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SCENE # (location)
SCENE 1A (DSLC – Apron plus)
CURTAINS: All down
CHARACTERS IN SCENE (CAUTION: May not be all-inclusive! If you think you should be in a scene, CHECK!)
DESCRIPTION: CLOCK OPENING NARRATION START
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: 12 O’Clock; 3 O’Clock; 6 O’Clock; 9 O’Clock
SET PIECES: Free Standing Clock Works (Hour, Min, Sec hand); possible platform for 12 O’Clock to stand on for height
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES: Clock Numbers colorful sweats/shirts with Roman Numerals on shirts and Arabic Numbers on hats
SCENE 1B (SR – QUAD 1 + DSLC –
Apron plus + offstage voice)
CURTAINS: SR Split Black up; SL Split
Black still down)
DESCRIPTION: MILO AND TOLLBOOTH; CLOCK OPENING NARRATION END
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Voice (offstage); 12 O’Clock; 3 O’Clock; 6 O’Clock; 9 O’Clock
SET PIECES: Bed with wall attached to long side and shelves filled with books, games, etc. attached to wall; free-standing
punching bag base with wall behind and dart board on wall; Desk with computer/game controllers on it and wall attached to
back and flat screen attached to wall; large “shipping crate” with tollbooth and parts inside; “toy vehicle”
PROPS: Milo’s Backpack; Note on large package; 3 precautionary signs; coins; map; book of rules and regulations
COSTUME NOTES: MILO =?
SCENE 2A1 (SL – QUAD 2)
DESCRIPTION: WHETHER MAN
CURTAINS: SR Split Black down; SL
Split Black up
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Whether Man; [Lethargarians (hidden among scenery – others offstage)]
NOTES: Strike Milo’s Room while this
scene is going on
SET PIECES: WELCOME TO EXPECTATIONS Sign (Whether Man to pull off with him); Rotating scenery rig (with some painting
to conceal Lethargarian’s matching fabric); Free-standing boulders covered with fabrics that match nightshirts; “toy vehicle”
PROPS: Umbrella for Whether Man; Pillow “Rocks” for Lethargarians
COSTUME NOTES: Whether Man = Rain Slicker and hat (with character name printed on back of slicker); Lethargarians =
Colorful Night Shirts and sleeping caps
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SCENE 2A2 (SL – QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
changes
DESCRIPTION: LETHARGARIANS
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Lethargarians
SET PIECES: Strike Sign, otherwise no change
PROPS: Pillow “Rocks” for Lethargarians
COSTUME NOTES: No changes
SCENE 2A3 (SL – QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
changes
DESCRIPTION: ENTER TOCK THE WATCHDOG (MOVING SCENERY)
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES: Tock – Watchdog with Clock face in center of belly area
SCENE 3 (Stage Apron to split blacks)
CURTAINS: All down
NOTES: Place car half in/half off stage
heading from SR to SL behind leg 2
while this scene is taking place
DESCRIPTION: PRINCESS BANISHMENT “THOUGHT BUBBLE”
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Azaz; Mathemagician; Princess Rhyme; Princess Reason; CROWD ABC’s; CROWD 123’s
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: Mathemagician Pencil Staff
COSTUME NOTES: Crowd has colorful shirts with either letters or numbers on fronts
SCENE 4A1 (QUAD 1 & QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks both
up; Blackout down
DESCRIPTION: ENTERING DICTIONOPOLIS
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock
SET PIECES: “Toy Vehicle”
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES: No Change
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SCENE 4A2 (QUAD 1 & QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: No Change
DESCRIPTION: THE GATEKEEPER
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Gatekeeper; GATE CHARACTERS (4)
SET PIECES: “Toy Vehicle”
PROPS: Suitcase on a tray table; Excuses (including “WHY NOT”)
COSTUME NOTES: 4 Colorful shirts and sweats with “G,” “A,” “T,” & “E” on respective fronts
SCENE 4B1 (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks and
Blackout all up
NOTES: Banquet for next scene is
concealed behind “full upstage flats”
that create the palace and
marketplace atmosphere
DESCRIPTION: THE WORD MARKET
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Gatekeeper; GATE characters; Merchant – Juicy Tempting Words; Merchant – Best Quality
Words; Merchant – Words By The Bag; Merchant – Letterman; Banquet Guests 1 through 8; MARKETPLACE BUYERS
SET PIECES: Word Carts (4); Palace/Market Square Backdrop; WELCOME TO THE WORD MARKET Sign
PROPS: Individual Words and Letters (per script); Baskets for market buyers
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 4B2 (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: ENTER THE SPELLING BEE
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Gatekeeper; GATE characters; Merchant – Juicy Tempting Words; Merchant – Best Quality
Words; Merchant – Words By The Bag; Merchant – Letterman; Banquet Guests 1through 8; MARKETPLACE BUYERS; Spelling
Bee
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: No Change
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 4B3 (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: ENTER THE HUMBUG
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Gatekeeper; GATE characters; Merchant – Juicy Tempting Words; Merchant – Best Quality
Words; Merchant – Words By The Bag; Merchant – Letterman; Banquet Guests 1 through 8; MARKETPLACE BUYERS; Spelling
Bee; Humbug
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: Walking Cane
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 4B4 (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: ENTER THE MINISTERS
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Gatekeeper; GATE characters; Merchant – Juicy Tempting Words; Merchant – Best Quality
Words; Merchant – Words By The Bag; Merchant – Letterman; Banquet Guests 1 through 8; MARKETPLACE BUYERS; Spelling
Bee; Humbug; Minister – Duchess of Definition; Minister – Minister of Meaning; Minister – Earl of Essence; Minister –
Countess of Connotation; Minister – Undersecretary of Understanding
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: No Change
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 5A1 (Up Stage)
CURTAINS: Palace Backdrop Rail up
DESCRIPTION: THE BANQUET
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Gatekeeper; GATE characters; Merchant – Juicy Tempting Words; Merchant – Best Quality
Words; Merchant – Words By The Bag; Merchant – Letterman; Banquet Guests 1 through 8; MARKETPLACE BUYERS; Spelling
Bee; Humbug; Minister – Duchess of Definition; Minister – Minister of Meaning; Minister – Earl of Essence; Minister –
Countess of Connotation; Minister – Undersecretary of Understanding; Page; Azaz; BANQUET WAITERS
SET PIECES: Banquet tables and chairs (with linen covers and settings for ___)
PROPS: Serving Trays with lids; Food items per script; carts for waiters
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 5A2 (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: THE BANQUET’S OVER
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Azaz the Unabridged; [Page]
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: Box with Letters of the Alphabets
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 6A1 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks)
CURTAINS: Blackout down; SL & SR
Split Blacks down
NOTES: Can start setting the CastleIn-The-Air behind Blackout Curtain
DESCRIPTION: BACK ON THE ROAD – PRE-KAKAFONOUS A DISCHORD
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug
SET PIECES: “Toy Vehicle”
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 6A2 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks)
DESCRIPTION: KAKAFONOUS A DISCHORD
CURTAINS: No Change
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Kakafonous A. Dischord
NOTES: Scene change for microphone
change
SET PIECES: Kakafonous A. Dischord Wagon – with drop down sides ala “snake oil salesman wagon”
PROPS: Stethoscope; Forehead Mirror; Mortar & Pestle; “Recipe” book; Jars of Sounds; Mixing Bowl; Awful Dynne “Genie”
bottle
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 6A3 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks)
DESCRIPTION: ENTER THE AWFUL DYNNE
CURTAINS: No Change
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Kakafonous A. Dischord; Awful Dynne
NOTES: Scene change for Microphone
change
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: Package with the sounds of laughter; Empty sacks to collect noises
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 6A4 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks)
DESCRIPTION: ON THE ROAD TO DIGITOPOLIS
CURTAINS: No Change
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug
NOTES: Sign to Digitopolis needs to
be placed behind SR Split Black
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 6B1 (QUAD 1)
CURTAINS: SR Split Black up
DESCRIPTION: THE FORK IN THE ROAD 1 – VOICE
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Voice (offstage)
SET PIECES: “FORK” in the road with signpost to Digitopolis
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 6B2 (QUAD 1)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for Microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: THE FORK IN THE ROAD – 2
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: No Change
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 6B3 (QUAD 1 & QUAD 2; goes
to Stage Apron to Split Blacks later)
DESCRIPTION: THE DODECAHEDRON
CURTAINS: SL Split Black up;
(later in scene: SR & SL Split Blacks
down)
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Dodecahedron Faces 1 through 12
NOTES: Once Split Blacks are down
set the Numbers Mine and
Mathemagician Rooms
PROPS: Dodecahedron Faces with straps attached to backsides to wear like backpacks
SCENE 7A1 (QUAD 1)
CURTAINS: SR Split Black up
NOTES: Need electric connection for
Cauldron of Subtraction Stew?
SET PIECES: Dodecahedron Faces and framework?
COSTUME NOTES: Faces of pictures of the cast member on dodecahedron face?
DESCRIPTION: THE NUMBERS MINE
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Dodecahedron Faces 1 through 12; Mathemagician; FLUORESCENT MINERS;
CAULDRON MINERS
SET PIECES: Miner Carts filled with mined numbers (4); Mine wall with numbers attached and some detachable; Subtraction
Stew Cauldron (set up with electric behind SL Split Black and able to come forward around curtain)
PROPS: Head Lights (3-15); Bowls and Spoons for Subtraction Stew; Mathemagician Pencil Staff; Mathemagician Whistle;
Individual Numbers (per script); fluorescent pick axes
COSTUME NOTES: Fluorescent numbers painted on black shirts for the miners; fluorescent gloves and shoes
SCENE 7A2 (QUAD 2)
DESCRIPTION: THE MATHEMAGICIAN’S ROOM
CURTAINS: SR Split Black down then
SL Split Black up
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Mathemagician; Mathemagician Clones (3); [Mathemagician’s Assistant]
NOTES: Gobo of Biggest and longest
number on SR Split Blacks
SET PIECES: Workbench with peg board wall attached to long side and having a collection of tapes, measures, rulers, weights,
and other measuring devices attached; desk platform with chair and back wall (90 degrees to desk) with blackboard covered
with equations and numbers; giant notepad on easel; life size cutouts of Mathemagician
PROPS: Mathemagician Pencil Staff; Numbers letter to Azaz (on poster board); Milo’s Pencil Wand
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 7A3 (QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for Microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: THE SERIOUS OBSTACLE
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Mathemagician; Mathemagician’s Assistant
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 8 (Stage Apron to Split Blacks)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks Down
NOTES: Set up Tree for Wordsnatcher
behind SR Split Black and set up
Terrible Trivium Set Pieces behind SL
Split Black during this scene
DESCRIPTION: RHYME BE REASONABLE
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Princess Rhyme; Princess Reason
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 9A1 (QUAD 1 & QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks Up
NOTES:
DESCRIPTION: THE EVERPRESENT WORDSNATCHER
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; The Everpresent Wordsnatcher
SET PIECES: The Tree; Sand Pile; Well #1 & Well #2; Cliff (Rock Formation)
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 9A2 (QUAD 1 & QUAD 2)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES: Scene change for Microphone
change
DESCRIPTION: THE TERRIBLE TRIVIUM
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; The Terrible Trivium
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: Tweezers; Eye Dropper; Needle
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 9A3 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks and off front of stage)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks down;
Blackout up
NOTES: Strike Mid Stage scenery;
Blackout can be taken up now to be
ready for Scene 10
DESCRIPTION: DEMON OF INSINCERITY
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; The Demon of Insincerity
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 9A4 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks and off front of stage)
DESCRIPTION: UP FROM THE PIT
CURTAINS: No Change
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; DEMONS (Overbearing Know-It-All; Gross Exaggeration; Horrible Hopping
Hindsight; Triple Demons of Compromise)
NOTES:
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: Humbug’s Umbrella
COSTUME NOTES: Fluorescent Yellow Eyes on demon costumes (or yellow “eyes” flashlights?)
SCENE 10A (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks up
NOTES:
DESCRIPTION: THE SENSES TAKER
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; The Senses Taker
SET PIECES: Castle-In-The-Air (with stairs up one side and a slide down the other)
PROPS: Quill Pen; Ink Bottle; Ledger Book; Long Forms to be filled out (3 sets); Pencils for forms (3); Short Forms to be filled
out (3 sets)
COSTUME NOTES: Senses Taker has ink-stained clothes and spectacles
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SCENE 10B (Full Stage)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES:
DESCRIPTION: THE CASTLE-IN-THE-AIR
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Demons; Princess Rhyme; Princess Reason
SET PIECES: No Change
PROPS: Package of Letters (including letters to spell ENTRANCE and PUSH)
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 10C1 (Full Stage into Stage
Apron to Split Blacks)
CURTAINS: SR & SL Split Blacks in;
Blackout Curtain in
NOTES: Reset Milo’s Bedroom with
Tollbooth behind SR Split Black
DESCRIPTION: TIME FLIES
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Demons; Princess Rhyme; Princess Reason
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 10C2 (Stage Apron to Split
Blacks and Audience)
CURTAINS: No Change
NOTES:
DESCRIPTION: THE ARMIES SAVE THE DAY
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Demons; Princess Rhyme; Princess Reason; Azaz; AZAZ’s ARMY; Mathemagician;
MATHEMAGICIAN’s ARMY; Spelling Bee; Page; Gatekeeper; GATE CHARACTERS; Merchant – Juicy Tempting Words; Merchant
– Best Quality Words; Merchant – Words By The Bag; Merchant – Letterman; CROWD ABC’s; CROWD 123’s; Minister –
Duchess of Definition; Minister – Minister of Meaning; Minister – Earl of Essence; Minister – Countess of Connotation;
Minister – Undersecretary of Understanding
SET PIECES: None
PROPS: Page’s Scroll with declaration; Armies’ Weapons?
COSTUME NOTES:
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SCENE 10C3 (Stage Apron to Split
Black Curtains)
DESCRIPTION: MILO’S FINAL GOODBYES
CURTAINS: No Change
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; Tock; Humbug; Princess Rhyme; Princess Reason; Azaz; Mathemagician; VEHICLE MOVERS
NOTES:
SET PIECES: “Toy Vehicle”
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES:
SCENE 11 (SR – QUAD 1 + DSLC –
Apron plus + offstage voice)
DESCRIPTION: HOME AGAIN – FINALE
CURTAINS: SR Split Black up
CHARACTERS IN SCENE: Milo; 12 O’Clock; 3 O’Clock; 6 O’Clock; 9 O’Clock
NOTES: Strike Milo’s Bedroom for
Curtain Call
SET PIECES: Milo’s Bedroom (same as Scene 1B)
PROPS: None
COSTUME NOTES: