Fantasmic! show script - Part 1
Here is part one of my Fantasmic! show script! This is mostly California's version, but during the writing of the show script, I changed the Pinochhio puppets to Alice in Wonderland puppets instead. So on with the show script!
Narrator: Welcome to Fantasmic!, where you’ll se our friend and host Mickey Mouse, use his imagination to create magical moments that all can enjoy. Nothing is more wonderful and fanciful than the Imagination, for, in a moment, you will see beautiful plants, exotic rainforests, very strange moments, or an exciting adventure. But nothing is more powerful than the imagination. For it can expand your greatest fears into a terrifying nightmare? Is Mickey’s imagination powerful enough to destroy some of the forces of evil that are about to invade Mickey’s dream? You are about to find out.
(As the narrator says this, a musical note begins to start, as the stage gets ready for the show. After the opening piece of narration is finished, the note becomes the Fantasmic theme tune, and a long blue beam shoots up into the sky.)
“Imagination” Singer: Imagination…
(Several lights appear out of the ground on the island stage, and the music continues.)
“Imagination” Singer: …dream of fantastic dreams…
(The island stage lights up to reveal Mickey Mouse, in his shiny tuxedo.)
“Imagination” Singer: ...use your imagination!
(Just then, Mickey moves to another area on the stage. Then, on a timed cue with Mickey waving his hand, jets of water come up into the sky in cue with the music, as the “Imagination” song continues playing on. Mickey continues doing this for a while until he moves to another area of the stage, where he stands in a certain position and shoots sparks from both of gloves.)
(After they have burned out, the island stage darkens, and the mist screens come on, showing a shooting star creating several little stars, before Mickey flies up into the area, and positions himself on a rock, as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice plays. Just then, he makes the stars brighter, and starts making them fly towards himself. In cue with the mist screens, several fireworks shoot off as Mickey conducts the song.)
(Mickey then begins to bring the ocean’s waves closer to him. Finally, he then sends two stars into each other, causing the fireworks to scatter around the area.)
(The sprinkling dust on the mist screens becomes flowers and other plants.)
“Imagination” Singer: Sleep with your mind and you will find, your imagination. Mysteries and magic, visions fantastic, leads to strange and wondrous dreams!
(As the singer sings this, the flowers go through several random patterns and colours. On the island lake, a big flower opens up. The flower, like the ones on the mist screens, changes colour after a few moments.)
(As the music plays on, the flowers continue changing it’s colour and shapes. At a blue orchid, the flower on the island lake closes up, and the flowers on the mist screens disappear as exotic music begins to play.)
(The mist screens disappear temporarily, and on the island stage, a green elephant marches in one place, joined by green rhinoceroses, pink ostriches and cheetahs, along with Simba, Pumbaa and Timon on a rock behind the animals, before they all disappear when the stage darkens. When the stage lightens up again, Tarzan stands atop the rock, and waves his spear about as a puppet of Sabor prowls around the stage.)
(The stage once again darkens, this time two beams of light appears from the darkness, gradually revealing a giant version of Kaa, searching the audience with his long beams of light from his eyes. Kaa disappears from the island stage, and around the lake are several rafts with neon-coloured monkeys and gorillas on them, with King Louis and Kerchak on the final and grandest raft. As the boat disappears into the darkness, the mist screens come on and the music suddenly changes.)
(On the mist screens, an orange background has black elephants in front of it. Just then, it reverses so the background is black and the elephants are orange before they go to pink. The music kicks into high gear, as a massive elephant made of elephant faces appears on the mist screens.)
(Just then, the mist screens show several pink elephants with instruments appearing out of a broken trumpet. It then changes to show the elephants blowing their trumpets in cue with the music, as blacklight pink elephants appear on stage.)
Singer: Look out! Look out!
(It then shows two elephants dancing together, before showing an elephant in a belly dancer’s outfit. After dancing, the elephant’s stomach suddenly jerks in several directions before fading to a circle and then finally to an eye.)
Singer: Pachyderm!
(On the mist screens, it shows one grey elephant in normal view and then another grey elephant upside down looking around until they see each other and run away. Then it shows the elephants turning into cars, and then four orange elephants with trumpets, and finally to one pink elephant creating another.)
Singer: They’re here! They’re there! Oh no! Look out! They’re everywhere!
(As the singer sings the above line, the mist screens changes to show one patterned elephant on strings marching, and it follows until the entire mist screen shows all of the patterned elephants marching together. On ‘They’re everywhere!’ the elephants on the stage disappear and the mist screens shows the elephants on strings falling into space, until the music stops and only the strings are left behind.)
(The strings reappear on three cards that appear on stage. They march around the stage to the tune of “Painting the Roses Red”. They stop at two trees, and with the help of lights, the roses become red. The cards and trees suddenly disappear, and giant flowers raise out of the ground near a human Alice. The flowers and Alice move around to the tune of “All in the Golden Afternoon”.)
(The flowers disappear, and in a fast-paced version of “Painting the Roses Red”, Alice runs around the stage, with puppet versions of the White Rabbit, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and finally the White Rabbit and the Mad Hatter. At this point the music changes to “A Very Merry Unbirthday”.)
(Finally, an enlarged puppet of the Cheshire Cat appears as the human Alice disappears off the stage.)
Cheshire Cat: Try the bottle for a way out, but be warned!
(The mist screens come on to show Alice inside a sinking bottle, with her looking around. All of a sudden, several bubbles cover the screen.)
Jiminy Cricket: Pinocchio!
(The bubbles clear to show Jiminy Cricket on the bottom of the ocean.)
Jiminy Cricket: We’re down here!
(The mist screens change to show a orange fish swimming around, creating various effects with her fins. After she does a few patterns, the mist screens change once again to show Jiminy Cricket trapped inside a bubble, with his hat flying by in another bubble.)
Jiminy Cricket: That’s better!
(He manages to get his hat, but then the bubble begins to fill up with water, luckily for Jiminy he manages to get out as the bubble pops. The mist screens change once again to show a school of fish swimming by until an eye opens and scares them away, cueing the entrance of Monstro, who proceeds to chase after the fish and crash onto the water, creating a minor splash. The mist screens darken and come back on to show Monstro heading straight towards the mist screens. The whale’s mouth opens and then splashs the water again.)
(The mist screens darken, and then come back on once again to show Mickey swimming through the water. He comes back to the surface by flowing through a blue whirlpool.)
Mickey Mouse: Help!
(He then gulps as he grabs onto a book, and then goes down another whirlpool. After he disappears down it, the mist screens darken, but Mickey’s pair of eyes are visible as he looks around.)
Mickey Mouse: Hey, what’s going on? (As he looks straight towards the mist screens.) Uh oh!
(Mickey’s eyes disappear, and the music sounds grand as various white and red images flash around the screen, when the music stops, the stage is left in darkness.)
(A loud splash is heard, and on cue, the lake lights up to reveal a life-sized replica of the Nautilus, with Captain Nemo on deck, with the a replica of the giant squid grasping it’s tentacles around the Nautilus. The crewmembers run around with fake guns and harpoons.)
Captain Nemo: It’s a giant squid, men! Aim for the area between it’s eyes!
(A tentacle replica appears, knocking two of the seamen off the Nautilus, onto a safe boat travelling alongside the Nautilus.)
Captain Nemo: Quickly men! Just do it!
(The seamen fire their guns, only for the squid to be unaffected. Another tentacle appears, and grabs the sea-men in it’s grasp.)
Crewmember: Help us, sir! We need some help!
(Captain Nemo grabs a gun and fires it at the Nautilus’ tentacle, causing the tentacle to slowly fall down, allowing Captain Nemo to rescue them.)
Captain Nemo: Quickly men! Attack it!
(The tentacles then surround the crew of the Nautilus, knocking all but three of the crewmembers off the Nautilus and into the boat.)
Captain Nemo: We need more support! The giant squid can defeat all of us on our own!
(Just then, the tentacle grabs Captain Nemo, raising him up into the squid’s mouth area. The mouth pops out and opens.)
Captain Nemo: If I have met my end, then hope that I will live on in the memory of my crew!
(On deck, Ned Land appears and runs to two members of the crew, who have guns with them.)
Crewmember: Mr. Land! The giant squid is attacking Captain Nemo and the Nautilus!
Ned Land: Don’t worry! I’ll get Nemo!
(Ned Land runs and grabs a harpoon, throwing it into the area between the eyes of the giant squid puppet.)
Captain Nemo: What?
(The squid slowly loses it’s grip on Nemo, causing it to gradually settle down onto the deck of the Nautilus. The squid’s roars become fainter every second.)
Captain Nemo: Thank you, Mr. Land. You have saved my life.
Ned Land: Hey, no big deal. Besides, me, you and the crew of the Nautilus all defeated the giant squid together.
(The stage suddenly darkens, allowing the Nautilus to leave the island lake.)
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Okay, look for Part Two tomorrow.