- Whoa!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life!
A stressful kid’s life!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!------------- Whoa!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! A tech free kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life! A tech free kid’s life!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!------------- Talkin’ dejected.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!-----Gotta get connected.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Yeah!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! Kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life! Kid’s life!
Let the Games Begin
Grandma and
Grandpa: Let the games begin!
Yahtzee, Bingo, Twister, too!
Cranium is good for you.
Checkers, CHess are hot today,
And these are the games we play.
Marco Pollo if you can.
Give your ship a battle plan.
You’ll have fun, I guarantee,
With Scrabble and Password and Jeopardy!
Let the games begin.
Someone’s gotta lose and someone’s gonna win!
Roll the dice or give the board a spin
And let the games begin.
(One kid is acting out a charades title to several other students who are making wild guesses. This Charades ACtor shows each motion as Kaley answers. )
Kaley: Movie! Four words! Second word….sounds like… (Charades actor
pretends to be in a snowstorm)
Other
Players: Blizzard! Gizzard! Fizzard! Lizzard!
Brett: The Blizzard in the Pantry!
Charades
Actor: No!
(on another part of the stage)
Bingo
Caller: Under “O” -75
Bingo
Player: (excitedly) Oo! Oo! Two left! TWO LEFT!
(One group of cast members jobs across the stage holding hands as in the Crack the Whip Game.)
Hide and Seek or Crack the Whip!
Deal the cards and let’er rip!
Dominoes can cut me loose.
Red light, Green light, Duck, Duck Goose!
(Back to Charades, the Charades Actor continues to show each motion as Brett and Kaley answer.)
Brett: Fourth word!
Kaley: One syllable!
Kent: One syllable? What kind of word has only one syllable?
(Actor opens mouth widely and points to his/her jaw.)
Brett: Jaws!
Kaley: Sounds like…
Kent: Pause! Laws! Saws! Daws! Raws!
Brett: I’ve got it! I’ve got it! The Gizzard of Jaws!
All: (in total disbelief) What?
(At another place on stage, Grandma and Grandpa are playing cards.)
Grandpa: Okay, Grannie! Got any sevens?
Grandma: Go Fish!
(At another part of the stage)
Debbie: Hey! Wanna play 52-Card Pick up?
Kevin: Sure! How do you play?\
Debbie: Here’s fifty two cards. I’ll deal. (flips them on the floor) Now you
pick them up!
(At another part of the stage)
Bingo
Caller: Under the “G” -47
Bingo
Player: Uh! Uh! One left! One left!
Hit the jackpot ev’ry time,
Racko, Spoons or Mastermind.
Rock up billiards right on cue.
Table Football, Sudoku!
Jump Rope, Jackpot, it’s easy!
Indoor soccer, Parcheesi!
Playing games that make you think,
Boggle or CLue or Tiddly Winks!
Penelope: I know! I know!
Brett: What? What? What is it? Say it! Say it! Speak, Penelope!
All: (ad lib) Come on! ...What is it?
Penelope: I know! I know! It’s the Lizzard in Laws!
Charade
Actor: No! No! For crying out loud, its the “Wizard of Oz!”
Penelope: Huh? Never heard of it!
Let the games begin.
Someone’s gotta lose and someone’s gonna win!
Roll the dice or give the board a spin
And let the games begin.
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Let Let the games be-
Let the games be- -gin -gin Someone’s gotta lose and
Someone’s got to Someone’s gonna win.
Win. or Roll the dice or
Give the board a spin Give the board a spin
And let the games be...
Let the games be….
Let the games be….
Bingo
Caller: Under “B” -13!
Bingo
Player: BINGO!!
Let the games begin!
Paper Airplane
Joan:
First, you take a standard piece of paper, not too think, not too thin.
Crease it down the middle, open, taper, bend the corners, bend them in.
Now you want to fold the point down neatly. Got to make a flap.
Then you fold it down the middle. See, it's just a snap!
Fly away on my paper airplane. High above the earth and stars.
Flying high in my paper airplane, ‘round the moon and onto Mars!
Joan: Fold the wings down to the bottom so that the wings are perfectly
aligned to the bottom of the airplane...
Jimmy or Group 2:
What’s the big deal? What makes her so smart?
I can do this if I try with all my heart.
Fold and tuck, I know if I try, with a little luck this plane will fly! (spoken)
(all watch as Jimmy tries to fly his airplane)
(The airplane crashes and all shake their heads.)
All: Awww!
Joan: Don’t feel bad, Jimmy. Unfold the wings slightly so that they are perpendicular to the body of the airplane and form a flat surface.
Jimmy: Easy for you to say.
Group 1: Group 2:
First, you take a standard piece of paper, What’s the big deal?
not too think, not too thin. What makes her so smart?
Crease it down the middle, open, I can do this
taper, bend the corners, bend them in. if I try with all my heart.
Now you want to fold the point down neatly. Fold and tuck,
Got to make a flap. I know if I try,
Then you fold it down the middle. with a little luck this
See, it's just a snap! plane will fly! (spoken)
Fly away on my paper airplane. Fly away,
High above the earth and stars. Fly away!
Flying high in my paper airplane, Fly away,
‘round the moon and onto Mars! ‘round the moon & onto Mars!
Fly away! Fly away!
Fly away! Fly away!
Fly away! Fly away!
(All focus on Jimmy whos is getting ready to fly the airplane.)
Jimmy: I’m ready! I’m ready!
Joan: Then let it fly, Jimmy!
(Jimmy runs to the side of the stage and tosses his airplane into the wings. All focus from stage L to high over the audience's heads as though the plane really soared. All gasp and sigh, “Ooh” and “Ahh”
(Keep focus high with a look of awe on the face, as though you’ve seen something very special in the sky. )
Jimmy Solo: Fly away!
Clouds
Grandpa: Excellent!
John: I see a puppy!
Grandpa
and Grandma: Nice.
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Part 2: (8 beats)
Part 3 (16 beats)
I see flowers on a hillside. I see waves on an ocean blue.
I see mountains soaring upward, I see animals in a zoo.
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I see two ships sailing together, canyons stretching out so far & wide.
All:
Come see camels chewing cotton candy.
Downy sheep tag along for a ride.
Looking at the sky, I feel a great sensation.
Miracles can happen falling out of the blue.
I can see a world in my imagination.
Anything I dream just might come true.
Part 1:
Part 2: (8 beats)
Part 3 (16 beats)
I see flowers on a hillside. I see waves on an ocean blue.
I see mountains soaring upward, I see animals in a zoo.
Looking at the sky,
Dreams might come true.
Ghost Story
Tell-tale heart, a golden arm, a spooky spirit that might do you harm.
Late at night, so little light, a scary story gives you such a fright!
Tell me, tell me, tell me a ghost story.
Tell me, tell me a tale that's weird and gory.
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Scare me if you can. Yes! (loud whisper) Scare me if you can.
Oooooooooooooooo
Dialog 1:
Grandpa: Into our new, but old and musty house crept a scowling man,
with a nasty scar and an evil eye, who could scare the hide
off either you or me.
Kid 1: Where did he come from?
Grandpa: Who knows? He appeared from out of nowhere, like a
ghost….like an apparition…..like a principal.
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A witches brew, and goblins too,
All:
A werewolf’s howl that scares you through and through.
A zombie’s cry
A banshee’s sigh
All:
A dancing mummy with an evil eye!
Dialog 2:
Kid 2: What happened next, Grandpa?
Grandpa: the scowling man said:
Man: Don’t you know the tale of this haunted house?
Grandpa: I said
Kid 3: (acting like a young grandpa) No! No! What do you mean?
Grandpa: He said:
Man: This house is alive! Don’t you know! Aliiiiivvve!!!
Kid 4: Alive?
Man: Yes! Alive as you or me! And if you hear it’s beating heart
you’d better watch out, for this very house might get you!
Solo 1 Solo 2
A ghoulish heist a polttergeist
Solo 1 and 2
A creepy lot with a heart of ice.
Solo 3 Solo 4
A scary dream, a bowl of steam,
Solo 3 and 4
A ghoulish groaning and a phantom’s scream!
All: Ah!
Dialog 3:
Grandpa: The man with the evil eye disappeared. But in my bed that
night I couldn’t help but listen, and listen with all my might!
Kid 1: (breathlessly) And what did you hear, Grandpa?
Kid 2: Yes! Wha did you hear?
Grandpa: It started softly, like a distant drum.
Tell-tale heart, a golden arm, a spooky spirit that might do you harm.
Late at night, so little light, a scary story gives you such a fright!
Grandpa: Then it got louder and louder until the beating of that house’s
heart was as loud very own! Oh the horror!
Tell me, tell me, tell me a ghost story.
Tell me, tell me a tale that's weird and gory.
Scare me if you can. Yes (shout)
Scare me if you can-------------------- ah -------------------
Dialog #4: (over the singing)
Grandpa: (excitedly) The sound was pounding, pounding in my ears!
I raced to the basement, tore up the floorboards and what do you think I found?
Ooo----------------------
All kids: (breathlessly) What?
Grandpa: (quietly with slow energy) There in the floor of the house I
found it...the hideous, horrible and every beating tell-tale heart.
(There are beating hear sounds. Things get quieter and quieter until grandpa says…)
(in a hushed but urgent tone) Can you hear it? Can you hear it?
(The is quiet and learning toward Grandpa.)
Jump Rope Rock
Ah (1,2,3,4)
Come on everybody old and new,
Get a rope you know what to do.
Forget your trouble, forget the clock.
Come and o the Jump Rope Rock now!
Jump rope rock!
Jump rope rock and roll.
Jump rope rock!
Leapin’ in heart and soul.
One, two, three! Hey, look at me.
Let’s jump rope rock and roll!
(Chant)
Sixteen bluebirds sittin’ on a fence.
Flapped their wings and started to dance.
Upward, downward, al along the line,
Brightly preened and lookin’ fine.
Teddy bear, teddy bear turn around.
Teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground.
Teddy bear, teddy bear show you shoe.
Teddy beat, teddy bear that will do!
Jump rope rock!
Jump rope rock and roll.
Jump rope rock!
Leapin’ in heart and soul.
One, two, three! Hey, look at me.
Let’s jump rope rock and roll!
(chant)
Down in the valley where the green grass grows,
there sat Sue sweet as a a rose.
She sang, she sang, she sang so sweet.
Along came Michael and kissed her on her cheek. Yuck!
Mabel, mabel, set the table,
just tas fast you are able.
Don’t forget to the salt, sugar,
red hot pepper!
Ah (1,2,3,4)
Ah (1,2,3,4)
Jump rope rock!
Jump rope rock and roll.
Jump rope rock!
Leapin’ in heart and soul.
One, two, three! Hey, look at me.
A B C, happy as can be.
It’s a jump rope jamboree.
Let’s jump rope rock and roll!
Yeah!
The Good Time Family Band
Grandma:
Come along
Grandpa:
Come on along
Grandma:
Come on along, come join the family band.
Grandpa:
Come along
Grandma:
Come on along
Grandpa:
Oh hey, ain’t it grand?
Grandma and Grandpa:
Play on a piano,
Clap and sing along
With the most sensational
Intergenerational good time family band.
All:
the most sensational
Intergenerational good time family band.
Part 1: Part 2:
Joey, play the skillet Mary on that big tub string bass,
Sister, scrub that washboard.
All:
Brother, bang a pail to keep the pace, oh!
Part 1: Part 2:
Play it on the trash can,
Spoons and sticks will do. Glasses, tub or anything,
There’s room for me,
All:
And room for you. So!
Part 1: Part 2:
Come on a- Come on along, come on along,
Long come join the family band.
Come on a- Come on along, come on along,
Long Oh hey, ain’t it grand?
All:
Play on a piano,
Clap and sing along
With the most sensational
Intergenerational good time family band.
the most sensational
Intergenerational good time family band.
(spoken) Come on, Grandpa, clap your hands.
Come on, Grandma, stomp your feet.
Blow a whistle, ring a bell.
Our family bands complete!
(Play instruments rhythmically)
Come on along, come on along,
Come on along, Come join the family band.
Come on along, come on along,
Come on along. Now hey, ain’t it grand?
Play on a piano,
Clap and sing along
With the most sensational
Intergenerational good time family band.
the most sensational
Intergenerational good time family band.
The good time family band!
Yeah!
It's a Kid's Life
Stayed up late! Feelin’ great!
Glad to be a kid today and just can’t wait.
Gotta say it’s my day
Menu on my Facebook tells me I’m okay!
A kid can dance, a kid can sing.
Never know exactly what today will bring.
Growing up goes so fast.
Living like a kid, I gotta make it last.
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Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Yeah!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life!
Lovin’ my kid’s life!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Yeah!-------------
It’s a kid’s life! It’s a kid’s life! A stress-free kid’s life!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Never dejected.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- kid to kid connected.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!------------- Yeah!--------------
It’s a kid’s life! Kid Life! It’s a kid’s life! Kid Life!