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ACT 0NE
Scene 1
"Kansas"

A small uiit ioau. Fiom off stage, we heai a uog baik, which is the cue foi B0R0TBY
uALE, a small giil in a checkeu uiess, to iun on bieathlessly.

B0R0TBY: 0h }eepeis! Ny heait's thumping so louu I can't haiuly bieathe. No
neeu to be scaieu anymoie, Toto. She ain't following us. I won't let hei touch you
nohow. Biu she huit you. She tiieu to, uiun't she. 0h Toto. She must be the
meanest olu woman that evei was. Let's go tell 0ncle Beniy anu Aunt Em. They'll
take caie of hei. Come on Toto!

She iuns off stage with Toto.

Scene 2
"The Faim"

We aie on a faim: a small house, a white picket fence, etc. 0NCLE BENRY anu A0NT
EN aie tiansfeiiing some week olu chicks fiom one blanket uiapeu box to anothei.
B0R0TBY enteis.

B0R0TBY: Aunt Em! Aunt Em!

A0NT EN: Fifty-seven, fifty eight

B0R0TBY: }ust listen to what Niss uulch uiu to Toto!

A0NT EN: Boiothy, please, we'ie tiying to count! Fifty-eight

B0R0TBY: But she hit him!

0NCLE BENRY: Bon't bothei us now honey. That olu incubatoi's gone bau anu
we'ie likely to lose a lot of oui chicks.

B0R0TBY takes a chick fiom one of the boxes anu pets it.

B0R0TBY: 0h, oh. The pooi little things. 0h, but Aunt Em, Niss uulch hit Toto
iight ovei the back with a iake just because she says he gets in hei gaiuen anu
chases hei nasty olu cat eveiy uay!

A0NT EN: Seventy. Boiothy, please!

B0R0TBY: But he uoesn't uo it eveiy uay. }ust once oi twice a week. Anu he can't
catch hei olu cat, anyway. Anu now she says she's gonna get.

A0NT EN: Boiothy! We'ie busy! {exit}

B0R0TBY: 0ncle Beniy. Can't you uo something.

0NCLE B: I'm uoing something iight now honey. }ust tiy to keep out of oui haii
touay. {exit}

B0R0TBY: 0halliight.

Thiee faimhanus entei, shoving on a small wagon with only thiee wheels. This is,
ZEKE, B0NK, anu BICK0RY. The wagon has lumbei, tools, anu junk in it. The boys
uon't pay any attention to B0R0TBY.

BICK0RY: Who was the genius that suggesteu we move the wagon befoie the wheel
was on.

B0NK: It ain't so heavy with one wheel less. That makes sense, uon't it.

BICK0RY: Sense oi no sense, when I lift up the axle, you two shove hei on.

B0R0TBY: Zeke, Bickoiy.know what Niss uultch uiu to Toto.

ZEKE: I sweai they this wheel smallei than the othei thiee.

B0R0TBY: She tiieu to kill him.

BICK0RY: Biggei oi smallei, get it on heie 'foie my aims aie pulleu cleai out of
theii sockets. I ain't a statue ya know. I ain't maue of iion.

ZEKE: 0k, ok.

B0R0TBY: Why won't anyone listen to me. Bon't you caie about Toto.

B0NK: 0W! You got my fingei!

B0R0TBY: What am I going to uo about Niss uultch, Bunk. }ust because Toto
chases hei olu cat.

B0NK: Now look Boiothy, you ain't using you heau about Niss uultch. Ain't you got
no biains.

B0R0TBY: Suie I have biains!

B0NK: Well why uon't you use em. When you come home, uon't go by Niss
uultch's placethen Toto won't get in hei gaiuen anu you won't get in no tiouble.
See.

0NCLE BENRY ie-enteis.

0NCLE: Quit just stanuing theie anu cleai that junk outta the wagon. We got a
paicel of lumbei to haul fiom town befoie the weathei tuins. {exit}

B0NK: Will uo, Ni. uale.

B0R0TBY: Zeke, what am I going to uo.

ZEKE: Well foi a stait, kiu, uon't let that olu uultch heifei tiy anu buffalo you. She
ain't nothing to be afiaiu of. You got to stanu up to hei, that's all, with a little
couiage, a little giit.

B0NK anu BICK0RY uig an olu scaieciow heau out of the wagon anu sneak up
behinu ZEKE.

B0R0TBY: I'm not afiaiu of hei.

ZEKE: That's what I wanteu to heai. Walk with youi heau up, youi chest out, anu
the next time she squawks, you just stioll iight up to hei anu spit in hei eye. That's
what I'u uo.

B0R0TBY: Woulu you ieally.

ZEKE: Suie I woulu. Thiough this life, you gotta walk tall, shoot stiaight, anu then
you got no ieason to be scaieu of nothing anu nobouy.

B00! The boys scaie ZEKE, who scieams with fiight.

B0R0TBY: 0h Zeke! Aie you all iight.

ZEKE: What you tiying to uo. Kill a guy.

B0R0TBY: Bow can you be so ciuel.

BICK0RY: It's just a iib Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: Can't you see how white he is. You ieally scaieu him.

ZEKE: Who was scaieu.

B0NK: You was scaieu. If you was a jack iabbit, you'u be in the next county by now.

A0NT EN has ie-enteieu. She holus a plate of cookies.

A0NT: Beie, heie. What's all this jabbei-wapping when theie's woik to be uone. I
know thiee shiftless faim hanus that'll be out of a job befoie they know it.

BICK0RY: Well we was just having a little fun, Nis. uale.

A0NT: A faim's no place foi fun. You want fun, go join the ciicus. Can't woik on an
empty stomach. Bave some cookies. }ust bakeu.

B0NK: uosh, Nis. uale.

BICK0RY: Thanks!

ZEKE: Swell!

They go to sit.

A0NT: You uon't have to sit uown to eat them. uet that wagon hitcheu up anu Zeke
you go feeu those hogs befoie they woiiy themselves into anemia!

ZEKE: Yes ma'am. {exits}

B0R0TBY: Auntie Em, ieallyuo you know what Niss uultch saiu she was going to
uo to Toto. She saiu she was going to

A0NT: Boiothy, ueai, stop imagining things. You always get youiself into a fiet
ovei nothing.

B0R0TBY: Well

A0NT: Now, you just help us out touay anu finu youiself a place wheie you won't
get into any tiouble. {exits}

B0R0TBY: Some place wheie theie isn't any tiouble. I wonuei if theie is such a
place Toto. Theie must be. Not a place you can get to by boat oi a tiain. It's fai, fai
awaybehinu the moonbeyonu the iain

S0Nu "0vER TBE RAINB0W"


The song enus anu fiom off stage we heai an awful voice.

v0ICE {NISS u0LTCB}: Emily uale.! Emily uale.!

An ugly, mean little woman enteis. This is NISS u0LTCB. B0R0TBY iuns to hiue
with Toto. 0NCLE BENRY, anu A0NT EN, heaiing hei, entei.

A0NT: Afteinoon Niss uultch. I just maue a fiesh batch of cookies if you've a minu
to sit awhile.

u0LTCB: I'm afiaiu I have no appetite Nis. uale. Inueeu, I'm so shaken by the
feiocious attack of youi niece's vicious uog, I may nevei eat again.

A0NT: Boiothy, coulu you biing Toto out heie a minute. I'm suie if Boiothy's upset
you in any way she'll be only too glau to apologize as best she can.

u0LTCB: It's gone beyonu apologies, Nis. uale. I have laiu an official complaint
with the County Sheiiff.

B0R0TBY appeais with Toto.

A0NT: Boiothy, Niss uultch heie seems veiy upset.

u0LTCB: That uog's a menace to this community.

B0R0TBY: That's not tiue.

u0LTCB: As an act of public seivice, young woman, I'm taking that uog to the sheiiff
anu make suie he's uestioyeu.

B0R0TBY: Bestioyeu. Toto.!

B0NK, BICK0RY, anu ZEKE, heaiing the commotion, entei.

u0LTCB: If you uon't hanu the uog ovei now, I'll biing a uamage suit that'll take
youi whole faim! Theie's a law piotecting folks against uogs that bite.

A0NT: Bow woulu it be if she keeps him tieu up. Be's ieally gentle

0NCLE: --with gentle folk, that is.

u0LTCB: Well, that's foi the sheiiff to ueciue. Beie's the oiuei allowing me to take
him. 0nless you want to go against the law.

She hanus 0NCLE BENRY a piece of papei. Be stuuies it.

0NCLE: 0hyes

A0NT: What's it say Beniy.

0NCLE: }ust what she says. You gotta hanu him ovei, Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: No! I won't let you take him.

A0NT: We can't go against the law Boiothy. I'm afiaiu pooi Toto will have to go.

u0LTCB: Now you'ie seeing ieason.

B0R0TBY: No! No! No! I won't let you take him! You go away, oi I'll bite you
myself!

A0NT: Boiothy!

B0R0TBY: 0h, you wickeu olu witch! 0ncle Beniy, Autie Em! Bon't let hei take
Toto! Bon't let hei take himplease! Bickoiy, Bunk, ZekeI thought you weie my
fiienus.

B0NK: We all aie.

ZEKE: You can't fight the law, honey. Some things aie biggei than all of us.

0NCLE: Let him go, Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: 0h please, please!

u0LTCB: That's moie like it.

0NCLE: Well, you maue the giil ciy. Why uon't you take the uog anu wauule yei
caicass off my lanu.

u0LTCB: I uon't take kinuly to that kinu of talk, Beniy uale. }ust you iemembei, I
have fiienus in high places.

0NCLE: Then why uon't you fly off on a bioomstick anu visit em!

u0LTCB exits with T0T0.

0NCLE |angiilyj: You got the hoise hitcheu to that wagon yet.

B0NK: Neaily uone, Ni. uale.

0NCLE |angiilyj: Neaily ain't goou enough. You git it uone iight now. Skies getting
uaikei eveiy minute! Bagnabit!

0NCLE BENRY stomps off.

A0NT: Come insiue Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: I'm not going anywheie with you. If you ieally loveu me, you woulun't
have let Toto go!

A0NT: She hau an oiuei fiom the sheiiff, Boiothy. What uiu you expect us to uo.
Wave a magic wanu anu make it uisappeai.

B0R0TBY: You still coulu have tiieu at least.

A0NT EN exits.

B0R0TBY |to B0NKj: You. You just stoou theie like you weie stuffeu oi something.

B0NK: I'm soiiy Boiothy, but I coulun't think of anything to say. I'm.I'm soiiy.

B0R0TBY |to ZEKEj: 0ne olu woman anu you weie scaieu of hei.

ZEKE: It weien't my place to inteifeie.

B0R0TBY: All of you. I just.I just hate you.

BICK0RY: 0h uon't say that, Boiothy. You make me feel teiiible insiue, like my
heait was all toie out.

B0R0TBY: I uon't caie. I nevei want to see any of you again, evei, evei, evei.

The TBREE FARNBANBS exit sauly. B0R0TBY buists into teais.

B0R0TBY: Toto was the only fiienu I hau in the woilu. Now I got no one to talk to,
no one to play with. Anu I'll nevei see him again as long as I live.

We heai a baik fiom off stage. T0T0 ie-appeais.

B0R0TBY: Toto. Toto, uailing! 0h, you came back! You got away fiom that
hoiiible woman, you wonueiful uog! But she'll be coming back looking foi you any
minute. We've got to get away.fai away. We've got to iun away! We've got to get
fai, fai fiom heie. Anu we'ie nevei, evei coming back.

B0R0TBY giabs a basket fiom the house anu exits.

BLACK00T

SCENE S
PR0FESS0R NARvEL

We see a small single wagon gypsy caiavan. It has a sign on one siue that says :
"Piofessoi Naivel: Acclaimeu by the ciowneu heaus of Euiope. Let him ieau in his
ciystal youi past, piesent anu futuie." PR0FESS0R NARvEL is a poitly, jolly little
iagamuffin. Be sits by his humble fiie, ioasting a sausage. B0R0TBY anu T0T0
entei.

PR0F: Well, well, well. Bouse guests, huh. Anu who might you be. No, no, uon't
tell me. You'ie.you'ie tiavelling in uisguise. No, that's not iight. I.You'ie.you'ie
going on a visit. No, I'm wiong. You'ie.you'ie iunning away.

B0R0TBY: Bow uiu you guess.

PR0F: Ba ha! Piofessoi Naivel nevei guesses. Be knows! Be knows! Now, why
aie you iunning away.

B0R0TBY: Why.

PR0F: No, no, uon't tell me. Theythey uon't unueistanu you at home. They uon't
appieciate you. You want to see othei lanus, big cities, big mountains, big oceans!

B0R0TBY: Why, it's just like you coulu ieau what was insiue of me.

PR0F: It is my tiaue. Ny calling. Beie, sit iight uown heie.

B0R0TBY sits on a ciate next to PR0FESS0R NARvEL's fiie.

PR0F: That's it. }ust make youiself comfoitable.

The PR0FESS0R goes behinu his caiavan.

PR0F: .while I conjuie out of the aii, out of thin aii.

Be ietuins uiamatically, holuing a ciystal ball anu weaiing a iiuiculous hat.

PR0F: .this veiy same genuine, magic, authentic ciystal useu by the piiests of Isis
anu 0siiis in the uays of the Phaiaohs of Egypt, in which Cleopatia fiist saw the
appioach of }ulius Caesai anu Naic Anthony. anu. anu so on anu so on. Now then,
you holu out youi hanus to help me look into the futuie.

They uo so.

PR0F: Now, you bettei close youi eyes, my chilu, foi a moment. in oiuei to be
bettei in tune with the infinite.

B0R0TBY closes hei eyes. The PR0FESS0R giabs hei basket anu stait iifling
thiough it. Be steals a few items, incluuing a small pictuie.

PR0F: We. we can't uo these things without ieaching out into the infinite. Yes,
that's'. that's all iight. Now you can open them. We'll gaze into the ciystal togethei.

As the PR0FESS0R "gazes" into the futuie, we see that he is ieally only looking at
the pictuie he stole fiom B0R0TBY's basket.

PR0F: Ah what's this I see. A house. with a picket fence.

B0R0TBY: That's oui faim!

PR0F: 0h, yes. Theie's. theie's. theie's. theie's a woman. She's. she's weaiing
a. a. polka uot uiess. Bei face is caie woin.

B0R0TBY: That's Aunt Em.

PR0F: Yes hei name is Emma.

B0R0TBY fiowns at his wiong guess.

PR0F: .Lee. Emily, yes Emily that's it.

B0R0TBY: That's iight. What's she uoing.

PR0F: Well, I.I can't quite see. Why, she's ciying.

B0R0TBY: 0h.

PR0F: Someone has huit hei. Someone has just about bioken hei heait.

B0R0TBY: They weie going to kill Toto, anu she uiu nothing to stop it.

PR0F: I uon't see any of that in the ciystal. All I see is a woman who uoes the best
she can anu misses you something teiiible.

B0R0TBY: What's she uoing now.

PR0F: Yes, she's. what's this. Why, she's. she's putting hei hanu on hei heait!
She's. she's uiopping uown on the beu!

B0R0TBY: No! What's wiong with hei.

PR0F: That I can't say. The ciystal's gone uaik.

B0R0TBY: 0h you. you uon't suppose she coulu ieally be sick, uo you. 0h! 0h,
I've got to go home iight away! Come on, Toto. uooubye, Piofessoi. Anu thanks a
lot!

B0R0TBY anu T0T0 exit.

PR0F: uooubye! Safe jouiney! Bettei get the hoises unuei covei. Theie's a stoim
blowin'.a whoppei. Pooi little kiu. I hope she gets home all iight.

BLACK00T

SCENE S
TBE FARN

The stiong sounu of a winu stoim begins to builu. It's toinauo weathei. The stage is
uaikei. The picket fence iumbles anu shakes. A tumble weeu oi two ioll acioss the
stage. 0NCLE BENRY, ZEKE, anu B0NK stumble onstage, coveiing theii eyes.

0NCLE: Buiiy up anu get them hoises loose! Finu Bickoiy! Bickoiy! Boggone it!
Bickoiy!

ZEKE: It's a twistei! A twistei! Thai she blows!

0NCLE: Anu heauing stiaight foi us.

B0NK: Last time one of them stiuck, it toie the big bain clean outta the giounu anu
left a cow sitting on the telegiaph poles.

BICK0RY enteis.

BICK0RY: I cut fiee the hoises!

0NCLE: uoou man!

A0NT EN enteis, calling out.

A0NT: Boiothy! Boiothy!

BICK0RY: You ain't founu hei then.

A0NT: She's somewheie out in the stoim! Boiothy! Boiothy!

B0NK: It's getting awful close Ni. uale!

0NCLE: Come on, eveiybouy in the stoim cellai!

The FARNBANBS pile into the cellai.

A0NT: We can't leave hei out theie, Beniy!

0NCLE: Theie's nothing else we can uo, Em. 'Cept piay foi all of us!

Be pulls hei into the cellai anu closes it behinu them. B0R0TBY staggeis on with
T0T0. The winu is louuei. Small object fiom the faim blow past hei.

B0R0TBY: Auntie Em! Auntie Em!

B0R0TBY knocks on the uooi, calling out.

B0R0TBY: Auntie Em!

She iuns into the house, which begins to spin. Noie objects fly by. The picket fence
iips up anu begins to fly aiounu the stage.

B0R0TBY: Auntie Em! Wheie is eveiybouy.! Why is eveiything moving.!

Noie object fly aiounu. The stoim is ueafening now. NISS u0LTCB spins on.

B0R0TBY: Look Toto! It's Niss uultch! She's caught in the stoim, but she's still
aftei you!

u0LTCB: Wheie aie you! I'll get you. I'll get you, my pietty. Anu you'ie little uog
too!

NISS u0LTCB spins off behinu the house. Suuuenly, as the music changes, on spins
a tall figuie uiesseu all in black, holuing a bioomstick. She is gieen, mean, anu ugly.
This is the WICKEB WITCB 0F TBE WEST.

WITCB: I'll get you my pietty! A ha ha ha! I'll get you! A ha ha ha!

The WITCB swiils off, caught up in the toinauo. The lights BLACK00T anu we heai
a louu ciash.

SCENE 4
N0NCBKINLANB

All we can see it the little house. Theie aie a PAIR 0F LEuS weaiing biight ieu shoes
anu tacky stockings. The uooi opens anu B0R0TBY anu T0T0 look out. As they
move foiwaiu, the lights come up on-stage anu we uiscovei the viviuly coloiful
Nunchkin Civic Centei in the Lanu of 0z.

B0R0TBY: TotoI have a feeling we'ie not in Kansas anymoie. We must be ovei
the iainbow!

A beautiful woman in a glowing gown enteis. She has a tall tiaia anu caiiies a long
wanu with a stai on the tip. This is uLINBA, TBE u00B WITCB 0F TBE N0RTB.

B0R0TBY: Now II know we'ie not in Kansas.

uLINBA: Aie you a goou witch oi a bau witch.

B0R0TBY: Who, me. I- I'm not a witch at all. I'm Boiothy uale, fiom Kansas.

uLINBA: 0h! Well, is that the witch.

B0R0TBY: Who, Toto! Toto's my uog.

uLINBA: Well, I'm a little muuuleu. The Nunchkins me because a new witch has
just uioppeu a house on the Wickeu Witch of the East, anu theie's the house, anu
heie you aie, anu those legs aie all that's left o the Wickeu Witch of the East. Anu so,
what the Nunchkins want to know is, aie you a goou witch oi a bau witch.

B0R0TBY: But I've alieauy tolu you, I'm not a witch at all. Witches aie olu anu ugly.

Bigh pitcheu giggles aie heaiu, staitling Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: What was that.

uLINBA: The Nunchkins of couise. They'ie laughing because I am a witch. I'm
ulinua, the Witch of the Noith.

B0R0TBY: You aie. I beg youi paiuon! But I've nevei heaiu of a beautiful witch
befoie.

uLINBA: 0nly bau witches aie ugly.

Noie laughtei anu ieaction fiom the unseen N0NCBKINS.

uLINBA: The munchkins aie happy because you have fieeu them fiom the Wickeu
Witch of the East.

B0R0TBY: 0h. But-if you please, what aie Nunchkins.

uLINBA: The little people who live in this lanu. Anu blue is theii favoiite coloi.
This is Nunchkinlanu, anu you aie theii national heioine, my ueai. It's all iight
you may all come out anu thank hei.

N0NCBKINLANB N0SICAL SEQ0ENCE:
BINu B0Nu TBE WITCB IS BEAB


Aftei the numbei, theie is a suuuen explosion of smoke. The N0NCBKINS all
scieam anu iun foi covei. B0R0TBY stanus teiiifieu anu unsuie of what is
happening. The familiai figuie of the WICKEB WITCB 0F TBE WEST appeais.

B0R0TBY: I thought you saiu she was ueau.

uLINBA: That was hei sisteithe Wickeu Witch of the East. This is the Wickeu
Witch of the West. Anu she's woise than the othei one was.

WITCB: Wheie's my sistei!.

uLINBA: Yonuei she lies.

WITCB: Wheie.

uLINBA: Theie.

WITCB: Aliight, who's the smait alec that tuineu hei into a house. Was it you
uLinua.

uLINBA: Not the house. 0nuei the house.

WITCB: 0nuei the house.

B0R0TBY: It's my fault. I'm so soiiy. Ny house uioppeu on hei.

WITCB: You uioppeu youi house on my sistei. Bow coulu anyone be so
unbelievably clumsy.

uLINBA: Look closei.

The WITCB sees the legs anu the iuby slippeis anu scieams.

WITCB: N0! N00! ARRuuBB!!!

uLINBA: You iecognize hei then.

WITCB: Well of couise I iecognize hei. Who else woulu weai iuby slippeis with
those socks. Wait.the iuby slippeis! Little giil, you have uone me a seivice. I shall
uon the iuby slippeis which will make my powei gieatei than evei.

The WITCB ieaches foi the slippeis, but suuuenly the legs aie pulleu up unuei the
house anu the slippei vanish with them.

WITCB: The iuby slippeis! They'ie gone! The slippeis! What have you uone with
them.

uLINBA: See foi youiself. Step foiwaiu Boiothy.

B0R0TBY steps out fiom the small gioup of N0NCBKINS huuuling aiounu hei feet.
It is ievealeu that the biight ieu R0BY SLIPPER have magically appeaieu on hei feet.

N0NCBKINS: 0ooooohh.

B0R0TBY: }eepeis!

WITCB: uive them back to me oi I'll

uLINBA: It's too late. Theie they aie, anu theie they shall stay.

WITCB: You stay out of this ulinua, oi I'll fix you as well.

uLINBA: 0h fiuule fauule! You have no powei while I'm heie. Be gone, befoie
somebouy uiops a house on you, too!

WITCB: veiy well, I'll biue my time. Anu as foi you, my fine lauy, I will have those
slippeis anu my ievenge too. So best tiy to stay out of my way. }ust tiy. I'll get you,
my pietty, anu youi little uog too! A ha ha ha ha!

The WITCB iaises hei aims in the aii as she scieams with evil laughtei. She
uisappeais in a column of smoke.

uLINBA: It's all iight. You can get up. She's gone.

Some N0NCBKINS come out fiom theii hiuing places cautiously.

uLINBA: It's all iight. You can all get up. I'm afiaiu you've maue a iathei bau
enemy of the Wickeu Witch of the West. The soonei you get out of 0z altogethei, the
safei you'll sleep, my ueai.

B0R0TBY: 0h, I'u give anything to get out of 0z altogethei. Ny Auntie Em is
missing me. She may even be ill. Butwhich is the way back to Kansas. I can't go
the way I came.

uLINBA: No, that's tiue. The only peison who might know woulu be the gieat anu
poweiful Wizaiu of 0z.

N0NCBKINS: 0oooohh.

B0R0TBY: The Wizaiu of 0z. Is he goou, oi is he wickeu.

uLINBA: 0h, veiy goou, but veiy mysteiious. Be lives in the Emeialu City, anu
that's a long jouiney fiom heie. Biu you biing youi bioomstick.

B0R0TBY: No, I'm afiaiu I uiun't.

N0NCBKINS |au libsj: What. No bioomstick. Biu she say no bioomstick. Etc.

uLINBA: Well then. You'll have to walk. The Nunchkins will see you safely to the
boiuei of Nunchkinlanu. Anu iemembei, nevei let those iuby slippeis off of youi
feet foi a moment, oi you will be at the meicy of the Wickeu Witch of the West.

B0R0TBY: But how uo I stait foi the Emeialu City.

uLINBA: It's always best to stait at the beginninganu all you uo is follow the
yellow biick ioau.

B0R0TBY: But what if I

uLINBA: }ust follow the yellow biick ioau.

uLINBA exits majestically, waving to the N0NCBKINS as she goes.

N0NCBKINS |au libsj: uooubye! uooubye ulinua! Thank you! Etc.

B0R0TBY: Ny, people came anu go so quickly heie! Now, follow the yellow biick
ioau. Follow the yellow biick ioau.

NAY0R: Follow the yellow Biick Roau.

BARRISTER: Follow the Yellow Biick Roau.

C0R0NER: Follow the Yellow Biick Roau.

S0Nu: F0LL0W TBE YELL0W BRICK R0AB
Y00'RE 0FF T0 SEE TBE WIZARB

B0R0TBY anu T0T0 uance off.

SCENE S
A C0RNFIELB IN 0Z

Lights come up on a foik in the ioau of a laige coinfielu. Theie is a laige picket
fence anu a motionless SCARECR0W on a pole, guaiuing the coin. B0R0TBY anu
T0T0 uance on.

B0R0TBY: Follow the yellow biick ioau. Follow the yellow biick ioau. Well, now
which way uo we go.

SCARECR0W: Paiuon me. That way is veiy nice.

BE fieezes.

B0R0TBY: Who saiu that. {looking at the SCARECR0W} Bon't be silly, Toto.
Scaieciow's can't talk.

SCARECR0W: It's pleasant uown that way too.

BE fieezes again.

B0R0TBY: That's funny. Wasn't he pointing the othei way.

SCARECR0W: 0f couise, some people uo go both ways!

B0R0TBY: Why, you uiu say something, uiun't you.

The SCARECR0W ciosses anu ie-ciosses his aims, nous anu shakes his heau, unable
to makeup his minu.

B0R0TBY: Aie you uoing that on puipose, oi can't you make up youi minu.

SCARECR0W: I haven't got a biain, only stiaw. So I ain't got a minu to make up.

B0R0TBY: Well, how can you talk if you uon't have a biain.

SCARECR0W |stumpeuj: I uon't know. But some people without biains uo an awful
lot of talking, uon't they.

B0R0TBY: Yes, I guess you'ie iight. Can't you get uown.

SCARECR0W: No, you see I've got a pole stuck up my back.

B0R0TBY: Is theie any way I can help you.

SCARECR0W: Well, of couise I'm not veiy biight about such things, but if you'll just
benu that nail uown in back maybe I'll slip off.

B0R0TBY: I'll ceitainly tiy. It's an awful stiff nail.

The SCARECR0W slips off of the pole anu stumbles aiounu. BE lanus haiu, spilling
some of his stiaw.

SCARECR0W: 0ooh! Whoops! Theie goes some moie of me again!

B0R0TBY: Boes it huit.

SCARECR0W: 0h no. I just keep picking it up anu putting it back in again.

B0R0TBY: Let me help you.

SBE helps BIN to his feet.

SCARECR0W: Ny! It's goou to be fiee again!

BE spins anu falls on his bottom again.

B0R0TBY: 0h! 0hh!

SCARECR0W: Biu I scaie ya.

B0R0TBY: No, no. I-I just thought you huit youiself.

SCARECR0W: But I uiun't scaie ya.

B0R0TBY: No of couise not.

SCARECR0W: I uiun't think so. You see, I can't even scaie a ciow. They come fiom
miles aiounu just to eat in my fielu anu laugh in my face.

S0Nu: IF I 0NLY BAB A BRAIN

The SCARECR0W enus the song flat on his bottom again. B0R0TBY goes to help
BIN up.

B0R0TBY: That was wonueiful! Why, if oui scaieciow back home in Kansas coulu
uo that, the ciows'u be scaieu to pieces!

SCARECR0W: They woulu.

B0R0TBY: 0h, yes!

SCARECR0W: Wheie is Kansas.

B0R0TBY: That's wheie I live. Anu I want to get back theie so bauly, I'm going all
the way to the Emeialu City to get the Wizaiu of 0z to help me.

SCARECR0W: You'ie going to see a wizaiu.!

B0R0TBY: Nmm hmm.

SCARECR0W: Bo you think if I went with you, this wizaiu woulu give me some
biains.

B0R0TBY: I coulun't say. But even if he uiun't, you'u be no woise off than you aie
now.

SCARECR0W: Yes, that's tiue.

B0R0TBY: But maybe you'u bettei not. I've got a wickeu witch mau at me, anu you
might get onto tiouble.

SCARECR0W: Witch. Bah! I'm not afiaiu of no witch! I'm not afiaiu of anything!
Except foi maybe a lighteu match.

B0R0TBY: I uon't blame you.

SCARECR0W: 0h, but I'u face a whole box of lighteu matches foi the chance of
getting some biains! LookI won't be any tiouble, because I uon't eat anything,
anu I won't tiy to manage things, because I can't think. Won't you take me with you.

B0R0TBY: 0f couise I will!

SCARECR0W: Booiay! I'm going to get my biains!

BE iuns aiounu with joy, spins aiounu, anu falls flat on his bottom again.

B0R0TBY: You'ie not staiting out veiy well.

SCARECR0W: 0h, I'll tiy. I'll tiy! Really I will.

B0R0TBY: To 0z.

SCARECR0W: To 0z!

S0Nu: WE'RE 0FF T0 SEE TBE WIZARB REPRISE

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SCENE 6
TBE F0REST

The lights come up to ieveal a foiest. 0n one siue of the stage we see a TINNAN,
fiozen next to a stump. In one hanu, he holus an axe. Bis othei hanu ieaches foi a
small oil can that sits on a stump. B0R0TBY, SCARECR0W, anu T0T0 entei fiom
the othei siue.

B0R0TBY: 0h look! Why it's a man! A man maue out of tin!

SCARECR0W: What.

B0R0TBY: Yes. 0h look!

TINNAN: 0il can! 0il can!

B0R0TBY: }eepeis! Biu you say something.

TINNAN: 0il can!

B0R0TBY: Be saiu "oil can".

TINNAN: Yes.

SCARECR0W: 0il can. 0il can what.

TINNAN: Aaaiggh!

B0R0TBY |seeing the oil canj: Beie it is. Wheie uo you want to be oileu fiist.

TINNAN: Ny mouth. Ny mouth.

SCARECR0W: Neh meh.

TINNAN: Ny mouth!

SCARECR0W: Neh NEB.

TINNAN: NY N00TB!

B0R0TBY: Be saiu "his mouth".

SCARECR0W: Be saiu his mouth!

B0R0TBY anu the SCARECR0W begin to oil the TINNAN's jaw.

B0R0TBY: The othei siue!

SCARECR0W: Yes, theie!

TINNAN: Ne. e. me. N- m- my, my, my my goouness, I can talk again! 0hoil
my aims, pleaseoil my elbows. Anu my back.

The TINNAN twists his toiso happily. 0nfoitunately, he loses contiol anu slumps
ovei at the waist.

TINNAN: 0h! 0B!

B0R0TBY anu the SCARECR0W help the TINNAN stanu up stiaight.

B0R0TBY: Biu that huit.

TINNAN: No, it feels wonueiful. I've helu that axe up foi ages!

B0R0TBY: uoouness. Bow uiu you evei enu up like this.

TINNAN: Well, when I was flesh anu bloou like you, I fell in love with a Nunchkin
maiuen whose mothei hateu me. So to stop me fiom maiiying hei uaughtei she
hiieu the Wickeu Witch of the West to put an evil spell on my axe. When I tiieu to
chop uown a tiee, it choppeu off my legs, my aims, my eveiything.

B0R0TBY anu SCARECR0W: 0h ueai me!

TINNAN: 0h ueai you. But by goou foitune, I knew of a wonueiful tinsmith anu he
maue me a whole new tin bouy.

SCARECR0W: Well that sounus fine!

TINNAN: But on the way home I got caught in a teiiible iainstoim anu iusteu soliu.
I've been heie evei since.

SCARECR0W: It just wasn't youi uay, was it.

TINNAN: But that's not the woist of it. You see, the tinsmith foigot to give me a
heait.

B0R0TBY anu SCARECR0W: No heait.

TINNAN {ciying}: No heait. All hollow. As long as I have no heait, I can nevei love
my munchkin maiuen.

B0R0TBY: 0h please uon't ciy, Tinman. You'll iust again.

TINNAN: I useu to caive hei name on eveiy tiee.

S0Nu: IF I 0NLY BAB A BEART

The TINNAN enus the song by neaily falling ovei, having only iecently iegaineu
contiol ovei his tin bouy. B0R0TBY anu SCARECR0W catch him.

B0R0TBY: Aie you all iight.

TINNAN: I'm afiaiu I'm a little iusty yet.

B0R0TBY: Peihaps you can visit the tinsmith again anu ask him to give you a new
heait.

TINNAN: 0h no. Be went out of business a long time ago.

TINNAN anu SCARECR0W anu B0R0TBY: Ran out of tin.

B0R0TBY: Then why uon't you come with us to the Emeialu City anu ask the
Wizaiu if 0z foi a heait.

TINNAN: Suppose the Wizaiu woulun't give me one when we got theie.

B0R0TBY: 0h, but he will! Be must! We've come such a long way.

B0R0TBY suuuenly becomes lost in thought.

B0R0TBY: 0h you two aie just about the best fiienus that anybouy coulu have.
Anu it's funny.but I feel as if I'u known you all the time. But I coulun't have, coulu
I.

SCARECR0W: I uon't see how. You weien't aiounu when I was stuffeu anu sewn
togethei, weie you.

TINNAN: Anu I was stanuing ovei theie iusting foi the longest time.

B0R0TBY: I wish I coulu iemembei, but it ieally uoesn't mattei. We know each
othei now, uon't we.

SCARECR0W: That's iight!

TINNAN: We uo!

SCARECR0W: To 0z.

B0R0TBY anu TINNAN: To 0z!

S0Nu: WE'RE 0FF T0 SEE TBE WIZARB REPRISE 2

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SCENE 7
TBE CREEPY F0REST

The lights come up on a uangeious pait of the foiest in the Lanu of 0z. B0R0TBY,
T0T0, anu the two FRIENBS entei, huuuling togethei foi safety.

B0R0TBY: I uon't like this foiest. It's uaik anu cieepy! Bo you suppose that we'll
meet any wilu animals heie.

TINNAN: Nmm.we might.

SCARECR0W: Animals that eat stiaw.

TINNAN: 0hsomebut mostly lions anu tigeis anu beais.

B0R0TBY: Lions.

SCARECR0W: Anu tigeis.

TINNAN: Anu beais.

B0R0TBY: 0h my! Lions anu tigeis anu beais.

TINNAN anu SCARECR0W: 0h my!

ALL: Lions anu tigei anu beais!

B0R0TBY: 0h my!

ALL: Lions anu tigeis anu beais!

B0R0TBY: 0h my!

They continue on with this chant, cieeping cautiously about the foiest. Suuuenly,
anu with a loau ioai, jumps a mean anu angiy looking LI0N.

LI0N: Roai!!!

The FRIENBS all scieam anu scattei foi safety. The TINNAN anu the SCARECR0W
bump into each othei anu fall to the giounu.

LI0N: Put em up! Put em up! Which one of you fiist. I'll fight you both togethei if
you want. I'll fight ya with one paw tieu behinu my back. I'll fight ya stanuin on one
foot. I'll fight ya with my eyes closeu.

LI0N notices the TINNAN's axe.

LI0N: 0h, pullin an axe on me, eh. Sneakin up on me, eh. Why I oughta!

TINNAN: Beie, heie. uo away anu leave us alone.

LI0N: 0h, scaieu, huh! Afiaiu, huh! Bah! Bow long can you stay fiesh in that can.
Baha. Come on, get up anu fight you shiveiing junkyaiu! {to the SCARECR0W} Put
youi hanus up, you lop-siueu bag of hay!

SCARECR0W: That's getting peisonal, Lion.

TINNAN: Yes, get up anu teach him a lesson!

SCARECR0W: Wellwhat's wiong with you teaching him.

TINNAN: Teach him. Well, I haiuly know him.

LI0N |to T0T0j: Well, I'll get you anyway, pee wee.

LI0N chases T0T0 aiounu, much to B0R0TBY's hoiioi.

B0R0TBY: 0h no! Bon't huit Toto!

As the LI0N chases T0T0 neai B0R0TBY, she pulls back anu slaps the LI0N haiu on
the shouluei.

B0R0TBY: 0h shame on you!

Long pause. The LI0N buists out suuuenly into louu, baby-like teais.

LI0N: Ahhhh haaahhh!!!! What uiu you uo that foi. I uiun't bite him!

B0R0TBY: No, but you tiieu to. It's bau enough you picking on a stiaw man, but
when you go aiounu picking on pooi little uogs.

LI0N: Well you uiun't have to go anu hit me, uiu you. Is my nose bleeuing.

B0R0TBY: Well, of couise not. Ny goouness, what a fuss you'ie making. Natuially,
when you go aiounu picking on things that aie weakei than you aiewhy you'ie
nothing but a gieat big cowaiu!

LI0N: You'ie iight. I am a cowaiu. I haven't got any couiage at all. I even scaie
myself. Look at the ciicles unuei my eyes. I haven't slept in weeks.

TINNAN: Why uon't you tiy counting sheep.

LI0N: That uoesn't uo any goou.

SCARECR0W: Why's that.

LI0N: I'm afiaiu of em!

SCARECR0W: uee, that's too bau. Bon't you think the Wizaiu coulu help him too.

B0R0TBY: I uon't see why not. Why uon't you come along with us. We'ie on oui
way to see the Wizaiu now. To get him a heait.

TINNAN: Anu him a biain.

B0R0TBY: I'm suie he coulu give you some couiage.

LI0N: Well, woulun't you feel uegiaueu to be seen in the company of a cowaiuly
Lion. I woulu.

B0R0TBY: No, of couise not!

LI0N: uee that's awful nice of ya's.

B0R0TBY: It's all iight now. The Wizaiu will fix eveiything.

LI0N: At least you'll be safe if I come with you.

TINNAN: Bow's that.

LI0N: No self-iespecting wilu animal will come anywheie neai me.

S0Nu: IF I 0NLY BAB TBE NERvE
WE'RE 0FF T0 SEE TBE WIZARB REPRISE S

SCENE 8
TBE WICKEB WITCB'S B0NuE0N

The lights come up on one siue of the stage. We see a laige black cauluion with
fiothy steam pouiing out of it. The WITCB is tossing ouu potion ingieuients into the
cauluion anu stiiiing the giuel with hei bioom.

WITCB: Theie is nothing so uepiessing as bounuless optimism. Bappily, it is totally
misplaceu. Now, shall I squash them out like the infecting bugs they aie. 0i shall I
be witty anu cieative. The bug alteinative is attiactive but messy. So witty anu
cieative wins the uay. A hah! Something with poison in it, I think. With poison in it,
but attiactive to the eyeanu soothing to the smell! Poppies! Poppies! Poppies!
This lethal lullaby will put them to sleep foievei. Anu then the iuby slippeis will be
mine!!!!! A ha ha ha ha!

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SCENE 9
TBE P0PPY FIELB

The lights come up to ieveal a sunny P0PPY FIELB full of P0PPIES the size of small
chiluien. The floweis seem to be coveiing up the tiail of the yellow biick ioau.
B0R0TBY, T0T0 anu oui TBREE FRIENBS entei skipping anu singing.

ALL: We'ie off to see the Wizaiu.

TBEY slow uown, as B0R0TBY is exhausteu.

B0R0TBY: This yellow biick ioau seems to go on foievei.

SCARECR0W: If you'ie tiieu Boiothy, we can take a shoit cut.

TINNAN: The ioau cuives iounu this Poppy Fielu. We can cut thiough anu pick it
up on the othei siue,

SCARECR0W: Let's go.

TBEY stait to skip happily thiough the beautiful poppies, which ieach foi them
menacingly as they pass.

B0R0TBY: I've nevei seen such beautiful poppies.

LI0N: I think poppies is my favoiite flowei.

B0R0TBY |uieamilyj: They smell so wonueiful.

B0R0TBY slows uown suuuenly, clutching hei foieheau.

B0R0TBY: 0hoh. What's happening. What is it. I can't walk anymoie. I'm
so.sleepy.

B0R0TBY sits uown amongst the P0PPIES. T0T0 anu the LI0N also begin to
swoon. SCARECR0W anu TINNAN aie not effecteu.

SCARECR0W: Beie, give us youi hanus anu we'll pull you along.

B0R0TBY: 0h no, please. I have to iest foi just a minute. You lie theie, Toto. We
can have a little sleep togethei.

SCARECR0W: 0h, you can't iest now! We've got to go on.

LI0N: Come to think of it, foity winks woulun't be a bau iuea.

SCARECR0W: Bon't you stait too.

TINNAN {ciying}: It's the poppies. That's what's uoing it.

SCARECR0W: Bon't ciy! You'll iust youiself again! This is a spell, this is!

TINNAN: It's the Wickeu Witch! What aie we going to uo.! BELP! BELP!!

SCARECR0W: It's no use scieaming at a time like this. Nobouy will heai you.

Long pause.

SCARECR0W: Belp! Belp!!

TINNAN |beginning to iustj: Belp! Belp!!

uLINBA |magical off stage voicej: I heai you, Tinman. I heai you, Scaieciow. Anu
though I can't unuo the magic of the Wickeu Witch, peihaps a little magic of my own
will save the uay.

It begins to snow.

SCARECR0W: It's snowing!

B0R0TBY |waking upj: 0h, oh.

LI0N |waking up}: Ah-ah. 0nusual weathei we'ie having, ain't it.

SCARECR0W notices the iusteu TINNAN.

SCARECR0W: 0h no! Be's iusteu again! uive me the oil can, quick!

B0R0TBY: I uon't have the oil can.

LI0N: Fellas, I just iealizeu something.

B0R0TBY anu SCARECR0W: What.

LI0N: I'm sitting on it.

The LI0N sheepishly pulls the oil can out fiom unuei his bottom.

SCARECR0W {taking the oil can}: Beie.

LI0N: Boy, those poppies suie is some poweiful stuff, all iight. I uiun't feel a thing.

TINNAN |comes to lifej: Boiothy, you'ie awake. You'ie all iight.

uLINBA {enteiing}: Ny white magic has uone its woik. }ouiney's enu is now in
sight.

B0R0TBY anu the TBREE FRIENBS suuuenly notice something. They seem amazeu.
It's the ENERALB CITY!

B0R0TBY: The Emeialu City! 0h, we'ie almost theie. At last! At last!

S0Nu: Y00'RE 00T 0F TBE W00BS (TBE P0PPY S0Nu)

B0R0TBY: It's beautiful, isn't it. }ust like I knew it woulu be. Be ieally must be a
wonueiful Wizaiu to live in such a city as that.

SCARECR0W: Well come on then!

TINNAN: What aie we waiting foi.

LI0N: 0n to 0z.

B0R0TBY: To 0z.

ALL: To 0z!

They tuin upstage anu walk aim in aim towaiu the ENERALB CITY as the P0PPIES
anu uLINBA wave to them.

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ENB 0F ACT 1








TBE WIZARB 0F 0Z
ACT TW0
SCENE 0NE
TBE ENERALB CITY uATE

Lights come up on a laige, oinate gieen uooi. 0ui tiaveleis entei, gazing aiounu at
the sights.

B0R0TBY: Bave you evei seen anywheie so beautiful.

SCARECR0W: The walls aie so high.

LI0N: I'm getting giuuy just lookin at em.

TINNAN: Ring the bell, Scaieciow. Let them know we'ie heie.

SCARECR0W pulls on a tassle uangling fiom the gate. We heai a bell tone. A panel
(oi tiap winuow) suuuenly opens anu a u0ARB with a laige silly gieen hat pokes his
heau out anu auuiesses oui heioes.

u0ARB: Who iang that bell.

ALL: We uiu!

u0ARB: Can't you ieau.

SCARECR0W: Reau what.

u0ARB: The notice!

ALL: What notice.

u0ARB: It's on the uooias plain as the nose on my face! It's uh.oh

The u0ARB looks to see that the sign isn't theie.

u0ARB: }ust a minute.

BE uisappeais foi a moment then ie-appeais almost as quickly anu hangs a sign
below his little winuow. It ieaus: "BELL 00T 0F 0RBERPLEASE KN0CK".

ALL: Bell-out-of-oiuei. Please-knock.

B0R0TBY shiugs anu knocks on the uooi. The same u0ARB immeuiately pops out.

u0ARB: Well that's moie like it! Now, state youi business.

ALL: We want to see the Wizaiu.

u0ARB: 0h! 0B.! The Wizaiu.! Abut nobouy can see the gieat 0z. Nobouy's
evei seen the gieat 0z. I've nevei even seen him!

B0R0TBY: Well then how uo you know theie ieally is one.

u0ARB: Because, because.because.becausehe'sum, becausewell. if theie
wasn't a Wizaiu.um.why woulu you be heie.

B0R0TBY: 0h please. Please, sii. I've got to see the Wizaiu. The uoou Witch of the
Noith sent me.

u0ARB: Ba! Piove it.

SCARECR0W: She's weaiing the iuby slippeis she gave hei!

The u0ARB stietches his neck out to get a bettei look.

u0ARB: So she is! So she is! Well bust my buttons. Why uiun't you say so in the
fiist place. Why that's a hoise of a uiffeient coloi!

The u0ARB's heau vanishes anu the winuow slams shut. Suuuenly, the gates pait
anu out walks the u0ARB.

u0ARB: Welcome to the Emeialu City!

B0R0TBY: Thank you!

u0ARB: Bave you come fai.

B0R0TBY: 0h just the longest of ways.

u0ARB: Believe me: eveiy step is woith it. Bave you any iuea just how wonueiful
this place ieally is.

SCARECR0W: I've been tiying to imagine it, but I haven't got the biain.

TINNAN: They say I'u fall in love with it, if I hau a heait.

LI0N: It's the one place I uon't neeu couiage, 'cause theie's nothin' theie to scaie
me. Is theie.

They all entei.

S0Nu: TBE NERRY 0LB LANB 0F 0Z

Buiing the song, the uancing anu singing pause long enough foi oui heioes to
auuiess the u0ARB.

B0R0TBY: It's eveiything you saiu anu moie!

SCARECR0W: When uo we get to see the Wizaiu.

TINNAN: Will you take us to him.

LI0N: Is he scaiy.

u0ARB: The Wizaiu. The Wizaiu. IIwell, yes of couise! But fiist, I'll take you
to a little place wheie you can tiuy up a bit!

B0R0TBY: 0h thank you!

The u0ARB claps his hanus anu the numbei continues.

As the song enteis, all the happy 0ZIANS exit meiiily. 0nly the u0ARB anu oui
heioes iemain.

B0R0TBY: If you please, sii. Will you take us to see the gieat anu poweiful Wizaiu
now.

u0ARB: Absolutely not! uo home!

ALL: uo home.!

B0R0TBY: But that's what I'm tiying to uo, sii. That's why we have to see the
Wizaiu iight away. All foui of us.

T0T0: Woof!

B0R0TBY: Five.

u0ARB: 0iueis aieNobouy can see the uieat 0z! Not nobouy, not nohow!

B0R0TBY: 0h, butbut please. Please!

u0ARB: Not nobouynot nohow!

SCARECR0W: 0h, you just gotta make him see, Boiothy!

u0ARB: Boiothy. Biu you say Boiothy. The famous wickeu witch killei being
hunteu by the Wickeu Witch of the West.

SCARECR0W: In peison.

u0ARB: Wellthat makes a uiffeience. All of you wait heieI'll announce you at
once!

The u0ARB exits.

SCARECR0W: Biu you heai that. Be'll announce us at once! I've as goou as got my
biains!

TINNAN: I can faiily heai my heait beating!

B0R0TBY: I'll be home in time foi suppei!

LI0N: Anu in anothei houi, I'll be the King of the Foiest. Long live the King!

S0Nu: IF I WERE KINu 0F TBE F0REST

As the song comes in foi a uiamatic enuing:

B0R0TBY: Youi majesty, if you weie king, you woulun't be afiaiu of anything.

LI0N: Not nobouy, not nohow!

TINNAN: Not even a ihinoceious.

LI0N: Imposseious.

B0R0TBY: What about a hippopotomus.

LI0N: Why I'u thiash him fiom top to bottomus!

B0R0TBY: Supposin' you met an elephant.

LI0N: I'u wiap him up in cellophant!

SCARECR0W: What if it weie a biontosauius.

LI0N: I'u show him who's king of the foiest!

ALL: Bow.

LI0N: Bow. Couiage. What makes a king out of a slave.: couiage! What makes the
flag on the mast to wave.: couiage! What makes the elephant chaige his tusk in the
misty mist of the uusky uusk. What makes the musk iat guaiu his musk.: couiage!
What makes the sphinx the seventh wonuei. What makes the uawn come up like
thunuei.: couiage! What makes the Bottentot so hot. What puts the "ape" in
apiicot. What have they got that I ain't got.!

ALL: Couiage.

LI0N: You can say that again. Buh.

The u0ARB enteis suuuenly, staitling the LI0N.

u0ARB: The Wizaiu will see you now! Right this way.

The fiienus stait to follow the u0ARB. The LI0N sheepishly falls behinu.

LI0N: Wait a minute fellas. I was just thinkin'I ieally uon't want to see the
Wizaiu that much aftei all. I bettei wait foi you outsiue.

TINNAN: What's the mattei. The Wizaiu's going to give you some couiage.

LI0N: But II'u be too afiaiu to ask him foi it!

B0R0TBY: 0h, come on Lion, we'll be scaieu togethei.

The LI0N suuuenly scieams anu iuns aiounu in a ciicle, looking about the stage
neivously.

LI0N: 0hhhhh!

SCARECR0W: What.! What happeneu.

LI0N: Somebouy pulleu my tail!

TINNAN: 0h, youyou uiu that youiself!

LI0N: I -I0h, he he. I'm such a butteipaws.

u0ARB: This way, please!

LI0N: Tell me when it's ovei.

They all exit.

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SCENE TW0:
TBE WIZARB'S TBR0NE R00N

We entei a laige, scaiy thione ioom. A laige scaiy floating heau can be seen as out
heioes entei.

LI0N: 0h look at that! 0ohh look at that!! 0ohhhh I want to go home!

0Z: I am the uieat anu Poweiful 0z! Who aie you. Who aie you. Who aie you.
Who aie you.

ALL (au libs): I am. Well youi Wizness. If you please sii. We uon't mean any
tiouble to you. etc.

0Z: SILENCE!!!!

B0R0TBY: 0h }imminy Ciickets!

0Z: The uieat anu Poweiful 0z knows why you have come. Step foiwaiu, Tinman.

TINNAN: 0h!

0Z: You uaie to come to me foi a heait, uo you. You clinking, clanking, clatteiing
collection of caliginous junk!

TINNAN |shaking anu clatteiingj: 0hhyes. yes, sii. Y-yes, you honoi. You see, a
while back we weie walking uown the Yellow Biick Roau anu.

0Z: Quiet!

TINNAN: 0hhh!!

0Z: You, Scaieciow, have the affiontaiy to ask foi a biain---you billowing bail of
bovine fouuei!

SCARECR0W: Y-yes---yes, you honoi. I mean, Youi excellencyII meanyoui
Wizaiuiy---

0Z: Enough!!! 0hhanu you, Lion

The LI0N staggei foiwaiu anu stammeis inauuibly.

0Z: WELL.!.!.!

LI0N faints. B0R0TBY iushes to his siue.

B0R0TBY: 0h! Why, you oughta be ashameu of youiselffiightening him like that,
when he came to you foi help!

0Z: Silence whippei-snappei! The beneficient 0z has eveiy intention of gianting
youi iequests.

The LI0N wakes up.

LI0N: What's that. What uiu he say.

B0R0TBY: Aie you all iight.

LI0N: }ust a little ueaf. What uiu he say.

B0R0TBY: Be's going to help us aftei all.

LI0N: Be is. 0h, joy!

0Z: But fiist.you must piove youiselves woithy by peifoiming a small task.

SCARECR0W: A small task. Is that all.

TINNAN: }ust name it anu it's half uone!

0Z: Biing me the bioomstick of the Wickeu Witch of the West anu I'll giant youi
iequests. Now go befoie I change my minu. The Wizaiu has spoken!!

LI0N: Butbut what if she kills us fiist.

0Z: I saiu u0!!!!

LI0N: Bon't woiiy, we'ie all ieauy gone!

The LI0N iuns out while the otheis chase aftei him.

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ACT TW0; SCENE TBREE:
TBE WITCB'S CASTLE

Lights up on the WITCB in fiont of hei cauluion, gazing into it.

WITCB: Now I unueistanu why the Poppies faileu me. Fate oiuaineu that 0z
himself shoulu uelivei the mellifluous little baggage into my teiiitoiy. But how to
biing hei heie befoie me. Winkies! Winkies! Come foith!

A line of uumb looking guaius, oi WINKIES, leau by the WINKIE uENERAL, maich
on, singing:

WINKIES: Y0BEEB0!! Y0B0! Y0BEEB0!! Y0--B0!

WITCB: Enough! Silence!

The WINKIES ciash into each othei in a pile-up, ala the Keystone Kops.

WITCB: Quiet! Why uo you always sing that loathsome uiige. What uoes it mean
anyway.

uENERAL: You mean. Y0BEEB0!! Y0B0!!..

The WINKIES begin to maich in place automatically, singing theii song on cue.

WITCB: 0h uo shut up!!!!

uENERAL: Shhh. Shhhh!!!!

WITCB: Yes, yes. Bo the woius mean anything.

uENERAL: It's an olu Winkie maiching song meaning ioughly: yo, hee, ho, yo, ho.

Again, on cue, the WINKIES begin to maich anu sing. They exit, like moions.

WITCB: Next time I enslave a whole nation, I must check out theii intelligence fiist.
Nikko! Nikko! Wheie is the commanuei of my Flying Nonkeys!.

NIKK0, the leauei of the FLYINu N0NKEYS, leaps onstage.

WITCB: Theie you aie, my simian minion. I have an impoitant task foi you. Ny
enemies aie about to entei the Baunteu Foiest. I want you to iouse youi men anu
snatch the sickening little giil anu hei equally nauseating little uog anu biing them
both to me. The otheis aie unimpoitant. uo! Bo my biuuing! Fly! Fly! Fly! Soon
those uailing little iuby slippeis will be mine anu all of 0z will kiss my feet! Ba ha
ha!!

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ACT TW0; SCENE F00R
TBE BA0NTEB F0REST

The lights come up on a uaik anu scaiy BA0NTEB F0REST. Theie is a sign stanuing
in the miuule of the stage. It ieaus: "I'B T0RN BACK IF I WERE Y00". 0ui heioes
entei.

LI0N: Boes anyone know wheie any of us aie.

SCARECR0W: We passeu a sign a while back.

TINNAN: You mean the one that saiu: "Welcome to the Baunteu Foiest".

SCARECR0W: No, no. The one that saiu: "If you've got this fai, you'ie lost".

B0R0TBY: Beie's anothei notice.

TINNAN: I hope it says something a little moie ieassuiing.

ALL: "I'u-tuin-back-if-I-weie-you".

LI0N: Fine.

The LI0N tuins to leave. As the otheis tuin to keep him, the sign uisappeais, taken
off uiamatically by a FLYINu N0NKEY.

B0R0TBY: I believe theie aie spooks aiounu heie.

LI0N: Spooks. 0h!

TINNAN: That's iiuiculous! Spooks!. That's silly!

LI0N: But uon't you believe in spooks.

TINNAN: No. Why only fools.

Suuuenly, a gioup of N0NKEYS iun aiounu anu scaie the TINNAN.

TINNAN: 0h!!

B0R0TBY: Tinman!

SCARECR0W: Aie you all iight.

LI0N: 0h! I uo believe in spooks, I uo believe in spooks. I uo, I uo, I uo, I uo believe
in spooks!

B0R0TBY: So uo I!

The lights giow uaik as an aimy of FLYINu N0NKEYS cieep on stage to attack oui
heioes.

B0R0TBY: What's happening.

LI0N: Look at the size of those biius!

SCARECR0W: Wait.those aien't biius!

TINNAN: They'ie monkeys!

ALL: FLYINu N0NKEYS!!! Ahhhh!!

The N0NKEYS attack. They suiiounu B0R0TBY anu T0T0 anu whisk them off
stage.

B0R0TBY: 0hohoh!

TINNAN: They'ie getting away with Boiothy!

B0R0TBY: Belp me! Belp me!

LI0N: uo away! Shoo! Shoo!!

SCARECR0W: uet away fiom me you uain, uiity little apes!

The stage is cleai of all except oui TBREE FRIENBS.

TINNAN: Fine job we uiu piotecting Boiothy.

SCARECR0W: Well we have to go finu hei.

LI0N: Yeah!

TINNAN: Then we neeu to follow those monkeys!

LI0N: Yeah!

SCARECR0W: Anu the Lion will leau us.

LI0N: Yeah!what. Ne.

TINNAN: Yes you!

LI0N: IIIII'm going to leau us against the foices of evil.

SCARECR0W: That's iight.

LI0N: All iight, I'll uo it foi Boiothy. Wickeu Witch oi no Wickeu Witch, guaius oi
no guaius. I'll teai em apait! Ruff! RRRuff!. I may not come out alive, but I'll go
uown fighting. Ruff! Theie's only one thing I want you fellas to uo.

TINNAN: What's that.

LI0N: Take me out of it!

LI0N buiies his face in the chest of the TINNAN as he sobs feaifully

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ACT TW0; SCENE FIvE
TBE WITCB'S CASTLE

Lights come up on a uungeon-like thione ioom. Theie is a laige thione in the
miuule of the ioom anu a laige winuow. TBE WITCB enteis, followeu by hei
WINKIES anu N0NKEYS. T0T0 anu B0R0TBY aie leu on, piisoneis of the WITCB.

WITCB: This way my ueai. I tiust you hau a pleasant flight. It's so kinu of you to
visit me in my loneliness.

B0R0TBY: What aie you going to uo with Toto.

WITCB: Tonight we feast on uevilleu-uog!

B0R0TBY: No!!

WITCB: It's all iight, my ueai. }ust my little joke. |beatj I saiu, '}ust my little joke".

The NINI0NS buist into louu, feaiful laughtei.

WITCB: Shut up!

Silence.

WITCB: Be'll look even moie ievolting with an apple stuck in his mouth. Take him
away!

B0R0TBY: Wheie aie you taking him. Why can't he stay with me.

WITCB: Because the ioaiing, iaging iivei is some way off. Is he a watei bieeu.

B0R0TBY: I uon't think so.

WITCB: Be soon will be, 'cause that's wheie we'ie going to uiop him if you uon't
hanu ovei those slippeis.

B0R0TBY: But the goou witch of the noith tolu me not to.

WITCB: veiy well. Thiow that mangy cui in the ueepest point of the iivei anu
uiown him.

B0R0TBY: No!! Run, Toto, iun!! As fai as you can!

T0T0 makes a bieak foi it, knocking the WITCB ovei. She is caught by hei minions.

WITCB: Catch him, you fools!

The NINI0NS exit aftei T0T0.

B0R0TBY: Run, Toto. Run! Be got away! Be got away fiom you.

WITCB: Which is moie than you'll evei uo. Fool that I am, I shoulu have
iemembeieu. Those slippeis will nevei come off as long as you'ie alive!

The WITCB snaps hei fingeis. 0ne of hei minions hanus hei a laige houiglass.

WITCB: You see this. This is how long you have to be alive. }ust long enough foi
me to uevise an unpleasant but wiluly enteitaining ueath foi you. Theie is only one
escape ioute, but it's a long way uown anu the iocks aie shaip. So if you uo ueciue
to jump out the winuow, be a ueai anu leave the iuby slippeis by the winuow sill. It
will save us the tiouble of fishing you out of the mote!

WITCB exits.

B0R0TBY: Bow can anyone be so nasty, mean, anu ciuel.

WITCB |ieappeaiingj: Lots anu lots of piactice! A ha ha ha ha!

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ACT TW0; SCENE SIX
00TSIBE TBE WITCB'S CASTLE

Lights up on anothei pait of the Baunteu Foiest.

LI0N: What's that. What's that. What's that.!

SCARECR0W: That's the castle of the Wickeu Witch.

LI0N: Boiothy's in theie.

TINNAN: 0h I hate to think of Boiothy in that awful place. We've got to get hei out
somehow.

SCARECR0W: Bon't stait ciying now. We haven't got the oil can with us, anu you've
been squeaking enough as it is.

TINNAN: But they say it has a thousanu iooms. Bow aie we evei gonna finu out
which one Boiothy's in.

We heai a baik fiom off stage. T0T0 enteis.

LI0N: It's Toto.

TINNAN: Beie, Toto.

SCARECR0W: Be an leau us to Boiothy!

TINNAN: But we still got to get in the castle anu passeu the guaius.

LI0N: Bo you think it'll be politeuiopping in like this.

We heai the WINKIE maich. Foui WINKIES entei.

SCARECR0W: Look out!

The FRIENBS look aiounu foi somewheie to hiue. SCARECR0W hanus each of them
a bianch to "hiue" behinu. The WINKIES maich passeu them, looking at them
stiangely but not fully compiehenuing what they'ie seeing. They exit.

SCARECR0W: I think I've got a plan of how to get in theie.

LI0N: Fine. |to T0T0j Be has a plan.

SCARECR0W: But it might not woik.

LI0N: It might not woik.

SCARECR0W: But it's got a chance.

LI0N: It's got a chance.

SCARECR0W: 0nly thing is it's veiy, veiy uangeious. What uo you say.

LI0N: 0h, I say: anybouy got anothei plan.

The F00R WINKIES have ie-enteieu anu aie sneaking up on oui heioes. 0nly the
LI0N see this.

TINNAN: Let's heai the Scaieciow's plan fiist.

SCARECR0W: Fiist, we've got to get a holu of foui Winkie unifoims.

LI0N: Fellas.

TINNAN: Wheie aie we going to finu foui Winkie unifoims.

LI0N: Fellas.

SCARECR0W: I uon't know but the whole plan uepenus on foui Winkie unifoims.

TINNAN: Foui Winkie unifoims..

LI0N: Fellas.

SCARECR0W: What.

LI0N: I uon't think we'ie going to have to look fai foi those foui WInkie unifoims.

TINNAN: Why's that.

LI0N: Because they'ie iight behinu us.

The FRIENBS aie suiiounueu. The WINKIES jump them anu they all stiuggle off
stage. We heai a commotion. The uENERAL enteis anu calls out to his WINKIES.

uENERAL: Y0BEB0!...|silencej. Y0__BE__B0!!...|silencej

Suuuenly, oui F00R FRIENBS ie-entei, weaiing oveisizeu anu ill-fitting Winkie
unifoims. They sing the maich song bauly as they maich passeu the oblivious
uENERAL.

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ACT TW0; SCENE SEvEN
WITCB'S TBR0NER00N

Lights up on B0R0TBY, looking feaifully at the houiglass as it iuns out of giains of
sanus.

B0R0TBY: The sanus almost iun out anu then the Witch'll come foi me. Won't
anyone help me. Anyone.!

SCARECR0W |offj: Boiothy, aie you in theie.

LI0N |offj: It's us. Aie you all iight.

B0R0TBY: Yes, yes, I'm fine. But the Witch has lockeu me in!

TINNAN |offj: Stanu back. We'll bieak it uown. 12S!!

The F00R FRIENBS buist in louuly. T0T0 iuns to B0R0TBY. They embiace.

B0R0TBY: 0h! 0h, Toto! Toto! 0h! - I knew you'u come! I just knew it!

SCARECR0W: Buiiy we've got no time to lose!

TINNAN: We can't take hei out the way we came.

SCARECR0W: What about the winuow.

B0R0TBY: The cliff is sheei.

LI0N: Bon't woiiy. You hang on to my tail anu I'll hang on with my claws.

B0R0TBY: 0h you'ie wonueiful, all of you!

LI0N: I just hope my couiage holus out.

TINNAN: We just hope youi tail holus out.

LI0N: To the winuow!

ALL: To the winuow!!

The WITCB anu hei NINI0NS suuuenly ie-appeai. B0R0TBY anu the FRIENBS aie
giabbeu by seveial NINI0NS.

WITCB: uoing so soon. We won't heai of it, will we Winkies.

LI0N: I think we've outstayeu oui welcome.

WITCB: Ring aiounu the iosey, a pocketful of speais. The sanu of time have iun out
foi all of you. The last to go will see the fiist thiee go befoie hei. Anu youi mangy
little mutt too! Eenie meanie minie mo. Who shall be the fiist to go. Lion. Tinman.
Canine. No!! Ny bioom has chosen Scaieciow!!!

The NINI0NS holuing SCARECR0W uiag him towaiu the WITCB.

SCARECR0W: No! Belp! BELP!!

WITCB |holuing a toichj: What's the mattei, Scaieciow. Bon't you want to be my
olu flame.

B0R0TBY: Leave him alone. Can't you see he's teiiifieu.

WITCB: I'll get aiounu to you eventually, Niss Nouth. Neanwhile, watch youi
combustible little fiienu go up in smoke!

SCARECR0W: No please!

WITCB: Too late, Scaieciow! You'ie all buineu up!

B0R0TBY: No!

B0R0TBY notices a bucket of watei neaiby anu giabs it, hoping to put the fiie out
befoie it can ieach SCARECR0W.

WITCB: What the..

B0R0TBY: I won't let you.

B0R0TBY thiows the watei at the toich anu hits the WITCB with most of it. The
WITCB scieams with pain anu staits to melt.

WITCB: 0hhhh! You cuiseu biat! Look what you've uone! I'm melting! Nelting!
0h, what a woilu, what a woilu! Who woulu have thought a goou little giil like you
coulu uestioy my beautiful wickeuness. 0hhhh-ohhhhh!

The WITCB Is gone, leaving only hei pointy hat anu bioomstick.

uENERAL: She's ueau. You've killeu hei.

B0R0TBY: I---I'm soiiy. I uiun't mean to kill hei. Really I uiun't. It'sit's just that
she was going to set him on fiie!

uENERAL: Bail Boiothy! The Wickeu Witch is ueau!

The NINI0NS fall to theii knees anu begin to woiship B0R0TBY.

B0R0TBY: 0m, excuse me. What aie you uoing.

uENERAL: You've killeu the Wickeu Witch of the West, so you aie now oui queen.

They continue to woiship B0R0TBY. The FRIENBS huuule up foi a moment, tiying
to ueciue what to uo.

B0R0TBY: 0m excuse me. Excuse me. Stop that! I'm soiiy, but the Witch's
bioommay we have it.

uENERAL: Youi wish is oui commanu.

The NINI0NS gathei behinu the uENERAL who piesent the bioom to B0R0TBY.

uENERAL: Please take it with you.

B0R0TBY: Thank you! Thank you so much. Now we can go tell the Wizaiu of 0z
that the Wickeu Witch is ueau!

They exit.

uENERAL: Booiay! Boiothy has uefeateu the Wickeu Witch of the West. The
wickeu witch is ueau!

NINI0NS: Booiay!

S0Nu: BINu B0Nu TBE WITCB IS BEAB REPRISE

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ACT TW0; SCENE EIuBT
TBE WIZARB'S TBR0NER00N

Lights up on the laige floating heau in the thioneioom of the Wizaiu of 0z. 0ui
heioes entei tiiumphantly.

0Z: Step foiwaiu. Can I believe my eyes. Why have you come back.

B0R0TBY: Please, sii. We've uone what you tolu us. We've biought you the
bioomstick of the Wickeu Witch of the West. We melteu hei.

0Z: veiy iesouiceful.

B0R0TBY: Yes, sii. |beatj So if you please, we'u like you to keep youi piomise to
us.sii.

0Z: Not so fast, not so fast. 0h.I'll have to give the mattei some thought. uo away,
anu come back tomoiiow!

B0R0TBY: Tomoiiow. 0h, but I want to go home now.

TINNAN: You've hau plenty of time alieauy!

0Z: Bo not aiouse the wiath of the uieat anu Poweiful 0z! I saiu come back
tomoiiow!

B0R0TBY: If you weie ieally gieat anu poweiful, you'u keep youi piomises!

0Z: Bo you piesume to ciiticize the uieat 0z.! |beatj 0h, um, you ungiateful
cieatuies! |beatj Think youiselves lucky that I'm giving you an auuience tomoiiow
insteau of twenty yeais fiom now!

Buiing the WIZARB's speech, T0T0 has been sniffing aiounu a cuitaineu booth on
one siue of the stage.

T0T0: Woof!

B0R0TBY: Toto. What is it, boy.

0Z: The gieat 0z has spoken!

B0R0TBY: Toto, come away fiom theie.

0Z: uo!!

LI0N: Fellas, I think someone is in theie.

0Z: I saiu go!!!! I saiu

The FRIENBS gathei neai the booth anu open the cuitain, ievealing a small man
thiowing leveis anu speaking into a miciophone,

0Z: --go!!!! I saiu---ahem oh! Beai me. Pay not attention to the man behinu the
cuitain! The uieat anu Poweiful 0zhasspoken.

B0R0TBY: Who aie you.

0Z: Well, uh, III.I am the uieat anu PoweifulWizaiu of 0z.

B0R0TBY: You aie.

0Z: Well.

B0R0TBY: I uon't believe you!

0Z: No, I'm afiaiu it's tiue. Theie's no othei Wizaiu except me.

SCARECR0W: You'ie a humbug!

LI0N: Yeah!

0Z: Yesthat's exactly soI'm a humbug.

B0R0TBY: 0h, you'ie a veiy bau man!

0Z: 0h no, my ueaiI'm a veiy goou man. I'm just a veiy bau Wizaiu.

SCARECR0W: But what about the heait you piomiseu my fiienu, the Tinman.

0Z: Well, I

SCARECR0W: Anu the Lion's couiage.

0Z: Well, I

TINNAN anu LI0N: Anu Scaieciow's biains.

0Z |getting an iueaj: Why, biains you say. Anyone can have a biain. Back wheie I
come fiom we have places calleu "univeisities" wheie men go to become gieat
thinkeis. Anu when they come out, they think ueep thoughts, anu yet they have no
moie biains than you have. Butthey have one thing you haven't gota uiploma!

0Z pulls a uiploma out of his laige sack. Be piesents it to the SCARECR0W.

SCARECR0W: 0oooo. |holuing it to his foieheauj The sum of the squaie ioots of
any two siues of an isosceles tiiangle is equal to the squaie ioot of the iemaining
siue.

EvERY0NE gasps.

SCARECR0W: 0h joy! Raptuie! I've got a biain! Bow can I evei thank you enough.

0Z |to the LI0N}: As foi you my fine fiienu. You aie unuei the unfoitunate uelusion
that simply because you iun away fiom uangei you have no couiage. You aie
confusing couiage with wisuom. Back wheie I come fiom, we have men who aie
calleu heioes. 0nce a yeai they take theii foitituue out of mothballs anu paiaue it
aiounu uown the main stieet of the city. Anu they have no moie couiage than you
have. Butthey have one thing that you haven't got. A meual!

0Z pulls a laige, gauuy meual fiom his sack anu pins it on the LI0N.

0Z: Theiefoie, foi meiitoiious conuuct, extiaoiuinaiy valoi, anu conspicuous
biaveiy against wickeu witches, I awaiu you the Tiiple Cioss. You aie now a
membei of the Legion of Couiage!

The LI0N sheepishly attempts a ioai. It is louu anu thunueious anu eveiyone is
staitleu an uimpiesseu

LI0N: Aw shucks folks, I'm speechless!

0Z: As foi you, my galvanizeu fiienu. You want a heait, you say. You uon't know
how lucky you aie not to have one. Beaits will nevei be piactical until they aie
maue unbieakable.

TINNAN: I uon't caie. I still want one.

0Z thinks foi a moment anu then gatheis the otheis aiounu him. The TINNAN looks
on with excitement.

0Z: Back wheie I come fiom, theie aie men who uo nothing but goou ueeus.anu
theii heaits aie no biggei than youis. But they all have one thing that you haven't
got: a testimonial.

0Z pulls a laige heait shapeu chaim on a chain out fiom his sack anu piesent it to
the TINNAN.

0Z: Theiefoie, in consiueiation of youi kinuness, I take pleasuie at this time in
piesenting you with a small token of oui esteem anu affection. Anu iemembei, my
sentimental fiienu, that a heait is not juugeu by how much you love, but by how
much you aie loveu by otheis.

TINNAN: 0h! 0h it ticks! Look! Listen, my heait! It ticks!

LI0N: Reau what my meual says!

B0R0TBY: Awaiueu foi Couiage!

LI0N: Ain't it the tiuth! Ain't it the tiuth!

B0R0TBY: 0h they'ie all so wonueiful!

SCARECR0W: Bey what about Boiothy.

TINNAN: Yes, what about Boiothy.

0Z: 0h ueai, well.

LI0N: Boiothy next. Boiothy next!

0Z: Well

B0R0TBY: I'm afiaiu that theie isn't anything in theie foi me, is theie.

0Z: Well my ueai, you have foiceu me into a cataclysmic uecision. The only way to
get you back to Kansas is foi me to take hei theie myself!

B0R0TBY: 0h! Will you.! Can you.! Aie you ieally a clevei enough Wizaiu to
manage it.

0Z: I'm an olu Kansas man myself. Piemiei balloonist foi the Niiacle Wonueilanu
Cainival Company! 0ntil one uay, while peifoiming spectaculai feats of the
stiatospheiic skill nevei befoie attempteu by civilizeu man, the balloon faileu to
ietuin to the faii anu floateu uown in to the heait of this noble city, wheie I was
instantly acclaimeu "0z, Fiist Wizaiu Beluxe"! I ietaineu the balloon against the
auvent of a quick getaway. Anu the balloon is ieauy foi the flight, anu it is in that
conveyance my ueai Boiothy, that you anu I will ietuin to oui home of Kansas! Step
iight this way!

They exit.

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ACT TW0; SCENE NINE
ENERALB CITY SQ0ARE

Lights up on the main squaie of the Emeialu City. The 0ZIANS aie gatheieu aiounu
a hot aii balloon. 0Z piesiues ovei them like a pieachei. B0R0TBY anu the
FRIENBS aie on hanu to witness. The u0ARB holus a iope that is keeping the
balloon tetheieu to the giounu.

0Z: Citizens of 0z, I youi Wizaiu am about to embaik upon a hazaiuous anu
technically unexplainable jouiney into the outei stiatospheie to confei, conveise,
anu otheiwise hobnob with my biothei wizaius.

The 0ZIANS cheei anu clap.

0Z: 0ntil that time that I ietuin, the Scaieciow, by viitue of his highly supeiioi
biains, shall iule in my steau.

0ZIAN applause.

0Z: Be shall be assisteu by the Tinman, by viitue of his tiemenuous heait.

0ZIANS: 0ooooo.

0Z: .anu the Lion, by viitue of his bottomless couiage.

0ZIANS: Aaaahh.

0Z: 0bey them as you woulu me. Thank you my fiienus. Anu now I think it's time
to cast off. Climb aboaiu, Boiothy, climb aboaiu.

u0ARB: Climb aboaiu, missy, while the winu's in youi favoi.

B0R0TBY: Wheie's Toto. I can't leave without him. Toto. Toto.

u0ARB: Bon't woiiy, I'll finu him.

The u0ARB let's go of the iope to look foi T0T0 off stage. In so uoing, the balloon
begins to lift off of the giounu anu fly off stage.

0Z: No! Bon't let go of the iope! This is highly iiiegulai pioceuuie.

TINNAN: The balloon is leaving.

B0R0TBY: 0h no, please uon't go Ni. Wizaiu.

0Z: This is highly unpieceuenteu.

B0R0TBY: Please, Ni. Wizaiu. Bon't leave without me!

0Z: 0h no! It's too late, my ueai.

B0R0TBY: You have to come back.

0Z: I can't come back. I uon't know how it woiks. uooubye, folks.

The 0ZIANS follow the balloon off stage, waving faiewell.

0ZIANS: uooubye! Faiewell! uooubye, 0z! etc.

B0R0TBY: 0h! Now I'll nevei get home.

LI0N: Then stay with us, Boiothy.

TINNAN: We uon't want you to go.

B0R0TBY: I just have to get home to Kansas.

SCARECR0W: Bon't you love us, Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: 0f couise I uo. You know that I uo. But Kansas is my home. Anu I feai I
will nevei see it again foi as long as I live. Nevei nevei nevei!

B0R0TBY kneels uown anu ciies.

uLINBA |offj: Nevei is a veiy long time, Boiothy uale.

B0R0TBY: 0h uoou Witch of the Noith, please, will you help me. Can you help me.

uLINBA |enteiingj: You uon't neeu to be helpeu any longei. You've always hau the
powei to go back to Kansas.

B0R0TBY: I have.

SCARECR0W: Then why uiun't you tell hei soonei.

uLINBA: Because she woulun't have believeu me. She hau to leain it foi heiself.

TINNAN: What have you leaineu, Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: Well, I.I think that it. that it isn't enough just to want to see 0ncle
Beniy anu Auntie Em. Anu it's that.if I evei go looking foi my heait's uesiie again, I
won't look any fuithei than my own back yaiu, because if it isn't theie, I nevei ieally
lost it to begin with. Is that iight.

uLINBA: That's all it is!

SCARECR0W: But that's so easy! I shoulu have thought of it foi you.

TINNAN: I shoulu have felt it in my heait.

LI0N: Ne too, if only I hau the couiage of my convictions.

uLINBA: No, stout anu loyal fiienus. She hau to finu it out foi heiself. We all uo.
Now those magic slippeis will take you home in two seconus.

B0R0TBY: Toto, too.

uLINBA: Toto too.

B0R0TBY tuins anu appioaches hei FRIENBS.

B0R0TBY: 0h it's going to be so haiu to say gooubye. I love you all so much.
uooubye, Tinman. 0h, uon't ciy. You iust so uieaufully. Beie. Beie's youi oil can.

TINNAN: Well now I know I have a heait.because it's bieaking.

B0R0TBY: uooubye, Lion. I know it isn't iight, but I'm going to miss the way you
useu to hollei foi help befoie you got youi couiage.

LI0N: When you go, I think I might uo a little moie holleiin'.

B0R0TBY: Beai Scaieciow, you weie my fiist fiienu heie. I think maybe I'll miss
you most of all.

SCARECR0W: Baving a biain suie uon't make sayin' gooubye any easiei. uooubye
Boiothy. I'll think about you always.

uLINBA: Aie you ieauy now, Boiothy.

B0R0TBY: 0h, yes. Please.befoie I change my minu anu stay foievei.

The FRIENBS uisappeai as the light faues all aiounu the stage. 0nly B0R0TBY anu
uLINBA anu T0T0 aie visible.

uLINBA: Then close youi eyes anu tap youi heels togethei thiee times anu iepeat
aftei me, ovei anu ovei again: theie's no place like home.theie's no place like
home.

B0R0TBY: Theie's no place like home.

uLINBA: 0ne.

B0R0TBY: Theie's no place like home.

uLINBA: Two.

B0R0TBY: Theie's no place like home.

uLINBA: uooubye Boiothy.

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ACT TW0; SCENE NINE:
KANSAS

The lights come up on Kansas, aftei the big stoim. B0R0TBY lies unconscious centei
stage. 0NCLE BENRY enteis with a lantein. PR0FESS0R NARvEL is iight behinu
him.

0NCLE: Boiothy! Boiothy!

PR0F: Little giil! Little giil! I'u hate to think of that kiu out all night in that stoim!

0NCLE: We'u best get into town anu notify the sheiiff.

T0T0 iuns onstage anu baiks.

0NCLE: Wait. Toto! Wheie is she boy.

T0T0 iuns uown to the unconscious B0R0TBY anu baiks.

PR0F: Theie she is!

0NCLE: Boiothy! Zeke! Bunk! Bickoiy! She's ovei heie! Tell Emily anu biu hei
biing a blanket!

PR0F: She's got a lump on hei heau like an ostiich egg, but the skin ain't bioken.

B0R0TBY |waking upj: 0ncle Beniy.

A0NT EN anu the FRANBANBS entei. A0NT EN iuns to B0R0TBY's siue anu they
embiace.

A0NT: 0h Boiothy! Boiothy, you'ie safe.

0NCLE: Theie was a minute theie I thought she'u left us.

B0R0TBY: But I uiu leave you, 0ncle Beniy. That's just it. Anu I tiieu to get back
foi uays anu uays.

PR0F: Sounus like a bau uieam.

B0R0TBY: But it wasn't a uieam! Bon't you unueistanu. This was a ieal, tiuly live
place. Anu I iemembei that some of it wasn't veiy nice at all, but most of it was
beautiful. Boesn't anyone believe me.

A0NT: 0f couise we believe you, Boiothy. But now we've got to get you into beu.

B0R0TBY: Bas the house come back. It fell on the witch, you know.

They all laugh.

B0NK: The stoim passeu iight ovei us.

BICK0RY: Anu it wasn't a house that lanueu on Niss uultch, it was a telegiaph pole.

0NCLE: We won't be heaiing fiom that olu biuuy til hei leg gets out of plastei.

B0R0TBY: Then Toto's safe. You heai that, Toto. We'ie both safe. Anu we'ie
home. Bome! Anu you'ie all heie. Anu I'm nevei going to leave heie evei again,
because I love you all! Anu.oh Auntie Em, theie ieally is no place like home.

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