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Script
Audition Central: Madagascar – A Musical Adventure JR.
Script: Alex
SIDE 1
ALEX
Surprise!
MARTY
Aaaagh! Alex, don’t interrupt me when I’m daydreaming. When the zebra’s in the zone, leave ’em alone.
ALEX
C’mon, Marty! Can’t a guy drop by to see his best friend? His best buddy? Say hi? Maybe even say, oh I don’t know...
(GLORIA, MELMAN, the LIONESSES and MASON the Chimpanzee enter with a cake.)
GLORIA, MELMAN, LIONESSES, MASON
Happy birthday!!!
MARTY
Aw, you guys...
(The group recites their clearly planned birthday greeting.)
GLORIA
Happy birthday Marty! We made you something sweet.
ALEX
It’s covered in frosting and it’s so good to eat.
MELMAN
Ooh, it’s your tenth birthday, this party is for you.
GLORIA, MELMAN, LIONESSES
Because you act like a monkey and you smell like one too!
MASON
Smell like a monkey?! I say! Stop perpetuating that loathsome stereotype! Uncivilized barbarians!
SIDE 2
GLORIA
I just mentioned Conneticut! I didn’t think he’d run away!
ALEX
I can’t read this thing. Which one of these trains goes to Connecticut?
MELMAN
You know, maybe we should go back to the zoo and let the people handle it.
GLORIA
Will you stop being such a yellow-bellied scaredypants? C’mon! Alex, let’s go!
MELMAN
Hey, I can’t help being yellow, you know. Unless it’s jaundice...
ALEX
Melman, if we tell the people that Marty’s escaped, they’ll be really mad and transfer him to another zoo for good. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you!
GLORIA
Mm-hm. I know that’s right.
ALEX
We gotta bring him back and stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life. I’m gonna ask for directions.
(ALEX approaches the NEWSPAPER MAN.)
Roar.
NEWSPAPER MAN
Aaagghhhh!
(The NEWSPAPER MAN screams and runs off.)
ALEX
What did I say?
GLORIA
I guess they don’t speak the language.
MELMAN
Tourists.
ALEX
I’ll speak slower.
(ALEX approaches the OLD LADY.)
Rooooo...aaaaaaarrrrr.
OLD LADY
Take that!
(The OLD LADY stomps on his foot and hits him in the rear with her purse. Just then the PENGUINS enter, sneaking across the stage.)
ALEX
Ow! Ow! Lady, would you please, ow!
OLD LADY
You’re a bad kitty! Bad kitty!
ALEX
Argh! Lady, what is wrong with you?
OLD LADY
You’re a bad kitty! Bad kitty!
SIDE 3
LEW
You did it! You did it!
LEMURS
You saved us! Saved us!
ALEX
Hi! Yeah, sure. Nice to meet you... squirrels? Are they squirrels?
MELMAN
I think they’re just really full-figured raccoons.
LYNN
You must come with us!
LEE
Meet the king!
MARTY
King of the full-figured raccoons?
LARS
King Julien the 13th!
ALEX
Hey, that sounds really awesome, but you know what? We’re kinda on our way to...
(MAURICE enters.)
LEMURS
Maurice! It’s Maurice!! (etc.)
LEE
(to the ZOOSTERS)
That’s Maurice. He’s King Julien’s adviser and right-hand... lemur!
MELMAN
Oh... they’re lemurs.
MAURICE
Welcome to Madagascar!!
GLORIA
Madagascar?
LEMURS
Madagascar!!
MAURICE
Ahem. Presenting, his royal highness, the illustrious King Julien the 13th... self-proclaimed Lord of the Lemurs, etc., etc., hooray everybody.
(KING JULIEN appears.)
KING JULIEN
Here I am. The King, the head of your honcho. Come out my little lemurs.
SIDE 4
MARTY
Alex?! Come out, Alex! Alex, the boat’s here. We can go home! (ALEX crawls out from behind a rock, where he has been
hiding.)
ALEX
Hungry... Alex hungry...
MARTY
Alex! There you are!
ALEX
Marty? Go away, Marty. I don’t want to hurt you.
MARTY
Snap out of it, Alex, the boat came back! We can get out of here. Go back to civilization. And everything will be just like it used to be.
(ALEX growls. #22 – THUNDER begins. MARTY jumps back.)
ALEX
We can’t be friends! Nature doesn’t want us to be friends, Marty. Now get out of here.
(ALEX retreats. We can still see him, however, as he wrestles with his instincts. MARTY starts to leave, then turns back, determined.)
MARTY
Alex. I ain’t leavin’ you.