Dorothy Potter And The Wizards Of Oz
Script and Lyrics by: Janinne Chadwick c. 2016
For Little People’s Repertory Theatre
Script and Lyrics by: Janinne Chadwick c. 2016
Act One: Scene 1
A Nursery
Lullaby
A nursery that includes a crib and a shelf or dresser. Baby Dorothy is standing in her
crib. Her mother is rocking in a rocking chair, knitting. Her father is off-stage.
Baby Dorothy: (calling for her father) Daddy! Daddy! Bertie Beans!
Lillian: No more candy, darling, it’s time for bed.
Father enters.
Jim: Did I hear my favorite little witch calling for me?
Lillian: Say goodnight to Daddy and I’ll sing you a lullaby.
Baby Dorothy: Goodnight Daddy.
Lullaby
Lillian:
Rock a bye, Dorothy, in your baby bed
One day you’ll fly on a broomstick instead
When the owl comes calling you’ll study and play
And learn to use magic in a school far away
Veldamort enters. She has a Ruby wand. She points her wand at Father and he falls
down dramatically as Mother tries to shield Dorothy.
Lillian: (screams) No, not Dorothy! Curse me instead.
Veldamort: Out of my way, silly woman!
Veldamort waves her wand at Mother, who falls to the ground.
Veldamort: (to Dorothy) And now my pretty! There’s not room in this world for the
both of us! Avada Kedavra!
The spell deflects onto Veldamort, who writhes in pain and staggers out of the room.
Veldamort: (as she’s leaving) Ahhh, what have you done?
Baby Dorothy: (reaches for her forehead where her ruby scar has appeared) Owie!
Mama, Owie.
Blackout.
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Act One: Scene 2
A Farmhouse
Privet Drive
There’s a farmhouse with a windmill and crooked mailbox. A rickety house stands
with a raised porch and a small cupboard under the steps. A postal worker has a
pack of mail over his shoulder. Toto, an owl, is next to the mailbox.
Mail Carrier: (to Toto) You again!
Toto: Whooo.
Mail Carrier: You! I told you yesterday, you better get or I’m gonna call Animal
Control. Tamperin’ with the mail is a federal offense.
Toto: Whooo. [She goes and hides.]
Mail Carrier: Thank goodness I’m almost done with my rounds! There’s a twister acomin’. [Takes some mail from pack and checks it over.] Mr. and Mrs. Em and Henry
Dursley, Rural Route 13, Privet Drive, Kansas. [Places the letter in the box, digs into
bag again.] Oh, it looks like I missed something; this election ballot. [Looks at it
disgustedly]. “Elect Elmira Drumph for Mayor.” That witch! What next? [Takes a
moment to look around.] The winds a gettin’ rough; hope it’s not gonna be too hard
on our little town. We’re just a bunch of ordinary folks. Well, most of us anyway.
Black and white lighting, which changes to some color over the cupboard. Everyone
enters at various stages in the song, pantomiming activity.
Privet Drive
Mail Carrier:
On Privet Drive there is a farm house with a little girl
Who has a bed inside a cupboard ‘neath the stairs
Her aunt and uncle don’t seem to care
Like she isn’t there
Toto:
In the daytime when the little girl must go to school
The other children laugh at her behind her back
She has a scar because she was attacked
But she can not ask
What a task
Everyone:
Privet Drive the time has come to say goodbye
There’s - a twister brewin’ in the sky
Till summer don’t look back
On Privet Drive where Auntie Em and Uncle Hen-e-ry
Are working hard because a storm is on the way
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And though you feel you recognize this play
Watch it any way
You already paid
Privet Drive the time has come to say goodbye
there’s - a twister brewin in the sky
Till summer don’t look back
Privet Drive
The Farmhands (Minnie, Blackie, Remy, and Ruben) are working hard, getting ready
for the storm. Auntie Em is pulling clothing from a clothesline.
Auntie Em: Dorothy! Dorothy! [Dimples saunters over preoccupied with a handful of
coats.] Oh, where is your lazy cousin? There’s a twister a-comin’!
Dimples: She’s probably still in her cupboard. You told her yesterday to stay out of
your way until you needed her. [She holds up 2 coats in front of her.] Mummy, which
coat should I wear for the twister? I just can’t decide. I have so many.
Auntie Em: Let me see them on you, Dimply-didems. [Dimples puts one on.] Aren’t
you precious.
Auntie Em walks over to the cupboard and knocks on the door.
Auntie Em: Dorothy, come out of there. Get on out here and help us get ready for
the storm. There’s a twister a-comin’ and Dimples needs me to help her choose a
coat.
Dorothy comes out of her cupboard.
Dorothy: Yes Auntie Em. [Dorothy clutches herself and shivers from the cold.]
Dimples: Which coat Mummy?! Hurry! I’m cold.
Auntie Em: Maybe you should wear them both, Sweetums. This one now and this
one later.
Dimples: Hmmm, nah, this one’s old. I’m going to throw it away. [Shoves Dorothy as
she walks off stage.] What are you looking at? Mother said help, there’s a twister acomin’.
Dimples exits. Uncle Henry enters eating a sandwich.
Uncle Henry: Don’t just stand there, girl, make yourself useful and get the mail. That
reminds me, I got to fix up the mailbox before the storm hits. Last storm, the old
mailbox up and blew away.
Dorothy: Yes Uncle Henry. [She turns toward the mailbox.]
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Uncle Henry: No lollygagging down by the road either, and don’t be snooping in our
business, reading our letters. (Beat.) Run along, what are you waiting for?
Uncle Henry exits. Dorothy approaches the mailbox hurriedly and visibly cold.
Dorothy: “Dorothy do this, Dorothy do that. Dorothy get in your cupboard, Dorothy
get out of your cupboard.” How I wish I could get away from here, somewhere far
from Privet Drive, far from Kansas, somewhere over the rainbow.
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Dorothy:
Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high
There's a school that I've heard of once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream,
Really do come true.
Someday I'll wish upon a star
And ride a train where Privet Drive’s behind me.
Where troubles melt like Bertie Botts,
Way above the chimney tops,
That's where you'll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow, broomsticks fly
Brooms fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
Somewhere over the rainbow, owls fly
Owls fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?
If busy little owls fly beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?
Dorothy takes the mail out of the box and begins to check it casually. Toto (an owl)
enters, flying in. Dorothy, startled, drops the mail.
Toto: Are you Dorothy Potter? Rural Route 13, Privet Drive, Cupboard Under the
Steps, Kansas?
Dorothy: Are you an owl? [She picks up the mail hurriedly.]
Toto: Whoo.
Dorothy: You. (indicating the envelope) Is that for me? [Toto gives her the envelope.
She takes the letter out of the envelope and reads.] “Ozwarts School Of Witchcraft
and Wizardry”?
Uncle Henry enters with a tool box, sees Dorothy looking at the mail.
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Uncle Henry: I told you to stay out of our business, girl! Give me that! [He takes the
mail from her.]
Dorothy: This one has my name on it. (pointing at Toto) That owl brought it to me.
Uncle Henry: An owl? [Notices Toto and runs towards her flapping his arms wildly.]
I told you “shoo”! Get out of here! How many times do I have to tell you!
Toto flies off.
Dorothy: But Uncle Henry, it says it’s from Ozwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry!
Flustered, he snatches the letter from her hand.
Uncle Henry: Don’t be foolish, there is no such thing as owls, um, er, wizards! [He
stuffs the mail in his pocket.] I said no lollygagging! Now go help your aunt!
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 3
Still at the Farmhouse
One Little Bird
Everyone is working in the background (except Uncle Henry). In the foreground,
Dorothy is pulling laundry from a clothesline. Toto flies in with another letter.
Toto: Post for Dorothy Potter, Rural Route 13, …
Dorothy: Yes, yes, shhh! They’ll hear you. Let me see it quick. [She tears it open
and reads.] “You have been accepted to study at Ozwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry.” What does this mean? Who is it from?
Toto: Why, what do you mean ‘what does it mean’? It’s from the Headmaster.
Dorothy: (reading) “Term begins September 1st.” (to Toto) Such short notice.
Toto: I’ve been trying to deliver this post every day for weeks! The last Ozwarts
Express leaves in a few hours. We have to hurry if you want to make the train.
Dorothy: (excitedly) A train? I’ve never been on a train! (dejectedly) Wait, what am I
thinking, my aunt and uncle, they’ll never let me go.
Toto: Are you sure you’re Dorothy Potter?
Dorothy: Of course I’m sure. (looking at the letter) How did this place find me?
Nobody knows me.
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Toto: Everyone knows about you, Dorothy. You are a very powerful witch. And
(looking to the sky) an important witch such as yourself would do whatever was
necessary to get on with her magical education.
Dorothy: Me, important? No one’s ever called me that before.
Toto: Really?
Dorothy: Really. Most people around here aren’t very nice to me at all.
Toto: Don’t you have any friends?
Dorothy: No.
Toto: Well, you do now. [Toto puts a wing around Dorothy’s shoulders.]
One Little Bird
Toto:
Don’t worry, ‘bout a thing
Cause every little thing is gonna be alright
Dorothy and Toto:
Don’t worry, ‘bout a thing
‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright
Dorothy:
Rise up this morning, before my work was done
This little bird, outside my cupbord
Bringing letters, hard to believe it’s true, saying
Both:
This is a message for you
Don’t worry, ‘bout a thing
Cause every little thing is gonna be alright
Don’t worry, ‘bout a thing
Cause every little thing is gonna be alright
Toto: Run and get your things, there’s a twister a-comin’.
Dorothy: So I’ve heard. [Dorothy grabs a small basket.]
Toto: Let’s go!
They start to head out when Uncle Henry is spotted coming up the path with his tool
box. From a different location, Snoop and Elmira Drumph are heading to the farm.
Drumph is clearly in charge wearing a long dress and a bonnet; she has a clipboard
and a whistle. Snoop has a net and a cage, possibly on a trike with a large basket.
Dorothy: (notices them) Oh no - look!
Remy: (puts the rake down) It’s animal control, and old Elmira Drumph!
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Minnie: What’s animal control doin’ here, have any of the hogs gotten out?
Uncle Henry: (to the farmhands) Get that owl!
Ruben: Aww, what do they want with a poor, old owl?
Elmira: (to everyone) A-hahahahah! Get that owl! Don’t let it get away!
Farmhands & Auntie Em all stop what they’re doing and run towards Dorothy and
Toto.
Dorothy: Stop, Toto’s mine. She’s my friend. [Dorothy tries to protect Toto.]
Elmira: Out of my way little girl. This owl is illegal. It doesn’t belong in these parts.
It’s non-native. It must be destroyed!
Snoop: (grabbing the owl with his net and putting a collar on it) You’re in the wrong
neighborhood, owl.
Dorothy: No, you wouldn’t! You mustn't, she didn’t do anything wrong!
Elmira: Mr. Dursley, control your young charge or we’ll have her locked up for
disturbing the peace. There’s a law against obstructing justice.
Blackie: Dorothy, you don’t wanna be breakin’ the law. These folks mean business.
Snoop: That’s right. Better get used to it. When Ms. Drumph is the new mayor,
she’s gonna be real tough on crime.
Elmira: When I’m the mayor we’re gonna make this town great again! We’ll build a
prison and it’s gonna be huge! Maybe you’ll be one of the first criminals to break it in.
[She stuffs a ticket in Dorothy’s apron.] This is strike one, little girl. Strike two and
you’re out!
Dorothy: I thought it was three strikes and you’re out?
Snoop: I told you she was tough on crime.
Snoop and Drumph leave with Toto. Everyone gets back to work.
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 4
Still at the Farmhouse
The Return Of The Non-Native
Dorothy is in the foreground at clothesline. Auntie Em sticks her head out the door.
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Auntie Em: (yelling) Dorothy, finish your chores and get in the cupboard! It’s a
twister!
She pops back in and slams the door. Toto sneaks in.
Dorothy: Toto! You came back! How did you do it?
Toto: Nevermind, we’ve got to get to the train station quick!
They run off.
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 5
Platform 6 and 3/4s
Twister
A brick train platform, with an abandoned train car. Dorothy and Toto blow into the
scene.
Dorothy: (clutching her letter) Where is platform 6 and ¾?
Toto: It’s right here, hurry! I hear the train! Jump!
Dorothy and Toto jump through a structure and land, but the Express train has just
left. The storm is getting worse.
Toto: Oh no, we missed the train!
Dorothy: Toto, we have find some shelter! Quickly! [They run towards the train car.]
In here!
Dorothy and Toto get in the train car. Some kind of magic happens and the car spins
around while an Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Dimples and Farmhands sing.
Free Flyin’
Toto:
Been a good girl, raised without a mama
Been a farm girl, but those days are through
There’s a twister, blowin’ through Kansas
Now a new life is waitin’ for you
Minnie:
Got some new friends, ready to meet ya
And some en(e)-mies, gonna make your life hard
Learn magic from some powerful wizards
So get ready for your adventure to start
Auntie Em, Uncle Henry, Dimples and Farmhands:
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Cuz you’re free, free flyin’
And you’re free, free flyin’
Yeah you’re free, free flyin’
Haggard, Uncle Henry, Remy and Blackie:
You’ll go to Hogsmead and Emerald-alley
Move west down the Yellow Brick Road
The Dimentors are waiting in the shadows
Almost at Ozwarts, where it all starts
All:
Cuz you’re free, free flyin’
And you’re free, free flyin’
Yeah you’re free,
Free flyin’
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 6
Whomping Willow
Crash Landing
In the background is Ozwarts castle and a Yellow Brick Road. In the foreground are
Haggard’s hut and Whomping Willow. Train car has landed on Veldamort. Only her
feet are sticking out. Dorothy and Toto emerge from train car. Dorothy has a wand in
her hand.
Dorothy: (looking around in amazement) Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas
anymore. [As they look around they notice Glindledore apparating.] Now I know
we’re not in Kansas. We must be over the rainbow.
Glindledore: Welcome Dorothy! I see you already have made good use of your
wand. [Indicates the wand in her hand.]
Dorothy: My wand? I don’t have a wand. [Notices the wand.] Goodness! How did I
get this?!
Glindledore: Magic. You are a witch, Dorothy.
Dorothy: Oh, but I’m not a witch, witches are old and ugly.
The Elfkins giggle from offstage.
Dorothy: What was that?
Glindledore: That was the Elfkins. They are magical house servants who live in this
land. Haggard, you may bring the Elfkins out to meet Dorothy. They are laughing
because only muggles believe that witches are old and ugly.
Haggard and the Elfkins come out from hiding.
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Dorothy: (confused) The what?
Glindledore: The non-magical people where you were raised. Now my dear Miss
Potter, you are neither old, nor ugly, and you most certainly are a witch. In fact you
are quite powerful. (pointing to Veldamort) It looks like you may have already
mastered the killing curse.
Dorothy: Why, I didn’t mean to curse anyone.
The Teachers run in.
MC Gonagall: Professor Glindledore! What’s going on here?
Sprout: There’s a train car in my Mandrake bed!
Glindledore: Professors, allow me to introduce Dorothy Potter. She … missed the
train, and flew in on a cyclone.
Flikwit: Charmed, I’m sure.
Dobbins: (loudly clearing her throat) Dorothy Potter, so long has Dobbins wanted to
meet you, such an honor it is. (Shakes her hand and bows) Dobbins, the house
elfkin.
Dorothy: Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Blinkey: Did you really kill her, Miss?
Hokey: Dorothy Potter dropped a train on her!
Kiki: I saw it with my own eyes!
Bini: Then she disarmed her…
Skreacher: ...without even saying a word.
Dorothy: Oh my goodness, I didn’t mean to! There was a twister and I missed the
train, so we took cover in that train car.
Trelawney: Oh, my dear, a veil of misfortune hangs over your head. I predict you
are in grave danger.
Haggard: Don’t worry Dorothy, we’ll look after you. Allow me to introduce myself.
Ruben Haggard. You're the spittin’ image of your mother.
Glindledore: But she has her father’s eyes.
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Dorothy: You knew my parents?
Glindledore: That is for another day my dear.
Brambles: Dorothy Potter came to avenge you know who!
Dorothy: Who?
JinJir: You know…[Points to Veldamort.]
Dorothy: Avenge her for what?
Dobbins: For cursing your parents!
MC Gonagall: Not now Dobbins!
Dorothy: She cursed my parents?
MC Gonagall: She looks to be quite dead, Dorothy. You have nothing to be
frightened of.
Elfkins: (cheering) You know who is dead!
Mooj: We thank you very sweetly …
Margolotte: … for doing it so neatly.
Mopsi: You cursed her so completely...
Pipit: ...that we thank you very sweetly.
Glindledore: Let the joyous news be spread, She Who Must Not Be Named is dead!
Dorothy: But, if you please, who is she? Why must she ‘not be named’?
Glindledore: Her name is Veldamort.
Everyone gasps.
Glindledore: And you and she have a history together that you will learn about soon
enough.
During the following song the Death Cheaters enter unnoticed. Professor Snoop
enters toward the end of the song.
You Know Who
Glindledore:
See you landed your train on She Who Must Not Be Named
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We’re all
What’d you do to
You know who?
I guess the wand in her pocket
Well it wasn't enough, we’re like
What’d you do to
You know who?
Well it looks like you fixed her
Not too many will miss her
Ha, oh ain't that the truth
Dorothy:
Please tell me who is dead
Ow, there's pain in my head
You know who
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
Sorry we’re not sorry
But that train flew through the air
That witch is the hex boss,
She’s wicked and scary
The way she plays her game ain’t fair
I pitty the fool that messes with her ohh
(Oh ssh she's a Death Cheater )
Well
(Oh ssh she's a Death Cheater)
Ooh, ooh, ohh
Let’s hope it’s really true
Yeah go run and tell the rest at Ozwarts
See you landed your train on She Who Must Not Be Named
We’re all
What’d you do to
You know who?
I guess the wand in her pocket
Well it wasn't enough, we’re like
What’d you do to
You know who?
(Ooh, ooh, ooh)
ALL:
You know who
Dorothy:
No Who? No Who
Snoop: I would hold off celebrating if I were you. [Points to the Death Cheaters.]
Toto: Death Cheaters! I’m out of here. [Toto flies off.]
Elfkins: (yell) Death Cheaters! [They exit.]
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Underidge: There she is! (to Veldamort) Mistress?!
Alectra: Someone do something!
Zeeta: This is a disaster!
Trixibelle: Wingardium Leviosa!
As the Death Cheaters perform the spell, the train car levitates.
Veldamort: (feet are moving, weakened voice) Wormy, my serum! Quick, fool!
Wormy: Coming Mistress!
Trixibelle: Hurry! There’s no time to lose!
Wormy gives Veldamort a drop of serum.
MC Gonagall: Expelliarmus!
Luscious: (snarkily) You’re too late, Professor!
Veldamort sits up weakly with Wormy’s help.
Clarissa: The Dark Witch has risen!
Wormy: Mistress! Your face! [Her hood is lifted and she has no face.]
Veldamort: (to Dorothy) Curse-ed brat! What have you done to me? I’ll get you my
pretty! [Goes for her wand and realizes she doesn’t have it.] My wand! The Ruby
wand! What have you done with my wand?
Dorothy: (looks to the wand in her hand) I didn’t mean it!
Veldamort: Give it back! I’m the only one that knows how to use it. It’s of no use to
you.
Glindledore: Keep the wand tightly in your hand, Dorothy. She is powerless without
it! Do you see her face? As her power fades, so do her features. At least for now,
she and her Death Cheaters have no power here.
Veldamort is helped up by the Death Cheaters.
I Don’t Have My Face (Because of You)
Veldamort:
So you thought you’d be the death of me, well now you’ve had your fun
And you’ll never get the best of me, this curse will be undone
Cuz there is only room for one of us, your time is almost done
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This I know, you must go
Death Cheaters:
Dorothy better worry about it
Dorothy better worry because
Girl I said you better get ou-out
Cuz what you did is worse than you know-o-o-o
Veldamort:
I don’t have my face because of you
I don’t like it, I don’t like it (ooh)
I don’t have my face because of you
I don’t like it, I don’t like it
(Repeat chorus)
Veldamort: Dorothy Potter, you haven’t heard the last of me. You think you’re safe
and sound here at Glindledore’s little wizarding academy, but there’s a big world out
there. Let’s see how you do when you don’t have the protection of Ozwarts! I’ll get
you my pretty! [She cackles, which turns into a cough.]
Clarissa: Come with us Mistress, you aren’t well.
Zeeta: You haven’t heard the last of us!
Trixibelle: The Dark Witch has risen!
Veldamort and the Death Cheaters exit.
Glindledore: Haggard, would you be so kind as to show Dorothy to the Great Hall.
It’s almost time for the sorting.
Haggard: Yes Headmaster. Come along Dorothy, I’ll show you to Ozwarts.
They exit as the rest of the teachers huddle worriedly, as the lights slowly fade.
Act One: Scene 7
Ozwarts: The Great Hall
You Belong With Me
Teachers are seated with their Houses, while others are at a table with Glindledore.
Some students are already seated with their House; others are waiting to be sorted.
Dracie is flanked by Crab and Goyle.
Dracie: (to Dorothy) It’s true then, Dorothy Potter has come to Ozwarts?
Other kids are pointing and whispering.
Tabitha: That’s her!
Blaize: She doesn’t look very powerful.
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They giggle.
Pansey: Ohhh, look at her scar!
Millicent: You can barely even see it.
Heather: She probably got it tripping over her feet.
Ron and Hermione take Dorothy’s arms.
Ron: Don’t bother with them. Hi, I’m Ron Weezer, and that’s my sister Ginny.
Hermione: I’m Hermione Danger.
Dorothy: Pleased to meet you.
Ginny: Wow, Dorothy Potter, you're famous! (grabs Neville) Neville! Look who it is!
Neville clumsily makes his way to the group.
Neville: Who?
Ginny: It’s Dorothy Potter!
Ron: Ginny! Quit gawking. Sorry, that’s my little sister Ginny. Don’t mind her.
Dracie: A word of caution Potter, you don’t want to go making friends with the wrong
kind.
Hermione: And just what is that supposed to mean?
Dracie: Let’s just say that some wizarding families are better than others.
Crab and Goyle snigger.
Vanessa Crab: That’s right, you don’t want to get a bad reputation.
MC Gonagall: (to all of the new students) We’re ready for you now.
Gretta Goyle: See you around.
Glindledore comes to the podium.
Glindledore: Before we begin sorting, I’d like to welcome everyone and remind you
all that classes will begin tomorrow morning. Professor Gonagall will be your MC this
evening. Presenting Ozwart’s beloved Transfiguration teacher, MC Gonagall.
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MC Gonagall: Thank you Headmaster Glindledore. Now children, when I call your
name, you will come forth to the Sorting Hat. When the hat is placed on your head,
you will be sorted into your houses. [Unrolls a large scroll and adjusts her
spectacles.] Anna Abbott.
Anna: Oh I’m so nervous! [She runs up to the Sorting Hat.]
Sorting Hat: Badgerpuff! [Anna goes and sits with the Badgerpuffs.]
MC Gonagall: Mandy Brocklehurst.
Mandy: Gryffinsroar please, please! [Mandy approaches wringing her hands.]
Sorting Hat: Ravenscaw! [Mandy goes and sits with the Ravenscaws.]
MC Gonagall: Daphne Bluegrass.
Daphne: Oh that’s me! I’m Daphne! [Daphne approaches.]
Sorting Hat: Slythering!
Daphne goes and sits with the Slytherings. Luna is looking, staring off into space,
maybe talking to the air.
MC Gonagall: Miss Luna Goodlove?
Ginny: Luna, she’s calling you!
Luna: You’ll see. I’ll be sorted into Ravenscaw.
Hermione: (to Dorothy and Ron) What nonsense! (to Luna) Hurry please! We are all
anxious to see what house we’ll be sorted into.
Luna approaches the Sorting Hat.
Sorting Hat: Alright then, hmmm, yes ... Ravenscaw!
Luna is nonplussed as she saunters to her seat.
MC Gonagall: Vanessa Crab.
Crab approaches the Hat smugly.
Sorting Hat: (without hesitation-matter of fact) Slythering! [Vanessa goes and sits
with the Slytherings.]
Ron: (to Dorothy and Hermione) Figures.
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MC Gonagall: Patti Patil.
Patti: Did she call Patti? Here I am! [Runs to the hat.]
Sorting Hat: Umm, let me see…Gryffinsroar! [Patti goes and sits with the
Gryffinsroars.]
MC Gonagall: Dorothy Potter.
Whispers from the crowd, then it becomes silent.
Sorting Hat: Hmmm, most perplexing. Lots of courage, talent...
Dorothy: Not Slythering, not Slythering.
Sorting Hat: Are you sure?
You Belong With Me
Sorting Hat:
Your second home was with Muggles who got upset
That your parents were wizards they made you forget
But they don’t know your power like I do…
Gryffinsroars!
[Dorothy is sorted and goes to sit with the Gryffinsroars.]
We’re in the great room
Not a typical kind of night,
You have the type of personality kids don’t like
But they’ll never know your story like I do
Slythering!
[Dracie goes to sit with the Slytherings.]
(to Dracie) So you’ll wear green stripes
And she’ll wear scarlett
(to Dorothy) She’s squidditch captain and a world famous seeker
There’ll be a day when you wake up and find
You could have been a greatSlyth-er-ing the whole time.
[One by one the remaining students approach the Sorting Hat as it sorts them.]
Teachers:
Trust the the Sorting Hat, the one who understands you
Sorting Hat:
Been here all along so why can't you see
You belong with me
You belong with me
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Teachers:
Trust the the Sorting Hat, the one who understands you
Sorting Hat:
Been here all along so why can't you see
You belong with me
You belong with me
All students are now sorted and seated. The Houses sing a rousing medley.
Runnin’ with the Slytherings
Slytherings
Snoop:
Live my life like there's no tomorrow
And there are times might have to steal
A Slythering will never beg or borrow
Yes, you’re living at a pace that thrills
Slytherings:
Runnin' with the Slytherings
Runnin' with the Slytherings
Runnin' with the Slytherings
Runnin' with the Slytherings
Yeah
A Little Help From Our Friends
Badgerpuffs
Sprout:
Badgerpuffs work hard
Are patient and brave
And they always take care of their friends
We mean what we say and we say what we say what we mean
And we’re loyal and true to the end
Badgerpuffs:
Oh we get by with a little help from our friends
Yes always try with a little help from our friends
Oh we get by with a little help from our friends
Yes always try with a little help from our friends
History
Ravenscaws
Flikwit:
You will learn about arithmancy
Divination and herbology
Magic History’s a favorite class
If you study hard you're sure to pass
Ravenscaws:
Ravenscaw we have a lot to do
We are clever and hardworking too
What a wonderful term this will be
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What a wonderful term this will be
Gryffinsroar
MC Gonagall:
Knock us down we get right up
Leavin’ everybody in the dust
You hear our voice, just stick around
This lion’s gonna shake you down
Gryffinsroars:
We do what’s right, we won’t give up
Get ready now to shake you up
Hear us all, and hear us now
We got the main of the lion, a fighter
Dancing through the fire
‘Cause we are the champions
Yeh we are the Gryffinsroars
Were loud cuz were lions
‘Cause we are the champions
And you’re gonna hear us roar
You’re gonna hear us roar
The students are all seated as Glindledore returns to the podium.
Glindledore: Thank you Sorting Hat, Professor MC Gonagall, and Ozwart’s
students and teachers. It looks like we are off to a fabulous term.
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 8
Ozwarts Castle: Outside Potions class
Kids In The Hall
Outside of the classroom kids are milling about. Professor Trelawney, in a spacey
but determined way, approaches as Dorothy is talking to Ron.
Trelawney: Dorothy Potter, my girl, I must warn you. If I were you, I would be
extremely cautious around liquids. [She glides away.]
Ron: Well, that’s great news, since we’re about to go to Potions class.
Hermione barges up.
Hermione: Oh, I have Potions class now too! Did you do the reading on the
difference between wolfsbane and monkshood? I hear Professor Snoop is not
someone we want to mess with.
Dorothy: Yes, I’ve heard.
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Neville clumsily approaches, bumping into the group as he tries to read his schedule
while walking.
Neville: Does anyone know where Potions class is? This place is humongous.
Ginny: We’re all heading that way. Come with us.
Luna approaches the group.
Luna: Oh hello, do any of you know if we have to supply our own fairy wings? Or will
they be provided? You know the fairies don’t like to give their wings to novices.
Hermione: We’d better get going if we want a seat in the front.
Ron: Bonkers that one.
Lights transition to…
Act One: Scene 9
Potions Class
Drop It In The Pot
Professor Snoop: (rushing in) There will be no silly wand waving or magic words in
this class. As such, I don’t expect any of you to enjoy the subtle science of (writes
“Potions” on the board with can of spray paint). Listen carefully to what I have to say,
there will be a quiz on this lesson tomorrow.
Drop It In The Pot
Snoop
Snoop
When Snoop’s in the crib yeah
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
If a billywig be stingin’ you
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Flobberworm got an attitude
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Got some boils on your arm
Need a disarming charm
Need Pollyjuice potion cuz I got it goin on
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
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So study the drizzle, turn it up a little
Got a classroom room full of pots that sizzle
Add some Dizzle
A pinch of Chizzle
And the gizzle
Gs to the bizzak
Now kids here we gizzo
When Snoop’s in the crib yeah
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Drop it in the pot
Snoop
Snoop
The bell rings. Dorothy starts to put her notebook away, while the other students
remain stil.
Snoop: Just where do you think you're going, Miss Potter?
Dorothy: I heard the bell, I just thought…
Snoop: While you are in my class, you will only think when I ask you to. You may be
a famous witch back in Kansas, but in my classroom you will have to prove your
merits through hard work. No one leaves until I dismiss the class. For your
insubordination I will deduct 50 points from Gryffinsroar!
Everyone gasps!
Snoop: Class dismissed.
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 10
Ozwarts: A Hallway
Witch
Later that day. Ron, Ginny, and Dorothy are in the hall talking. A few groups of kids
are walking to and from class.
Dorothy: There are five of you?
Ron: Well, only five still at school, six Weezers all together.
Ginny: You should come to the Borough some time, Dorothy. Wouldn’t Mum love
her, Ron?
Hermione runs towards them.
Hermione: Look, I received the highest score in the Transfiguration vocabulary test.
Dracie: (shoves Hermione as she runs by, mocking) ‘Look at me, I’m sooo smart.’
Annoying mudblood.
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Crab and Goyle burst into laughter.
Ginny: You better watch your mouth, Dracie.
Hermione: Never mind Ginny.
Dracie, Crab and Goyle saunter out laughing and trip Luna as she approaches
Dorothy’s group.
Dorothy: What did they say? What’s a ‘mud-blood’?
Luna: A ‘mudblood’ is an insulting term for witches and wizards who are Muggleborn. Dracie Malfoy and her gang were raised by Death Cheaters who believe pure
blood wizarding families like them are superior.
Ginny: Don’t worry, Hermione, they're just jealous. With your brains, you’ll be
casting spells around them in no time.
Hermione: I’m not worried about them. They’ll learn not to mess with me.
Witch
Hermione:
You don't have to be full blood
To use a wand
You just gotta practice, baby
From dusk till dawn
You just need experience
To cast a spell
You just leave it all up to me
I'm gonna show you what it's all about
All Three:
Anyone can be a witch
Cuz we’re all pure
magic comes from everywhere
In this big world
Ain't no particular blood it’s more compatible with
It just needs some extra time
You’re a
Witch
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 11
Squidditch Field
Surrender Dorothy
Outside at the Squidditch tryouts. Students are lined up with brooms by their side.
Teachers are in the bleachers, as are Ron, Hermione, and a few other students.
Helga: I’ve been dreaming of flying all my life!
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Kathy: I’ve been waiting my whole life to play on a Squidditch team!
Cedric: I wonder if we can use our own brooms?
Romilda: You have your own broom?
Angelina: I think being a Chaser would be amazing.
Michael: I went to the Squidditch World Cup last year!
Demelza: Me too! I got Viktor Crumble’s autograph!
Penelope: (pointing to an approaching teacher) Is that the Squidditch coach?
Lynette: Yes, that’s Madam Scooch.
Petula: She looks tough.
Seamus: I hear she’s tough but fair.
Madam Scooch walks down the line of students.
Madam Scooch: Good afternoon class, welcome to your first flying lesson. Put your
hand over your broom and command, “UP!” Go on everyone, with feeling!
The class tries “Up” and only Dorothy and Dracie get their brooms to lift up into their
hands. Neville hits himself in the face with his broom.
Neville: Ouch!
Hermione: Wow, look at Dorothy, she’s a natural.
Ron: Yeah.
Madam Scooch: We’ll have lots of time to work on it. First, you must learn the rules
of the game.
Dracie: Everybody knows the rules of Squidditch. Can’t we just play the game?
MC Gonagall: Miss Malfoy, that’s 20 points from Slythering.
Grab The Snitch And Fly Away-way
Madam Scooch:
So you already know all the rules
MC Gonagall:
Silencio Silencio Silenco
Go on listen to me
I’m gonna teach you how to play play
Grab the snitch fly away way
Grab the snitch fly away way
Ooh watch me, watch me
Ooh watch me, watch me
Ooh watch me, watch me
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Ooh watch me, watch me
oooo
Ooh watch me, watch me
Ooh watch me, watch me
Ooh watch me, watch me
oooo
Do the broken broom
Do the broken broom
Do the broken broom
Do the broken broom
Do the broken broom
Do the broken broom
Do the broken broom
Now break your broom
Now break your broom
Now break your broom
Now break your broom
Now break your broom
Now break your broom…
Song is interrupted by shadow-lighting, as Veldamort and Death Cheaters approach
on broomsticks, flying through the air.
Remy: Lumos! Take cover everyone!
Some students exit.
Blackie: Death Cheaters!
Neville: D-d-d-death Cheeaters?! [He backs up and trips. Luna helps him up.]
Luna: It looks like they want Dorothy!
Ginny: Poor Dorothy!
Hermione: Oh what was that Anti-Disapparition Jinx I was reading about?
Ron: It’s Sh-sh-sh She Who Must Not Be Named!
Death Cheaters in the Sky
Haggard:
Some Death Cheater’s went a ridin’ out one dark and windy day
Upon a broom they rested as their mistress led the way
When down below at Ozwarts on the Squidditch field they saw
The girl called Dorothy Potter with a light-en-ing scar
Her scar it burned like fire and was all that she could feel
The vengeance of the Dark Witch for the wand she didn’t steal
A bolt of fear went through us as we looked up to the sky
To see the riders comin’ down with fire in their eyes
Teachers:
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Yippie I ohhh ohh ohh
Yippie I aye ye ye
Death Cheaters in the sky
Yippie I ohhh ohh ohh
Yippie I aye ye ye
Death Cheaters in the sky
Veldamort and Death Cheaters enter.
Veldamort: (pointing a wand at teachers) Immobulus!
Sympathy for She Who Must Not Be Named
Veldamort:
Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m the witch of power and fame
Was in charge for a long, long year
But this little girl and I share a fate
Came around her house one night
In a moment of doubt and pain
Had to curse her mum and dad
But her power it can’t be explained
Pleased to meet you
Don’t you say my name
But what's puzzling me
Is the nature of her game
I hung around at Ozwarts
The day she missed the train
Planned to use Cruciatus Curse
When the Sorting Hat called her name
I was hoping to finish her
But I was stopped by a flying train
She stole my wand
And my face went blank
When I reap my revenge
You’ll have Dorothy to thank
Pleased to meet you
Don’t you say my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's frightening you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah
(Death Cheaters sing Woo woo, woo woo)
Haggard: I’m going to get the Headmaster! [He moves to exit.]
Veldamort: (pointing at Haggard) Imperio! Fool, you are under my power now. Look
at you (cackles) a big hairy giant. I will make you weak and frightened like a
cowardly little kitten. Hurry, Kitty, bring me the little brat who has stolen my wand!
Where is she? Where’s Dorothy Potter?
Haggard moves towards Dorothy.
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Hermione: (hiding Dorothy behind her) Dorothy, as long as you still have her wand,
you have more power than she does.
Veldamort: Hahahaha! You think you’re so clever. Confundo! Just try using those
brains now that your head’s full of straw!
Hermione is transformed into a scarecrow.le
Hermione: Straw? I’d better go look for my brains. [She runs off.]
Ron: (trying to save Hermione and Dorothy) No!
Veldamort: Such a kindhearted chivalrous gentleman, looking out for the fair
maidens! [Puts her wand to his chest.] Evanesco Valentino! It looks like I’ve stolen
your heart too. You can live happily ever after in your coat of shining armour!
Ron is transformed and wears a coat of armour.
Ron: My heart! I must go on a quest for my heart [He runs off.]
Veldamort: And now my pretty, give me my wand! Expelliarmus! [Dorothy holds
tight to the Ruby wand.]
Neville: No!
Nevile, Ginny and Luna run to help Dorothy.
Veldamort: (to Haggard) Here kitty kitty, and (to Luscious) you too. Grab these brats
and bring them to my castle! [Haggard grabs Luna and Ginny, Luscious grabs
Neville.]
The rest of the Death Cheaters mount their broomsticks and exit.
Veldamort: Well goody two shoes, my patience is wearing thin and my Dimentors
are restless. I will get you, it’s only a matter of time. To Axaban! [She flies off.]
Glindledore: (arriving) Finite Incantatum! [Everyone wakes up from curse.]
Dorothy: (clutching her scar, writhing in pain) I have to go after them! She said there
wasn’t much time.
Glindledore: Spoken like a true Gryffinsroar, Dorothy. Your parents would be very
proud of you. Let’s go back to Ozwarts and have some tea. We’ll discuss how best
to prepare for this journey you are determined to take.
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 12
Ozwarts Grounds
Marauders Map
Some of the students are working along the Yellow Brick Road.
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Su: Dorothy, I have some chocolate frogs for you if you get hungry on your journey.
Dorothy: Thank you Su.
Samantha: We wish there was more we could do to help.
Susan: Yeah besides de-gnoming the Yellow Brick Road.
Megan: These gnomes are sneaky little creatures!
Terry: They’re ugly too!
Dean: Dorothy, is that your owl? [Toto flies in.]
Dorothy: Toto!
Toto: I have an invitation from the headmaster.
Dorothy: (opens the letter) “...requesting your presence at the hut beneath the
Whomping Willow.” I’d better be off!
Everyone: Good bye Dorothy!
She heads down the road. Frederica and Georgina are hiding.
Georgina: Pssst. Dorothy.
Dorothy: Oh hello. Wait, are you Frederica or Georgina?
Frederica: I’m Frederica, just kidding. Actually no more kidding Dorothy, this is
serious.
Georgina: Look, She Who Must Not Be Named kidnapped our brother and sister.
We want you bring them and the other’s back safely.
Frederica: So we brought you this.
They give her the Marauders map.
Dorothy: Marauders map?
Georgina: Point your wand at it. [Dorothy points her wand at the map.]
Dorothy: Oh look, a map of Oz. Is this us?
Georgina: Yes, it’s like a magical GPS.
Frederica: (pointing to the map) Here we are and here’s Axaban, the Dark Witch’s
castle. To get there, you follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Dorothy: Follow the Yellow Brick Road?
House Elfkins pop out from hiding.
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Skreacher and Margolotte: Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Hokey and JinJir: Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Kiki and Brambles: Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Mooj and Mopsi: Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Bini and Pipit: Follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Blackout.
Act One: Scene 13
Outside the Castle
Heroes
Teachers sitting at a long table, or on a picnic blanket. Dobbins and Blinkey are
serving tea.
Glindledore: Now Dorothy, there is much debate regarding allowing you to go to
Axaban to attempt to rescue Haggard and the children.
Dorothy: Please Professor, it’s my fault they were all cursed. I’m tired of people
sacrificing themselves for me. I must end this once and for all.
Remy: Just like your mother.
Blackie: A lot like her father too.
Dorothy: What were they like, my parents?
Remy: They were both brilliant wizards, Dorothy, and loyal friends.
Blackie: And brave to a fault. Like you.
Bad-Eye: I think you should stay at Ozwarts, and let us experienced wizards fight
this battle.
Snoop: Your inexperience and your vanity are a bad combination. This job should
be left to those of us who know what we are up against.
Glindledore: I disagree. Dorothy has all she needs to save her friends. She has the
power of goodness. Light is always more powerful than darkness. Veldamort...
MC Gonagall: (interrupting) Please don’t say her name!
Glindledore: Now Minnie, saying her name takes some of her power away. As I
was saying, Veldamort’s power is fading. Her wand knows Dorothy is it’s true
master, but remember Dorothy, you must use the wand with confidence, and always
for the power of good.
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Sorting Hat: That is why I placed you in Gryffinsroar.
Blinkey: Would Dorothy Potter like some more tea?
Dorothy: Yes please.
Glindledore brings forth a package and spills the contents on to the table: a Goblet,
a Locket and a Tiara.
Glindledore: When you find Hermione Danger, place this tiara on her head and she
will remember all she has forgotten. When you find Mr. Weezer, put this locket
around his neck, the heartless curse will be lifted. When you find Haggard, he must
drink some water from this goblet. Just tap the goblet three times with with your
wand and water will appear. He may want something stronger but make sure it’s
water.
Sprout: I have assigned my class the job of de-gnoming the path. This should make
the beginning of your journey easier. We don’t want those gnomes to slow you
down.
Flikwit: I have my class casting protective charms around the perimeter of the
grounds. They aren’t very skilled yet, but I believe it makes them feel safer. I’m not
sure they realize the danger we are in.
Bad-Eye: What they need is Defense against the Dark Arts! If Dorothy fails…
Remy: Dorothy won’t fail!
Dobbins: (jumping up) Dorothy Potter is a hero!
Heroes
Glindledore:
Here, here is the thing
You, you can be a queen
You’re the one who can drive her away
You can beat her and save the day
You’ll be a hero and save the day
Dobbins and Blinkey:
The witch, she can be mean
And so are her partners in crime
Death Cheaters travel in packs
They’re evil, and that is that
MC Gonagall:
But Dorothy, will keep us together
You can can beat them
So be on your way
You’ll be a hero, for ever and ever
What d'you say?
Dorothy:
I, I can remember (I remember)
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When I was so small (you were so small)
And the curse, shot above my head (over your head)
It’s time to answer my call (to save us all)
And the rainbow is on the other side
Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever
Then we could be Heroes,
Show us the way.
[Joined by everyone in the aisles.]
We can be Heroes - Oh-oh
Just for one day
We can be Heroes - Oh-oh
Just for one day
We can be Heroes - Oh-oh
Just for one day
We can be Heroes - Oh-oh
Just for one day
The lights fade.
END OF ACT ONE
INTERMISSION
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Act Two: Scene 1
Greater Oz
Brains
Dorothy and Toto are traveling through the Forbidden Forest.
Dorothy: (looking at map) Toto, soon we’ll be entering the Forbidden Forest.
There’s some movement right here, I can’t tell what it is.
Toto: I’ll fly ahead and see whooo it is.
Toto flies ahead.
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Dorothy:
I walk a yellow road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it’s up to me and I walk alone
I’m not sure who I’ll see
On the yellow road of Broken Dreams
Dare not fall asleep
Cuz I'm the chosen one and I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...
My owl’s the only one that walks beside me
My task is hard but I must keep my footing
I know I’ll find my friends and they will help me
Till then I’ll walk alone
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah,
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
Song stops. There is a fork in the road with a sign post. A crow caws.
Dorothy: What was that? [She takes out her map and looks.] It looks like there are
two ways to get to the castle. Hmmm, I wonder which way I should go.
Hermione: (as a scarecrow, hidden) This way is nice; that way is very nice, too.
Dorothy: Who said that?
Toto: Whoo. Whoo.
Dorothy: Toto? Toto, is that you?
Toto: (entering) No, Dorothy look!
Toto points to Hermione in a scarecrow pose. Hermione’s face is covered by a crow
sitting on her shoulder.
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Dorothy: A talking scarecrow? I keep forgetting I’m not in Kansas any more.
Hermione: Some people like to go that way, others prefer to go this way.
Dorothy: Can’t you make up your mind?
Hermione: I haven’t got a mind. That’s the problem. Of course, I’m only guessing
here, but I must be under some kind of curse. Now I don’t know for sure, because
again, no brains, but I have a feeling I wasn’t always a scarecrow. I must be
inexperienced because well, obviously I can’t even scare a crow.
Dorothy: (shooing away the crows) Hermione? It's you!
Hermione: It is, it’s me?
Dorothy: You’re right, you have been cursed, by She Who Must Not Be Named.
You are the most clever girl at Ozwarts, but she filled your head with straw. But don’t
worry. Glindledore gave me something to help you.
Hermione: Glindlewhat?
Hermione throws her arms up and falls clumsily.
Hermione: Apparently the curse has affected not only my executive mental function
but my cerebellum and gross motor function as well.
Brains
Hermione:
Brains, makes a gal think things over
Brains, make ideas easy to follow
Brains and hard work a winning combo
Brains (Brains)
Without your brains, to keep you sane, your life is filled with sorrow and
Pain (Brains)
Brains, when you’re just are a lowly scarecrow
Brains, gonna keep you off of skid row
Brains (brains)
I’ll think like there’s no tomorrow
Brains (brains)
Brains 9x9 or finding pi
And I don’t mean the berry kind
Brains (brains)
Won’t have to remember what to think of first
Brains, brains, brains
I won’t have have to wonder, I’ll be too cool to fool
Brains (brains)
Dorothy: Here. This is a present from Professor Glindledore. He said it would help
to lift the curse of the Dark Witch. [She places the tiara on Hermione’s head.]
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Hermione: The sum of the square root of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is
equal to the square root of the remaining side. Oh Dorothy, it’s working! I have my
brains back!
Dorothy: Fabulous! Let’s find the others!
Hermione: (pointing at sign) Obviously we should go this way. We’ll have more light
if we head West.
Lights transition to...
Act Two: Scene 2
Yellow Brick Road
Knight Moves
Dorothy, Toto and Hermione are walking the Yellow Brick Road.
Dorothy: Anyone want a chocolate frog? [She starts rifling through her basket when
Ron, as a Knight, stops them.]
Ron: You’re forbidden to pass on orders from the Dark Witch!
Hermione: Ron? It’s me, Hermione.
Ron: So what?
Dorothy: And me, Dorothy. You remember us, don’t you?
Ron: (coldly) Of course I remember you. I just don’t care.
Hermione: Well you don’t have to be so mean about it.
Ron: Yes I do.
Dorothy: Hermione, it’s the witch’s curse! She made his heart disappear!
Ron: Turns out I don’t need it. Hearts only get in the way.
Dorothy: Ron, you must let us pass. The Death Cheaters kidnapped your sister.
Ron: I never really liked her.
Hermione: Ron! What’s wrong with you, you love Ginny.
Where Heartless Creature Dwell
Ron:
Well, since the Dark Witch cursed me
And left me an empty shell
I live at the edge of Axaban
Where heartless creatures dwell
No sad or lonely
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Heart to control me
I never laugh, I never cry
The castle may be gloomy
Dimentors steal your soul
Prisoners in the dungeon
But I don’t care at all
No sad or lonely
Heart to control me
I never laugh, I never cry
Dorothy: Ron, I have a present for you from Professor Glindledore.
Ron: Presents are dumb.
Hermione: Just give it to him quickly!
Dorothy puts the locket around his neck. He instantly changes his disposition.
Ron: Dorothy! Hermione! Boy am I glad to see you! We’ve got to find Ginny and
Neville!
Dorothy: Haggard too! He’s been put under the Imperius Curse! He is under the
Dark Witch's command. We have no time to lose!
Ron: (notices Dorothy’s basket) Hey, are those chocolate frogs?
Dorothy: Would you like some?
Ron: I’d love some!
Hermione: It’s good to see you back to your old self again.
Ron: (with a mouth full of frogs) What’s our plan? This place gives me the creeps!
The forest is full of Dimentors. They feed on human happiness by sucking your soul
right out of your mouth.
Dorothy: Really?
Hermione: I’m afraid so. It’s called a Dimentor's kiss.
Ron: You want to know what else we should be worrying about?
Dorothy: What?
Ron: Dragons! The other night a Norwegian Ridgeback sailed right over my head.
Maybe he couldn’t smell me in this armor. I thought I would be toast.
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Hermione: Actually another foreseeable problem that we have to worry about is
Linguini.
Dorothy: Linguini? There is a problem with pasta?
Hermione: Linguini is the Dark Witch's snake. It feeds on human flesh.
They start down the path.
Ron: Dragons...
Dorothy: Dimentors...
Hermione: and snakes...
All: Oh My!
Ron: Dragons...
Dorothy: Dimentors...
Hermione: and snakes...
All: Oh My!
Toto: Whoo, whoo?
Ron: What was that?
Toto: (whispering from balcony) Up here.
They look up and see Dimentors have gathered. Travelers cower as Death Cheaters
enter.
Trixibelle: (aims wand menacingly) Stupify! [They all freeze.] This is the little school
girl who thinks she can overpower my mistress! Just wait till you see the plans we
have in store for Ozwarts and your headmaster.
Underidge: Foolish children. (to Ron) You are in over your heads. We are on our
way right now, to see that order is restored to Ozwarts.
Clarissa: Witches and wizards at Ozwarts have been coddled for far too long.
Luscious: (to Hermione) Soon, only pureblood wizards and witches will be admitted
to that school.
Alectra: Only those with the Dark Mark!
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Zeeta: Right at this very moment, Dorothy Potter, Death Cheaters from far and wide
are gathering forces.
Veldamort enters.
Veldamort: Well, well, well. If it isn’t the little brat who stole my wand!
Wormy: Here Mistress, you may use mine.
Veldamort: (grabs wand and aims at Travelers) Tarantallegra!
The Travelers rise to dance.
Beat It
Veldamort:
I can’t believe that you would come around here
If I had my wand I’d make you disappear
I’m tired of your name
Do I make myself clear?
So beat it, just beat it
You better run you better do what you can
You and the scare-crow and the tincan
You aren’t so tough better run while you can
So beat it cuz you're making me mad
Just beat it
Beat it,
Beat it,
Beat it
Everyone knows your defeated
Those with the Dark Mark
Will win the fight and when we finish
We’ll take the night
So beat it,
Beat it
Just beat it,
Just beat it,
Just beat it,
Just beat it
The Death Cheaters exit, with Veldamort and Wormy going in one direction, and the
others toward Ozwarts. Dobbins and Blinkey run in!
Dobbins: Dorothy Potter! Reinnervate! [The curse is lifted. The kids brush
themselves off.]
Blinkey: You gave us a fright, Miss!
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Dobbins: Miss Dorothy Potter, the Dark Witch has Miss Luna, Mr. Neville and
Professor Haggard in her dungeon! But Dobbins and Blinkey have found a way for
you to help your friends.
Blinkey: We have goblins on our side. Look, they gave us this! [Holds up a key.]
Dobbins: (whispering) It’s a key to the dungeon. Hurry, before it’s too late.
Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 3
The Axaban Dungeon
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
The Travelers are at the door to the dungeon.
Dorothy: (trying the key) I can’t get it to fit.
Hermione: (looking in her book) Dorothy, use your wand, the spell is Alohomora.
Dorothy: Alohomora!
The door opens. In the dungeon, Luna and Ginny are sitting on the floor, maybe
playing checkers.
Luna: Ron? Dorothy? Hermione, is that you? [Luna and Ginny jump up.]
Ron: Ginny? Are you okay? Mum and Dad will never forgive me if anything’s
happened to you.
Ginny: (running to Ron) I’m okay.
Hermione: Where are the others, are they alright?
Luna: They aren’t doing so well. [Neville and Haggard are cowering in the corner
where a giant snake is hanging out of a basket/pot.]
Neville: (paranoid behavior as he gets up) I thought you were [looking over his
shoulder] the snake!
Haggard: Who dares to enter the castle of the Dark Witch? [Trembling in fright
throws himself at her feet.] Please save us Dorothy.
Dorothy: Why, what a fuss you’re making Haggard.
Luna: He’s an emotional wreck, he can’t help it. Even though he’s cursed, Haggard
has some magical resistance to certain spells because of his giant blood.
Veldamort...
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Haggard: (grabs Neville and hides behind him, using him as a shield) Don’t say her
name!
Luna: (to Haggard) Sorry. (to Dorothy) She has to keep re-cursing him. He doesn’t
know if he’s coming or going.
Suddenly, smoke and Dimentors and scary music signal the approach of the Dark
Witch and Wormy. The girls run to Luna, cowering.
Veldamort: How did they get into my castle? Giant, I thought I told you to stand
guard. Wormy, bring me my snake, Linguini.
Wormy: (obviously afraid) Are you sure, Mistress? Isn’t this his nap time?
Veldamort: (to Wormy) Out of the way you pathetic excuse for a wizard. [Takes
snake out of the basket.] When I get my wand back you’ll be sorry!
Do You Really Want To Hurt Me
Wormy:
Give me time,
To realize my crime
If I stand real still
Haggard:
If I close both of my eyes
And pretend you’re not real
Both:
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Your loud voice it makes me worry
You might get spit in my eye
All:
Please don’t stun or stupefy me
I am scared, not gonna lie
Of Dimentors in the shadows
And of Dorothy’s creepy scar
All these fears they paralyze me
Oh please calm my racing heart
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Veldamort: Enough! Sniveling cowards! (to Haggard) Imperio! [He obeys her
robotically.] Take Dorothy Potter and lock her in the tower! The rest of you will rot in
my dungeon!
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Haggard: Yes Mistress.
Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 4
The Tower
Pensive
Haggard guarding Dorothy in the tower. There is a pensive/crystal ball and an
hourglass.
Dorothy: Haggard?
Haggard: I’m not allowed to talk to you on order of the Dark Witch. I have been
instructed to guard you.
Dorothy: Yes Haggard, I understand. [She quickly searches through her basket and
finds the chalice.] I’ll bet you’re thirsty, though, with all that guarding. Can I get you a
drink?
Haggard: I’m on duty.
Dorothy: Oh, right.
There is an awkward pause.
Haggard: I don’t suppose you have any fire whiskey?
Dorothy: Yes, I think I might be able to conjure some fire whisky. [She taps the cup
3 times.] Here Haggard.
She gives the chalice to him. He takes a drink, then spits it out.
Haggard: Oh, that’s not fire whiskey, Dorothy! [The spell breaks, and he recognizes
her and gives her a big hug.] Oh Dorothy.
Dorothy: Haggard, you’re uncursed! Glindledore’s goblet worked!
Haggard: (whispering) Quiet! She might hear you; her spies are everywhere! Don’t
let on. When the witch comes back she will think I am still under her curse. I’ll think
of something to get us all out of here.
Veldamort enters. Dorothy and Haggard stop talking to one another immediately.
Veldamort: Giant! Go to the dungeon and guard the prisoners. Leave me with
Dorothy Potter. We have some negotiating to do.
Haggard: Yes Mistress, right away. [He exits.]
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Veldamort: I want my wand. And the only way I can get it is if you give it to me.
Dorothy: The wand chooses the wizard. It chose me.
Veldamort: Very well! If that’s the way you want it. Accio Dimentors!
Dimentors drag Toto into the tower.
Hokey: Here she is, Mistress.
Dorothy: Toto, they captured you?
JinJir: That’s what happens to spies and sneaks.
Kiki: What shall we do with her?
Dorothy: Please don’t hurt Toto!
Veldamort: Are you ready to give me the Ruby wand?
Dorothy: I told you already, I can’t give it you.
Toto: (with a worried tone) It’s alright Dorothy, don’t worry. I’ll be okay.
Veldamort: Very well then. Take the owl away!
Skreacher: Yes Mistress.
Bini: Come with us, spy.
Mooj: You’re our prisoner now.
Dorothy: No, not Toto, she’s the first friend I ever had.
Veldamort: I’m going to give you a little gift. The gift of time! [Puts a big hourglass
on the table and turns it over.] This is your last chance to reconsider giving me my
wand back. Right now, at this very moment, my Death Cheaters are on the move,
our scheme to take over Ozwarts is under way, and I must have my wand to carry
out our plans! You have till the sand runs out to give me my wand! If you don’t, the
owl will be fed to Linguini my snake!
Veldamort runs out cackling. Dorothy looks in the pensive/crystal ball. Lights come
up on her parents; they wave at her. She reels back and waves. Lights on
Glindledore, he waves too. Suddenly Snoop is lit up. She gasps. Lights come up on
Veldamort and Toto.
When Owls Cry
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Veldamort:
Dig if you will the picture
Of you in a Dimentor’s kiss
The soul leaves your body painfully
Can you my pretty
Can you picture this?
Dream if you can a castle
A prison of desperate gloom
A basilisk strikes curious poses
She smells the meat
Of the dinner that will be you.
Dorothy:
How can you just keep me waiting?
Alone in a tower so cold? (So cold)
Afraid that I’m just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father too bold
Maybe I’m just like my mother
She saved me before she died
(saved me before she died)
Both:
What if we’re just like each other?
This is what it sounds like
When owls cry
Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 5
Axaban Dungeon
Elfkin Magic
In the dungeon, Haggard and the prisoners are checking exits, listening at doors.
Hermione: Remember, if we become separated, stay as close to the Yellow Brick
Road as you can, without being seen.
Ron: Any luck with the bars, Haggard?
Haggard: Naw, there’s a Imperturbable curse on the whole place.
Luna: Everything’s hexed.
Ginny: That’s why our wands don’t work.
Ginny shakes her wand frustratedly. Suddenly Dobbins and Blinkey appear.
Dobbins: Dobbins and Blinkey have come to save you!
Hermione: Dobbins and Blinkey! You got through the Imperturbable curse!
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Blinkey: Yes because Blinkey and Dobbins are going to get you out of Axaban.
Ron: No offence guys, but I think this a pretty big job. Haggard can’t even do it.
Neville: Yeah and he’s a giant!
Luna: We should do what they say. Elfkins have a different kind of magic.
Dobbins: Dobbins wishes you would please hold hands.
Blinkey: (jumping up and down) Hurry!
Everyone holds hands and disapparate. Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 6
Somewhere in Forbidden Forest
On The Road Again
Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Luna, Haggard, Neville, Dobby and Blinkey are spilled out on
the road.
Ginny: Dobbins! You did it!
Ron: Where are we?
Hermione: Lumous! [Lights up.]
Haggard: As far as I can tell, Em-e-rald Alley should be that way, and Ozwarts is on
the other side of the forest.
Neville: She Who Must Not Be Named is gonna be pretty mad when she finds out
we’ve escaped.
Hermione: I hope she won’t take it out on Dorothy.
Ron: We have to find our way back to Ozwarts and stop the Death Cheaters.
Ginny: Poor Dorothy.
Ron: Don’t worry Ginny, we’ll think of something.
Hermione: Haggard, do you know a faster way?
Luna: The Yellow Brick Road is right over there. I think we should we follow it.
Hermione: The Yellow Brick Road?
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Ginny: I see it, over there by the field of poppies!
Neville: Yay, let’s get going!
On the Road Again
Travelers:
On the road again
Just can't wait to get on the road again
We had some hard times and we’ve got to save our friends
So glad to be on the yellow road again.
On the road again
Been some places we don’t want to go again
Seein' things we hope we never see again
Glad we’re on the yellow road again
On the road again
Like a flock of owls flyin’ down the highway
We're the best of friends
Insisting that the power of good’s the best way
So we’re on the yellow road again
Lights transition to…
Act Two: Scene 7
From the Balcony
Poppies
Death Cheaters are up on the balcony in Ozwarts looking down at travelers.
Trixibelle: How could they have escaped from the Mistress’s prison?
Luscious: We have come too far to allow these children, mudbloods, giants and
elfkins to thwart our plans.
Alectra: We are so close to getting Mistress’s wand back, and seizing power!
Zeeta: And so close to destroying Dorothy Potter!
Clarissa: Once she is out of our way the Dark Witch will rise again!
Trixibelle: Why don’t we put something in their way, to slow them down?
Underidge: Poison, we can poison those poppies!
Trixibelle: That’s it! Poppies to make them sleep! [Points her wand at poppies
below.] Morpheuso!
Suddenly the Travelers become very tired.
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Neville: I’m so tired!
Haggard: I could do with resting my head for a minute.
Ron: I’m really sleepy too. (yawning) This field of poppies looks pretty comfortable.
Hermione: Come on everyone, we don’t have too much further to go.
Ginny: Just a quick power nap.
Ginny yawns and lies down, leaving Hermione as the last one awake.
Sweet Dreams (Are Not Like This)
Trixibelle:
Nightmares are made of these
Trapped in a nightmare of poison poppies
They traveled this far, but not home free
Everybody’s dreaming of somethin’
Death Cheaters:
Maybe he’ll dream of spiders
Maybe those spiders are big as you
Maybe she’ll dream of curses
Maybe the curses you can’t undo
Glindledore:[Glindledore comes out from hiding and sings.]
Nightmares are made of these
Trapped in a nightmare of poison poppies
They traveled this far, but not home free
Everybody’s dreaming of somethin’
[Travelers and Haggard are curling up to sleep.]
All teachers and Glindledore:
Hold your head up, movin' on, try to stay up, movin' on
Hold your head up, movin' on, try to stay up, movin' on
Hold your head up, movin' on, try to stay up, movin' on
Hermione:
Sweet dreams are not like this
Under the curse of a wicked witch
Trying so hard not to fall asleep
Somebody help us, please do something
Teachers, Travelers and Death Cheaters:
Nightmares are made of these
Trapped in a nightmare of poison poppies
They traveled this far, but not home free
Everybody’s dreaming of somethin’
Glindledore makes it snow with wands and lights. Sleepers wake up a few at a time.
Hermione: Ron, Ginny, wake up, we've been under a sleeping spell.
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Luna: It’s the poppies, they are poisoned, I saw it in my dream but I couldn’t wake
up.
Neville: Poison poppies! Let’s get out of here!
They brush themselves off and get back on the road.
Ron: Ozwarts is only a few meters from here, we can get there before dark if we
hurry!
Blackout.
Act 2: Scene 8
Whomping Willow
Meanwhile Back At The School
As Travelers approach, a few students in work clothes and shovels are shoveling
snow in the distance.
Haggard: Why aren’t the students in class? It’s not the Winter Vacation yet.
Heather: (noticing) Look everyone, they’re back!
Students stop what they’re doing and come to greet travelers. Frederica and
Georgina run to greet Ginny and Ron.
Fredrica: Mum and Dad have been so worried about you!
Georgina: (affectionately) Well, we have been worried too.
Ginny: We’re okay.
Ron: What’s going on, why isn’t everyone in class?
Heidi: We have work detention every day now.
Michael: The new school board has taken away most of the classes.
Pansey: We’re waiting for some new teachers to replace the ones who were
sacked.
Mandy: They’ve taken away Muggle Studies and Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Terry: They don’t want us to learn anything.
Helga: Instead of Defense Against the Dark Arts, we have to shovel snow from the
Yellow Brick Road.
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Patti: The muggle way.
Alectra: (blows a whistle) Get back to work down there.
Students enter with picks and shovels. When she exits, more enter and all students
sing.
Another Brick In The Road
Students:
What about our education
Death Cheaters are in control
Just dark sarcasm in the classroom
Cheaters leave them kids alone
Hey! Cheaters! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the road.
All in all you're just another brick in the road.
Megan: Where’s Dorothy?
Su: Why isn’t she with you?
Samantha: Did something happen to her?
Romilda: I knew it!
Lucinda: We heard that she was fed to a basilisk!
Hermione: You heard what?
Luna: Dorothy needs our help. Besides, basilisks hibernate in the winter.
Underidge enters and glares from the tower. She rings a bell.
Underidge: Children, recess is over.
Haggard: What’s she doing here? Where’s the headmaster?
Seamus: Haven’t you heard? Snoop’s the new headmaster!
Ron: You're kidding.
Angelina: Professor Glindledore took a leave of absence.
Lynette: It’s Professor Underidge, the High Inquisitor, and she is horrible.
Demelza: Look over there, that’s Professor Skeeter, the journalism teacher.
Dean: She’s mean too.
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Susan: She’s a nosy parker. Always snooping in everybody’s business.
Haggard: She’s no professor, she’s a Death Cheater.
Luna: She fashions herself a reporter but she’s really a spy for you know who.
Tabitha: We better go!
Petula: Hurry before we get in more trouble!
Some of the students leave.
Ron: Wait! [Seamus, Cedric, Kathy, Frederica, Georgina and Penelope stop and
Ron pulls them aside.] We need to put an army together.
Cedric: I’m not sure we would be much of an army.
Kathy: They’ve put wand restrictions on all under age wizards.
Seamus: If they catch us, we’ll be suspended.
Hermione: We can’t just let Dimentors and Death Cheaters pave the way for you
know who to come back to power. We have to try!
Penelope: I know a few Slytherings from my herbology class who will come.
Frederica: I happen to have a key to the Great Hall.
Georgina: Actually it’s a skeleton key! [They high five.]
Neville: Can you get us in there tonight after lights out?
Frederica: That’ll be as easy as one, two, key. [She pulls a skeleton key out of her
sleeve.]
Hermione: We had better stay here in Haggard’s hut till then.
Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 9
Great Hall
My Patronus
Students are in the Great Hall. Brambles, Pipit, Margolotte and Mopsi are serving
tea.
Blaize: I’ll take some tea.
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Brambles: We are very happy to be of service!
Daphne: I need more sugar in mine.
Pipit: My pleasure.
Hermione: Those Slytherings are so rude to the house elfkins. [She stands up to
make an address to the group.]
Luna: At least these Slytherings are here to help.
Mopsi: We’ll be standing guard.
Margolotte: We want you to save Dorothy, and Ozwarts!
Hermione: This meeting shall now come to order! Our magical education had been
denied to us. But we are powerful, even though we are young. It’s time to take the
power into our own hands!
Teachers enter.
Trelawney: You must learn to clear your mind and let the magical forces reveal
themselves to you. Look, look in your tea cups. What do you see?
Sprout: You must learn the magic of herbs and plants! Nature will work with you,
children, if you learn her ways.
Flikwit: Charms will protect you! They can create illusions, distract your enemies,
attract love, and bring you luck!
Bad-Eye: The dark forces are everywhere! You must learn to always be on the
lookout!
Remy: Fire up your wands witches and wizards!
Blackie: The only way to fight a Dimentor is with a Patronus charm.
MC Gonagall: You fight the darkness of a Dimentor by thinking the happiest, most
joyful thoughts you can. Your patronus will appear in the form of an animal. This is a
difficult spell, but necessary to fight the dark forces! Try it now: Expecto Patronum!
Students: Expecto Patronum!
My Patronus
Hermione, Ron, Ginny, Luna, Neville:
Ooh my little magic wand, my magic wand
When you gonna conjure up my patronus
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Ooh we’re gonna have some fun we’ll have some fun
Focus on my happy place my patronus
Never giving up, don’t give up have a happy mind
Patronus comin up Dimentors gonna run and hide
My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa!
M-m-m-my patronus
All:
Think I’m gettin’ closer now, what animal
Will fly above and take to the sky patronus
Keeping it a mystery, until I see
Running through the forest what’s my patronus
Never gonna stop, give it up, keep a happy mind
My, my, my, aye-aye, whoa!
M-m-m-my patronus
M-m-m-my patronus
Anna: Did you see? I did it!
MC Gonagall: Children, it’s too dangerous for us (indicating the Teachers) to leave.
The Death Cheaters will know something is up.
Scooch: Work hard students!
Neville: We’ll strategize and practice, and then we’ll send our best troupes to the
witch's castle.
Sorting Hat: We are counting on you all to make us proud! Good luck witches and
wizards!
Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 10
Ozwarts Hall
Spies
The next day, Dracie, Vanessa, Gretta, Pansy and Millicent are in the hall talking.
Snoop enters the scene unnoticed by the girls, listening to their conversation.
Dracie: (to the other students) I know something you don’t know.
Vanessa: Tell us Dracie, what is it.
Gretta: Did Professor Snoop make you a prefect?
Vanessa: Ohh, I knew he would. You’re his favorite.
Dracie: That’s not actually what I was going to tell you, but I bet he will make me a
prefect.
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Pansey: (to the other girls, excitedly) You guys are gonna love this!
Dracie: That mudblood Hermione Danger and the Weezer ragamuffins are back. So
is Neville Nerdbottom and Looney Luna. [The girls giggle.] They’re hiding out with
Haggard the dimwit.
Gretta: What about Dorothy Potter? She’s not back, is she?
Dracie: They’re going to try to rescue her from Axaban.
Vanessa: They think they can match forces with She Who Must Not Be Named?
Millicient: And her Dimentors? What a laugh.
Dracie: I’ve told my parents. They’re on their way to alert She Who Must Not Be
Named and that will be the end of all of them.
Vanessa: Good riddance!
Gretta: She’s only keeping Dorothy alive to lure Glindledore and his followers to
Axaban. All of them are falling right into her trap.
Snoop steps forward.
Snoop: Miss Malfoy. What are all of you doing outside of class? You will give me
Detention for the rest of the week.
Blackout.
Act Two: Scene 11
Axaban Tower
Back at Axaban
Toto is chained up on a perch. Dorothy is pacing, the hourglass has almost run out.
Dorothy gasps and clutches her head.
Toto: Dorothy! What is it? Is it your scar again?
Dorothy: It’s throbbing. I think she’s getting stronger.
Toto: She’s coming!
Dorothy: Well, this is it Toto. I’m not going to go out without a fight! I have this wand
I might as well try to use it!
Snoop appears. Dorothy reels back!
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Dorothy: You! Professor Snoop? I knew it, you are one of them!
Snoop: Quiet Miss Potter, and listen carefully. The Dark Witch will be here soon,
you must listen carefully. The spell you need is Aguamenti. Can you remember it,
Miss Potter?
Dorothy: Aguamenti. Yes, I can, but can I trust you?
Snoop: Always.
He exits. Veldamort enters with Linguini.
Veldamort: Now my pretty. You and your friends have tried my patience for too
long. I have told you before, there isn’t room in this world for the both of us.
(indicates the hourglass) Your time has run out. Give me my wand or your owl will
be lunch for Linguini.
Dorothy: Alright, here it is, I’ll let you have it. [She points her wand, slowly taking
aim.] AGUAMENTI!
Veldamort is drenched, and melts through the floor.
Veldamort: You curse-ed brat! What have you done? I’m melting! Oh what a world,
what a world. Who would have thought a little witch like you could destroy my
beautiful wickedness. [She disappears.]
Toto: Dorothy, you did it!
She tries to release the lock around Toto’s foot. She remembers and looks at her
wand.
Dorothy: Alohomora! [The spell works and Toto is freed.]
Fight Song
Dorothy:
Just a small word
Incantation
Made a big splash
Made an ocean
Like how a single word
Can send a witch floatin
I may have one chance
I’m glad I didn’t blow it
There’ll be more words, I’ll learn to say
I’ll cast more and more spells each day
The one I screamed so loud tonight
The wand it heard my voice this time
Dorothy and Toto:
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That was our fight song
Took back our life song
Proved we’re alright song
My power's turned on
(Now) I know how to be strong
I'll play my fight song
Cuz my magic is here, even if no one can see
'Cause I've still got a lot of fight left in me
Blackout.
Act 2: Scene 12
Ozwarts Great Hall
Weezers
Dorothy, Hermione, Ron, Ginny and Luna are sitting having an animated discussion.
The room is decorated for Christmas.
Ron: ...and apparently, my patronus is a Jack Russell terrier!
Luna: Well, a dog is loyal, Ron, that makes sense to me.
Frederica and Georgina enter.
Frederica: Ron, Ginny, your presents from Mum.
Georgina: I wonder what what it is.
They exit laughing hysterically.
Ron: Oh boy, here we go.
The Sweater Song (Undone)
Ginny:
Hey bro, what we get from mom?
Ron:
Hey sis, what we get from mom?
Open it
It’s Christmas time, Gin
Life’s so rad!
Christmas is my favorite time, don’t you love it?
Ginny:
Yeah.
Ron:
Aw Gin, want a butter beer?
Ginny:
All right.
Ron:
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Aw man, this is the best. I'm so glad we're all back together and stuff.
This is great, Gin.
Ginny:
Yeah.
Ron:
Hey, did you know about the party before we go?
Ginny:
Yeah.
Ron:
Aw man, Christmas is the best, I'm so stoked!
Ginny:
Take it easy Ron.
Ron:
For me
Ginny:
And me
Both:
From Mum
Again
Oh not again
Dear me
Oh me
It’s another christmas sweater
Every year the same old thing
Without an ugly Christmas sweater
Christmas wouldn’t be the same
It’s another christmas sweater
Every year the same old thing
Without an ugly Christmas sweater
Christmas wouldn’t be the same
Teachers and students file in and get seated. Elfkins walk up the aisles with tea
trays and Christmas cookies.
Glindledore: Welcome everyone! What a term we have had. Before we enjoy the
feast the Elfkins have prepared, I have some awards to give out. [Cheers from the
crowd.] Dobbins and Blinkey? [They run up to the podium.] For your daring and
bravery, please accept these. [Hands them each a pair of socks.]
Blinkey: Blinkey is thanking Professor Glindledore for these!
Dobbins: Dobbins and Blinkey will always help the Professor.
They run off putting socks on their hands and heads.
Glindledore: And now, Ruben Haggard, Ronald Weezer, Hermione Danger and
Dorothy Potter, please... [He motions them to come to podium]. You have
demonstrated the courage of a king… (he puts a Christmas crown on Haggard), the
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heart of a loyal Knight in shining armour... (knights Ron with his wand). I dub you Sir
Ronald the Brave Hearted. Miss Danger, for you. [He gives her a giant book of
spells]. To keep your very clever brain active over the holidays, this is one of my
favorites. Dorothy Potter, you have discovered your greatest gift: friendship.
Dorothy: Yes Professor Glindledore. I never had friends before. Friendship is what I
always wanted.
Glindledore: I’m talking about your gift to others my dear. Your friendship is a gift to
us all.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Dorothy:
Sad that I have to go home
And leave this magical land
Don’t want to go back to the farm
With Uncle Henry and Auntie Em
I wish I could stay here at Ozwarts
I’m sure there’s a lot I could do
I’m good at cleaning and shoveling snow
There must be something you can do-o-o
All:
Ah-ah ah-ah-ah, Ah-ah ah-ah-ah
It’s goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Where the wicked Dimentors did prowl
Where the Sorting Hat puts you in a house
A new fam-il-y for a while
Back to the cupboard beneath the steps
Not as bad as the Axaban tower
Oh my time I will bide cuz my future lies
Somewhere on the Yellow Brick Road
Blackout.
Act 2: Scene 13
A Farmhouse
Back on the Farm
Dorothy and Toto are heading up the road to the farm. They pause at the mailbox.
Uncle Henry is fixing the fence, Dimples is skipping rope and Auntie Em is feeding
chickens.
Dorothy: (takes a deep breath) Well here we are, Privet Drive. I guess I’ve been
scarier places than this.
Toto: I’ll stay out here, I don’t want to start any trouble.
Just then the Dog Catcher rides by on his trike. Dorothy tries to hide Toto.
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Mayor Lion (Snoop): Hello there, Miss, what a beautiful owl you have there. [Toto
peeks out from behind Dorothy.] Owls are such a diverse species. I’ve never seen
an owl like that in these parts. I’m not sure if we’ve met. I’m Mayor Lion.
Dorothy: (hesitantly) You do look familiar. Pleased to meet you. I’m Dorothy Potter,
I’ve been away at boarding school.
Mayor Lion (Snoop): Nice to meet you Dorothy. It’s important for to me to get to
know my constituents, the local town folks.
Dorothy: What happened to Elmira Drumph? She didn’t win the election?
Snoop: No! And it’s a good thing. Turns out she was involved with some shady
characters. She was a real bully too. We’re better than that here. I’m passing out
flyers reminding folks they can volunteer at the town’s new animal shelter. Anyone
can be a local hero.
Dorothy: Why thank you, Mayor Lion, that sounds fun.
Mayor: Take care, little lady, and remember there’s no place like home. (chuckles)
Haha, that was my campaign slogan.
Heroes Reprise
All actors enter for a verse and chorus
THE END
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