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Flexible casting from 11-40 students.
Use as many Sky Spirits, Oak Trees, etc. as desired.
One student can easily play several roles if needed. . Note that all
roles can be played by either boys or girls.
This is the first one-third of the script:
CHARACTERS:
Storytellers
Sky Spirits
Coyote
Oak Trees
Rabbits
Foxes
Eagles
Tipi Folk
and a Chorus composed of all students who are not playing roles at the time.
STORYTELLER 1: Once it was winter all the time. Most of the earth was covered with snow, and the animals were cold and hungry.
STORYTELLER 2: The Sky Spirits knew that summer was kept locked up in a bag at the edge of the snow.
STORYTELLER 3: They needed someone to bring summer to the world, and so they turned to Coyote for help.
(We see the COYOTE enter, shivering, walking slowly. After a few moments, from the side of the stage we hear the SKY SPIRITS:)
SKY SPIRITS: Coyote, oh Coyote!
COYOTE: Who's there?
SKY SPIRITS: We are the sky spirits. This eternal winter must end. Will you help us?
COYOTE: What can I do?
SKY SPIRITS: You must steal summer.
COYOTE: Steal summer? I'm tired of being cold, but that sounds hard!
SKY SPIRITS (entering): Yes, but think what great honor you will earn.
Song 1:
SKY SPIRITS:
If you steal summer
Think how famous you will be
You'll be known as clever and smart
You'll turn sneakiness into an art.
COYOTE: I don't know if I can...
SKY SPIRITS:
If you steal summer
Think how honored you will be
You'll be respected for tricks that you play
We guarantee fame is coming your way!
You will be the stuff of legend
You're gonna have such fame
Everyone'll want your autograph
Everyone'll know your name.
CHORUS:
Coyote! Coyote!
SKY SPIRITS: Everyone will sing
Coyote! Coyote!
It's got that certain ring.
Coyote! Coyote!
Everyone will sing
Coyote! Coyote!
It's got that certain ring.
COYOTE: Well, I guess maybe I could...
SKY SPIRITS:
If you steal summer
Think how famous you will be
You'll be known as clever and smart
You'll turn sneakiness into an art.
SKY SPIRITS and CHORUS:
You will be the stuff of legend
You're gonna have such fame
Everyone'll want your autograph
Everyone'll know your name.
Coyote! Coyote!
Everyone will sing
Coyote! Coyote!
It's got that certain ring.
Coyote! Coyote!
Everyone will sing
Coyote! Coyote!
It's got that certain ring.
It's got that certain ring.
COYOTE: Yes, I'll do it! I can't wait to be clever!
SKY SPIRITS: Then you must go to the far edge of the forest. There live the Tipi Folk, the people who keep the summer tied to one of the poles of their tipi. Good luck. They are very clever, and no one has ever been able to steal summer from them. (exit)
COYOTE: I can't wait to try my tricks on them.
OAKS (entering): On who?
COYOTE: Who said that?
OAKS: We did, the oak trees. We're so tired of it being winter all the time. Are you really going to steal summer? Are you that clever? Could it be that we will feel the warm sunshine on our bark?
Song 2
OAKS:
We are old oaks but we're shaking with glee
You won't discover a happier tree
Please steal the summer as fast as you can
Tell us the details of your clever plan.
Tell us the details of your clever plan.
COYOTE (Spoken-trying hard to think): Um...
OAKS (excited): Yeah?
COYOTE: Um...
OAKS: Yeah?
COYOTE (trying to explain): I'm thinking about it.
OAKS (disappointed): Oh.
OAKS:
We are old oaks and we still have some hope
Let's pray coyote here isn't a dope
You bring the sun and then we'll make the shade
Tell us exactly what plans you have made.
Tell us exactly what plans you have made.
COYOTE (still trying hard to think): Um...
OAKS (excited): Yeah?
COYOTE: Um...
OAKS: Yeah?
COYOTE (desperate): Give me some more time.
OAKS (disappointed): Oh.
OAKS and CHORUS:
We are old oaks and things don't look so good
Go ahead chop us down use us for wood
Build a big campfire for all of the folk
Our dreams of summer have gone up in smoke.
Our dreams of summer have gone up in smoke.
(RABBITS, FOXES, and EAGLES enter, all shivering)
RABBITS, FOXES, EAGLES: Why do you look so glum, Coyote?
COYOTE: Oh, hello animals. I'm supposed to steal summer, but I have no idea how. Would you help me?
RABBITS, FOXES, EAGLES: We'd love to help. Will you let us? We're so cold and tired of it being winter all the time. Wouldn't it be great to have summer!
Song 3
RABBITS :
We are white rabbits
We're dreaming of summer
When snow doesn't cover the ground.
Our ears will be flopping
As we go out hopping
For carrots that grow all year 'round.
FOXES:
We are brown foxes
We're dreaming of summer
We'll lie in the sun all we can
We'll sit by the ocean
And pile on the lotion
We'll sip lemonade and get tan.
FOXES and RABBITS:
We can help
We can help
Tell us what to do.
We can help
We can help
We want summer too.
This concludes the first one-third of the script.
