Teacherology

Teacherology is a live show featuring teachers.

Act 1
We begin with Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa declare that the school is in need (Prologue).

On Christmas Eve, Teacher Bowden is performing for her gangster boyfriend Macavity Jackson in the 2021 K12 Online School he owns ("Teach Me A Lesson"). She is overjoyed as she believes her boyfriend is going to introduce her to a record producer on that day, although she soon learns that this is not to be. Jackson tells her he cannot join her for Christmas Day, but gives her a coat, which she discovers belonged to his wife. Hurt and frustrated, Mrs. Bowden sings to her backup singers, Heather Duke, Heather Chandler, Heather McNamara, and Veronica, about her dreams of stardom and fame ("Fabulous, Baby!"). She decides to break up with Jackson to fulfill her dreams on her own, but gets to him just in time to see him and his crew shoot Ernie, who they believe has "squealed" about them to the cops.

Horrified, Teacher Bowden runs to a police station and tells the desk chief, Eddie, about what happened. Eddie decides that she needs to go into the witness protection program and sends her to the place he believes Jackson will never find her - a school! When she arrives, Teacher Bowden is horrified to learn from the 2 teachers Rafiki and Alexa that contact with the outside world is limited, and that the two teachers cannot smoke, The two can drink, and wear any of their own clothing.

Teacher Bowden, introduced as "Teacher Rihanna," joins the 10 female 7th, 8th, and 9th grade teachers (Teacher Hawkes, Teacher Facterman, Teacher Freed, Teacher Deel, Teacher Cook, Teacher Naylor, Teacher Mullins, Teacher Ames, Teacher Popko, and Teacher Carter) for dinner and discovers just how much is limited when she is a friend. Deloris asks them about what they are missing, and Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa make her go on a fast.

Back in the zoo, Jackson is frustrated that he cannot find her anywhere. He tells his "crew," Joey, TJ, and Pablo, how he will not stop until he finds and kills her. Teacher Bowden, hungry from the fast, leaves the school and goes to a zoo (like Joey, Pablo, and TJ went to see the seals and sea lions and peacocks.) When Joey, TJ, and Pablo are eating near the sea lion exhibit, she is followed by Teacher Kiara, Teacher Serena, Teacher Kaban, and Teacher Iago who realize what life is like outside the school. Joey almost recognizes her when he gives her money to the lion, the giraffe, the zebra, and the owl HARD! When a bird trainer appears with a scarlet macaw, Joey, TJ, and Pablo try to stop her and get into a fight, giving the five teachers a chance to escape.

At the online high school, Eddie confronts Rihanna, telling her that she needs to be more careful, and Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa informs her that she join the choir the following day. Rihanna storms off, and Eddie, now alone with only the drunks and homeless on the zoo, sings of his desire to be cool, to let go, and impresses her.

The following morning Rihanna attends the choir practice and, upon realizing how bad they are, offers to help them. She replaces Teacher Zazu (aka Squawky), a loud and crankier female teacher with her Zazu puppet, as their leader, and teaches the female teachers how to sing in key and in time ("Raise Your Voice"). That Friday, the choir perform an up-tempo hymn ("Take Me to Heaven (Reprise)") which brings in more people and more donations but leaves Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa really wild.

Act 2
Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa want to get rid of Teacher Rihanna, but Professor George tells her that the audience and teacher's pets who were planning to buy the school love the choir, and have given their money to improve and keep the school. Over the coming weeks, the choir has become incredibly successful and the money from donations has paid for the school to be remodeled and fixed. Professor George has some terrific news: the choir, the audience (That's us!) and teacher's pets has been asked to perform a special closing in the K12 2022 Graduation! However, Jackson and his goons spot Teacher Bowden with the choir on the television. Jackson orders his boys to get into the school and bring Rihanna to him. TJ, Joey, and Pablo discuss how they will do this.

That night, Teacher Rafiki asks her scarlet macaw (Again from Act 1) why the macaw has given her the challenge that is Rihanna, and shortly after, receives a call from Eddie. Meanwhile, Rihanna is approached by the female teachers with their animals including Teacher Simba (a female teacher with her lion costume), Teacher Valerie (a teacher in her Valerie Costume from Pokémon X and Y) and Teacher Korrina (a teacher in her Korrina costume from Pokémon X and Y) when they go to sleep, asking her to lead them praying for their show in the K12 2022 Graduation, which is the following day. Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa arrive and tell Teacher Bowden that the court date for Jackson has moved up to the next day, and she must leave immediately. The other female teachers and their animals overhear and Rihanna is forced to tell them the truth about whom she really is and that she COULD perform with them. But the animals (including squirrel monkeys, a tiger, scarlet ibises, 2 African penguins, a peacock, a cocoi heron, 2 black-necked swans, a helmeted curassow, an orangutan, a horned guan, a hoatzin, a cheetah, 2 giraffes, 3 zebras, 1 elephant, 2 polar bears, a rhinoceros, a hippo, a horse, a cow, a sheep, a pig, a dog, a cat, a donkey, 20 pigeons, a wolf, 2 ostriches, a fruit bat, a chicken, a rooster, a cockatoo, 2 vultures, Timon the Meerkat, Pumbaa the Warthog, Souther the California condor, Sarah the Steller's sea eagle, Andy the Andean Condor, 1 bald eagle, 1 peregrine falcon, 1 giant panda, 2 California sea lions, 2 harbor seals, 2 American crocodiles, 2 wildebeests, 12 hyenas, 9 gazelles, 5 vulturine guineafowl, giant otters, macaws, coatimundis, a ring-tailed lemur, capybaras, a jaguar, an African leopard, and tapir, plus hummingbirds and toucans) can! As Rihanna prepares to leave, Teacher Serena begs to come with her, claiming that she has been inspired to become a stronger person and go after the things she wants ("The Life I Never Led"). Teacher Rihanna, staying at Eddie's house for the night, is initially overjoyed that she will be able to go back to pursuing the career she's dreamed of after testifying against Jackson. However, she realizes that her friends are more important than any fame or money, and decides to return to the school to sing with them.

Meanwhile, Jackson thinks up a new way to get into the school, giving Joey, TJ, and Pablo great attention. Rihanna interrupts a choir rehearsal and is told by Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa that they are endangering the lives of the female teachers and animals and that they must leave. Serena stands with Rihanna, but is interrupted by Rihanna's hyenas and vultures breaking into the church. The teachers scatter, fight, and are able to take down Joey, TJ, and Pablo, but Jackson enters and traps Serena at gunpoint.

Rihanna begs Jackson about the hyenas and vultures being friends instead, but Teacher Rafiki and Teacher Alexa and all the other teachers and animals stand between them. Jackson is about to start firing at them when Eddie enters and arrests Jackson to JAIL! He and Rihanna share a kiss. Teacher Rafiki, Teacher Alexa and Rihanna come to a truce and accept that perhaps they are not so different after all, and the entire company performs a song in the 2022 Graduation in the soccer stadium at Central High School ("Spread the Love Around"). After the curtain call, Rihanna said, "Learning is not hard, learning is EASY!" to the crowd, all the teachers and their animals, the crowd in the stadium, the teachers, and animals laughed loudly from all, including the vultures, the cockatoo, and Souther the California condor!