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The Jungle Book (Re-Layout Script)
The Jungle Book (Re-Layout Script)
(A stage play musical adaptation performed by Grades 1&2 classes Boys Section
of Al Faris International School)
CAST
Lead Cast
Mowgli – the baby boy lost and abandoned in the jungle
Shere Kahn – the tiger leader who decides not to welcome Mowgli in the jungle
Bagheera – the panther who guides Mowgli to the safety of the man village
Kaa – the snake who lulls Mowgli into a deep sleep then coils around
Mowgli
Colonel Hathi – the leader of the elephants
Baloo – the giant bear who offers Mowgli his philosophy in life
King Louise – the wiley king of the monkeys who wants to learn from Mowgli
how to be a man
Shan – the young boy who has been hiding in the jungle the whole time
and finally reveals, then offers Mowgli to meet other people in the
village
Group Cast
Group Narrator (one from each group or could be divided by the participants or as a
whole group narration)
1. Wolves 3. Snakes**** 5. Bears**** 7. Vultures
2. Tigers**** 4. Elephants 6. Monkeys
OVERTURE
(Soundtrack: Jungle Prologue)
NARRATION:
Our tale begins deep in the heart of the Jungle. It concerns a baby boy, lost and
abandoned in a boat. A panther named Bagheera one day comes across an abandoned
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boat, in which a small baby is seen. Taking pity on the baby, Bagheera takes it to a
small family of wolves, who adopt the boy. The lost baby boy is raised by wolves, grew
up into a young man-cub, and he is called "Mowgli".
Our dearest Daddies and Mommies, teachers and friends, Al Faris International School
grades one and two of the boys’ section are proud to showcase our talents in a musical
stage play adaptation of the famous “The Jungle Book”!
END OF OVERTURE
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ACT 1 – THE ADOPTION
(Soundtrack: ___________________)
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(A pack of wolves enter and crowd around a basket with a baby in it. Then wolves move
around (in a dance production) and slowly from behind Mowgli (now a young boy)
stands up gradually on a rock.
SHERE KAHN:
(The tiger thrust his head into the narrow entrance of the cave, roars fiercely and
loudly)
GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!
(All wolves compress together and cover Mowgli to protect him.)
FATHER WOLF:
Shere Kahn! It’s Shere kahn!
MOTHER WOLF:
(Mother Wolf hides Mowgli)
What do we do?
FATHER WOLF:
What do you want with us?
SHERE KAHN:
Graarrrrr… Where’s the man cub? I was stalking him. He’s mine. Hand him over.
MOTHER WOLF:
(M-Wolf puts herself between the man cub and the tiger)
How is he yours? He stumbled into our home.
SHERE KAHN:
(Roars angrily)
Grrrraarrrrrr!!!! Enough! Give me the man cub.
MOTHER WOLF:
If you’re hungry go and find some worthy prey, not this young man cub. He is staying
with us.
FATHER WOLF:
Yes, he is. He’s staying with us.
SHERE KAHN:
We’ll see what the rest of the wolves think about you bringing up a man cub.
I’ll go away, but I won’t go far, I’ll be watching and waiting. Let him out of your sight
and he’s mine. Your cute little man cub won’t last long in the jungle. Graarrr!!
(roars and leaves)
(Dance Production of Wolves)
END OF ACT 1
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ACT 2 – THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
(Soundtrack: Kaa the Snake and Trust in Me)
NARRATION:
Shere Kahn, the tiger, decides that Mowgli is no longer welcome in the Jungle. To keep
him out of danger, Bagheera, the panther, plans to guide Mowgli to the safety of the
man village, but Mowgli doesn't want to leave his home. The two settle down for the
night under a coconut tree, but their peaceful night is interrupted by Kaa, the Snake.
Bagheera doesn't notice as Kaa lulls Mowgli into a deep sleep, then wakes up to find
Kaa coiled around Mowgli and chases the snake away.
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(Poem Recitation)
ALL:
Now this is the Law of the Jungle — as old and as true as the sky;
GROUP A:
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper…..
GROUP B:
…..but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
GROUP A:
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk…..
GROUP B:
the Law runneth forward and back —
GROUP A:
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf……
GROUP B:
……and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
ALL:
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf,
And the strength of the Wolf is the Pack!!!
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KAA 1:
Ssss-say now. What have we here?
KAA 2:
Oh, it’s a Man-cub.
KAA 3:
A delicious Man-cub.
MOWGLI:
Who are you?
ALL KAAS:
Why, I am Kaa.
KAA 4:
Sssooooo nice to meet you.
KAA 5:
I’ve been sssssooooo hungry for visitors!
MOWGLI:
Let me go!
KAA 1:
Ssssssssilly Man-cub!
KAA 2:
Don’t you trust me?
MOWGLI:
No!
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(Grade 2 Song Production: Trust in Me)
KAA:
But don’t you understand?
ALL:
I don’t want to hurt you!
I just want to give you a big hug!
Ssss! Ah… Mmm… Trust in me, just in me.
Trust, trust. Just, just. Shut your eyes and trust in me. Ssss!
You can sleep safe and (Ssss! Sleep, sleep.)
sound knowing, I am a- Shhh. knowing I am around.
Slip into silent slumber, Sail on a silver mi-sssss-t slumber, Sail on
A silver mi-sssss-t- Slowly and surely your senses will cease to resist. Shhh!
Sorry. Oh! Ooh! Yum! Trust in me, just in me.
Trust, trust. Just, just. shut your eyes and trust in
Shut your eyes and trust in
Trust in me, just in me. Trust in me!
BAGHEERA:
Hmm? What’s going on? Kaa! Hold it, Kaa!
KAA:
Ooh. My ssssinussses.
BAGHEERA:
Find your dinner somewhere else, you sniveling sneak!
ALL SNAKES:
Sssoo sssorrrry.Ccccrrrrazzzy panther. Thinks he’s sssooo sssmart.
END OF ACT 2
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ACT 3: THE ELEPHANTS’ MARCH
(Soundtrack: Colonel Hathi’s March)
NARRATION:
Mowgli and Bagheera set out sometime after dark. They stay in a tree for the night,
but are disturbed by Kaa, a python with a hypnotic gaze, who tries to hypnotize both
of them, before being pushed out of the tree by Mowgli.
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and the night turned to day.
GROUP A:
Then guess what?
GROUP B:
guess what?
GROUP A:
What indeed?
GROUP B:
What indeed?
ALL:
Mowgli heard… a stampede!
GROUP A:
a stampede?
GROUP B:
a stampede!
ALL:
Mowgli heard…a stampede!
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It’s not your jungle!
BAGHEERA:
Hold it! Hold it! I can explain. The Man-cub is with me.
COCONUT TREE:
He’s taking him to the Man village.
HATHI:
To stay?
BAGHEERA:
You have my word.
HATHI:
Good. That’s where he belongs. And remember, an elephant never forgets!
ALL ELEPHANTS:
Yeah, elephants never forget!
HATHI:
Forward…march!
END OF ACT 3
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ACT 4: JOURNEY TO THE MAN VILLAGE
(Soundtrack: Baloo The Bear)
NARRATOR:
As they continue their journey, Bagheera commands Mowgli to follow him without
any more argument. Mowgli sits and pouts on a large boulder, only to discover
that it is the giant beard, “Baloo the Bear”. Baloo offers Mowgli his philosophy on
life, which is quite different from what Bagheera has been teaching. While Baloo
is lost in that swingin' jungle rhythm, a group of shifty-looking monkeys tiptoes
in and kidnaps Mowgli.
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SOLO 1 (BALOO):
Hey man, get off my back!
SOLO 2 (MOWGLI):
Hey, you’re not a rock!
SOLO 3 (BALOO):
Well, now. That’s pretty big talk, little britches.
SOLO 4 (MOWGLI):
I’m warning you. You’re asking for it!
SOLO 5 (BALOO):
You want to fight like a bear?
ALL:
Go ahead, give me a big bear growl. Scare me.
GROUP A:
Rrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!
GROUP B:
We’re talkin’ about a big bear. Right from your toes.
ALL:
Grrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. No, silly. Like this:
GRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
BAGHEERA:
You were supposed to stay right behind me!!!!
MOWGLI:
I’m not hurt.
BALOO:
Let me help you, there…
MOWGLI:
I’m a lot tougher than people think!
BALOO:
Hey! That’s not fair! No, no, now, that—Ooh, you win. You win! Hey, you’re all
right.
What’s your name, kid?
BAGHEERA:
Mowgli. And he’s going to the Man village right now.
BALOO:
Man village? They’ll ruin him. They’ll make a man out of him.
MOWGLI:
Oh, Baloo, I want to stay here with you.
BALOO:
Of course, you do.
BAGHEERA:
And just how do you think he will survive?
Baloo: How will he survive? How will he survive? Why, it’s easy! All you need are
the bare
necessities, right, everybody?
(Song Productions: Bare Necessities)
ALL:
Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities.
Forget about your worries and your strife. I mean the bare necessities, or Mother
Nature’s recipes that bring the bare necessities of life! Wherever I wander,
wherever I roam, I couldn’t be fonder of my big home.
The bees are buzzin’ in the tree to make some honey just for me.
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You look under the rocks and plants and take a glance at the fancy ants, then
maybe try a few.
The bare necessities of life will come to you. They’ll come to you.
END OF ACT 4
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ACT 5: MONKEY BUSINESS
(Soundtrack: I Wanna Be Like You)
NARRATOR:
Looks like they took our jungle friend. The monkeys took our jungle friend!
Bagheera needs to come and help us out. Let’s go to where the monkeys play; so,
we’d better hurry on our way. See what this monkey business is about. What’s it
all about?
(Grade 1 Rap)
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ALL:
Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh! We want to be like you, ooh, ooh!
GROUP A:
We wanna walk like you,
GROUP B:
talk like you,
ALL:
Walk, talk like you, ooh, ooh!
GROUP A:
Ooh, ooh! Ooh, ooh! You see it’s true,
GROUP B:
See it’s true, ooh, ooh!
SOLO 1:
An ape like me, ee-ee, ee-ee!
SOLO 2:
can learn to be hu-oh-oh-man!
SOLO 3:
And me! And me! And me!
ALL:
Can learn to be hu-ooh-ooh-man too…. hu-ooh-ooh-man, hu-ooh-ooh-man too!!
OLD MONKEY:
Presenting…Louie…King of the Monkeys!!!
KING LOUIE:
So, you’re the Man-cub. Crazy.
MOWGLI:
What do you want me for?
KING LOUIE:
Well, cousin, have a banana. How do we explain it, monkey brothers? Now give
us the secret, man-cub; teach us ev’ry rule.
And you can be the master of our how-to-be-a-man-cub school!
(Grade 2 Rap:)
ALL:
You see it’s true hoo, hoo!
GROUP A:
Woo-hoo, you see it’s true!
GROUP B:
It’s true, you see, yee, yee!
ALL:
An ape like me, hee, hee!
GROUP C:
Tweedle-dee dee, ape like me, yeah, yeah!
GROUP D:
can learn to be hu-hoo-man too, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!
ALL:
Can learn to be someone like me, hee, hee, hee, hee!
GROUP A:
Can learn to be, yeah, yeah!
GROUP B:
hu-ooh-ohh –man, can be, tweedle-tweedle, dee!!
GROUP C:
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like someone, like …hu-uh-oh man can be, yeah, oh yeah!
ALL:
Apes like us, can learn to be like hu-oh-oh-man, yo!
ALL:
Now listen closely man-cub.
We’ve got some plans for you!
The choice is clear, we need you here to make our dreams come true.
BALOO:
Man, what a beat!
BALOO:
Will you stop that silly beat business and listen?
BAGHEERA:
Now, you distract that monkey, and I’ll rescue Mowgli. Got that?
KING LOUIE:
Get mad, baby! Hoddle oddle oddle
BALOO:
I gotta have some more of that swingin’ jungle beat! Hit it!!!
MONKEY 1/2:
It’s Baloo the bear!
MONKEY 3/4:
Yeah, that him!
MONKEY 5/6:
How’d that square get in there?!
SHERE KHAN:
(Suddenly appears from behind, roars fiercely and loudly)
GGRRAAARRRRRR!!!
ALL:
Aaaaaaaaah!!!
SHERE KHAN:
So nice to see you, too.
END OF ACT 5
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ACT 6: ESCAPE FROM THE TIGERS
(Soundtrack: King of The Jungle, Eye Of The Tiger, And Roar)
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(Grade 1 Song and Dance Production: King of the Jungle (Shanguy version))
SHERE KHAN:
Now I’m the king of the jungle, not some confounded ape!
TIGER 1:
Observe his claws and from his paws no man-cub can escape.
SHERE KHAN:
I could end this story right now, but that would be such a yawn.
TIGER 2:
It’s much more fun to let him run
SHERE KHAN:
from might me:
ALL:
Shere Khan! Shere Khan! Shere Khan!? Roar!!!
SHERE KHAN:
GGRRAAARRRRR!!(!
TIGER 3:
Now…let’s see. Where can that little Man-cub be?
TIGER 4:
Can he be…here???
TIGER 5:
Surely someone saw something???
SHERE KHAN:
He can’t hide forever, you know. And rest assured, Man-cub,
ALL:
We’ll find you, wherever you are…GRRRAAARRRR!!!!
(All hide behind rocks, bushes and grasses)
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BAGHEERA, BALOO AND MOWGLI:
(Look behind so scared and scream loudly)
Ooohhh nooo!!!
END OF ACT 6
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ACT 7: THE BATTLE
(Soundtrack: Mowgli Runs and That’s What Friends Are For)
ALL GRADE 1:
Search on high…Search on low…
BEES1/2:
What would happen to the
BEES 3/4:
Man-cub without any place to go?
BEES 5/6:
Wherever you wander, wherever you roam,
BEES 7/8
….you couldn’t be fonder of your big home…
ALL:
We are buzzing in the trees to make some honey…just for…Mowgli! Buzz, buzz,
buzz!!!!
MOWGLI:
Hey!
VULTURE 1/2:
Oh, he’s alive after all. Unfortunately.
MOWGLI:
Go ahead, laugh. I don’t care.
VULTURE 3/4:
Aw, come on. What’s wrong?
VULTURE 5/6:
You know, you look like you haven’t got a friend in the world.
MOWGLI:
I haven’t.
VULTURE 7/8:
Hey…who protected you when Shere Khan came looking for you?
ALL VULTURES:
We did! You have lots of friends in the jungle!
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MOWGLI:
Really?
(Song Production: That’s What Friends Are For)
SHERE KHAN:
Ah, you have spirit for one so small. I’m going to close my eyes and count to ten.
It makes the chase more interesting for me…One…Two…
BALOO:
Come on everybody! We can all save Mowgli together!
(The Battle)
BALOO:
I’ll get his tail! And tug like so!
VULTURES:
We’ve got some fruit that we can throw.
BAGHEERA:
We’ve got to put our heads together for the boy we adore: That’s what friends
are for!
BEES:
And with our stings, his eyes we’ll scratch.
ALL:
We’ll get the tiger by the tail and then he’s gonna pay!
BALOO:
Somebody’s got to keep the man-cub out of Shere Khan’s way.
ALL:
We’ll tie him up. He’ll yell and how! We’ll show Shere Khan who’s sorry now, and
then he’ll run out of the forest with a terrified roar…
SHERE KHAN:
Seven, eight, nine, ten! GRRRAAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!
END OF ACT 7
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FINALE: THE CELEBRATION
(Soundtrack: I Wanna Be Like You (Reprise))
NARRATOR:
Shere Khan arrives and attacks Mowgli, but before he can pounce, Baloo appears,
rallying the other jungle creatures into battle. The battle ends with the jungle
creatures victorious and Shere Khan cowering in the distance, humiliated and
defeated. Once again, the jungle is safe.
(Mowgli, Bagheera and Baloo lean on a rock and rest. Shanti with a big jar of
water, walks in singing)
(Song Production: “Shanti’s Song”)
(Mowgli is amazed listening to and seeing Shanti)
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SHANTI:
Hello.
MOWGLI:
Who are you?
SHANTI:
My name is Shanti. I live in the village over the river.
MOWGLI:
You mean… the Man village?
SHANTI:
Is that what you call it here? Well, it’s not just a Man village. There are women
and little girls… and little boys just like you.
BALOO:
Hey, have you been here all the time?
SHANTI:
Sometimes I sneak into the jungle to have an adventure. I saw what
happened…and how brave you were. How brave all of you were…I couldn’t just
sit there and not help out!
SHANTI’S FATHER:
Shanti! Shanti! Where are you? You know you aren’t allowed to play in the
jungle!
SHANTI:
Uh-oh. I’d better go.
MOWGLI:
What does the village look like?
BALOO:
Nothing you need to know about—
BAGHEERA:
Quiet, Baloo.
SHANTI:
Would you like to come with me and see?
BALOO:
Don’t go, little buddy!
BAGHEERA:
Go ahead, Mowgli.
MOWGLI:
Don’t worry, Baloo. I’m just going to go for a little while… okay?
BALOO:
Okay, little buddy.
BAGHEERA:
And Mowgli…
MOWGLI:
Yes?
BAGHEERA:
You may belong in the village…
ALL:
But you’ve always got a home in the jungle!
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I mean the bare necessities, or Mother Nature’s recipes that bring the bare
necessities of life!
Wherever I wander, wherever I roam, I couldn’t be fonder of my big home.
The bees are buzzin’ in the tree to make some honey just for me.
You look under the rocks and plants and take a glance at the fancy ants, then
maybe try a few.
Don’t mind if I do! Yeah! The bare necessities of life will come to you.
ALL GRADE 1:
They’ll come to you.
ALL GRADE 2:
They’ll come to you! They’ll come to you! They’ll come to you. They’ll come to
you!
ALL:
You! They’ll come to you! You! You! You! You! The bare necessities of life! Oh,
yeah!
ALL:
Oh,
ALL GRADE1:
ooh, ooh, ooh! I want to be like you, ooh, ooh!
ALL GRADE 2:
Scoob-e-di doo Shoo-bi-doo-bi-doo-bi-doo Yeah!
ALL:
Yeah! I wana walk like you, talk like you, ooh, ooh, ooh!
You see, it’s true, ooh, ooh! An ape like me, ee, ee can learn
To be like someone like me! Can learn to be like someone like you!
Ooh, ooh, ooh! Scoo-be-di-doo
Shoo-bi-doo-bi-doo-bi-doo can learn to be like someone like me!
Can learn to be like someone like me! Can learn to be like
Someone like… Someone like me (ee-ee) Someone like me (hoohoo)
Someone like me (ha-ha) Someone like me!
CURTAIN CALL
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