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DATE FESTIVAL NIGHTLY MUSICAL PAGEANT – FEBRUARY 2010
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MUSIC NOTE: BEGIN TRACKS
Opening Procession – Chinese theme with
dragons celebrating Emperor’s B-Day.
Chinese lanterns hang from “clothesline” but
with individual decorated pole controls to
pull out across stage to designate China.
Plus individual lighted Chinese lanterns on
fishing poles are carried out and set in
holders in the marketplace carts.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Happy birthday, Father, enjoy your celebration!
Belly dancers perform to Emperor (facing SL
platform) and with a decidedly oriental
routine that midway begins to transform to a
mid-eastern flair. As it transforms they play
to audience (facing audience) as the cast
transforms the stage from Chinese to Arabic
and the procession of the Sultan enters;
Emperor and company proceed to China
palace and remain in a freeze there. The
belly dancers end performing directly to
Sultan (facing palace).
Scheherazade singers come forward to
perform
MUSIC NOTE: This is the Story of Scheherazade (Tune of Gilligan’s Island Theme Song)
TBD:
This is the story of Scheherazade, she tried to keep her head
If not for the stories that she told each night, she surely would be dead.
The Sultan was a jealous man, his first wife went astray.
And so he had her head cut off and married new each day.
CHORUS:
He married new each day
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Each morning every bride the same disastrous fate would meet
They’d lose their head before they’d even have a chance to cheat
CHORUS:
They wouldn’t have a chance to cheat.
TBD:
This went on for quite some time, more women lost their lives
As Sultan had, his Grand Vizier, find new brides every day
Til Scheherazade, begged the Vizier and volunteered to be Sultan’s next bride!
Her father pleaded that she reconsider this poor deed
As Grand Vizier he knew too well just where it all would lead
But Scheherazade she had a plan, she knew she’d be all right,
As long as she could find a way to live from night to night.
CHORUS:
If she could live from night to night!
TBD:
She’d start a tale each night that glued the Sultan to his seat
She’d stop it in the morning though he begged her to complete
CHORUS:
He begged her to complete
TBD:
Next night she’d start again and bring more characters to life
Like Sinbad and Aladdin, too, Ali Baba and the forty thieves,
CHORUS:
With Genies and fairies and plots you wouldn’t believe!
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Suspense! Intrigue! And drama, too! Became a nightly thing,
Til Sultan dropped his guard and let Scheherazade’s love in.
And that is why we have the tales, that bring us all delights
They’re now known as the tales of
CHORUS:
1001 Arabian Nights!
SCENE 1A
Ensemble leaves stage. On steps of castle
GRAND VIZIER: The annual Khaledan counsel meeting will now come to order.
are Sultan, Sultaness, Grand Vizier, Prince
Zaman, several counsel members, guards.
GRAND VIZIER: Our first item of business – as usual – the marriage of Prince Zaman.
PRINCE ZAMAN: Here we go again! I’ve told you, there is to be no marriage.
GRAND VIZIER: What a shocker!
SULTAN: Son, you know I want to turn over my throne to you, but my counsel is
concerned that you are not mature enough to rule. Marriage will assure them you are
ready. Why do you resist honoring my wishes?
PRINCE ZAMAN: We’ve been through this every year – I cannot bring myself to trust any
woman. I have read too many stories about them; they are treacherous, vain, conniving,
shallow, traitorous, weak, disloyal, and deceitful! Did you not listen to the tale of
Scheherazade you just heard?
SULTAN: Yes, and Scheherazade was a good wife – was she not?
PRINCE ZAMAN: She is the exception! The rule is that women cannot be trusted!
SULTAN: Nonsense, there are many good women right here in Khaledan.
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PRINCE ZAMAN: Name anyone who has found one!
Sultaness pokes him in ribs
SULTAN: Um, er
SULTAN: Oh, yes! I found one in your mother didn’t’ I?
PRINCE ZAMAN: I could search the whole world and not find a Scheherazade for me.
SCENE 1B
DOWN ON CASTLE; UP ON CHINA
PLATFORM
LIGHT CUE:
Emperor, Empress, Princess Badoura,
Nurse, Marzavan, guards on platform
heated discussion in progress
PRINCESS BADOURA: Ooggh! Father, must we have this discussion yet again!
EMPEROR: Daughter, I do not understand why you are so determined not to marry -
especially knowing how happy it will make me if you do.
PRINCESS BADOURA: What about my happiness? I already have everything I could
possibly want – palaces, servants, fine clothes and jewelry and, most of all,
independence. I certainly don’t need a man, and why would I want one when he will just
try to control me.
SCENE 1C
BACK UP ON PALACE
LIGHT CUE:
Wives push husbands aside to lovingly
appeal to their child
SULTANESS AND EMPRESS: But don’t you want the joy that comes from giving your
heart to someone?
MUSIC NOTE: I’ll never fall in love again? (Burt Bacharach)
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SCENE 1C
Ensemble, beginning with dancers may
begin to filter back on stage during this
song.
PRINCE ZAMAN AND PRINCESS BADOURA: Joy! That’s not what you get!
Here’s what you get when you give your heart?
You get it all broken up and battered
That’s what you get, a heart that’s shattered
I’ll never ever fall in love
I’ll never ever fall in love
PRINCE ZAMAN:
What do you get when you fall in love?
A girl with a pin to burst your bubble
That’s what you get for all your trouble
I’ll never ever fall in love
I’ll never ever fall in love
PRINCESS BADOURA:
What do you get when you kiss a guy?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia
And more than that, they think they own ya,
I’ll never ever fall in love
I’ll never ever fall in love
PRINCE ZAMAN AND PRINCESS BADOURA:
Don’t tell me what it’s all about
‘Cause I’ve heard tales that would make you shout
Shout about chains those chains that bind you
That is why I’m here to remind you
What do you get when you fall in love?
You only get lies and pain and sorrow
And don’t try to ask again tomorrow!
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PRINCE ZAMAN:
I’ll never ever fall in love!
If ensemble has not already entered they
come in now to see what the disturbance is.
GRAND VIZIER: This defiance cannot be tolerated any longer, Zaman must be locked up
until he comes to his senses.
PRINCESS BADOURA:
I’ll never ever fall in love!
EMPEROR: Such insolence – you clearly have lost your mind. You will remain confined
until you are cured of your insanity.
As each is being dragged away – Zaman to
the dungeon cell SR platform; Badoura to
her room SL upper platform.
PRINCESS ZAMAN AND PRINCESS BADOURA:
I’ll never ever fall in love!
Consoling husbands
SULTANESS AND EMPRESS: There, there, dear. It will be all right.
MUSIC NOTE: Kids (Bye Bye Birdie)
CHORUS:
Kids!
SULTAN AND EMPEROR:
I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today!
ALL:
Kids!
SULTANESS AND EMPRESS:
Who can understand anything they say?
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ALL:
Kids!
VIZIER AND GUARDS:
They are disobedient, disrespectful oafs!
SULTAN:
Selfish,
EMPEROR:
Crazy,
SULTANESS:
Hurtful,
EMPRESS:
Lazy,
CHORUS:
Hopeless! And while we’re on the subject: Kids!
SULTAN AND EMPEROR:
You can talk and talk till your face is blue!
ALL:
Kids!
SULTANESS AND EMPRESS:
But they still just do what they want to do!
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SCENE 1C
FOUR ROYALS:
Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way?
What’s the matter with kids today?
ALL:
Kids!
FOUR ROYALS:
We’ve tried to raise them the best we could!
ALL:
Kids!
FOUR ROYALS:
We’ve done more for them than we prob’ly should
ALL:
Kids!
VIZIER AND GUARDS:
They are uncooperative, and ungrateful, too!
SULTAN:
Stubborn
EMPEROR:
Headstrong
SULTANESS:
Willful
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SCENE 1C
EMPRESS:
Dead wrong
ALL:
Know-it-alls! And while we’re on the subject: Kids!
FOUR ROYALS:
They are just impossible to control!
ALL:
Kids!
FOUR ROYALS:
They just never do anything they’re told
Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way?
SULTAN AND SULTANESS:
What’s the matter with
EMPEROR AND EMPRESS:
What’s the matter with
ALL:
What’s the matter with kids today?
BLACKOUT
LIGHT CUE:
SCENE 2A
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SCENE 2A
UP ON DUNGEON CAVE
LIGHT CUE:
Prince Zaman sleeps on straw mat on lower
level platform. Prominent on upper level is a
well. Fairy Perie Banou enters from well
stretching and yawning to greet the night –
she looks around and spots Zaman asleep
and goes gaga as minions enter and
become backup singers/dancers
Ala Madeline Kahn in Young Frankenstien
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Oh, sweet mystery of life at last I found you!
MINIONS: What is it Banou? Ooohhh! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Back off sisters, I found him first! This human’s MINE!
MUSIC NOTE: You’re the One that I Want (Grease)
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
I got chills, they’re multiplyin
And I’m losin control
Cause the power you’re supplyin
It’s electrifyin
You better wake up
Cause I need a man
And my heart is set on you
You better wake up
You better understand
To my heart I must be true
FAIRY PERIE BANOU AND MINIONS:
Got a lotta love, Got a lotta love . . .
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
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. . . to give to you
You’re the one that I want
MINIONS:
You are the one she wants
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey
The one that I want
MINIONS:
You are the one she wants
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey
The one that I want
MINIONS:
You are the one she wants
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
Ooh ooh ooh,
The one I need
MINIONS:
the one she needs
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
oh yes indeed
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SCENE 2A
MINIONS:
yes indeed
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
If you're filled with affection, 'n you're too shy to convey
Meditate in my direction, feel your way
MINIONS:
You better wake up, cause she needs a man
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
I need a man, who can keep me satisfied
MINIONS:
You better wake up, so that you can prove
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
You better prove, that my faith is justified
MINIONS:
Are you sure?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
Yes I'm sure down deep inside
You’re the one that I want
MINIONS:
you are the one she wants
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey
The one that I want
MINIONS:
You are the one she wants
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
Ooh, ooh, ooh, honey
The one that I want
MINIONS:
You are the one she wants
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
Ooh ooh ooh,
The one I need
MINIONS:
the one she needs
FAIRY PERIE BANOU:
oh yes indeed
Applause seque
MINIONS:
yes indeed
SCENE 2B
SPOT ON SL RAMP
LIGHT CUE:
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SCENE 2B
Fairy Danhasch enters SL ramp singing and
snappin to music ala Frank – minions follow
MUSIC NOTE: I Got A Look At Her (Tune: Nat King Cole’s Orange-Colored Sky)
FAIRY DANHASCH:
I was just kickin back, strolling through China
When inside the palace was a stir
Flash! Bam! Alakazam!
I got a look at her!
She was a vision in silk, except she was human,
And that’s just not my cup of tea, but
Wham! Bam! Alakazam!
She still seemed perfect to me!
One look at my fair Princess
That’s all it took for me
And the ceiling fell in and the bottom fell out
I went into a spin and I started to shout
She is it, she is it, she . . .
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Danhasch! DANHASCH!! What has your toes twinkling?
FAIRY DANHASCH: Well, I just came from . . .
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Yeah, whatever, keep it down? The most perfect human in the
world is trying to get some sleep in my cave.
FAIRY DANHASCH: That’s impossible, Banou! I just left the most perfect human in the
world in China.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: You’re mistaken!
FAIRY DANHASCH: No, really! She has the complexion . . .
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: that would feel like sandpaper compared to my human’s! And his
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SCENE 2B
hair . .
FAIRY DANHASCH: . . . would be as attractive as a wet mop compared to my human’s.
And her face . . .
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: . . . might as well be carved of wood as it could not compare to the
perfect . . .
Minions start cheering on respective bosses
as though a rumble is about to break out.
MINIONS: Fight! Fight! Fight!
FAIRY DANHASCH: Stop it! My human is the perfect one!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: My human is perfecter!
MINIONS: Fight! Fight! Fight!
FOG FROM PIT / STROBE FLASHES
LIGHT CUE:
Genie and Ginny-Me pop up from pit
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Aayyee! Stop it! What is going on here?
In fear and reverence they bow to him –
except Minion H that is staring at Ginny-Me
MINIONS: Caschcasch!
trying to figure out who he is.
Ginny-Me kicks Minion H in shin to get
MINION H: Who are . . .
Her to bow
To Ginny-Me
Ginny-Me laughs uncontrollably but silently
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Oh, this is Ginny-Me – my little protégé. Now, did I hear
something about a perfect human –
that’s an oxy-moron if I ever heard one.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Not in this case! Right over there in my cave is a perfect human.
FAIRY DANHASCH: No, THE perfect human is in China.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: No, mine is!
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SCENE 2B
FAIRY DANHASCH: Mine!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Mine!
FAIRY DANHASCH: Mine!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Mine!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Stop it! There is obviously only one way to settle this matter.
MINION A: Draw straws?
MINION B: Flip a coin?
MINION C: Arm wrestle?
MINION D: Rock, Paper, Scissors?
MINION E: Spin the bottle?
MINION F: Eenie-Meenie-Miney-Moe
MINION G: Duck, Duck, Goose
Ginny-Me again kicks Minion H in shin
MINION H: Bake off?
Ginny-Me tugs at Caschcasch to whisper in
his ear
GENIE CASCHCASCH: No, no, no! We simply get them together side-by-side and
compare them. I will make the decision.
Sorry, WE will make the decision. Agreed?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Pointless waste of time, but o.k.
Ginny-Me claps twice
FAIRY DANHASCH: I’ll even give you the home court advantage – We can bring my
human here to Khaledan.
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SCENE 3A
FOG ON SL UPPER PLATFORM AND
DUNGEON PLATFORM
LIGHT CUE:
Princess Badoura appears lying next to
MUSIC NOTE: Explosion/Rumbling sound effect
Prince Zaman – Fantasy characters stand
on the platform above them
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Prince Zaman!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Ha, see, he picked mine – I win!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: No, I mean this is Prince Zaman of Khaledan – oh, and this young
lady is Princess Badoura of China. This is a dilemma – each is equal in beauty – in fact,
they could be twins. We must decide this contest in some other way.
Raising hands and jumping up and down
MINIONS: Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
Ginny-Me kicks Minion H in shin again.
GENIE CASCHCASCH: No bake-off!
Disappointed
MINION H: Ouch!
Simultaneously with Minion H sound
MINIONS: Aawww!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: We shall keep them in an enchanted sleep and awaken them one
at a time. The one who proves to be as beautiful inside as out is the most perfect.
FAIRY DANHASCH: I have seen my human awake and have no doubt that you will see
that her inner beauty exceeds her outer beauty.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Then my Prince should be awakened first so that you needn’t wait
as long to see that you are wrong.
Ginny-Me claps hands twice – Zaman stirs
GENIE CASCHCASCH: So be it, Prince Zaman awaken!
Awake and realizes he is not alone; he
jumps and spins around to examine the
vision of beauty asleep before him.
PRINCE ZAMAN: Who are you? My, what beauty! My heart! My soul! You steal my
breath.
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SCENE 3A
Banou gets increasingly frustrated as
Zaman emotes over the princess.
MUSIC NOTE: As Long As You’re Mine (2
nd
half of tune from Wicked)
PRINCE ZAMAN:
Maybe I'm brainless
Maybe I'm wise
But you've got me seeing
Through different eyes
Somehow I've fallen
Under your spell
And somehow I'm feeling
It's up that I fell
Every moment
As long as you're mine
I'll wake up my body
And make up for lost time
Say there's a future
For us as a pair
And know it is so
I’ll be there
Just for this moment
As long as you're mine
Come be how you want to
And see how bright we shine
Borrow the moonlight
Until it is through
And know I'll be here holding you
As long as you're mine
PRINCE ZAMAN: How did you get here? My father! He brought you here to see if I truly
have a steadfast aversion to marriage. Had he introduced us sooner, he - and I - would
have found that I do not. Hello! Wake up! Hello! I must know who you are! By what
enchantment do you sleep so soundly?
Ginny-Me claps twice and Prince gets
GENIE CASCHCASCH: I believe that we have seen enough.
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SCENE 3A
Sleepy
Zaman removes amulet from neck and puts
it on the princess
Zaman falls asleep with arm around
PRINCE ZAMAN: I feel I must sleep. But what if you are taken away from me before you
awaken – how will you know that in your sleep, you have become my greatest dream?
I know, this will be a testament to my devotion.
Princess Badoura
FAIRY DANHASCH: A most admirable display, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Put off that Zaman fawned over Badoura so
blatantly
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Hmmph!
Ginny-Me claps twice and Badoura stirs
GENIE CASCHCASCH: We shall see soon enough. Princess Badoura awaken!
SCENE 3B
awake. At first offended by Zaman’s arm
around her, she is quickly taken by him
PRINCESS BADOURA: My, what beauty! My heart! My soul! You steal my breath.
MUSIC NOTE: As Long As You’re Mine (1
st
half of tune from Wicked)
PRINCESS BADOURA:
Kiss me too fiercely
Hold me too tight
I need help believing
You're with me tonight
My wildest dreaming
Could not foresee
Lying beside you
With you wanting me
And just for this moment
As long as you're mine
I've lost all resistance
And crossed some borderline
And if it turns out
It's over too fast
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SCENE 3B
I'll make every last moment last
As long as you're mine
Badoura finds amulet around her neck
Badoura “finds” her ring and puts it on him
PRINCESS BADOURA: Who are you? Where am I? How did I get here? My father! He
must have brought us together knowing that you would break me of my resistance to
marriage. Had he done this sooner, I should not have been so direct and disrespectful to
him. Hello! Wake up! Hello! Why do you sleep so soundly?
What’s this? In my sleep you have answered a dream that I did not know I had? You
need a symbol of my love in return.
This ring will do
Lunging toward the couple
Ginny-Me claps twice and Badoura
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Aaarrgh! He’s Mine!
Yawns and lays down next to Zaman – falls
asleep
FAIRY DANHASCH: Banou! I thought our game was just a fanciful way to pass time using
these humans for our amusement, but you seem smitten!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Is this true, Banou?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Maybe. So what if I want a human. This is 2010, must we be so
closed-minded? Shouldn’t a fairy be able to marry whomever they want?
GENIE CASCHCASCH: If you are meant to be with a human it will happen. But you
cannot interfere with destiny to advance your desires. It is clear that these two humans
are equal in beauty and equally deserving of each other. The contest is a draw!
Banou is clearly disappointed, Danhasch
tries to comfort her.
FAIRY DANHASCH: Oh, Banou, don’t worry . . .
MUSIC NOTE: Someday Your Prince Will Come (Sleeping Beauty)
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FAIRY DANHASCH AND MINIONS:
Someday your prince will come
Someday you'll find true love
And how thrilling that moment will be
When you find that he’s your destiny
Someday you’ll say and do
Things you’ve been longing to
Though it’s not today, you'll find your love someday
Someday when your dreams come true
Someday you'll find your love
A human to call your own
And you'll know him the moment you meet
For your heart will start skipping a beat
Someday you’ll say and do
Things you've been longing to
Though it’s not today, you'll find your love someday
Someday when your dreams come true.
To Danhasch
To Banou
Badoura waves without looking up;
Danhasch claps twice
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Now, get Princess Badoura back to China before she is missed.
And Banou! Behave!
Clearly up to something, Banou is seen
plotting with her minions
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Yes, of course, fine, fine
FOG IN CAVE AND STROBE LIGHTS
LIGHT CUE:
Badoura disappears. Caschcasch, Ginny-
Me and Danhasch exit. Minions exit down
MUSIC NOTE: Explosion/Rumbling sound effect
well leaving Banou behind. She kisses her
hand and brushes it along the side of
Zaman’s face. BLACKOUT
LIGHT CUE:
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SCENE 4A
MORNING IN DUNGEON CAVE
LIGHT CUE:
Zaman wakes up – slowly remembers–
thinks he dreamed – finds ring
PRINCE ZAMAN: I could not have dreamt such beauty? My amulet! That is proof that she
was real for I have it no more! And what is this? Her ring! She returns my devotion.
Guard! Guard!
GUARD FARUKH: What is it Prince Zaman?
PRINCE ZAMAN: Farukh, it is urgent that I speak with my father. Please make haste and
bring him here. Tell him it regards my impending marriage!
Excited that the Prince is better
GUARD FARUKH: Certainly, Prince Zaman, certainly!
PRINCE ZAMAN: Mustaffa, I trust that you guarded my cell through the night?
GUARD MUSTAFFA: Yes, Prince Zaman.
PRINCE ZAMAN: No doubt you are aware of the beautiful maiden my father brought here.
Looking very confused
GUARD MUSTAFFA: Sire, no one has entered your cell since we left you at sundown.
PRINCE ZAMAN: Of course, my father instructed your silence. I understand. I will let him
be the one to tell.
GUARD MUSTAFFA: I mean no disrespect, my Prince, but should I send for the palace
doctor as well?
PRINCE ZAMAN: Well played, Mustaffa, but I am more than fine and have need of but one
thing to make me perfect – that is to know the name of the maiden-of-the-night who is to
be my future bride.
SULTAN: My son! You have come to your senses and decided to marry after all?
PRINCE ZAMAN: Yes, thanks to your clever trick.
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A little confused
SULTAN: Yes, well, I am sorry that it took such drastic measures to reach this end, but . . .
PRINCE ZAMAN: Why all this prison stuff instead of just introducing us in the first place?
SULTAN: Huh?
PRINCE ZAMAN: Come on, you’ve won, father. Who is she? Where is she?
SULTAN: Huh?
PRINCE ZAMAN: My bride – the one you sent me last night!
SULTAN: Huh?
PRINCE ZAMAN: She was perfect! Flawless complexion! Classic symmetrical features!
Exquisite beauty! An angel!
SULTAN: Huh? You must be describing a dream.
PRINCE ZAMAN: She was.
To guards
SULTAN: No, I mean a real dream. I sent no one to you last night. And no one was
allowed in – right?
GUARDS: That is correct, your majesty.
Sultan is stunned and confused – concedes
PRINCE ZAMAN: But she must be real. Look, I have her ring and she has my amulet.
that there is no other answer than that
someone must have been with his son
SULTAN: I don’t understand how she could have been here, but I must believe you that
she was. What did she look like?
PRINCE ZAMAN: Very much like me. Same height, hair, skin tone, features.
SULTAN: Son, the woman you describe does not exist. Believe me, I have brought all
eligible maidens in this part of the world to meet you already. But now that you know that
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there could be a woman you would marry, come back to the palace and we will find a
suitable bride.
PRINCE ZAMAN: No! What if she comes back to find me? I cannot leave here!
SULTAN: Please son, come back to the palace.
PRINCE ZAMAN: What a turn of fate. Yesterday I feared I could not live as a married man,
today I fear I cannot live without her as my wife. I am doomed!
PRINCE ZAMAN AND PRINCESS BADOURA: Where ar . . .
SCENE 4B
LIGHTS/SPOTS ON BADOURA’S ROOM
LIGHT CUE:
Badoura is trying to convince her father what
she experienced. Nurse and Marzavan are.
PRINCE ZAMAN AND PRINCESS BADOURA: . . . re you!
present with them.
NURSE: There, there, princess! Calm yourself!
EMPEROR: Let me understand this. You say you are now ready to marry and that you
have found the perfect man for you, yet you do not know his name, or where he is from,
or even how you got out of your room and to a strange location where you met him while
he was sleeping and he wouldn’t wake up?
PRINCESS BADOURA: I know that seems unbelievable, but . . .
EMPEROR: Yet you insist that he is not a dream because you have an amulet and do not
have your ring. Is that about right?
PRINCESS BADOURA: You must trust me – it did happen.
To Princess
EMPEROR: Rest now, my daughter.
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Exits room with nurse
They exit
Her condition is worse than I feared – she is clearly delusional. Please watch her
carefully. I will summon the wisest men of all the healing fields. He who cures my
daughter shall have her hand and become the heir to my kingdom.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Oh, Marzavan, am I crazy? Was it just a dream?
MARZAVAN: I believe you Badoura, even were it not for the amulet, I would still believe.
PRINCESS BADOURA: If it was just a dream, maybe it would be easier – all I would have
to do is dream and he’d be here.
SCENE 4C
LIGHT CUE:
MUSIC NOTE: All I Have to do is Dream (Everly Brothers) + Dream Lover (Bobby Darrin)
CHORUS:
Dream, Dream, Dream
ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM
PRINCESS BADOURA:
When I want him in my arms, when I want him and all his charms
Whenever I want him, all I’d have to do, is dream
DREAM LOVER
PRINCE ZAMAN:
Every night I’ll hope and pray, my dream lover will come back my way
So I can hold her in my arms and know the magic of her charms
Because I want that girl to call my own
I want my dream lover so I won't have to dream alone.
CHORUS:
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Dream, Dream, Dream
ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM
PRINCESS BADOURA:
When I feel blue in the night, and I need him to hold me tight
Whenever I want him, all I’d have to do, is dream
DREAM LOVER
PRINCE ZAMAN:
Dream lover, where are you- with a love oh so true,
and a hand that I can hold, too feel you near when I grow old?
Because I want that girl to call my own
I want my dream lover so I won't have to dream alone.
CHORUS:
Dream, Dream, Dream
ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM
PRINCESS BADOURA:
I could make him mine, taste his lips of wine, any time, night or day
Only trouble is, gee wiz, I'd be dreamin' my life away
I need him so that I could die, I love him so, and that is why
Whenever I want him, all I’d have to do, is dream
DREAM LOVER
PRINCE ZAMAN:
Some-day, I don't know how
I hope you'll hear my plea
Some-way, I don't know how
She'll bring her love to me
Dream lover, until then, I'll go to sleep and dream again
That's the only thing to do, until my lover's dream comes true
Because I want that girl to call my own
I want my dream lover so I won't have to dream alone
PRINCESS BADOURA:
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Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream
PRINCE ZAMAN:
Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream
Zaman lays down and falls asleep; Badoura
ALL:
Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream
sits on bed with Marzavan at her side
LIGHT CUE:
SCENE 4D
LIGHT CUE:
Marzavan sketches madly on canvas scroll
MARZAVAN: No, Badoura, he is more than a dream. I will help you find him! Describe
him again?
As Badoura lovingly describes her dream
Marzavan holds up canvas so audience can
PRINCESS BADOURA: Very much like me. Same height, hair, skin tone, features.
See large stick figure he has drawn
MARZAVAN: Does this look like him?
Highly excited
PRINCESS BADOURA: Yes, yes, that’s him – you’ve captured his essence exactly!
Marzavan exits to find Zaman. Asian-style
MARZAVAN: I promise you, Badoura, I will scour the ends of the earth until I have found
him and returned him to you.
Marketplace begins assembling on stage in
the dark as next scene plays out in Zaman’s
dungeon room.
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LIGHT CUE:
Offstage yell is heard
Banou flies out of well enraged –
Maniacal change in demeanor as she gives
him peck on cheek then pops back in well
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: WHAT!?
Dream Lover! Her? How dare you. After all that I’ve done for you. I defended you as the
most perfect human on earth. I mean, I know you were asleep and couldn’t see me when
you were awake, but still, did our time together mean nothing to you. Not all humans get
the honor of being loved by a fairy. I don’t care what Caschcasch says, I WILL be your
dream lover – and HER worst nightmare! Goodnight sweetie!
LIGHT CUE:
SCENE 5
MARKETPLACE CENTER STAGE
LIGHT CUE:
Entertainment in progress – belly dancers;
vendors selling wares
MUSIC NOTE: Belly Dance Music with an Asian flare
MARZAVAN: Excuse me! Everyone! Hello! Might I have a moment of your time?
CITIZEN 1: Who are you, stranger?
CITIZEN 2: What do you want?
MARZAVAN: My name is Marzavan, and I come from China.
General muttering – ad libs
CITIZENS: Ooh! China!
Drops scroll open – shows it around
MARZAVAN: I am looking for this person. Have you seen him.
CITIZEN 3: What has he done?
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CITIZEN 4: He does not look familiar.
MARZAVAN: He has done nothing but stolen the heart of Princess Badoura in the night.
To others in the group
CITIZEN 5: She is the one I was telling you about, the one that has gone crazy.
CITIZEN 6: My husband’s brother, he’s a doctor you know, is one of the wise men who is
traveling to China to attempt a cure.
CITIZEN 7: So, this is the one that she met “in her dreams”.
MARZAVAN: Yes, but it was not a dream and she is not crazy. Now, have you seen him?
CITIZENS: Sorry, we have not.
Marzavan exits
MARZAVAN: Thank you for your time. I must continue further on my journey.
LIGHT CUE:
SCENE 6
LIGHTS UP IN BADOURA’S CHAMBERS
LIGHT CUE:
Witch doctor is finishing dance around
princess – other “wise” men are trying to
“cre” Badoura
EMPEROR: Well, do you still think you left here and met a strange man in the middle of
the night that you fell in love with?
PRINCESS BADOURA: Yes, I know what I saw and I know what I feel.
NURSE: Your Excellency, is this really necessary?
EMPEROR: Yes, NEXT!
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Pulls cork off beaker – steam pours out
DR LAU: Your Majesty. I have prepared this ancient remedy that is guaranteed to cure
any illness.
(hand smoke effect by Lau)
PRINCESS BADOURA: What! I’d have to be crazy to drink that!
Princess resists but gives in with a smirk
EMPEROR: That is the point, daughter. Now drink it down like a good girl.
She falls over on bed as if dead
ALL: Gasp
EMPRESS: What have you done? You have not cured my daughter, you have killed her.
DR LAU: This has never happened before. I do not understand. It’s only green tea with
anti-oxidants – and a little akai berry juice - it’s good for you!
Sobbing uncrontrollably
EMPEROR: Oh, my daughter.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Now are you gonna stop making me go through this? No one will
cure me, because I am not ill.
EMPEROR: And you’re still in love with your dream man?
PRINCESS BADOURA: Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
Another enters with doctor bag – pulls out
EMPEROR: NEXT!
Old-fashioned drill and heads to forehead
ALL: NOOOO!!
BLACKOUT
LIGHT CUE:
SCENE 7
ON VILLAGE – PLUS ELECTRIC
CAMPFIRE LIGHTS
LIGHT CUE:
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Marzavan enters through audience showing
sketch and checking people against pic
Runs onto stage and into village
MARZAVAN: Have you seen this man? Excuse me, how far is the next village? Have you
seen this man? Oh, finally, another village!
Hello, hello! Can you help me? I am looking for this man, have you seen him?
VILLAGER 1: No. He doesn’t look familiar.
VILLAGER 2: Who is he?
MARZAVAN: He is the love of Princess Badoura of China.
VILLAGER 3: And she knows he loves her, too?
MARZAVAN: About that, you see, . . .
VILLAGER 4: How does she know that he loves her?
MARZAVAN: Well . . .
MUSIC NOTE: That’s How You Know (Enchanted)
TBD (VARIOUS):
How does she know that he loves her?
How does she know she’s his?
How does she know that he loves her?
How does he show her he loves her?
How does she know that he really, really, truly, loves her?
How does she know that he loves her?
How does he show her he loves her?
How does she know that he really, really, truly, loves her?
It's not enough to take the one you love for granted
He must remind her or she'll be inclined to say
How do I know, he loves me?
How do I know, he's mine?
Does he leave a little note to tell her, she is on his mind?
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Send her yellow flowers when the sky is gray?
He'll find a new way to show her, a little bit everyday.
That's how she’ll know, that's how she’ll know, he's her love.
He better show her he needs her
Can’t treat her like a mind-reader
Each day do something to lead her
To believe he loves her.
Everybody wants to live happily ever after
Everybody wants to know their true love is true
How does she know, he loves her?
How does she know, he's hers?
Does he take her out dancing just so he can hold her close?
Dedicate a song with words meant just for her?
He'll find his own way to tell her, with the little things he'll do
That's how she’ll know, that's how she’ll know, he's her love.
He's her love
How does she know?
How does she know?
That’s how she’ll know he loves her?
That's how she’ll know he's true
Because he'll wear her favorite color just so he can match her eyes.
Rent a private picnic by the fire glow, oh.
His heart will be hers forever, something everyday will show
That's how she’ll know, that's how she’ll know
That's how she’ll know, that's how she’ll know,
That’s how she’ll know, that’s how she’ll know, he's her love.
They look at him confused – he realizes how
strange it sounds
MARZAVAN: Well, I’m sure in time he will do all of those things and more for her, but in
this case he was asleep when she met him and she hasn’t seen him since
– but he had given her his amulet when she was sleeping and she gave him her ring in
return when she woke up.
VILLAGER 5: Wait a minute? Amulet? Ring? I heard that story traveling on the silk road.
So it must have been about your Princess Badoura!
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VILLAGER 6: Yes, well I heard a story like that in my last travels to the Kingdom of
Samarkand. But I heard that it was a Prince who was love-sick for a beautiful maiden that
was brought to him in the night.
MARZAVAN: Who is this Prince? Where is he from?
VILLAGER 6: I do not know. I did not pay much attention. One hears so many stories on
the road – why you could fill a book of 1000 tales with them. Maybe more!
MARZAVAN: Please, it’s important!
Thinking hard
Snaps fingers
VILLAGER 6: Uhhhh . . wait . . I think it was Prince Zama . . n, yes Zaman of The Kingdom
of, um, um, Khaledan.
Marzavan starts to exit
MARZAVAN: Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you.
VILLAGERS: Wait! It’s that way!
Marzavan exits SR
SCENE 10
ZAMAN’S DUNGEON CAVE
LIGHT CUE:
Offstage sounds of commotion and protest
MICROPHONE NOTE:
Marzavan bursts in pursued by guards
GUARD 1: A thousand pardons your highness. This charlatan insists that he knows of
you and has an important message for you.
GUARD 2: Shall we remove him?
PRINCE ZAMAN: The only person I wish to see is my true love – and he is not it! No
offense.
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Marzavan unfurls scroll to compare to
MARZAVAN: None taken.
Zaman to verify that he is the one
PRINCE ZAMAN: Hey, why are you carrying a portrait of me?
MARZAVAN: The Princess of China has been looking for you. You are her true love.
PRINCE ZAMAN: Please, did my father send you? Many women in many kingdoms wish
to marry me, but my heart is taken.
MARZAVAN: Her ring!
PRINCE ZAMAN: Do you know whose ring this is?
Banou pops up from well at mention of her
MARZAVAN: It is Princess Badoura of China’s ring.
Name – Frustrated
PRINCE ZAMAN: Describe her.
Marzavan holds hair/chopsticks over
drawing
PRINCE ZAMAN: It’s her! That smile, those eyes, that figure. I’d know her anywhere!
MARZAVAN: And she feels the same. She wears your amulet always, but at great cost.
Her father believes her to be crazy and is seeking cures throughout the lands. He has
promised her hand to anyone with a cure. You must come with me directly to China
before it is too late.
They exit from cave calling the Sultan
PRINCE ZAMAN: I must speak with my father immediately.
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Banou follows behind once they leave
PRINCE ZAMAN: Father, father!
MAIN STAGE
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Sultan, Sultaness, Grand Vizier out from
palace
SULTAN: What is it? What’s going on?
Marketplace begins to fill with people
wondering what is happening.
KHALEDANIAN 1: Look, Prince Zaman has finally come out of the cave!
KHALEDANIAN 2: Is he cured?
Everyone freezes staring at Marzavan –
Zaman sees the confusion and grabs the
scroll – unfurls it to show them
PRINCE ZAMAN: Father, I’ve found my true love!
No, not him – HER!
SULTAN: Who is she?
Crowd murmurs
KHALEDANIAN 3: She’s stunning!
KHALEDANIAN 4: That smile, those eyes, that figure!
PRINCE ZAMAN: She is Princess Badoura of China. Her loyal friend, Marzavan here, says
that she is as in love with me as I am with her. I must travel to China immediately.
SULTANESS: Oh, Zaman, I am so happy for you!
GRAND VIZIER: As are we all; however, how do we not know that this is not just another
delay tactic. Sire you must exercise caution in this matter.
SULTAN: Perhaps so. Here is what I propose. Zaman will travel to China accompanied
by palace attendants. He will have exactly one year from today to return with his bride-to-
be. If he returns without her, he will choose a bride from a selected group of maidens that
we will present to him. Either way - on this day next year, there WILL be a wedding.
CROWD: Yeah!
Zaman, Marzavan, and guards exit SR Arch
PRINCE ZAMAN: Fair enough, father. There is no time to waste. We must away to China.
I have only one year to secure my love.
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MUSIC NOTE: Seasons of Love (Rent)
Banou is seen at edge of SR in a huff and
going behind cave to get in. Dancing erupts
from townspeople on stage.
TBD
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets,
In midnights, in cups of coffee?
In inches, in miles,
In laughter, in strife?
In five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
How do you measure a year in the life?
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love.
Seasons of love,
Seasons of love.
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty five thousand journeys to plan,
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?
In truth that we learn,
Or in times that we cry?
In bridges we burn,
Or the way that we die?
It's time now, to sing out,
Though the story never ends.
Let's celebrate, remember a year,
In the life of friends.
Celebrate love, (Oh you got to, you got to celebrate the love)
Celebrate love, (You know that love is a gift from up above)
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Celebrate love, (Share love, give love, spread love)
Celebrate love, (Measure, measure your life in love)
Seasons of love,
Seasons of love (Measure your life, measure your life in love).
Banou enters cave and goes to well –
Whistles to fairies to come out – they plot
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: We’ll see about this!
BLACKOUT
LIGHT CUE:
SCENE 12
BADOURA’S CHAMBERS
LIGHT CUE:
Line of quacks out from Princess Badoura’s
room, one inside has her on her head and
contorted with a divining rod in one hand,
aluminum wrapped around body parts, and
is about to make her drink something that
makes her gag trying to drink upside down.
As they are pantomiming above, Marzavan
and Prince Zaman enter from the pit ramp.
The proceed to palace and enter just as
MARZAVAN: We are almost there. Remember, do not tell the Emperor who you really are.
He won’t believe you.
Emperor is fed up and declares Badoura’s
condition hopeless – kicks everyone out.
EMPEROR: That’s it! I have had enough. I can no longer see my daughter subjected to
such physically abusive nonsense. All of you, OUT! NOW!
MARZAVAN: I beg your indulgence your Excellency. But if you will allow just one more
wise man the opportunity I am certain that you will not be disappointed.
EMPEROR: It is hopeless – I fear she will never again be the happy, energetic and
carefree daughter that she once was.
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PRINCE ZAMAN: Your Majesty, she won’t suffer – I can cure her with just parchment and
ink.
EMPRESS: I trust this young man. If Marzavan does.
MARZAVAN: I love Badoura as my own sister and would do nothing to cause her harm.
Yes, I trust him.
Marzavan grabs parchment and ink for
EMPEROR: Very well – he may try.
Zaman who jots down message – Guard
takes it to Badoura’s room
CHINA GUARD 1: Your highness, the Emperor has sent me with this note.
Badoura is sitting in despair.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Just set it down, I will attend to it in time.
CHINA GUARD 1: I believe he is awaiting your response along with another wise man.
Badoura reads note – snaps out of stupor
PRINCESS BADOURA: Oh, not another.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Where is he?
Badoura runs out of room and into main hall
CHINA GUARD 1: In the main hall of the palace.
She runs to Zaman – they hug BIG!
PRINCESS BADOURA: Oh, father! You have found him. Thank you! Thank you!
EMPEROR: Huh!
PRINCESS BADOURA: This is the man I spoke of – my True Love! See, he has my ring!
PRINCE ZAMAN: And you my amulet.
Empress nestles up to Zaman - stereotypical
PRINCESS BADOURA: Thank you, my loyal friend Marzavan, for not giving up.
Daughter-marrying-a-doctor manner
EMPRESS: So, a doctor!
PRINCE ZAMAN: Well, about that. I pretended to be one so that you would let me in to
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see the Princess.
Obviously deflated
EMPRESS: Awww.
PRINCE ZAMAN: I am really Prince Zaman of Khaledan.
Back to impressed
EMPRESS: Ooohh! A Prince. That’s even better.
EMPEROR: None of that matters. What is important is that my daughter is cured and
happy again. Are you sure you wish to marry – and that this is the man you desire?
PRINCESS BADOURA: Yes, father, with all my heart.
EMPEROR: But you only had one look at him, can you be sure?
PRINCESS BADOURA: Just one look is all I needed.
PRINCE ZAMAN: Me, too!
MUSIC NOTE: Just One Look (The Hollies/Linda Rondstadt)
PRINCESS BADOURA:
Just one look
And I felt so I, I, I'm in love
With you, oh, oh
PRINCE ZAMAN:
I found out
How good it fee, ee, eels
To have your love, oh oh
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PRINCESS BADOURA:
Say you will
Will be mi, ii, ine
Forever and always, oh oh
PRINCE ZAMAN
Just one look and I knew, ew, ew
That you were my only one, oh
BOTH
I thought I was dreaming
But I was wrong, yeah yeah yeah
Oh, and I'm gonna keep believing
That I can make you
Make you my own
PRINCE ZAMAN
So you see
I really care, are, are
Without you
I'm nothing, oh oh
PRINCESS BADOURA
Just one look and I knew, ew, ew
I'd get you some day, oh
BOTH
I thought I was dreaming
But I was wrong, yeah yeah yeah
Oh, and I'm gonna keep believing
That I can make you
Make you my own
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The two lovebirds kiss center stage
Just one look, that's all it took, yeah
Just one look, that's all it took, yeah
Just one look, that's all it took, yeah
Just one look, that's all it took, yeah
ALL: Yeah!
EMPEROR: Prepare a royal wedding!
PRINCE ZAMAN: Um, about that.
EMPEROR: Now what.
PRINCE ZAMAN: I am obligated to return to Khaledan within a year from when we left. I
am to marry there at that time and become Sultan in a combined ceremony.
Fully impressed
EMPRESS: Ooh! Sultan!
Minions enter to well calling Banou – they
have been doing recon work
MINION 1: Banou! Banou!
Banou comes out from well
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Yes, what have you found out?
MINION 2: Your human has found his true love!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Ahem!
MINION 2: I mean that awful, ugly, disgusting human female.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: And he has realized the error of his ways and reconsidered how he
feels after meeting her in person?
MINION 1: Not exactly.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: What then?
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MINION 3: He’s even more in love with her and they are getting married!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: In China?!
MINION 2: No, he is bringing her back to Khaledan to get married when his one year is up.
Danhasch pops up from the well right then
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: If he thinks that he’s going to make it back to Khaledan with her,
then that Zaman has a big surprise coming.
FAIRY DANHASCH: Are you up to some mischief Banou?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Don’t be silly, what kind of mischief would I be up to on a beautiful
day like today.
FAIRY DANHASCH: I just thought I heard you speaking of Prince Zaman.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Who?
FAIRY DANHASCH: Banou, I wasn’t born this century. Remember what Caschcasch said
– he’s off limits to you!
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Of course, off limits, to me.
Danhasch drops back into well
Indicating the minions will do the dirty work
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Of course, off limits, to me.
But not, to you! Listen up!
SCENE 13A
CENTER STAGE ENCAMPMENT
LIGHT CUE:
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Lights up on center stage encampment.
Zaman’s entourage and Marzavan sleeping
along the “hillside” (i.e., castle stairs) – Tent
in center is for royals – each with own mat.
Badoura is on her mattress ready to sleep –
Zaman is by her side – “tucking her in”.
PRINCE ZAMAN: Sleep well, my love, tomorrow is another long day of travel.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Is Khaledan much further?
PRINCE ZAMAN: We have traveled more than half the distance to Khaledan. From here it
is a straight journey to the South and West.
Badoura falls asleep – Zaman lays down
PRINCE BADOURA: Good night, my Prince.
Bird creatures enter from pit ramp?
MUSIC NOTE: Kidnap the Amulet (Kidnap the Sandy Claws – Nightmare Before Xmas)
BIRD 1:
I wanna do it
BIRD 2:
Let's draw straws
BIRD 3:
We’re supposed to work together
ALL BIRDS:
Three of a kind
Birds of a feather
Now and forever
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la
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Birds approach tent – spot amulet
Kidnap the Amulet, make Zaman take flight
Tease him, taunt him, make him run
Off into the night
Bird 1 picks up amulet lying next to Badoura
BIRD 1: Ooh! Shiny!
Kicks Zaman in the shin
BIRD 2:
First, we've got to take the bait
And then make sure that he’s awake
Zaman gets up and sees birds with amulet
PRINCE ZAMAN: Ouch!
Begins to run after them – they zigzag
around stage
BIRD 3:
When he comes a-running we will
Lead him on a wild goose chase
BIRD1:
Look! He’s falling for our plan
BIRD 2:
Come here and catch us if you can
BIRD 3:
Come here and look at what we’ve got
ALL BIRDS:
You’ve almost got us – hurry up!
Kidnap the Amulet, make Zaman take flight
Tease him, taunt him, make him run
Off into the night
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PRINCE ZAMAN:
Come back now - please understand
That amulet is dear to her
I’ll give you anything you want
Please just give it back to her
Lead Zaman out back of audience
ALL BIRDS:
Wheeee
Kidnap the Amulet, make Zaman take flight
Tease him, taunt him, make him run
Off into the night
Kidnap the Amulet, make Zaman take flight
Tease him, taunt him, make him run
Off into the night
Kidnap the Amulet, make Zaman take flight
Tease him, taunt him, make him run
Off into the night
SCENE 13B
BACK ON ENCAMPMENT
LIGHT CUE:
It is several days later – Badoura and
Marzavan are in front of camp searching
MUSIC NOTE: Lost In The Darkness (Jekyll and Hyde)
PRINCESS BADOURA
Lost in the darkness,
Silence surrounds you.
Once there was morning,
Now only strife.
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If I could reach you,
I'd guide you and lead you
To walk from the darkness
Back into my life.
Deep in this silence,
Please try to hear me;
I'll keep you near me
As time passes by.
I will find you Zaman.
I'll never desert you
I promise you this
Till the day that I die
PRINCESS BADOURA: Marzavan, it has been nearly a week since my beloved Zaman
disappeared. Could he have changed his mind? After all, the amulet is missing, too.
MARZAVAN: No, Badoura, do not doubt his love. I have traveled many months with
Zaman and know the great extent of his love for you.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Of course, you are right. I trust that there is good cause for him to
be away. But what should we do?
MARZAVAN: The Sultan is expecting Prince Zaman to return to Khaledan within a year of
when he departed. Zaman will want to keep his promise to his father. If he is unable to
find his way back here, I am sure he will continue to Khaledan trusting that I will get you
safely there.
PRINCESS BADOURA: But Zaman’s entourage will never allow us to go on without him.
Marzavan grabs a turvan and mirror from
MARZAVAN: You’re right. So Zaman will continue to Khaledan.
Zaman’s things –
He puts the turban on Badoura and shows
PRINCESS BADOURA: Huh!
Her in the mirror. As she is looking he gets
Zaman’s clothes for her to put on
MARZAVAN: Here, put these on.
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She puts on the clothes while speaking
PRINCESS BADOURA: This will never work! Won’t they wonder where I am and why the
Prince is not upset I am missing?
Zaman’s entourage is seen coming from
audience.
Marzavan exits through SL Arch as
MARZAVAN: You, as Zaman, will just explain to his men that you, Badoura, and I went
ahead to Khaledan to make sure we returned on schedule and he, the real Zaman, stayed
behind to wait for them, his entourage.
Here they come! Remember, you are Prince Zaman now!
Entourage spots Zaman and runs to him
ENTOURAGE 1: Prince Zaman!
ENTOURAGE 2: You are safe!
ENTOURAGE 3: Where have you been?
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): I would ask the same of you? I have been waiting for
you so that we can continue to Khaledan? Come pack quickly. We must be on our way.
ENTOURAGE 4: But where is Princess Badoura?
They pack up things and exit SL Arch
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): She and Marzavan went ahead. We will meet them in
Khaledan. No more questions! All will be explained in due time. We must be on our way.
SCENE 13C
CATCH AUDIENCE ACTION ONTO T
LIGHT CUE:
Birds lead Zaman back onto T. Danhasch
enters from pit stairs just as birds proceed
down pit ramp and Zaman hits the T.
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Danhasch claps twice and Zaman falls to
ground asleep.
To Birds
DANHASCH: You! Come up here - NOW!
Minions come up from pit sheepishly
One spits feather from mouth
Danhasch calls Caschcasch to the scene
DANHASCH: Just as I suspected. I know what you bird brains are up to
And I know who put you up to this! Caschcasch!
FOG FROM PIT
LIGHT CUE:
Caschcasch appears from pit stairs – sees
Zaman
GENIE CASCHCASCH: What is . . . oh, my, Prince Zaman – asleep again. Now what are
you doing to this poor guy?
DANHASCH: It seems that our friend Banou did not heed your warning.
Ginny-Me enters pit ramp pulling Banou by
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Banou, you got some splainin’ to do!
Ear. She stops feigning surprise when she
sees Zaman
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Oh, my, what is he doing here? Stop stalking me!
Banou stomps her on foot – she bends over
in pain
MINION H: Don’t you remember you . . .
OUCH!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Banou! How dumb do you think I am?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Well . . .
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Don’t answer that! This human is NOT yours and will never be.
You must make things right by letting him go back to his TRUE love immediately.
Minion sets amulet in Zaman’s hand
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Oh, all right! Give him back the amulet.
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Now, promise you will no longer interfere – directly or indirectly!
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FAIRY PERIE BANOU: I promise.
All but Zaman disappear in puff of smoke
GENIE CASCHCASCH: You will not be sorry Banou, you will be so much happier with a
human that loves you truly than one that you have stolen from another.
Zaman awakens – finds amulet in his hand
Zaman exits to pit via stairs.
PRINCE ZAMAN: My amulet! The nightmare has ended, but where am I? And where is
my beloved Badoura? Surely by now Marzavan would have led her safely to Khaledan. I
must get there!
SCENE 14
SPOT / LIGHTS ON T
LIGHT CUE:
Khaledan marketplace sets up as entourage
enters from pit ramp. Marzavan is hiding
behind hedge and gets Badoura’s attention
as she approaches – she stops uncertain
and nervous
ENTOURAGE 1: What is the matter your highness? Why do you stop so close to home?
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): I am nervous because I do not know if my bride-to-be
has arrived already. If she has not, my father will insist that I select someone else to
marry. It is only four more days before my year is up.
ENTOURAGE 1: We can go into town to see if she is there, your highness.
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): That is a good idea. But you must not be noticed for
they will wonder why I am not with you.
Entourage 1 is standing between 2 and 3 –
he looks at 2 strangely for the overly
dramatic turn of phrase
ENTOURAGE 2: Of course, Prince Zaman. We will be as silent and invisible as a warm
breeze in the evening floating through the town.
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Entourage 1 gives 3 the same strange look
ENTOURAGE 3: As undetectable as a single grain of sand on the pure white marble floor
of the palace.
Translates simply
ENTOURAGE 1: Yeah, they’ll never know we’re here.
They turn to enter town – immediately
spotted
KHALEDANIANS: Look! It’s Zaman’s servants! Is he with them! Where’s Zaman!
MARZAVAN: Quick, Badoura, duck down here with me.
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): Has there been any word from Zaman?
MARZAVAN: None! And, I must warn you, I have heard that the Sultan has gathered the
potential brides from which you – I mean Zaman – will have to choose a wife.
PRINCESS BADOURA: Oh, Marzavan, what do I do?
Grand Vizier comes up to Badoura just as
Marzavan gives this advice
MARZAVAN: I don’t know, but whatever you do, don’t go into the town!
Marzavan hides
GRAND VIZIER: Now, where did you say you left him?
Ah, there you are Zaman. No doubt hiding because you have returned without your bride
– as I expected.
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): But, . . .
GRAND VIZIER: Do not worry, your father and I have a wonderful selection of eligible
brides for you. You only need to pick one –
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): But, . . .
Badoura desperately looks to Marzavan as
Grand Vizier drags her off
GRAND VIZIER: OR WE WILL!
Loud Whisper
MARZAVAN: Remember, you still have three days – stall!
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LIGHTS – BADOURA’S CHAMBERS
LIGHT CUE:
EMPEROR: My sweet lotus blossom, what troubles you?
EMPRESS: I was just looking at the calendar and I see that the year is nearly up – I
wonder if they have reached Khaledan safely.
EMPEROR: They have love guiding them – they will be fine.
MUSIC NOTE: Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing (Grease)
EMPEROR:
Love is a many-splendored thing,
It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring,
EMPRESS
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living,
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
EMPEROR AND EMPRESS
Once on a high and windy hill,
In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still,
Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing,
Yes, true love's a many-splendored thing.
MUSIC NOTE: Musical Interlude in Song
EMPEROR: (sniff, sniff, sob)
EMPRESS: Are you crying?
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Begins blubbering
EMPEROR: Emperors do not cry!
Our only daughter is getting married and we will not be there to give her a traditional
Chinese ceremony.
EMPRESS: There, there, dear. Should we travel to Khaledan?
EMPEROR: There’s no point, we would never make it in time. At the latest it is only two
days away. There is no way to get us, our royal court, and all of the dragons and stuff for
a traditional ceremony to Khaledan. Why, it would take the most brilliant, magnificent,
talented, extraordinarily powerful sorcerer on earth to accomplish all that.
FOG – SMALL PUFF OF SMOKE
LIGHT CUE:
Genie Caschcasch & Ginny-Me appear –
Ginny-Me finishes song
GINNY-ME:
Yes, true love’s a many-splendored thing.
Dramatic pause
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Oh, and don’t forget meticulous, clever, resourceful, and
handsome. Oh, and it’s genie, not sorcerer.
Shrieks
Emperor moves to protect his wife
EMPRESS: Eek!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Hey, you called me.
EMPEROR: No we didn’t.
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Tomato, Tomato. Look, I can help. I’ve grown fond of your
daughter and her husband-to-be.
EMPRESS: You know them?
Emperor and Empress hug and give loving
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Enough to know that it is fate that brought them together – kismet!
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sigh
And I have complete confidence that they will be reunited again in time for the wedding
without any further interference.
EMPEROR: Reunited?
EMPRESS: Interference?
EMPEROR: What has happened?
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Oh, nothing to worry yourself about.
EMPRESS: We must get to her!
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Have no fear, that’s why I’m here! Get your royal preparations
together and awaaay we’ll goooo!
SCENE 16
KHALEDAN PALACE
LIGHT CUE:
Sultan is preparing to parade eligible
maidens in front of “Zaman”
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): Your Majesty, can’t we wait just a little longer?
SULTAN: Your Majesty? What happened to father?
Catching herself in an awkward statement
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): I’m sorry, it just feels awkward having to look at
other women to marry . . .
when I’m sure that Badoura is closer than we think.
SULTAN: By our agreement, you must wed tomorrow. If Badoura arrives,
Snide aside
GRAND VIZIER: If she even exists.
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SULTAN: . . . there is no harm done and you may marry her. If she does not, however,
then I want you to have selected your bride.
Sultaness tries to comfort “Zaman”
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): Gulp!
GRAND VIZIER: Bring in the maidens!
MUSIC NOTE: Take A Chance On Me (Abba)
A line of women (including Banou trying to
pass as a human) is awaiting the opportunity
to woo “Zaman”. A first song is used for
numerous maidens after which Look At Me
is used to feature the maiden that Sultan
and Grand Vizier are obviously taken by.
POTENTIAL BRIDES AND SELECTED BRIDE AND PERIE BANOU:
If you change your mind, I'm the first in line
Honey I'm still free, take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around
If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down
If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown
Honey I'm still free, take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best and it ain't no lie
If you put me to the test, if you let me try
Take a chance on me (That's all I ask of you honey) Take a chance on me
We can go dancing, we can go walking, as long as we're together
Listen to some music, maybe just talking, get to know you better
'Cos you know I've got so much that I wanna do,
when I dream I'm alone with you it's magic
You want me to leave it there, afraid of a love affair
But I think you know, that I can't let go
If you change your mind, I'm the first in line
Honey I'm still free, take a chance on me
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around
If you've got no place to go, if you're feeling down
If you're all alone when the pretty birds have flown
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Honey I'm still free Take a chance on me
Gonna do my very best and it ain't no lie
If you put me to the test, if you let me try
Take a chance on me (Come on, give me a break will you?) Take a chance on me
Oh you can take your time baby, I'm in no hurry, know I'm gonna get you
You don't wanna hurt me, baby don't worry, I ain't gonna let you
Let me tell you now
My love is strong enough to last when things are rough it's magic
You say that I waste my time but I can't get you off my mind
No I can't let go 'Cos I love you so
Badoura runs out after it gets too
uncomfortable – Sultaness runs after
SULTAN: Zaman! Come back here! You MUST pick a bride.
GRAND VIZIER: Obviously he is refusing to pick so we must pick for him.
Selected Maiden is seducing Sultan and
MAIDENS: Ooh, ooh! Me! Me!
Grand Vizier as the others are all trying to
get their attention as well
SELECTED MAIDEN: Me!
Danhasch enters from SR and sees Banou
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Me!
Danhasch grabs banou and pulls her off SR
DANHASCH: BANOU!
Flustered, Sultan and Grand Vizier give in to
the Selected Maiden and choose her
SULTAN and GRAND VIZIER: You!
SULTAN: Now, prepare a royal wedding!
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ZAMAN’S DUNGEON CAVE
LIGHT CUE:
Danhasch drags Banou into the cave
DANHASCH: What are you trying to pull. Do you think that if you marry Badoura while
she is impersonating Zaman that you’ll be married to Zaman when he gets here?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Huh?
DANHASCH: That person you were fawning over in the palace is Badoura – now what did
you do to Zaman this time?
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: I promise I have done nothing to Zaman – I thought that was him!
DANHASCH: See what a mess your interference has created! You better hope Zaman
makes it back in time or I shudder to think how Caschcasch will punish you.
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Should I go look for him and bring him back?
They exit from back of cave again
DANHASCH: NO! Caschcasch made it clear that we are to leave it to destiny. We will see
what happens tomorrow – oh, the sun is up - someone IS getting married today.
SCENE 18A
KHALEDAN PALACE
LIGHT CUE:
SONG: Getting Married Today (Company)
GRAND VIZIER:
Bless this day,
Pinnacle of life,
Husband joined to wife.
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The heart leaps up to behold
This golden day.
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
Pardon me, is everybody here? Because if everybody's here, I want to thank you
all for coming to the wedding, I'd appreciate your going even more, I mean you
must have lots of better things to do, and not a word of this to her, remember her,
you know, the one I'm s’posed to marry, but I'm not, because I wouldn't ruin
anyone as wonderful as she now--
Thank you all for the gifts and the flowers,
Thank you all, now it's back to the showers,
And don't tell Sultan I'm not getting married today.
MARZAVAN:
Bless this day, tragedy of life,
“Husband” joined to wife.
The heart sinks down and feels dead
This dreadful day.
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
Listen, everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for, a wedding, what's a
wedding, it's a prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever, which
is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of, which is followed by a
honeymoon, where suddenly she'll realize that I am not a man, and wanna kill me,
which she should--
Thanks a bunch, but I'm not getting married--
Go have lunch, 'cause I'm not getting married--
You've been grand, but I'm not getting married--
Don't just stand there, I'm not getting married--
And don't tell Sultan, I'm not getting married today.
Go, can't you go? Why is no-body listening?
Goodbye, go and cry, at another person's wake.
If you're quick, for a kick, you could pick up a christening,
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But please, on my knees, there's a human life at stake!
MARZAVAN:
Bless this “groom?”, totally insane,
Slipping down the drain.
And bless this day in our hearts
Please let it start to rain.
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
Go, can’t you go? Look you know I adore you all
But why, watch me die, like Eliza on the ice
Look perhaps I’ll collapse in the apse right before you all
So take back the cake, burn the shoes and boil the rice
Look, I didn't wanna have to tell you, but I may be coming down with Hepatitis, and
I think I'm gonna faint, so if you wanna see me faint, I'll do it happily, but wouldn't
it be funnier to go and watch a funeral, so thank you for the twenty-seven dinner
plates, thirty-seven butter knives, forty-seven paperweights, fifty-seven
candleholders—
GRAND VIZIER: Now it’s time!
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
I am not getting married!
GRAND VIZIER: Here comes the bride!
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
But I’m not getting married!
GRAND VIZIER: All please rise!
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
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Still I’m not getting married!
GRAND VIZIER: Dearly Beloved!
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
See, I’m not getting married!
GRAND VIZIER: Let us pray!
At that moment, Marzavan sees the
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
Please, I can’t get married!
Real Zaman.
MARZAVAN: Stop the wedding, stop the wedding! The wrong people are getting married!
Applause segue
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN):
Today!
PRINCESS BADOURA (AS ZAMAN): Oh, thank Buddha!!!
SULTAN: Princess Badoura has arrived?
MARZAVAN: No. The real Prince Zaman is here to marry his beloved bride.
Prince Zaman runs up to the wedding party
Selected Maiden thinks he is running to her
GRAND VIZIER: Someone has apparently already dipped into the wedding punch.
But he grabs Badoura and kisses her
passionately
CROWD: Gasp
SELECTED MAIDEN: Now there are two Zamans and I don’t get either of them?
To Badoura
Badoura points to the real Zaman
To Zaman
SULTAN: Zaman?
Zaman?
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Zaman raises his hand in acknowledgment –
Sultan looks back at Badoura confused
PRINCE ZAMAN: This is Badoura!
To Badoura – still confused
SULTAN: Badoura?
Pulling headdress off Badoura
MARZAVAN: Yes, Princess Badoura of China.
Selected Maiden faints into Vizier’s arms
CROWD: Gasp
SULTAN: Huh?
PRINCE ZAMAN: It’s a long story that I’ll explain later. Right now I don’t want to waste
any more time before marrying my True Love.
SULTANESS: But you can’t get married looking like this!
SULTAN: Go, prepare yourselves. Everyone else – talk amongst yourselves – we’ll be
right back.
Still holding the Selected Maiden – ala Joey
Tribiani
GRAND VIZIER: So, how you doin?
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KHALEDAN PALACE DOWNSTAGE
LIGHT CUE:
Prince Houssain, Prince Ali and Prince
Ahmed have been part of the crowd for the
wedding. They begin talking to set up next
PRINCE HASSAN: Just think, my brothers, this time next year, one of us will be getting
married to Princess Nourinnihar back home.
year’s story. Ahmed is distracted by Fairy
Perie Banou across the crowd.
PRINCE ALI: One of us? Please Hassan, once we have completed father’s contest, it will
be me that is marrying her.
PRINCE HASSAN: Dream on Ali! You don’t stand a chance against me. Right Ahmed?
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Ahmed!
Across the stage, Banou and Danhasch are
talking. She is distracted by Prince Ahmed
across the crowd.
DANHASCH: So, Banou, are you finally ready to accept that Zaman and Badoura are
meant to be together?
She coyly waves to Ahmed – he returns it
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Yes, and I am ready to wait for a human who returns my interest.
DANHASCH: And you won’t interfere with destiny to make him love you?
Crosses fingers, etc. away from Danhasch
Caschcasch appears next to them
FAIRY PERIE BANOU: Oh, no, I promise. Where have you been?
GENIE CASCHCASCH: Oh, I was just arranging a little surprise wedding gift for the bride.
SCENE 18C
KHALEDAN PALACE
LIGHT CUE:
Fanfare / Royal celebration music for multi-
cultural wedding with dragons, belly dancers
MUSIC NOTE: One World (Cheetah Girls)
Animals, etc.
TBD
love always finds a way - every single time
once we learn to trust our heart - and look inside, it feels right
now, we see who we are in a different light
we're not so far apart and anything is possible
with all the differences, we're stronger here
now the truth has been discovered, oh yeah
after all we've been through, now it's clear
that all of us, we share
one world, one love, one and all, we're a circle together
one world, one heart, one song, now and forever
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everybody celebrate - bring on the party, bring on the dance
time to let the music play - the party never ends
every guy and every girl, stand up and shout, say it loud
everyone around the world, come on and join in
we're gathered here today - everything is right
cause when you give from the heart - the things you do come back to you
there to be strong and brave -not afraid to try
that's when we see who we are - the best of friends and that's when
with all the differences, we're stronger here
now the truth has been discovered, oh yeah
after all we've been through, now it's clear
we're all, right here, to share
one world, one love, one and all, we're a circle together
one world, one heart, one song, now and forever
ooohhhh i never knew that love would find a way to bring together both of us
now inside, i know it's true - cause what we have is meant to be
you let me be the real me - together here is where we belong
one world, one love, one and all, we're a circle together
one world, one heart, one song, now and forever
one world, one love, one and all, we're a circle together
one world, one heart, one song, now and forever
we're a circle together, now and forever, one world
MUSIC NOTE: Don't Stop Me Now (Queen / Freddie Mercury)
1. Chorus Group 1
2. Chorus Group 2
3. Town Dancers
4. Minion Dancers
5. Arabic/Chinese Dancers
5. Belly Dancers
Tonight we’ve gone and had ourselves a real good time
We feel alive and the world it's turning inside out yeah!
We’re floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop us now don't stop us
'Cause we’re having a good time having a good time
Oh a shooting star leaping through the sky
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7. Grand Vizier
8. Marzavan
9. Genie Caschcasch & Ginny-Me
10. Fairy Danhasch
11. Fairy Perie-Banou
12. Empress & Sultaness
13. Emperor & Sultan
14. Princess Badoura
15. Prince Zaman
FULL CAST to 3 rows - 2 bows
All throw Good Night kiss – Wave then exit
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
Yeah a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
We're gonna go go go
There's no stopping us
Havin a great time yeah!
We don’t wanna leave
That's why we do this each and every night
Keep you smilin with delight
We wanna make some super entertainment for you
Don't stop us now we’re having such a good time
We’re having a ball don't stop us now
If you wanna have a good time give us a call
Don't stop us (We’re having a good time)
Don't stop us (Yes having a good time)
We don't want to stop at all
Like a rocket ship on our way to Mars
On a collision course
A satellite - out of control
Or a slot machine ready to reload
Like an atom bomb about to
Oh oh oh oh oh explode
Havin a great time yeah!
We don’t wanna leave
That's why we do this each and every night
Keep you smilin with delight
We wanna make some super entertainment for you
Don't stop us now we’re having such a good time
We’re having a ball don't stop us now
If you wanna have a good time give us a call
Don't stop us (We’re having a good time)
Don't stop us (Yes having a good time)
We don't wanna stop at all
La la la la laaaa
La la la la
La la laa laa laa laaa
La la laa la la la la la laaa hey!!