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Script
Audition Central: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang JR.
Script: Toymaker
Side 1
CHILD CATCHER
There are children in here. I can smell them.
TOYMAKER
Children in a toy shop? Don't be absurd.
CHILD CATCHER
My nose is never wrong. I can smell their blood and when I find them you will have made your last toy.
(SOLDIER 1 and SOLDIER 2 enter.)
SOLDIER 1
We've found the car - hidden under the bridge.
SOLDIER 2
The Baron wants you back at the castle immediately.
CHILD CATCHER
My nose must have been mistaken. There are no children here.
Side 2
TOYMAKER
Sir, madam, I don't know who you are or what you're doing here, but take my advice and get out of Vulgaria.
POTTS
My father has been kidnapped by the Baron and Baroness. We came to get him out and that's what we're going to do. Please show us the way to the castle.
TOYMAKER
If I don't finish this toy for the Baron's birthday tomorrow he'll have me shot.
POTTS
All right, I'll go myself. Truly, you stay here with Jeremy and Jemima.
TOYMAKER
No, listen. There is a way, a secret way. It's past the hidden children.
TRULY
Children?
TOYMAKER
Those we have managed to hide. They're in the sewers under the castle.
POTTS
Take me there.
TOYMAKER
(to TRULY)
You'll be safe as long as you stay in my shop. The Child Catcher has been here already, he'll be looking elsewhere.
TRULY
Promise me you'll be careful.
Side 3
TOYMAKER
These are our children. The ones we've been able to hide.
(A few HIDDEN CHILDREN rush into the room with leftover food from a banquet in the castle.)
CHILDREN
Food! Food! Food!
TOYMAKER
They run up the drains and steal what food they can from the kitchens.
TOBY
Excuse me, Mr. Toymaker. Have you got any toys?
TOYMAKER
No toys this time, Toby. I've been too busy. It's the Baron's birthday. But listen, that means there'll be lots of leftovers.
MARTA
Someone's coming!
(The HIDDEN CHILDREN hide as TRULY enters.)
POTTS
Truly! What happened? Where are the children... ?
TRULY
They've been taken-
POTTS
What?!
TRULY
By that horrible creature, the Child Catcher. He tricked them-
POTTS
Where are they?
TOYMAKER
They'll be in the castle by now.
TRULY
What are we going to do?
POTTS
We're all going to break into the castle.
TOYMAKER
That's impossible, the children will be caught.
POTTS
Yes, totally impossible if we carry on like this.