Blazin' Rhythms Script
The area is dark with a path down Main Street, a path around the route, and an empty stage. The stage goes dark with the rest of the parade route and we heard a slow drumming noise. It picks up in speed and we see a glass box suddenly on stage when the lights go up. Suddenly, 4 yellowish lights sparkle at the four corners of the box and we see that they are pixies. The box rises spiraling upwards until it’s about 30 or so feet in the air making it visible down Main Street. Suddenly, the box goes dark and the sides sparkle with white light and the pixie trail glows some as their little wings flutter fast. Then suddenly, the box lights up, and who else, but Mickey Mouse is inside. The box lowers to the ground and the doors open and Mickey steps out. Fire bursts around the box (paper/fabric like PotC) and it sinks into the ground, suddenly, railings rise around Mickey and he is rising into the air about 30 feet on his platform and we hear the main theme of Blazin’ Rhythms playing as the other platforms containing characters rise. We see people pour out from Backstage into the stage and in Main Street containing fiery costumes with sparkling body pieces and the main fanfare goes on with sparkling red, orange, and yellow fireworks in the air. Mickey’s platform is the highest currently.
Mickey – Let’s check out all the places we can go with the Blazin’ Rhythms of our heart!
Then suddenly, Minnie’s platform rises to the highest point and her can-can outfit is in the spotlight as can-can dancers come out onto the stage and the other dancers disappear.
[NOTE – I don’t feel like describing the fireworks going so, but there will be fireworks going on all the time.]
Minnie – Ladies, LA VIE PARISIENNE!
Then we hear the can-can song play and they begin to do some low kicks and they shake their shirts. Then they bust into high kicks and shaking their shirts, back flips, turns, splits, and more kicks. The kicks reach a high point and…
Clopin – FOOLS!
The can-can girls are sort of pushed aside by Gypsies and Donald’s platform rises to the highest point. Banners drop from the castle.
Once a year, we throw a party here in town
Once a year, we turn all Paris upside-down
Ev'ry man's a king and ev'ry king's a clown
Once again it's Topsy Turvy day
It's the day the devil in us gets released
It's the day we mock the prig and shock the priest
Ev'rything is Topsy Turvy at the feast of fools
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Clopin - Ev'rything is upsy-daisy!
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Clopin - Ev'ryone is acting crazy
Dross is gold and weeds are a bouquet
Scurvy knaves are extra scurvy
On the sixth on Janu-urvy
Clopin And Crowd - All because it's Topsy Turvy day!
Topsy Turvy!
Clopin - Come one, come all
Hurry, hurry, here's your chance
See the mystery and romance
Clopin And Crowd - Come one, come all
Minnie – Come on Mademoiselles!
Suddenly, the can-can girls burst back into the crowd and Minnie’s platform rises to the highest position as Donald’s platform sinks and the can-can song replays as they overpower the gypsies and kick again and burst into their show. Suddenly, we see Clopin center stage again…
Clopin – Not this time, dance La Esmeralda…
DANCE!
There is an explosion of smoke all over where the can-can girls are and they run off all scared and we see gypsies dancing all over the route with Esmeralda center stage doing her gypsy dance. When the dancing is almost over...
Clopin - And now, mesdames et monsieurs, the piece de resistance!
Here it is, the moment you've been waiting for
Here it is, you know exactly what's in store
Now's the time we laugh until our sides get sore
Now's the time we crown the king of fools!
You all remember last year's king...
So make a face that's horrible and frightening
Make a face that's gruesome as a gargoyle's wing
For the face that's ugliest will be the king of fools
Why?
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Clopin - Ugly folks, forget your shyness
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Clopin - You could soon be called "your highness"
Crowd - Put your foulest features on display
Be the king of Topsy Turvy day
Esmeralda - Hey, you're going to join in the competition, right? Come on, you didn't go to all the trouble of making that great mask for nothing! You get 5 Sous if you win!
One person from the crowd is chosen to be a part of the festival at each location where there is a place to show your face.
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Person from crowd chosen sticks face thru hole and the crowd applauds with moderate excitement.
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Next, a gypsy sticks his face thru the hole and the crowd screams NO!
Crowd - Topsy Turvy!
Quasimodo sticks his face thru the hole and there is a brief silence we hear a loud and razzing YEAH! with a lot of cheering and people holding confetti batons send streamers shooting into the audience with lots of smoke coming from the batons because of the high pressure inside the baton to shoot the streamers far. When Esmeralda tries to remove his mask and realizes it is his face, the crowds gasps and laughs a little and…
Clopin - Ladies and gentlemen, don't panic. We asked for the ugliest face in Paris, and here he is! Ev'rybody!
We see two big champagne bottles with people on top of the necks rise near the sides of the stage and one in the middle of the stage rise with a person on its neck. The bottles are fully onstage when Clopin says “we’ve never had a king like this!”
Crowd - Once a year we throw a party here in town
Clopin - Hail to the king!
Crowd - Once a year we turn all Paris upside-down
Clopin - Oh what a king!
Crowd - Once a year the ugliest will wear the crown
Clopin - Girls, give a kiss!
Crowd - Once a year on Topsy Turvy day
Clopin - We've never had a king like this!
Clopin And Crowd - It's the day we do the things that we deplore
On the other three hundred and sixty-four
Once a year we love to drop in
Where the beer is never stoppin'
For the chance to pop some popinjay
And pick a king who'll put the "top" in
Topsy Turvy day!
Side champagne bottles explode with pyro that looks like champagne is shooting out the cork.
Topsy Turvy!
Mad and crazy, upsy-daisy
Topsy Turvy day
Hey!
On the word “hey!” the middle bottle explodes with streamers and gypsies carrying new batons shoot more streamers with smoke coming out the batons due to the force of the blast and at the same time we hear…WHOOSH! and suddenly Mickey shaped confetti is raining down upon the whole crowd. The banners on the castle drop off into the nearest balconies and put away by technical assistants. When the WHOOSH! occurs we see drums rise on stage and get pushed out onto the route and Chip and Dale’s platform is now the highest and drummers begin to pound on these drums and the gypsies scatter and we see Asian dragons and samurai and other Asian dancers pour into the crowd as the exotic Asian drums beat new music and there is a general Asian feel. At the end with a great big beat on the drums, everyone crosses their hands in the air with their drumsticks and yellow confetti shaped like dragons shoots in the air from the stage floor and certain areas of the Main Street floor but only straight up and not really into the crowd. When the confetti is shot, fog is shot into the air as Goofy’s platform rises and this fog blankets all the Asian dancers and when the fog clears a few seconds after it appears, the Asian dancers are suddenly replaced with African dancers and puppetry of lions, gazette, and other pride land animals. They move around interacting with the people and the African trumpets and beats become fast now and then we hear a splash and then new Caribbean drums and whistles start playing and the animals clear and we see Caribbean dancers and sea-themed dancers with Sebastian and Ariel on stage and Main Street. Pluto’s platform is currently the highest and the dancers begin pulling people from the crowd to do limbos and conga lines and other Caribbean fun and towards the end of this number we see Tinkerbell fly down from the middle wire followed by 4 other aerialists on the other wires with trailing tapestries of red, yellow, and orange. Banners and tapestries once again fall from certain points in the castle and we see a general celebration song go on with a tune similar to “The Future Hand In Hand” song. All of the dancers from each number gather onstage with all of the gang in platforms in their highest points. The celebration is exotic, fanciful, and very much fun with can-caning, gypsy dancing, dragons, drums, sea-animals, and fire among things. The number ends in a giant freeze and suddenly, fireworks explode lining the castle, on Main Street buildings and everywhere lining the route with a flash powder type effect and then in another beat, they repose and there’s another WHOOSH! with more confetti raining upon the audience. There’s a general closing number in which every group takes a bow individually and each character disappears with his group. Finally, it’s Mickey and his dancers and they bow and disappear and then Mickey’s platform sinks leaving him standing alone on the stage, the box reappears and Mickey steps inside and it rises into the air again.
Mickey – It’s Magical! HAHA!
With the “HAHA!” the lights go out for about 2 seconds and relight and Mickey is gone, nowhere to be seen. And the music slowly drums to a close and then the whole area lights up to how it was before the show, just covered in confetti and streamers.
So, now what does everyone think. This is pretty much the final script. I want your opinions. Thanks! - The WeirdOne
