CAT: I didn’t mean to lose it. Honest.
FOX: Honest? Honest? Ugh! Disgusting word. (mocking Him) You didn’t mean to lose it. Ha! Well, the fact
remains that we must have some money. Soon. The sooner the better.
CAT: Because I’m hungry.
FOX: You’re always hungry (Sighs dramatically) You know, I cannot understand – why someone so
handsome and talented and delightful as myself cannot make a suitable living. It’s tragic. How, I ask
you, how can I live in such a style that befits a gentleman of my position and expensive taste. Ah, ‘tis sad.
CAT: (Tugs on FOX’s sleeve) Maybe you ought to get a job.
FOX: A what?
CAT: Well, it was only an idea.
FOX: A job! You mean – work? Every day? With regular hours?
CAT: No, huh?
FOX: A job indeed! What an insult. No one in my family has ever had a job. And I certainly don’t intend to
spoil a perfect record. A job, indeed! (smiles) However, if there’s a way to get something for nothing –
CAT: You’ll get it!
FOX: Right!
CAT: I’m still hungry.
FOX: (as PINOCCHIO appears) Aha! What do my eyes perceive?
CAT: (Looking around) What? Where? Is it something to eat?
FOX: No, tuna breath (points) It’s a puppet! A live puppet! A living, breathing wooden-head. A walking,
talking toothpick!
PINOCCHIO: (Who does not see them) I’m off to school! I can walk and talk and walk and talk and –
CAT: Here he comes!
FOX: Shhh! (as PINOCCHIO passes, the FOX trips him) My dear young man! A thousand pardons, Mr.
ah –
PINOCCHIO: Pinocchio.
SIDE 2: HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE
HARLEQUIN: Oh, beautiful Columbine!
COLUMBINE: What is it you want, foolish Harlequin?
HARLEQUIN: Since you say you cannot care for me –
COLUMBINE: Alas! That is true!
ALL: (Assuming tragic poses) Woe is me!
HARLEQUIN: Perhaps you could grant me just one request.
COLUMBINE: And what is it you wish from me?
HARLEQUIN: I wish to have that rose you carry in your hand.
ALL: (Assuming dramatic poses) Ah!
COLUMBINE: But why?
HARLEQUIN: So that I may remember you always.
ALL: (assuming other dramatic poses) Ah!
COLUMBINE: Oh!
HARLEQUIN: You who has broken my heart –
ALL: (assuming other dramatic poses) Ah!
COLUMBINE: Oh!
HARLEQUIN: Will you let me have the rose, oh Columbine?
COLUMBINE: Oh, my foolish Harlequin -
SIDE 3: PINOCCHIO AND THE BLUE FAIRY
FAIRY: Yes, be a good puppet for Geppetto, and perhaps someday he will have a son after all.
PINOCCHIO: I don’t understand.
FAIRY: Sometimes a puppet who obeys his father and learns to tell the truth wakes up one morning and finds he has become a real boy.
PINOCCHIO: Oh. What is “obey”? What is “tell – tell – the – tell – the-?”
FAIRY: The truth, Pinocchio. Before I go, I will give you two things, which will help you understand. First I
give you a magical nose –
PINOCCHIO: Nose?
FAIRY: (Points to his nose) Nose.
PINOCCHIO: (Delighted) Nose! My nose! Magical nose?
FAIRY: Yes, Pinocchio. It will grow to the size of the falsehoods you tell.
PINOCCHIO: Oh.
FAIRY: Secondly, I leave you someone who will help you learn to be a good puppet.
PINOCCHIO: (looking around) Who? Who? Who?
FAIRY: You’ll see. He will speak to you, in time. Goodbye, Pinocchio. (She gives him a “baby bye-bye”
type of wave)
PINOCCHIO: (Sorry to see her go) Good – bye?
FAIRY: I won’t be far away. I’ll be watching you, little puppet. Goodbye (using same wave as before)
PINOCCHIO: (He waves back to her – except that his wave is reversed; it looks as though he is
waving to himself, since that is how her wave appears to him) Good – bye… (She is
gone, and Pinocchio is growing sleepy. As he falls asleep, he speaks aloud) Pinocchio…
.I am Pinocchio…Pinocchio… (he is asleep)
SIDE 4 – PINOCCHIO AND GEPPETTO
PINOCCHIO: Pinocchio!
GEPPETTO: Very well, Pinocchio it is. Now, I – (He does a large double take and begins to stutter and
stammer.) I – I – I- I – you – you – you c – c – can talk!
PINOCCHIO: (Agrees) Talk.
GEPPETTO: (Overwhelmed) This is wonderful! A miracle! Oh, I’m so happy! You can talk!
PINOCCHIO: Talk. Talk. Talk.
GEPPETTO: (Laughs happily) Yes… (collecting himself somewhat) Well, Pinocchio, let us see if you can
walk.
PINOCCHIO: Walk?
GEPPETTO: I’ll teach you. Here, let me help you off the table. There now. Stand on your own two feet (He
holds PINOCCHIO upright)
PINOCCHIO: (Looks at feet) Two feet.
GEPPETTO: Yes, Two feet.
PINOCCHIO: My own two feet.
GEPPETTO: Now lift one foot in the air. (Shows him)
PINOCCHIO: Up there?
GEPPETTO: (Helps him) Then take a step – forward.
PINOCCHIO: (As he takes the step with him) Forward.
GEPPETTO: Good, Pinocchio. Now lift the other foot and take another step.
PINOCCHIO: (As he does so) Forward!
GEPPETTO: (Guiding him) If you learn to take one step at a time, you will always get where you want to go.
PINOCCHIO: (Taking tentative steps) If – I – learn – to – take – one – step – at – a – time, I will always
get where I want to go! (He has started going faster and stumbles)
GEPPETTO: (Catches him) Be careful, Pinocchio.
PINOCCHIO: (as he walks around the room) Look, Papa! I’m walking!
GEPPETTO: I see!
PINOCCHIO: I’m walking! Look! (He starts going in increasingly faster and faster circles) I can walk
and walk and walk and walk and walk. And I can talk and talk and talk. I can walk and talk
and talk and walk and talk and –
SIDE 5 – PINOCCHIO AND CANDLEWICK
PINOCCHIO: Are you going all by yourselves?
CANDLEWICK: There are more than a hundred boys and girls!
PINOCCHIO: A Hundred!?
CANDLEWICK: And we’re going in a coach!
PINOCCHIO: A coach!
CANDLEWICK: Drawn by a hundred donkeys!
PINOCCHIO: Oh!
CANDLEWICK: Stay a little longer, and you can see us off.
PINOCCHIO: I should go home -
CANDLEWICK: Do what you like. It’s nothing to us.
PINOCCHIO: Wait!
CANDLEWICK: What is it? The coach will be here soon.
PINOCCHIO: No schools?
CANDLEWICK: None.
PINOCCHIO: Or books?
CANDLEWICK: No.
PINOCCHIO: Or teachers?
CANDLEWICK: No.
PINOCCHIO: And you do nothing all day long?
CANDLEWICK: That’s right!
PINOCCHIO: Oh, that sounds wonderful! I’d love to go there!
CANDLEWICK: There’s the coach now!
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