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Script
Audition Central: Disney's The Lion King JR. OLD
Script: Simba
SIDE 1
SIMBA
Isn t this a great place?
NALA
It is beautiful.
SIMBA
And there s lots more you haven t even seen yet.
NALA
Simba, I don t understand. You ve been alive all this time. Why didn t you come back to Pride Rock?
SIMBA
And leave paradise?
NALA
Simba, Scar let the hyenas take over the Pridelands!
SIMBA
What?!?
NALA
Everything s destroyed. There s no food, no water. If we go back together, we can do something about it.
SIMBA
I can t go back.
NALA
Why?
SIMBA
It doesn t matter. Hakuna matata.
NALA
What?
SIMBA
Hakuna matata . It s something I learned out here. Look, sometimes bad things happen and there s nothing you can do about it. So why worry?
NALA
What s happened to you? You re not the Simba I remember.
SIMBA
You re right. I m not. Are you satisfied?!?
NALA
No. Just disappointed.
SIMBA
You know, you re beginning to sound like my father.
NALA
Good! At least one of us does!
SIDE 2
SIMBA
She's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyway? It won't change anything.
(SIMBA sits. The silence is interrupted by an odd little tune.)
RAFIKI
(offstage)
TAMATISO, A SO, A HELELE MA...
(Dances on and taunts SIMBA)
TAMATISO, A SO, A HELELE MA...
SIMBA
Will ya cut it out?
RAFIKI
Can't cut it out. It'll grow right back!
(SIMBA walks away. RAFIKI follows.)
TAMATISO, A SO, A HELELE MA...
TAMATISO, A SO -
SIMBA
Who are you?
RAFIKI
The question is: Who are you?
SIMBA
I thought I knew. Now I'm not so sure.
RAFIKI
I know who you are. You're Mufasa's boy.
SIMBA
You knew my father?
RAFIKI
Correction. I know your father.
SIMBA
I hate to tell you this, but my father died a long time ago.
RAFIKI
Nope. Wrong again! He's alive! I'll show him to you. Shhhh... Look down there.
(SIMBA anxiously, cautiously approaches a pool of water. He looks in and sees the reflection of a lion.)
SIMBA
That's not my father. It's just my reflection.
RAFIKI
No... Look harder...