Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie Page #15

Season #2 Episode #1

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We tell the tale, 'cuz in a whale he nearly was dismembered!

Horns and drums jump in - big band feel. Either curtain behind Twippo or wall itself pulls back to reveal Broadway musical-ish set with fake, 2D pirate ship rocking to beat on fake, 2D waves. Actual pirates are perched atop fake ship.

pirATES

(singing)

Jonah was a prophet!

Twippo

Ooh, ooh!

pirates

But he really never got it!

Twippo

Sad, but true!

PIRATES:

If you've been watching you can spot it!

Twippo

Doodle-ee-doo!

PIRATES:

He did not get the point!

Twippo

Compassion and mercy!

From me to you and you to me!

Exactly what God wants to see!

And yes, that is the point!

pirATES

(singing)

Jonah was a prophet!

Twippo

Ooh, ooh!

pirates

But he really never got it!

Twippo

Sad, but true!

PIRATES:

If you've been watching you can spot it!

Twippo

Doodle-ee-doo!

PIRATES:

He did not get the point!

Twippo, now playing the role of Jonah, jumps up on the pirate ship cutout.

Twippo

Now Jonah set sail

On a pirate ship in a dreadful gale

Wind blows, fake lighting. Pirates takeover narrative as Twippo either falls or flies on a line into the mouth of a fake whale cutout that has been wheeled on stage.

piRATES

Got eaten up by a giant whale

But managed not to be dead.

Twippo sticks his head out of the top of the whale, (blowhole region) to prove he's still alive. Smiles big.

pirATES (cont'd)

You'd think he would learn a lot

From being saved from a awful spot

But the second chance that he had got

He didn't want to be spread!

Whale cutout leaves - maybe pull in Nineveh cutout, or string of Ninevites for Twippo to scowl at. Musical break - little dance time - then set changes to Jonah on hill, under cutout weed. Pirates get melodramatically sorrowful.

piRATES (cont'd)

(weepy)

So poor old Jonah -

Now he's all alone-a!

Pirates raise energy as giant megaphone cutout lowers from above, letting them yell at Jonah on hill.

PIRATES (cont'd)

Gotta use a megaphone-a!

To get it through to his head!

(shouted through megaphone)

Hey!!!

Hill and weed "blow away" from force of shouted 'hey.' Twippo stands and comes forward on stage, no longer playing Jonah.

pirATES (cont'd)

(singing)

Jonah was a prophet!

Twippo

Ooh, ooh!

pirates

But he really never got it!

Twippo

Sad, but true!

PIRATES:

If you've been watching you can spot it!

Twippo

Doodle-ee-doo!

PIRATES:

He did not get the point!

Musical break - seque ways into more intimate spoken part.

Twippo

(spoken)

Now, true, in your life you probably don't ride on a camel

And you probably won't wake up inside a large, aquatic mammal.

But all the same, like Jonah, there is something you can do -

Everyone deserves to get a second chance from you!

Big horn sting, then all sing together...

all

Compassion and mercy!

From me to you and you to me!

Exactly what God wants to see!

And yes, that is the point!

Start "bringing it down." Maybe Twippo starts pulling pirate ship across stage, faking an 'exit.'

pirATES

(softer)

Jonah was a prophet!

Twippo

(softer)

Ooh, ooh!

pirates

But he really never got it!

Twippo

Sad, but true!

pirATES

(even softer)

Jonah was a prophet!

Twippo

Ooh, ooh!

pirates

But he really never got it!

Twippo

Sad, but true!

Stop exit at center-stage - turn and strike a pose.

pirATES

(loud)

Jonah was a prophet!

Big chord - end of song. Crowd goes wild. Voice heard from the foyer...

KhaliL

I beg your pardon. I hate to break up the party, but who needed a tow?

Everyone looks at Khalil.

TwiPPO

Ah... Have we met?

Khalil smiles at camera - cut to black

THE END:

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