Monsters Inc. (Broadway Musical)

Monsters Inc. is a stage adaptation based on the movie of the same name. Unlike the movie, the stage production is a full musical following the movie's events as closely as possible.

Act I
A child goes to sleep until a new Monsters Inc. employee, Thaddeus "Phlegm" Bile sneaks up on the kid to frighten him, only to be just as scared as the kid and end up in serious blunders. The lights turn on, and the kid is revealed to be a robot dummy. Ms. Flint raises the wall and asks the 3 other monsters what went wrong. With no clue, Ms. Flint rewinds the security footage and shows them all that Mr. Bile left the door open before sneaking inside. Suddenly, Mr. Henry Waternoose III appears from the shadows backstage and sings about the dangers of leaving a door open and letting a human child into the factory. He even brings up how toxic, let alone deadly, how human children are [Insert Song Here].

We cut over to Mike and Sulley's apartment room, located at the top of the apartment building they live in. Mike wakes up Sulley and helps him train for the big day, because today, Sulley will break the all-time scare record for Monsters Inc., and produce a big supply of scares for the company [Insert Song Here]. Suddenly, in the middle of their training, a new Monsters. Inc. commercial plays on the TV and Mike (despite the logo covering his face) was impressed with how is turned out.

Mike and Sulley leave their apartment building and head for work. As they do, the townsfolk wish Sulley good luck [Insert song here]. Mike even tries out his new car for Sulley, but it breaks down into pieces.

At Monsters Inc., Mike surprises Ceila Mae, the receptionist at the desk, and wishes her a happy birthday. To help celebrate her birthday, he has them booked for dinner at Harryhausen's. And then later, a monster truck rally. After hitting the locker rooms, and talking to Randall, Mike puts on his hardhat and gets to work loading up a scare canister, and then, the door with the child's information. Jerry announces the scarers coming out, and Sulley, Randall, and a handful of other top scarers slowly march to their co-workers.

Sulley, being the good sport, offers his hand to Randall saying, "Hey, may the best monster win.", only for Randall to ignore Sulley's handshake saying "I plan to.". Jerry counts down from 7 to 1, and the monsters commence running into their doors and scaring children [Insert song here]. Jerry tells Mr. Waternoose their progress, and just as it looks like Randall beat the all-time scare record, Sulley still came out on top, overriding Randall's scare results [Insert reprise here].

Charlie notices a sock stuck to his co-worker, George's back and yells "23-19! We have a 23-19!". Jerry sounds the alarm, and the CDA come in to remove the sock and sanitize George. With the monsters on coffee break, Mr. Waternoose talks to Sulley about how important Monsters Inc. is after seeing that whole incident (Remember, it's been under the Waternoose family name for three generations). And if they keep losing money, his company could go bankrupt [Insert song here]. Mr. Waternoose offers Sulley an opportunity to help train the new recruits to scare better, which Sulley easily accepts by showing him the "Waternoose jump-and-growl" scare technique.

After work is over, Mike bumps into Roz, who warns him about how his paperwork is due tomorrow. Conflicted, he doesn't know how to tell Celia the news, but Sulley makes an excuse so Mike can still go out on his date with Celia. While covering for Mike by helping find his scare report, he finds a white door with purple flowers that someone forgot to remove, not to mention, someone forgot to turn it off. At first, nobody was in the in the bedroom, but Sulley hears his tail thumping, only to look behind him and see Boo lifting his tail and dropping. Much to the horror of seeing her, Sulley stuffs her in a bag, and runs outside to search for Mike.

At Harryhausen's, just before dinner is served for the happy couple, Mike steps up to the karaoke bar and sings a powerful love song about how he feels about his girlfriend, which shows a fantasy of how they met after the events of "Monsters University" [Insert song here].

Celia was moved by the song, until suddenly, Sulley arrives to warn Mike about how there was a door left behind, and he saw Randall working late. Mike theorizes Randall must be trying to boost his numbers by rigging his score. Sulley tries to show Mike Boo, but Boo walks around, frightening the other monsters inside. The CDA arrive and take Celia away. Mike tries to intervene, but Sulley pulls him away and take him and Boo home.

Meanwhile, the residents of Monstropolis explain what the kid was like [Insert song here]. Back at the apartment building, Sulley and Mike try to avoid Boo as she destroys their room. Sulley throws Mike's stuffed teddy bear, Little Mikey, to Boo and she immediately runs for it. Mike, horrified to see Boo cuddling the toy that keeps him relaxed at night when he gets scared, takes it back, making Boo cry. Boo's cries make the power faulty, and Sulley tries to calm her down, only for Mike to somehow get hurt, causing Boo to laugh and cause a power outage.

With no power, Mike starts getting all caught up in drawing blue-prints for how to get rid of Boo without any monsters noticing. His first plan involves digging a tunnel under the city with spoons. His other plans involve putting her in a hot air balloon (which would be too expensive), launching her from a giant slingshot (which would still expose the kid, and could even be considered too dangerous), and stuffing her into a giant wooden horse (which would be "too Greek").

Noticing how tired Boo is, Sulley lures her to the bedroom, only for Boo to end up in in Sulley's bed. Boo is too scared to go to sleep, and shows Sulley her drawing of Randall. Sulley realizes Randall summoned that door and was trying to scare her, giving us the understanding of why she went into the Monster World in the first place. Sulley decides to sing a lullaby his mother taught him whenever he was scared [Insert song here].

Act II
The next morning, Mike couldn't sleep at all due to being lost in his ideas. Despite Mike being short with him, Sulley explains that the best plan they can do is sneak into Monsters Inc. and send her back to her door. If they do, it'll be like nothing happened. While Mike refuses, he inadvertently gave Sulley an idea to dress up Boo as a monster with a mop top (for the head), a couple of lights (for the eyes), and the fabric from Sulley's chair (for the skin) [Insert song here].

Mike refuses to believe the materials won't fool anyone, and should any monster know they have the kid, they could be banished to the human world like Loch Ness, Bigfoot, and the Abominable Snowman, who used to work in the mail room. Inside the factory, the CDA scatter around, with one of them talking to Mr. Waternoose. Boo grabs the CEO's attention, and Sulley lies that Boo is his cousin's sister's daughter. Mr. Waternoose tells him about the scare demonstration, which Sulley hasn't forgotten about and will see him after lunch.

Mike tells Sulley to stay with Boo in the locker room until he gets a card key. Boo desperately needs to use a toilet, and Sulley sneaks her into one of the stalls. After she flushes the toilet, Boo sneaks up from behind and yells "Boo!" to get Sulley's attention, and he and Boo play for a bit [Insert song here]. Suddenly, they hear Randall's voice and hide. As Randall and Fungus talk, Sulley overhears them talk about "getting a machine up and running". By the time Randall leaves, Sulley pops out and tells Boo the coast is clear, and continue playing hide and seek. Boo hides in a rolling laundry basket, pushed by Needleman and Smitty, who don't know the kid was in there.

Mike urges Roz to give him a card key, but Roz reminds him he didn't do his paperwork last night and closes the window on him. Sulley rushes in, and Mike asks what took him so long, until he notices the kid is gone and smiles. Unfortunately, Sulley runs after the laundry basket just as Celia scolds Mike for ditching her. Randall sees Mike, and snatches him away from Celia, making her confused about what's going on. Randall talks to Mike about the kid, and how her door won't stay in the factory for long [Insert song here].

As Sulley continues searching for Boo, he runs through various rooms [Insert song]. In the middle of her pursuit, she jumps out of the laundry basket just as Smitty and Needleman dump the towels from the locker rooms into the washer. Meanwhile, Mike is searching for Sulley. George and Charlie watch, and George gets pummeled by the CDA after Charlie yells "23-19! We have a 23-19!".

In the halls, Boo bumps into a group of monster kids, and their teacher asks who she is. Boo says "Mike Wazowski!" and the kids say the name while walking down the hallway. During which, Sulley is shown crying, thinking that Boo drowned, even though Mike remarks that it's just wet towels. They suddenly hear Boo and the monster kids shout "Mike Wazowski!", and Boo reunites with Sulley.

Later, Mike takes Sulley and Boo to Boo's door, but as Mike mentions Randall, Boo goes into hiding. After a bit of arguing with Sulley, Mike proves it's safe by going into Boo's room and jumping on her bed until Mike is scooped up into a box. The lunch bell rings, and Sulley and Boo follow Randall to his secret lab.

Randall and Fungus open the box and see Mike instead of Boo. Randall sings to Mike about his motivation ever since Sulley humiliated him in the final scare game during college [Insert song here]. Randall knows Mike didn't make him look bad, but can't deny he was just as bad when he humiliated him and Sulley by sliming them and surrounding them with flowers and plush dolls. Randall introduces the Scream Extractor to him and Fungus turns on the machine, which suddenly stops working. This was because Sulley was smart enough to follow the wires and unplug them. Sulley pulls the switch-a-roo on Randall by putting Fungus in the chair. When Randall comes back after plugging the cord back, he sees Fungus' voice being extracted and turns off the machine.

Thaddeus "Phlegm" Bile sneaks up on the kid with his snake/ninja approach, but Mr. Waternoose opens the wall and call him out. In the middle of his scolding, Sulley gives Boo to Mike, and Sulley tries to tell him about Randall's plot [Insert song here]. But because of Waternoose's constant interrupting, Sulley has no choice but to get the roar over with and then tell him Randall's plot. Unbeknownst to him, Boo was actually watching Sulley roar and cries in fear, causing the power to become faulty as the lights slowly come back on after the trainees cheer.

Boo tries to escape from Sulley, even though he's trying to tell her that wasn't real, but nothing's working. Worst of all, Boo trips, causing her hood to fly open. Mr. Waternoose is shocked, but Mike tells the CEO everything as he picks up Boo. Mr. Waternoose becomes downhearted, he doesn't want to banish his top scarer, but it's the law [Insert song here]. A metal door comes down, and Mr. Waternoose pushes Mike and Sulley into it.

Mike and Sulley end up in a cave full of icicles, and are greeted by the Abominable Snowman, who lives in this icy cave. Mike lashes out at Sulley, telling the Abominable Snowman that Sulley should've listened to his guts, and how none of this would have happened if he didn't meet that kid. Sulley gets an idea to build a sled with the snowman's materials, even with Mike pelting him with snowcones out of anger.

When the yeti leaves to make more snowcones, Mike and Sulley have a pep talk, only for Mike to just tell Sulley he's on his own this time [Insert song here]. After some debating, the snowman came back with more snowcones and Mike takes some as he goes to look for Sulley's tracks in the snow.

At Randall's lab, Fungus is about to extract Boo's voice, only to be rescued by Sulley, who breaks apart the machine, and throws it at Mr. Waternoose, Fungus, and Randall. Randall attacks from everywhere as a means of getting back at Sulley for being better than him. Mike even comes back to apologize and inadvertently throws a snowcone at Randall [Insert song here].

In the middle of their chase, Celia jump attacks Mike and demands an explanation. Through song, Mike tells Celia about the kid and how Randall is right behind them. At first, Celia refuses to believe Mike, but Boo pops up screaming "Mike Wazowski!", much to her horror. Upon realizing Mike was telling the truth, and that is was Randall who ruined their date night, she makes a fake lie over the phone about Randall beating the all-time scare record to buy Sulley and Mike some time.

Mike, Sulley, and Boo ride a door to follow Boo's and they see a large variety of doors. Room by room, they run through each bedroom to get closer to Boo's door as Randall chases after them and snatches Boo. When Sulley and Boo reunite, Boo gets over her fear of Randall and beats him up [Insert song here]. Then, Sulley chokes him and throws him into the human world through a door, ending up in the RV from "A Bug's Life".

Mr. Waternoose summons the door, expecting Sulley, Mike, and Boo, but Mike comes out holding Boo's makeshift monster suit and distracts the CDA. Mr. Waternoose sees Sulley and runs after him and Boo to the simulator room. When it looks like Boo is tucked in, Mr. Waternoose shows up to reprimand Sulley [Insert song here]. After exposing his true colors to kidnap a thousand children and silence anyone to get out of his way, Mr. Waternoose pulls the blanket off, only to see the robot child saying "Goodnight, mom". The wall rises revealing Mike and the CDA, and Mike rewinds the security footage, playing back Mr. Waternoose saying "I'll kidnap a thousand children before I let this company die, and I'll silence anyone who gets in my way!". The CDA agents realize kidnapping humans is against their very way of life and arrests Mr. Waternoose, taking him out of the simulator room.

Roz shows up once more, revealing herself to be the leader of the CDA. Boo comes out of hiding and Sulley tells Roz he wants to send her home. She orders her men to bring a door shredder, but was nice enough to let Sulley and Boo have five minutes.

Sulley enters Boo's room and puts her in bed, and hugs her before he leaves [Insert song here]. With the door shredded to pieces, she tells the staff, "Let's pretend none of this ever happened, gentlemen. And I don't wanna see any paperwork on this". Sulley looks at the remaining piece of Boo's door in sadness, but Mike assures him that they at least had some laughs [Insert song here].

Mike opens his mouth, making it look as if he was gonna scare a boy, but he actually talks into a mic and does a standup routine. While the boy doesn't laugh at first, Mike swallows his microphone and belches, making the kid laugh hysterically. All of Monsters Inc. has changed from scaring to making people laugh [Insert song here].

While Sulley is happy for the new and improved Monsters Inc., which has produced more money due to laughter being 10 times more powerful than screams, Sulley misses Boo. Fortunately, Mike was able to surprise his best friend with Boo's fixed door. Sure, it took a lot of wood, splinters, and scrapes, but it was all worth it. And Boo was able to come see Sulley again.

The curtain call would have the stars sing "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From or So Help Me!".

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MOVIE AND MUSICAL

 * Mike isn't in the bathroom of the locker room when Randall shows up.
 * Mike doesn't try to send Boo through a door filled with yodelers, nor does he sing "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From or So Help Me!" to distract the other workers.
 * Instead of the door to Nepal being out in the blizzard, the door is inside the Abominable Snowman's cave.
 * The Sled scene is removed due to complications.

STAGE LAYOUT
There's this big stage with one sliding wall used for one half of the stage. The wall is useful for scenes inside of Monsters Inc. like the simulator, the scare floor, the locker room, and so much more.

COSTUMING
Some actors playing monsters like Sulley are fully dressed, others like Mike use puppetry.

Cast Album
A cast recording soundtrack for the musical would be available physically and digitally.

Home Media
The show would be available on Disney DVD, Disney Blu-Ray, Disney Ultra HD Blu-Ray, and digital platforms after its run on Broadway. It would also be available to stream on Disney+.