Walking with Beasts: The Colossal Safari/Script

PRESHOW
(Guests entered the attraction through an indoor lobby painted in hues of colors, animal skin, and bird feathers. The walls were lined with 20 animal animatronics. The animal animatronics are a white-cheeked gibbon, an Amur Leopard, an ostrich, a scarlet ibis, a king vulture, a red-eyed tree frog, a zebra, an Indian peacock, a white rhino, a scarlet macaw, a harpy eagle, a bald eagle, a peregrine falcon, a great horned owl, a great hornbill, a ring-tailed lemur, a cheetah, a white-tailed deer, a lion, and a blue-footed booby bird.

Guests waited here when a host signaled that it was time to enter the pre-show. At that time, they were ushered through a titanic portal and into a large indoor room lined with more peacock feathers, tiger stripes, and leopard spots.

The indoor pre-show was filled with animal animatronics again and lobby music consists of animal-themed renditions of Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Op. 46, Grieg (Tiger), The Bartered Bride, Polka, JB 1:100, Smetana (Tropical Bird), The Bartered Bride, Dance of the Comedians, JB 1:100, Smetana (Monkey), The Bartered Bride, Furiant, JB 1:100, Smetana (Squirrel), Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Anitra's Dance, Op. 46, Grieg (Fox), Peer Gynt Suite No. 2, Arabian Dance, Op. 55, Grieg (Bear), Carnival of the Animals, Aquarium, Saint Saëns (Sea Turtle, Whale, Dolphin, Fish, Seahorse), Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G, Gigue (Salmon), Arctic Romp, Weisbach (Penguin), Symphony No. 4 in A Major (Italian), 1st Movement, Op. 90, Mendelssohn (Elephant), Excerpt from the Norwegian Dance in G Major, Op. 35, No. 3, Grieg (Zebra), Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (New World), 2nd Movement, Op. 95, Dvorak (Giraffe), and Vltava, The Moldau, JB 1:112/2, Smetana (Lion). After the lion's music, The stage is lighted to reveal Tamino. She can be heard singing. Jane has her green vest, a safari hat, and her flower.)

Tamino: (Squawks) Who are you? What are you doing here? (She sniffs the air.) Oh! I know that smell anywhere. There is going to be the four-course feast will come tomorrow after the quiz. (Laughs.) Well, no matter! After all, nobody's perfect. Hmm. Every one of us is connected in the great Circle of Life. You, me, that guy over there with the funny hat. Oh, sorry ma'am. (Laughs.)   So, Sanibonani! Dumelang! Molweni! And welcome, cool off, relax. It's a jungle out there. Now pay close attention. Come, come, to your host Tamino, because Jane is going on a colossal safari with all of you!

Jane: Hey, guys! It's me, Jane! I'm on a safari, but something terrible happened! Oh no. I'm getting ahead of myself. Always do that. (Laughs.) Let me start at the beginning. Ohhh, the winds of change.

Tamino: Ahhh, change is good. Tama Te So, Aso, Ahelahela! (Laughs.)  It is time.

Intro
Tamino: For 160 million years, the dinosaurs ruled this world. While living in their shadows were a group of animals which couldn't have been more different. These were our ancestors - small furry creatures called mammals, clinging to safety wherever they could. But the mammals' time would come. 65 million years ago, volcanic activity started to poison the atmosphere. The last dinosaurs were already living on a sick planet when their nemesis arrived... from space. A meteor 10 kilometers wide slammed into Earth  to mark the end of the reign of dinosaurs. This series is about what happened next. The survivors of the extinction all had one thing in common - their size. Nearly every animal over 10 kilograms had been wiped out. leaving a world of little creatures. Among them were the mammals.

Jane: In our show, you will witness how mammals left behind these small beginnings, and took over the world. In the course of twenty million years, got more and more successful, until they were the biggest, fiercest, and most spectacular animals on the planet. Whatever the climate, whatever the habitat, mammals made it their own. Their great strength was their ability to adapt.

Rafiki: They grew to gigantic sizes. They evolved into powerful killers, like the famous saber-toothed cats. And they even laid claim to the oceans.

(A Basilosaurus splashes at Tamino making Tamino wail louder.)

Jane: Calm down, Tamino! Then, around four million years ago, came mankind's own origins, in a type of ape that came down from the trees, and walked upright. Our story of this epic time finishes just thirty thousand years ago, with the ice ages, when our planet turned cold, and our ancestors hunted in the realm of the mammoth.

Paleogene
(Suddenly, the jungle becomes a forest. Korrina appears running down the seated aisles to the stage.)

Tamino: This is a female Leptictidium. She is a metre long and a common sight in the forests of 50 million years ago. Her kind have survived virtually unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs.

  