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Moby Dick - The Chase - First Day |
| The audio is from a live radio show with students from Maude H. Trefethen Elementary, Rye Junior High and Portsmouth Middle School and WUNH Radio of the University of NH. The Moby Dick - The Chase - First Day on-line script matches what the students actually performed. So what you hear and what you read will match. (This is a great way to learn English and to learn how to read.) It is NOT the same as the PDF script. I.E. As usual, our young actors changed a few of their lines while performing. |
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Cast In Order Of Appearance: Announcer ANNOUNCER And now, the Kranky Kids present Moby Dick, Chapter 133, The Chase, First Day. AHAB It’s stanky up here. I smell a whale. Change course so we can get closer to the smell. Daggoo, get everyone on deck to look for the White Whale. DAGGOO Aye, aye Captain Ahab. Here, let me help hoist you up to the top of the main royal mast-head.
AHAB There she blows! There she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It’s Moby Dick. How come none of you nincompoops saw him? TASHTEGO I, Tashtego, one of your harpooners, saw him and I cried out. AHAB But I still beat you to it. Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah. Look, Moby Dick is going to sound. First mate Starbuck, lower three boats for the chase. But you stay on board. STARBUCK Aw shucks, I never get to have any fun. AHAB Be dumb, man! Stand by the braces! Hard down the helm! Brace up! Shiver her! Shiver her! So; well that! Boats! Boats! STARBUCK Huh? AHAB Just hurry up and lower the boats. STARBUCK Oh, okay. Don’t forget to take Fedallah, your Oriental Parsee harpooner. AHAB Right! Quick, you guys, get these boats closer to Moby Dick. ISHMAEL Wow! What a beautiful white whale. AHAB Can it, Ishmael. I say he’s evil and therefore he must die. Besides, if you think I’m ugly with my scarred face and one and a third legs, you should see Moby Dick’s jaw. TASHTEGO Yeah, it’s as deformed as they come. ISHMAEL Look! He’s diving once more! AHAB Sounding, Ishmael. The term is sounding, not diving. ISHMAEL But they mean the same thing. One’s just esoteric nautical jargon. AHAB True. Anyway, we’ll have to wait an hour for him to surface again. TASHTEGO The birds! The birds! AHAB Hey, this is Melville, not Hitchcock. TASHTEGO No, there really is a bunch of white birds. ISHMAEL And they’re surrounding your boat. AHAB Uh, oh. I don’t like the looks of this. I’d better peer over the side. Good grief, Moby Dick is coming up from below and he’s got his mouth wide open. I’d better move the boat out of the way. Fedallah, you Oriental Parsee, switch places with me so I can harpoon him. FEDALLAH Hai. Ee-yoosh. MOBY Those knuckleheads. They think they can spin their little boat and get away? Ha! I, Moby Dick, am gonna eat their boat. AHAB Oh great. Now half the boat is in Moby Dick’s jaws. And talk about bad breath. FEDALLAH Yikes! He’s bitten the boat in two! EVERYONE Run for it! AHAB Uh, crew? We’re on the ocean, remember? EVERYONE Swim for it! MOBY Ptooh! Yuck, what are they making these boats out of? Wood? ISHMAEL What the heck is the whale doing? FEDALLAH A pirouette? ISHMAEL And now he’s circling us. MOBY If I do this fast enough, I’ll be able to flush them down into the ocean. AHAB I feel like I’m desperately trying to stay afloat in a giant toilet. MOBY Bingo, buster. Oh shoot. Here comes their ship, the Pequod, to spoil the fun. Oh well, I might as well swim away. I’ve had my fun for the day. AHAB Thank goodness I’m still alive and so are all five of my men. Even my lucky harpoon didn’t get lost. On with the chase! ISHMAEL We’re pooped. Let’s go back to the ship instead. AHAB Okay. I’ll just pace the deck while we chase Moby Dick with the Pequod. STARBUCK Just look at your boat, Captain Ahab, it’s a mess! This is not a good sign. AHAB Starbuck, you are the most pessimistic guy I know. Now, go away and let me pace the night away in peace.
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