The Yellow Boat - Chorus #3 Lines

October 2024

B: Beep, beep, beep, beep

(enter DSL x CSR, face SR, ALL) It began before the beginning.

1: This is a story about…

This story is about…

2: It happened…

Did it happen?

4: This is a story about…

This story is about…

2: Did it happen?

(ALL) It happened.

2: Papa…

(x to stand between B and M, face DS) Mommy…

1: You’re getting so big.

(face B) What did you do in school today?

B: Mom? Dad?

(x to sit in SR chair behind set, face DS)

2: Ninety-six years

(get up and join circle) Eleven months

2: Seventy-nine years

Five months

2: Sixty-seven years

Seven months

2: Thirty-two years

Three months

B: It takes eight years, four months, twenty-nine days… That’s enough!

(end circle DSL, exit DSL on eight years)

4: Yes, it’s a boy. That I’m sure of.
2: Yup, a boy.

(enter DSL and x to parents on That I’m sure of.)

Ooohhhhhhh! He’s so little. I keep forgetting how little they always are.

1: Now don’t wait too long to have a brother or sister for this one…

Is’m’s Mumsy’s and Dadsy’s little itsy bitsy… ooh, look, he’s smiling at me!

F: I think it’s gas…

(stink face, exit USL)

F: Okay, here’s the scoop. I’ll write the story, and you color it! Now, once upon a time…

(enter USL, pop a squat on set)

Hmmmm?

F: Once upon a time… in a… land-kind-of-place, where the palm trees grew… and the sky was painted…

(disapproving look)

F: That’s exactly what I mean, and the trees are painted…
B: Green.

(look impressed)

#?: It’s a mean kind of green, like a scream in a dream, like a…

(move USL? exit USL? idk)

1: Angle?
B: Line!

Curving…

B: Picture of… a tree! A heart! A bow and arrow!

(help arrow fly to behind set SL, stay on chair behind set)

B: Lines and shapes and colors make a picture… of a house with about a million rooms. Roof top, mountain top.

(unfurl mountain SL of set)

B: Lines for a picture of a yellow sun.

(roll poster up and exit USL)

B: Here’s a picture of mom, and she’s singing to me.

(hum offstage)

B: I’m going to the hospital in an ambulance. Just me… and mom, and dad. Big siren! Cars scoot out of the way… fast. Neat! Then… doctors!

(Enter USL, x DSL, stand in corner and angle in toward CS)

M: What? What does that mean?

(speak to 2, not parents) Two pints whole blood.

1: Left pupil, three millimeters. Right pupil, four millimeters. Note.

Check.

1: Irregular.

Highly irregular.

2: From thousands of blood donors. Excuse me. We have to infuse him with the factor!

(x to left of B, operate on baby)

2: He can do anything any other child can, with just a few precautions. Trust me. He’ll have a normal life.

(once Abby moves B, move L cube and exit USL)

B: “Poke.” That’s the signal.

(ALL) Poke, poke, poke!

B: Next day!

(Run in to CS and jump with 1) Tag!

1: You’re it!

(Whine, chase B for 3 circles, catch breath, then run 3 more circles)

(We stop running, B in middle)

(1+3) Pig-pile!!! (Then lay on top of B)

(M rolls me off B)

(Get up, chill on set with 1, push, shove, I’m not touching you!)

M: Where? How? F: Hey, this is America. We shop!

(move to USL of v-shaped cluster of ppl, butt kicks, jumping jacks, toe touches)

Coach: okay, one more lap… move it, move it, move it!

(Jog toward SL, sit cross cross on set, hands in yogi poses)

B: here!

We have no rules. We need no rules. Children should be free. Free to explore, free to find their own limits. Our job is to gently remind them of… consequences. Excuse me. (Stand on chair) JESSICA. Put down that crowbar. And why don’t you think about how AARON might be feeling right now… (get down, walk L and crouch-walk around the set to come out the other side as a new kid, sit USR in front of set)

Teacher: today’s assignment is Me Drawings.

What’s that?

2: I’m brown!

I’m pink!

E: I’m green.

Yucko!

B: No, that’s cool.

It is? Oh.

B: and this is my knee where I had a bleed, and…

I don’t see any blood.

B: I get a shot of Factor 8, and the bleed stops, and then I get a sucker.

(ALL) Yeah!

Teacher: Problem? It’s an opportunity. Welcome to our community.

(ALL) Recess!! (Exit SR, bring crayons, enter USR and lay on blocks)

(I enter USR and lay on blocks with B)

So what do you want to do?

4: I don’t know, what do you want to do?

I don’t know.

B: I have an idea. We can go on the yellow boat. C’mon Eddy!

(Sit up when B stands)

B: load cargo, now.

Are we going or what?

Okay, hoist the sails, hoist the anchor. You’re supposed to say “Aye, aye, Captain.”

(ALL) Aye, aye, Captain! (Stand on chair behind tall blocks) Can I steer??

B: nope, only the captain gets to steer. I stand right here and draw, and steer.

I want to be captain! (Harumph foot stomp)

B: Then draw your own boat!

I can’t draw as good as you!

B: I know. You can be helper. She gets to steer if the captain gets tired.

(Sit like Casey and face front, lean on blocks) Does that ever happen?

B: We can fly! Special hydraulic powered flyers.

Land ho!

B: how do you know?