INTERACTIVE PUPPET PERFORMANCE TRACKS

“NO-NOAH” 5 min. 34 sec.

FOR USE WITH AXTELL PUPPETS

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WRITTEN BY: STEVE AXTELL & GREG JACKSON

PERFORMED BY: STEVE AXTELL

MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS AND ENGINEERING BY: GREG JACKSON

RECORDED AT: TREEHOUSE PRODUCTIONS AND AXTELL ENTERTAINMENT

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CD TRACK #1: Rehearsal (Includes your practice lines (YOU) that you will perform live.)

CD TRACKS #2-6: Performance: Different voices you can choose for your puppet (Does not include your practice lines - use these tracks to perform live.)

CDTRACK #7 Special FX: (All music and special effects used in the routine so you can use them in live cueing if desired)

PAUSES HAVE BEEN LEFT IN THE RECORDING TO ANTICIPATE AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

YOU CAN MODIFY THE (YOU) LINES TO FIT YOUR PERSONALITY. REWRITE AND BE CREATIVE!

SOUND ADVICE: You can perform this routine by playing the CD on a quality "boom box" portable stereo player in small areas, or over a professional sound system in large areas such as an auditorium or outside. Do not play on a small inexpensive CD player because the sound will distort when you try to play it loudly.

The CD should be played with plenty of volume. Kids will be laughing hard and will miss the routine if it is too quiet, and adults may keep laughter to a minimum for fear of missing parts of the program. The volume of the CD should be set about the same as if you were speaking over a microphone to be heard by the group, or louder.

It is best to have the CD played over a public address system and have the soundman preset the volume level to be compatible with the your microphone level.

Begin your presentation with the puppet in a case or off-stage out of view.

OPENING MUSIC

P Oh, I can’t wait…I can’t wait!

Y What are you so excited about, (name of puppet)?

P I memorized a whole Bible story…a really good one!

Y Why don’t you go ahead and tell us then?

P I will, I will…don’t rush me! A.hem..(clears throat) Our Bible story today is from the Old Testament…It takes place many, many years ago.

Y That’s what ‘old’ means.

P The people in the world mostly had forgotten about God and his laws. That’s not good is it? (looking at you)

Y No.

P Almost everyone was doing really bad things and God was not happy at all about it, was he? (looking at you)

Y No.

P However, there was one man who still loved God and worshiped him. His name was…. Oh…I forgot his name (looking at you). Could you help me?

Y Noah.

P No? Come on…help me. What was his name?

Y Noah.

P What’s wrong with you? I ask you to help me, and you won’t?

Y I am helping you!

P Then tell me what his name is!

Y Noah.

P Come on, help me…..I can’t remember….

Y His name is Noah! …. No-Ah!

P Oh, right! His name is Noah. Why didn’t you say so?! Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Y Go on with the story.

P Okay…this is gonna be good! God loved Noah and his family because they loved Him and they didn’t worship idols like the other people did. I’m telling you, those people were bad, bad, bad!!

Y Oh my!

P One day, God told Noah that because everyone else was so bad, he was going to destroy the earth with…with (looks at you)…. Oh, I forget. Could you remind me?

Y Milk?

P Milk! That’s right! He said He was going to destroy the earth with milk…oh wait a minute, that’s not right.

Y Juice?

P Of course, juice! He said He was going to destroy the earth with juice…no, no, no, no, no, that’s not it.

Y Water?

P That’s right. Water. Why didn’t you say so! Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Y All right, all right…continue please.

P Oh…OK. Then God said He was going to send down rain and make a flood that would cover the entire earth with water.

Y Then what happened?

P God told Noah to build a boat so he and his family could be safe.

(sfx of saws, hammers).

A big boat. …… A REALLY…REALLY…BIG…BOAT!!!

Y That big, huh?

P In fact, it was so big they didn’t even call it a boat….it was called a…..

Y Ark.

P Finally you got one right! Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Y Why did the ark have to be so BIG?

P Because of all the animals! You see, God sent two of every animal to the Ark and Noah led them up the ramp.

There were two Elephants… (sfx – Elephant)

Lions and Tigers…..(sfx – roars)

Two Ducks…..(Quack - quack)

Two Laughing Hienas….(sfx – silly laughing human voices)

Y Okay, okay…We get it …..then what happened?

(lightning and rain SFX) (puppet and you look up).

P Oh no…here it comes… it started raining….

Y Oh wow! (Hold hand or newspaper over heads as if raining or use a pop-open one-handed umbrella.)

(music vamps up)

P It rained and rained and rained and rained….

…and then it rained some more;

It rained and rained and still it rained

And rained until it poured;

It rained and stormed for forty days

It really was a sight;

The water lifted up the ark

‘Cause it was water tight…

Y Very good. Now…

P It rained and rained and rained and rained….

…and then it rained some more;

It rained and rained and still it rained

And rained until it mmmmmmm. (You cover mouth of puppet)

Y Please, go on with the story!

P (speaking) Still coming down, isn’t it?

Y Yes, it is.

P Yeah well, the water kept coming down for 40 days and 40 nights, and everything on the earth died except what was in the ark. But then it stopped! (Rain fx stops)

(sfx – tub drain being pulled)

The water went down and down and the sun came out and dried up the earth again!

(if you are holding an umbrella, set it down now) (sfx – birds chirping)

Y Is that the end of the story?

P No, then something appeared in the sky.

(sfx – magical music – heavenly angelic ahhhhs)

Y (together look from right to left in an arch as if seeing a rainbow, as you both say….)

“The Rainbow!” (music continues to resolve until the end of next phrase)

P God put a rainbow in the sky and promised never again to destroy the earth with a flood.

Y Wow! That was great…thank you.

P Ooh…that was such an exciting story! And that was just in the first book of the

Bible! I can’t wait to read the second book…and the third book…and the fourth book…and the fifth book…and the sixth book... (music begins)

Y (Over the top of his ending dialog) Oh, you are too much! Ha, ha, ha, ha…

CLOSING MUSIC

THE END