The Play Part 1(Transcript)

It is finally the day where the school musical can be shown. There will be so much people so the set design team prepared mounds of seats and hand sanitzers.

Jenny: Alright, we prepared everything for the play now we already rehearsed so that's good. Now we can all get into your positions because the audience will come at any moment. Go!

Everyone went into their positions as the audience came to the auditorium. Jenny and Kandace gave a speech to them before the play starts.

Jenny: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls...

Jenny and Kandace: Welcome to our first musical, The Prince of Egypt.

Kandace: So our teachers and staff who assigned us to do this play collaborated with the World Health Organisation so that we can donate to hospitals all around the world. Including the countries affected by COVID-19.

Someone coughs in the audience but the directors managed to go on.

Jenny: So this play is called Prince of Egypt, it is based on the book of Exodus years after the story Joseph and his pretty coat.

Kandace: We hope you enjoy the play, please stay seated as the play progresses. Also there will be interval breaks in between some parts for about 55 minutes. Hope you enjoy.

The play started.

Song: Deliver Us from Prince of Egypt

Choir: #Mud! #Sand! #Water! #Straw!#

Blake, Troy, Brad and George: #Faster!#

Choir: #Mud - and lift! #Sand - and pull! #Water - and raise up! #Straw!#

Blake, Troy, Brad and George: #Faster!#

Choir: #With the sting of the whip on my shoulder #With the salt of my sweat on my brow #Elohim, God on high #Can you hear your people cry? #Help us now #This dark hour #Deliver us #Hear our call, deliver us #Lord of all, remember us #Here in this burning sand #Deliver us #There's a land you promised us #Deliver us to the Promised Land

Sheryl: #Yal-di ha-tov veh ha-rach #Al ti-ra veh al tif-chad #My son, I have nothing I can give #But this chance that you may live #I pray we'll meet again #If He will deliver us

Choir: #Deliver us #Hear our prayer #Deliver us #From despair #These years of slavery grow too cruel to stand #Deliver us #There's a land you promised us #Deliver us #Out of bondage, and #Deliver us to the Promised Land#

Sheryl: #Hush now, my baby #Be still, love, don't cry #Sleep as you're rocked by the stream #Sleep and remember my last lullaby #So I'll be with you when you dream #River, o river #Flow gently for me #Such precious cargo you bear #Do you know somewhere he can live free? #River, deliver him there#

The basket with baby Moses in it flowed through dangerous sections of the river until finally ending up in Pharaoh's palace. Miriam was following it. There, Queen Tuya was just bathing Rameses until she notices the basket. Miriam was glad that her baby brother is safe.

Emily: #Brother, you're safe now #And safe may you stay #For I have a prayer just for you #Grow, baby brother #Come back someday #Come and deliver us, too#

Ankit: Mommy!

Alicia: Come, Rameses. We will show Pharaoh your new baby brother, Moses.

Choir: #Deliver us #Send a shepherd to shepherd us #And deliver us to the Promised Land #Deliver us to the Promised Land#

Sheryl: #Deliver us#

Scene cuts years after that. Moses and Rameses are riding Chariots.

Raphael: Ha, ha!

Ankit: Faster, you beasts! You run like mules.

They both continue racing.

Raphael: Hey, Rameses, how'd you like your face carved on a wall?

Ankit: Someday, yes.

Raphael: How about now?

Moses pushes Rameses by screeching the wheel on the wall.

Ankit: You almost killed me!

Raphael: Oh, come on. Where's your sense of fun?

Ankit: Oh, it's fun you want?

Rameses pulls the horses back, then Moses pulls the horses back, then he runs down by a hill.

Ankit: Ohh. Moses?

Moses runs over Rameses, then they both continue racing, then the table vibrates, then breaking a table, then racing down the stairs.

Ankit: Come on, Moses. Admit it. You've always looked up to me.

Raphael: Yes, but it's not much of a view. (laughing) Hyah! Whoo!

The piece lands on the horses, then pulling back.

Man: Hey!

Ankit: Second born, second place!

Raphael: Not for long!

They both continue racing, then racing up the stairs, then the wood floor begins falling down, then turning left, then breaking the wood, then the paint falls down, then the ladder falls down, then drawing a mustache at the bottom of the nose but above the mouth, then the wood breaks the nose by falling into the wood, then they run like a helter-skelter, then the nose falls closer to Moses.

Raphael: Jump!

He jumps away from the wooden floor, breaking it completely, then they run on top, then they laughing, then they slide down by the men with Hotep and Huy, knocking everybody over, then they slide down by sand like a wave of water, then they jump off.

Ankit: You don't think we'll get in trouble for this, do you?

Raphael: No, not a chance.

Pharaoh Seti I holds a striped gold and blue cane called a crook.

Oakley: Why do the gods torment me with such reckless, destructive, blasphemous sons?

Ankit: Father, hear what I...

Oakley: Be still! Pharaoh speaks. I seek to build an empire, and your only thought is to amuse yourselves, by tearing it down. Have I taught you nothing?

Spencer: You mustn't be so hard on yourself, Your Majesty. You're an excellent teacher.

Poe: It's not your fault your sons learned nothing.

Spencer: They learned blasphemy.

Poe: True.

Raphael: Father, the fault is mine. I goaded Rameses on, and so I am responsible.

Oakley: Hmm. Responsible. Do you know the meaning of that word, Rameses?

Ankit: I understand, Father.

Oakley: And do you understand the task for which your birth has destined you? The Ancient Traditions. When I pass into the Next World, then you will be The Morning and Evening Star.

Ankit: One damage temple does not destroy centuries of tradition.

Oakley: But one weak link can break the chain of a mighty dynasty!

Queen Tuya walks to Pharaoh.

Oakley: (sighing) You have my leave to go.

Ankit: Father.

Rameses walks away.

Raphael: Father? You know it was really my fault. Must you be so hard on him?

Oakley: Moses, you will never have to carry a burden like the crown I will pass to Rameses. He must not allow himself to be led astray, not even by you, my son.

Raphael: All he cares about is... is your approval. I know he will live up to your expectations. He only needs the opportunity.

Oakley: Maybe. Maybe so. Go now. I shall see you both tonight.

Raphael walks away, then he starts whistling.

Raphael: Well, that went well.

Ankit: Just go away.

Raphael: Could have been worse.

Ankit: "The weak link in the chain." That's what he called me.

Raphael sighs, then continues sewing.

Raphael: Well, you are rather pathetic.

Ankit: Irresponsible, ignorant of the traditions. He practically accused me of bringing down the dynasty.

Raphael: Yeah, I can see it now. There go the pyramids! (laughing)

Ankit gets down.

Ankit: You can laugh about it!

Raphael: Statues cracking and toppling over. The Nile drying up. Single-handedly, you will manage to bring the greatest kingdom on earth to ruin.

Ankit: Tell me this, Moses. Tell me this. Why is it that every time you start something, I'm the one who ends up in trouble?

The bag falls on Hotep and Huy.

Spencer: Ah, man!

Poe: Oh!

Spencer: Ah! Rameses! You're in trouble, young man!

Poe: Rameses, get down here! I think you owe us an apology.

Spencer: Oh, my new thing! I am so upset!

Raphael: You might as well.

Poe: By the power of Ra, you'll pay for this!

Spencer: We're gonna tell the Pharaoh!

Rameses dumps the wine on Hotep and Huy.

Spencer: Oh, look at me! I'm drenched again!

Raphael: Hey. I figured it out. You know what your problem is, Rameses?

Ankit: What?

Raphael: You care too much.

Ankit: And your problem is, you don't care at all.

Rameses spins the wig.

Raphael: Oh, in that case, I suppose you care a lot more than I do that we're late for the banquet, for example.

They all run.

Ankit: I'm done for. Father will kill me.

Raphael: Don't worry. Nobody will even notice us coming in.

They both get out, then the crowd cheer.

Ankit: "Nobody will even notice."

Queen Tuya walks to Rameses and Moses.

Alicia: Ah, the young princes.

They all hug.

Alicia: Rameses, you were just named prince regent. You are now responsible for overseeing all the temples. I suggest you get over there and thank your father. Apparently, Moses, someone thought he just needed the opportunity.

Raphael: My Lord Pharaoh. I propose that the high priests offer tribute to their new regent.

Oakley: An excellent idea. Hotep! Huy!

Spencer: Huy.

Poe: Hmm?

Spencer: The Midian girl.

Poe: That's a good idea!

Spencer: Go get her. By the power of Ra, we present for your delegation and delight, an exotic apparition stolen from a faraway land.

The camel appears with Tzipporah on its back.

Spencer: We offer you this delicate desert flower.

Hotep pulls Tzipporah out of the camel.

Ankit: Let us inspect this desert flower.

She chomps at Rameses.

Ankit: More like a desert cobra.

Raphael: (laughs) Not much of a snake charmer, are you?

Rameses pushes Young Moses.

Ankit: That's why I give her to you.

Raphael: No, that's generous, but...

Molly: I won't be given to anyone. Especially an arrogant, pampered palace brat!

Ankit: (chuckling) Are you going to let her talk to you like that?

Raphael: You will show the proper respect for a prince of Egypt.

Alicia: But I am showing you all the respect you deserve. None!

Tzipporah starts to whip cracking by fighting.

Raphael: No. Wait! Be still.

Alicia: Untie this rope! I demand you set me free!

Raphael: Be still.

Alicia: Let go!

Raphael: As you wish.

Moses lets go of the rope, then falling backwards in the water, then the crowd laugh.

Ankit: (laughing) You there! Have her dried off, and sent to Prince Moses' chambers. If it pleases you, Father, my first act as regent, is to appoint Moses, as royal chief architect.

The crowd cheer, then Rameses walks away with Tzipporah, being wet, then Young Moses opens the doors.

Raphael: Well, right.

Moses opens the curtain to Huy, being tied up, gasping, then muffled speaking, by the dogs wuffled whining, then gasping, then running while looking down at Tzipporah walking away with a camel.

Alicia: Shh. Come on.

Moses climbs down, then looking at the people walking away.

Raphael: Guards.

Both: Prince Moses.

Raphael: Uh, there's a... a man tied up in my room. Well, look into it.

Both: Right away, sire.

He walks away by looking at a camel with Tzipporah, then walking up.

Molly: Please, I need water. I have a long journey ahead of me.

Emily: May God protect you.

Molly: Thank you. Hut-hut!

Young Moses runs by looking at the camel walking away with Tzipporah, then breaking a glass.

Emily: Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I... Oh, please forgive me. I... I didn't expect to see you here, of all places, at-at-at our door. Mmm, at last!

Raphael: (chuckling) At last?

Emily: Didn't I tell you, Aaron? I knew he would return to us when he was ready.

Aidan: Miriam, do you want us flogged?

Emily: I knew you cared about our freedom.

Aidan: Miriam!

Raphael: Freedom? Why would I care about that?

Emily: Because you're... Well, you're our brother.

Raphael: What?

Emily: They never told you?

Raphael: Who never told me what?

Emily: But you're here. You must know.

Raphael: Be careful, slave!

Aaron grabs Miriam.

Aidan: Oh, my good prince. Um, she's- she's exhausted from the day's work. Uh, not that it was too much. We... We quite enjoyed it. But-but she's confused and knows not to whom she speaks.

Emily: I know to whom I speak, Aaron. I know who you are. And you are not a prince of Egypt.

Aidan: Miriam.

Raphael: What did you say?

Aidan: Your Highness, pay her no heed. C-come, Miriam. May I discuss something with you?

Emily: No, Aaron. No! Please, Moses, you must believe!

Aidan: That's enough.

Emily: You were born of my mother, Yocheved.

Aidan: Stop it.

Emily: You are our brother!

Raphael: Now you go too far. You shall be punished.

Aidan: No! Please, uh, Your Highness. She's ill. She's very ill. We beg your forgiveness. Please, Miriam, let us go.

Emily: No, Aaron. Our mother set you adrift in a basket to save your life!

Raphael: Save my life? From who?

Emily: Ask the man that you call "Father."

Raphael: How dare you?

Emily: God saved you to be our deliverer.

Raphael: Enough of this.

Emily: And you are, Moses. You are the deliverer.

Young Moses grabs Miriam.

Raphael: I said, enough! You will regret this night.

He walks away by Miriam.

Emily: #Hush now, my baby #Be still, love, don't cry #Sleep as you're rocked by the stream #Sleep and remember my last lullaby #So I'll be with you when you dream#

Miriam has tears in her eyes, then Moses runs away, by tripping the man.

Man: Did you see him? It's Moses.

Moses continues running away, then looking at the temple, then he continues running away.

Song: All I Ever Wanted from Prince of Egypt

Raphael #Gleaming in the moonlight #Cool and clean and all I've ever known #All I ever wanted #Sweet perfumes of incense #Graceful rooms of alabaster stone #All I ever wanted #This is my home #With my father, mother, brother #Oh so noble, oh so strong #Now I am home #Here among my trappings and belongings, I belong #And if anybody doubts it #They couldn't be more wrong #I am a sovereign prince of Egypt #A son of a proud history that's shown #Etched on ev'ry wall #Surely this is all I ever wanted #All I ever wanted #All I ever wanted#

He closes the eyes, then opening the eyes on the wall by looking around, then Pharaoh points at Young Moses, then the guards run at Young Moses, running away by a bush, then the guards continue running on a wall, by a woman laying down the stairs, then putting hands out, then knocking the woman, then grabbing a baby, then they take Miriam and the baby, then looking at the guards taking the baby by Miriam, then they all run, by the guards running up the stairs, then the guards run at the wall, the they all walk on the ceiling and the wall, then running up to Miriam and the baby, then putting a basket down, then opening the bushes, then putting a baby in the basket, then closing the top, then flowing on the river, then putting a tear drop, then the guards run at Young Moses, then falling down with babies and crocodiles, then the shadow appears, then getting up, then laying at the wall, then grabbing a torch, looking around, and a wall, then walking in the walls, then gasping at Pharaoh pointing at the baby, with the babies in the water by crocodiles, then putting the torch down.

Oakley: The Hebrews grew too numerous. They might have risen against us.

Raphael: Father, tell me you didn't do this.

Oakley: Moses, sometimes, for the greater good, sacrifices must be made.

Young Moses gets up, then putting a hand on the baby.

Raphael: Sacrifices?

Oakley: Oh, my son. They were only slaves.

He walks backward, then running away, then sitting down, looking at the geese.

Alicia: Moses?

Raphael: Is this where you found me?

Alicia: Moses, please try to understand.

Raphael: So... So everything I thought, everything I am, is a lie.

Alicia: No. You are our son, and we love you.

Raphael: Why did you choose me?

Alicia: We didn't, Moses. The gods did.

Queen Tuya walks down the stairs, then sits down.

Alicia: #This is your home, my son #Here the river brought you #And it's here the river meant #To be your home #Now you know the truth, love #Now forget and be content #When the gods send you a blessing #You don't ask why it was sent#

They both hug. Then Rameses puts scrolls down.

Ankit: Last night, the gods granted me a vision. I'm not merely going to restore this temple, I will make it more grand, more splendid than any other one in Egypt.

The slave whip cracks the man's butt, then walking up, then the men continue pulling, then bringing a bag, then the men continue pulling, then knocking the man.

Man: Get up!

The whip cracks the bag. Then he walks away by knocking the man.

Ankit: Moses! Look. Fate has turned our little misadventure into a great opportunity.

They both walk.

Guard: Get up, old man!

Aidan: Father will be so pleased...

Guard: Put your back into it! Faster!

Aaron continues chopping.

Ankit: This is just the beginning. A gateway will open to an entire new city of white limestone, more dazzling than the sun. And here, a statue of Hapi.

The guard whip cracks the man

Guard: I said, hurry!

Ankit: ...two great column halls.

Emily: Stop it!

Aidan: Miriam, no!

Emily: Somebody's got to stop this!

Aidan: There's nothing we can do.

The guard whip cracks the man, then running by looking at a man with a whip crack hitting him.

Raphael: Stop it. Stop. Stop it! Leave that man alone!

Ankit: Moses!

Moses attacks the guard, who falls down, breaking wood below.

Guard #2: Out of my way. Out of my way. Move! Who did this?

Man: Up there! It's him. Up there.

He pants, then looking at the men, gasping, then running away.

Emily: Moses!

He continues running away, then rolling down, then Rameses grabs Moses.

Ankit: Moses, what's going on? Moses!

He continues running away.

Ankit: Moses! Moses!

Raphael: Let me go!

Ankit: No, wait.

Raphael: You saw what happened. I just killed a man.

Ankit: We can take care of that. I will make it so it never happened.

Raphael: Nothing you can say can change what I've done.

Ankit: I am Egypt! The Morning and The Evening Star! If I say "Day is Night," it will be written, and you will be what I say you are! I say you are innocent.

Raphael: What you say does not matter. You don't understand. I can't stay here any longer.

Ankit: Moses!

Raphael: No! All I've ever known to be true is a lie. I'm not who you think I am.

Ankit: What are you talking about?

Raphael: Go ask the man I once called "Father."

Moses walks away.

Ankit: Moses? Please.

Raphael: Good-bye, brother.

Moses walks away.

Ankit: Moses! Moses!

He continues running away, by desert, then walking down, by wind, canyon, on top, then crawling, by rocks, sun, then tripping on the ground, ripping a sandal, then grabbing the sandal, being torn, throwing away, then taking the necklace off, then taking the rings off, looking at the ring, then putting the ring back on, then taking the wig off, then throws the wig on the ground by the wind on Moses, with the hair on top of the desert, with the camel walking under Young Moses, then sniffing, then grabbing the head, biting the hair, then spitting at Young Moses, with the camel walking away, shaking the bag. Moses is getting out of the desert wind.

Raphael: Hey, wait. Please.

He continues dragging himself on the ground, then he continues dragging on the ground, by sheep, then hits a well, then putting the face in the water, all wet, then the sheep drops water out.

Girl: What are you doing? Help! Let our sheep drink! Leave us alone! Get away! Stop it! My father's the high priest of Midian. You're going to be in big trouble.

Raphael: Hey, you. Aren't these your camels? Hut-hut!

Man: No, no! No, no!

They both run to get the camels,

Man: Wait! Wait, stop!

He lays on the ground, nut falls into the well, then they all try to get Young Moses back up.

Molly: What are you girls doing?

Boy: We're trying to get the funny man out of the well.

Molly: Trying to get the funny man out of the well. Well, that's one I've never heard before. (gasping) Oh, my. Oh, uh, don't worry down there! Uh, we'll get you out. Hold on!

They all pull Young Moses back up.

Molly: You.

Raphael: Huh?

Tzipporah lets go of the well, falling in as retribution for what happened then walks away.

Girl: That's why papa says she'll never get married.

They all wash Young Moses.

Raphael: You don't have to do this. Ladies, please, I'm really... I'm really quite... No, not there, please. (laughing) That tickles. Ladies, you've cleaned every inch of me. Whoa, I... I was wrong.

The kids laugh.

Thaiyo: Let me through. Let me through. I want to see him. Ah! You are most welcome. You should not be a stranger in this land. You have been sent as a blessing. And, tonight, you shall be my honored guest.

Molly: My father, Jethro, high priest of Midian.

He walks outside of the tent, then looking at a fire.

Girl: Psst. Sit with me.

Raphael: Um, all right.

Girl: Psst. Not yet.

Raphael: Oh, sorry.

Thaiyo: My children, let us give thanks for this bountiful food. [pets the boy] And let us also give thanks for the presence of this brave, young man whom we here tonight.

Raphael: Please, sir, I wish you wouldn't. I've done nothing in my life worth honoring.

Thaiyo: First, you rescue Tzipporah from Egypt, then you defend my younger daughters from brigands. You think that is nothing? It seems you do not know what is worthy of honor.

Song: Through Heaven's Eyes from Moses

Thaiyo: #A single thread in a tapestry #Though its color brightly shine #Can never see its purpose #In the pattern of the grand design #And the stone that sits on the very top #Of the mountain's mighty face #Does it think it's more important #Than the stones that form the base? #So how can you see what your life is worth #Or where your value lies? #You can never see through the eyes of man #You must look at your life #Look at your life through Heaven's eyes

Choir: #Ai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Ai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Ai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Ai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai

Thaiyo: #A lake of gold in the desert sand #Is less than a cool fresh spring #And to one lost sheep, a shepherd boy #Is greater than the richest king #If a man lose ev'rything he owns #Has he truly lost his worth? #Or is it the beginning #Of a new and brighter birth? #So how do you measure the worth of a man? #In wealth or strength or size? #In how much he gained or how much he gave? #The answer will come #The answer will come to him who tries #To look at his life through Heaven's eyes #And that's why we share all we have with you #Though there's little to be found #When all you've got is nothing #There's a lot to go around #No life can escape being blown about #By the winds of change and chance #And though you never know all the steps #You must learn to join the dance #You must learn to join the dance#

Choir: #Ai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai-la-lai #Ai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai-la-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai #Lai-le-lai-lai #Lai-lai-lai-lai#

Thaiyo: #So how do you judge what a man is worth? #By what he builds or buys? #You can never see with your eyes on Earth #Look through Heaven's eyes #Look at your life, look at your life #Look at your life through Heaven's eyes#

The play ends but it is an interval break.

Jenny: Alright everyone, intermission break starts now. You may be in the restrooms but please be back by 55 minutes.

After that, Jenny and Kandace checked on everyone who is backstage.

Kandace: How did it go?

Zoe: It went well smoothly.

Reece: I agree, hope we won't screw up on our next part of the play.

Everyone: Laughs