Script

Audition Central: Doctor Dolittle JR.

Script: Madeline Mugg

SIDE 1

MADELINE
The year is 1837. We are in Puddleby-On-The-Marsh.

TOMMY
A fishing village in the west of England.

MADELINE
My name is Madeline Mugg. Maddie for short. I m Irish and I m the local Cats Meat vendor, which means I sell fish and meat scraps for all the cats in Puddleby, and that s how I got to know Doctor Dolittle.

TOMMY
My name is Tommy Stubbins. I m just a kid. But John Dolittle is the most amazing human being I ever met in my entire life!

MADELINE
Doctor Dolittle is the only man in the history of the world who ever learned how to talk to the animals!

TOMMY
He knows everythin there is to know about science, an the sun an the moon an the stars!

MADELINE
He s altogether a marvelous man  and he understands the Irish. He can blarney with the best of us.

TOMMY
Everyone loves Doctor Dolittle. He is far and away the most popular man in Puddleby.

MADELINE
He has his medical practice in a small house just outside the village.



SIDE 2

DOLITTLE
Mind you, Jip seemed perfectly happy with the gout pills. You see, that s the difference between animals and people, Maddie. Animals don t complain!

MADELINE
The truth is, Doctor, you prefer animals to people!

DOLITTLE
Animals are so much nicer than people! I care about animals! That s probably why I m such a terrible people doctor!

(POLYNESIA speaks for the first time.)

POLYNESIA
Then you should be an animal doctor.

DOLITTLE
(thoughtfully)
An animal doctor?

POLYNESIA
Why not? I could bring you hundreds of patients. Mildred was saying just the other day that there isn t a decent animal doctor for miles around!

DOLITTLE
Who s Mildred?

POLYNESIA
Farmer Green s cow.

MADELINE
You mean you spoke to her? Animals can actually talk to one another?

POLYNESIA
Well, of course we can! Do you think we re all dumb?

MADELINE
I  uh  uh  no!! No. I knew that parrots could talk, of course&

POLYNESIA
Parrots are the finest linguists in the animal kingdom. I speak over two thousand languages, including Dodo and Unicorn.

MADELINE
Unicorn?

POLYNESIA
I had a classical education.