Script
Audition Central: Madagascar – A Musical Adventure JR.
Script: The Lemurs
SIDE 1
KING JULIEN
Welcome, you cavalcade of weirdos! Please feel free to bask in my glow.
MARTY
Uh. Okay.
KING JULIEN
We thank you for saving the insignificant life of Mort. Don’t be rude, Mort, what do you say?
MORT
I just... I just want... I just want to say thank—
KING JULIEN
Oh, be quiet, Mort. You are so annoying! We also thank you with enormous gratitude for chasing away the Foosa.
(The LEMURS react in fear.)
Foosa.
(The LEMURS react in fear.)
GLORIA
The whoosa?
KING JULIEN
The Fo...
(Before the LEMURS react, KING JULIEN stops them with
a look.)
...oosa.
SIDE 2
LEW
You did it! You did it!
LEMURS
You saved us! Saved us!
ALEX
Hi! Yeah, sure. Nice to meet you... squirrels? Are they squirrels?
MELMAN
I think they’re just really full-figured raccoons.
LYNN
You must come with us!
LEE
Meet the king!
MARTY
King of the full-figured raccoons?
LARS
King Julien the 13th!
ALEX
Hey, that sounds really awesome, but you know what? We’re kinda on our way to...
(MAURICE enters.)
LEMURS
Maurice! It’s Maurice!! (etc.)
LEE
(to the ZOOSTERS)
That’s Maurice. He’s King Julien’s adviser and right-hand... lemur!
MELMAN
Oh... they’re lemurs.
MAURICE
Welcome to Madagascar!!
GLORIA
Madagascar?
LEMURS
Madagascar!!
MAURICE
Ahem. Presenting, his royal highness, the illustrious King Julien the 13th... self-proclaimed Lord of the Lemurs, etc., etc., hooray everybody.
(KING JULIEN appears.)
KING JULIEN
Here I am. The King, the head of your honcho. Come out my little lemurs.
SIDE 3
KING JULIEN
Don’t trouble your humongous heads about it. Tonight you will sleep here with us!
(to the LEMURS)
Take Mr. Alex to the comfiest patch of dirt we own! You’re going to like this.
(The LEMURS lead him a few feet away and set him
down on the ground.)
There! Luxurious dirt, isn’t it? And to make you comfy-cozy, here’s a little ditty my mommy used to lullabye to me—
(sings a capella)
GO TO SLEEPY SLEEP, SLEEPY BABY. DON’T YOU CRY, DON’T YOU WHINE. OR A FOOSA MIGHT HEAR YOU AND TEAR OUT YOUR SPINE.