Return to The Wizard of Oz By Katie Johnson Summary The wizard of Oz calls a meeting in his castle after the Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman have been given the gifts they…
Return to The Wizard of Oz
By Katie Johnson
Summary
The wizard of Oz calls a meeting in his castle after the Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman have been given the gifts they desired. The Wizard finds out how these three decided to use their gifts…
Scripture
Matthew 25:14-30
Characters
Narrator
The Wizard of Oz
Scarecrow
Tinman
Lion
Props
3 Chairs
Clothing to represent each character
Script
(Scene: The giant door to the Wizard’s castle. All three stand at the door about to knock.)
Narrator: Far, far away in the land of Oz, there was a great and powerful wizard.
At one time, a Lion, a Scarecrow and a Tinman came to him in need of something only the great wizard could give them. The Wizard gave the Lion the strength of courage, the Scarecrow a brain, and the Tinman a heart. Now, at the wizard’s call, they’ve returned to the magnificent castle.
Lion: (to Scarecrow, stuttering) I… I… I knocked the first time…. YOU knock…
Scarecrow: ME knock? So what happened to that courage thing the Wizard gave you?
Tinman: (to Scarecrow) Come on, give em’ a break.
Lion: YEAH! …. what he said…
Scarecrow: Okay, So since you’ve got such a "great big heart" now, why don’t YOU knock for him?
Tinman: That wizard must’ve only given you HALF a brain.
Scarecrow: I’ve got brain enough to woop your little aluminum …
(The three gather around together about to brawl…)
Wizard: (in a loud booming voice) WHO GOES THERE!!!!!!!!!!????
Scarecrow: (now stuttering) It… it’s us… Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman. We got your message to come here so…
Wizard: ENTER!!!….
(Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman hurriedly rush in as the doors open. It’s dark and they are looking around trying to figure out where to go)
Wizard: SIT!!!…
(Lion, Scarecrow and Tinman notice three chairs and rush over to sit down. Wizard walks in without a word. He begins pacing back and forth in front of them, looking over them)
Scarecrow: (leans over and whispers to Tinman) Your mother was a Ford Pinto!
Wizard: SILENCE!!!.. (pause) Thank you for coming. I have called you here to ask you each a question. (pause) YOU, Tinman… please stand up.
(Tinman clumsily scrambles to his feet in front of the Wizard)
Wizard: Tinman, YOU asked me for a heart. After receiving this heart, tell me… how have you used it?
Tinman: Oh great and most wise of wizards…
Scarecrow: (to Lion whispers) Suckup.
Tinman: As you’ll recall, last spring the Wicked Witch of the West met her demise in a dreadful accident involving a bucket of water. Since that time, the Mortgage Company repossessed her castle and evicted all the flying monkeys. With my new heart of kindness I set up a homeless shelter for dispossessed flying monkeys, and have made provisions for an employment service to find each one a new job.
Wizard: Well done, good and faithful tincan… er.. man. How creatively you used your talent. You may sit. (pause) LION!!…
(Lion scrambles to his feet)
Lion: Yes sir! (salutes)
Wizard: You asked me for the strength of courage… tell me, what have you done with this new boldness…
Lion: (with a puffed and proud chest) Sir Wizard Sir, I have used my gift to lead a rehabilitation group for those poor munchkins who, as a result of the Witches death, feel water will corrode their skin, causing them to melt into a goopy green puddle…. Sir!
Wizard: (slightly confused) I see. (pause) Nice work, you may sit. (pause) Now, SCARECROW…
(Scarecrow proudly stands to his feet and presents himself to the Wizard)
Wizard: And finally, what have YOU done with your newfound wisdom?
Scarecrow: I will have you know that I have found the calculation that proves the exact amount of bricks it took to build the yellow brick road and the precise solution of the mixture used to integrate them together into the pattern that they are at this current time.
Wizard: YOU FOOL!!! You wicked, lazy haystack. I laid those bricks and I can tell everything you’ve just jabbered. You could not even spend your time on a more meaningful problem, like how to increase someone’s height! For this I am taking away your brain and giving it to the Tinman.
(The Tinman stands up excitedly)
And you shall be banished from Oz forever into a land of utter darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth…
Scarecrow: Oh no! You’re not sending me to…
Wizard: YES! PASCO, WASHINGTON!
(Lion and Tinman escort Scarecrow off the stage)
Scarecrow: Noooooooooo!!! Anything but that!!!!
Narrator: And so because he let his gift go to waste, Scarecrow was banished from Oz never to be heard from again. And thus ends our story… Join us next time for "Toto Slays the Giant".
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