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Quick update.

I've been busy, I've been working on a picture book for kids, writing a play, and I was offered an extension at my school, so I've been trying to figure out my future....


My picture book is a take-off on Brian Froud's smashed fairy book, but it's based on my current reality of living in mosquito infested apartment.

My play is for my kinder's year-end performance. 15 minutes, 2 musical numbers. Everyone needs to be equally represented in the dialog. I think this pretty close. I could use some feed back.
Tell me what you think. Here it is...

Yellow Submarine- LCI version



The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Meanies.

Cast:

Jayden
Tom
Harry
Andy
John
Sean

Amy
Siena
Grace
Charlotte
Helen


The Meanies
Nowhere (Wo)Man
Blue Meanie
Red Meanie
Yellow Meanie


The Beatles +1

George (ina)
Paul (ina) or (Polly)
Ringo
John
Yoko

Sgt. Pepper
Cpt. Fred (ricka










Setting:
The Beatles and Yoko are hanging out at Apple Record studio.



Yoko:   “Hey gang, let’s go to the beach!”

John:  “Great idea Yoko.  I’ll bring my guitar.”

Paul:  “And I’ll bring my piano so we can make music.”

George: “I’ve got some left over shrimp I could bring.”

Ringo:  “I’ll make my world famous egg salad.”

Yoko:  “Now where are my sunglasses...”





Setting: Pepperland.

Sgt. Pepper is working in his kelp garden, Cpt. Fred  approaches.

The Meanies and the Nowhere Man are hiding in different places on the stage.




Sgt. Pepper:  Humming his song...

Cpt. Fred:  “Sargent Pepper!  Ahoy there! What are you doing today?”

Sgt. Pepper:  “Nothing much,  I’m just harvesting some kelp for supper.”

Cpt. Fred:  “How’s the crop this year?”

Sgt. Pepper:  “Not bad, but I haven’t been able to keep those pesky Kelp Crabs out of my garden.  I need to get some crab traps.”

Cpt. Fred:  “I’m sorry to.....  

  The Nowhere Man and his Meanies jump out from their hiding places.

Nowhere Man:  “AH HA!  I have caught you without your Lonely Hearts Club Band!  They’re always singing and making music.  We Meanies HATE music.”

ALL MEANIES:  “ YEAH, WE MEANIES HATE MUSIC!”
Blue Meanie:  “We’ve been waiting for this moment for years!”

Yellow Meanie:  “Finally, we can put a stop to all of this MUSIC nonsense!”

Red Meanie:  “Ha Ha Ha!  We’ll take him back to Nowhere land”

Blue Meanie:  “Alright Meanies,  get your nets!”

The Meanies throw their nets over Sgt. Pepper and begin to take
    him off stage.

Sgt. Pepper:  “ Cpt. Fred!  Quickly,  go get help!”

Yellow Meanie:  “Don’t let him get away!”

Cpt. Fred:  “Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon with help!”

Cpt. Fred runs off stage. With Red Meanie chasing him.

    Red Meanie comes back onto stage.

Red Meanie:  “I couldn’t catch him,  he was too fast for me.”

Blue Meanie:  “No problem, let’s get him to the dungeon.”

Yellow Meanie:  “We’ll put tape over his mouth”

Red Meanie:  “And stick cotton in his ears”

Nowhere Man:  “You’ll never make music again Sargent Pepper!”

Blue Meanie:  “Throw him into the Mean Machine!”

NwMan/Meanies:  “NO MORE MUSIC IN PEPPERLAND, NO MORE MUSIC IN  
                                PEPPERLAND.........”

while taking Sgt Pepper off stage

Setting:

The beach: The Beatles are eating egg salad, John is playing

     guitar, Paul is playing piano.

Cpt. Fred runs up tired and out of breath.



Cpt. Fred:  “Beatles! HELP! Sargent Pepper has been kidnapped by the Nowhere Man and

      the Meanies!”

John:  “Oh no, this is terrible! We need to rescue him.”

Paul:  “Pepperland can’t survive without music.”

George:  “But we don’t know where they’re keeping him.”

Ringo:  “Captain Fred, do have any idea where the Meanies might have taken Sargent Pepper?”

Cpt: Fred:  “I think so.  They said they were taking him to Nowhere land.”

Yoko: “If we hurry, I bet we can catch them in the Yellow Submarine!”

John:  “Great idea Yoko!  Everyone to the Yellow Submarine!”


Everyone sings:  Yellow Submarine. The Beatles/Cpt. Fred float around

the stage in the Yellow Submarine.  At “And our friends are all

aboard...” they find the Meanies and chase them around the stage.

Paul:  “There they are, and they have Sargent Pepper.”

George:  “Poor Sargent Pepper.  He’s being held in a net like a tuna fish!”

Ringo:  “We need to hurry! They’re almost to the gates of Nowhere land!”

Cpt Fred:  “But how will we stop him?”

Yoko:  “I know, we need to teach the Meanies to like music”

John:  to the Nowhere Man: “Great idea Yoko!  Nowhere Man, please listen!”

Paul:  “You don’t know what you’re missing!”

George:  “He’s not stopping, he knows exactly where he’s going to!”



Nowhere Man:  “Go away!  We’re going keep Sargent Pepper in Nowhere land forever!”

Blue Meanie:  “Yeah,  Pepperland will never sing again!”



Ringo:  “Well, he definitely has a point of view.”



Yellow Meanie:  to Ringo “That’s right.  And there’s nothing you can do to change our

  minds!”

Red Meanie:  “We will never learn to like music!”



Yoko:  “But how do you know if you like music or not?  Maybe you just haven’t heard a song
           that you like.”

John:  “Great idea Yoko! They’ve probably just never heard good music before.”

Paul:  “All right guys.  Let’s sing a song for them.”

The Beatles start to sing “All Together Now”.

At “Boom bah boom” the Meanies start to sing and enjoy

themselves.

Blue Meanie:   to George “Is music always this fun?”
Yellow Meanie:   “Yeah, that was great!”

Red Meanie:   to Nowhere Man  “How come we’ve never heard good music before?

Nowhere Man:  looking at Sgt. Pepper  “It was 20 years ago today, that Sargent  

Pepper taught the band to play.”

Sgt. Pepper puts his hands over his face.

George: “That’s right!  I remember now....  The Band!

Ringo:  to Nowhere Man  ”Hey....  Nowhere Man....   you used to be in Sargent Pepper’s

band.”  

Yoko:  “ I remember now!  Didn’t you break up over a girl?”

Blue/Yellow/Red Meanies:  “ Is that true boss? “

Everyone looks at Nowhere Man.

Nowhere Man:  “Yes, it is.   Her name was Maggie May....”

Cpt. Fred:  “And she stole the sargent’s heart....”

Everyone looks at Sgt. Pepper

Sgt. Pepper:  “She also stole my diamonds and ran away with her friend Lucy”  

John:  “I think there’s a lesson in here somewhere.”

Blue Meanie:  “Friendship is very important”

Yellow Meanie:  “ Nowhere Man’s feelings were really hurt”

Red Meanie:  “Sargent Pepper should have apologized to his best friend.”

Sgt. Pepper:  to Red Meanie  “You’re right.”  

    to Nowhere Man  “I’m so sorry for hurting your feelings.”

George:  to the audience  “You’re such a lovely audience.”
Ringo:  to the audience  “We’d love to take you home.”

All:   to the audience   “We hope you have enjoyed the show.

We’re sorry, but it’s time to go”

Everyone waves, bows, and exits the stage.




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And I needed to add this little gem. From a student. I wish he was my student, and that I could take credit for this work of genius.

-Diary of a mud snail.
I am super handsome mud snail.  In science class Kane take me in his house.  Kane don’t care me and don’t give me a water.  Every day Kane’s mom give me a water and vegetables.  I want to play with Kane but Kane don’t play with me and he play with toy.  I am in water and Kane is out of the water.  My poo poo is black.  Kane’s poo poo is black.  I have antena and Kane don’t have antena.  Sometimes I was very hungry, but I can’t speak.  I was came with my friend but he was died because water is dirty.  I hate Kane.  I am very sick.  I want to live along time but I died last week.  I am in the heaven with god and my friends.-

Take care.