SIDE 1

MOANA

We were voyagers?

GRAMMA TALA

You better believe it.

(CHIEF ANCESTOR 3 enters.)

CHIEF ANCESTOR 2

We carved massive canoes from mighty trees, and we sailed.

CHIEF ANCESTOR 3

The whole ocean was ours to explore.

CHIEF ANCESTOR 1

Passing on lessons...

CHIEF ANCESTOR 2

... from one navigator...

CHIEF ANCESTOR 3

... to the next.

END

 

SIDE 2

MOANA

Is that story really true, Gramma? About Te Kā's poison reaching Motonui?

GRAMMA TALA

You'll see. One day, the Heart of Te Fiti will be found... by someone who will venture far beyond our reef and save us all.

(CHIEF TUI and SINA enter.)

CHIEF TUI

Mother, what stories are you telling Moana now?

GRAMMA TALA

Oh, hush. You might be the Chief, Son, but I'm still your mother!

(GRAMMA TALA exits.)

MOANA

Dad, what if the answers to Motonui's problems are out there?

(CHIEF TUI and SINA pull MOANA back to the village.) (VILLAGERS re-enter.)

CHIEF TUI

Moana, you are the future of our people. And they are not out in the ocean. They're right here.

SINA

One day soon, they'll all depend on you.

CHIEF TUI

It's time to be who they need you to be.

MOANA

(realizing)

I need to be who they need me to be.

END

 

 

SIDE 3

MOANA

Pua! Hei Hei!

HEI HEI

Hey-hey-hey, Moana!

(PUA looks worried.)

MOANA

What's wrong?

PUA

It's the coconuts. They're black.

MOANA

Black? I've never seen that before.

(GRAMMA TALA enters. MOANA, PUA, and HEI HEI don't notice her.)

HEI HEI

Hey-hey-hey, Moana! Have you ever seen a purple coconut?

MOANA, PUA

No, Hei Hei.

HEI HEI

Okay, just checking.

PUA

(worried)

What could have caused this?

(GRAMMA TALA mysteriously sneaks up to the MOANA, PUA, and HEI HEI.)

GRAMMA TALA

I know why the coconuts are black.

MOANA

Gramma Tala!

PUA, MOANA, HEI HEI

Tell us! / Why?

GRAMMA TALA

You three haven't been listening to my stories.

HEI HEI

No offense Gramma Tala, but your stories are really boring-

PUA

Hei Hei!

HEI HEI

I mean... confusing.

GRAMMA TALA

(holds up a blackened coconut)

Te Kā's poison has finally reached Motunui.

(PUA and HEI HEI scoff, but GRAMMA TALA circles them, her story growing in intensity.)

Te Kā won't stop until every island, and every single one of us, is devoured by the blood-thirsty jaws of inescapable death!

HEI HEI, PUA

(scared)

Aaaahhh!

END

 

SIDE 4

MOANA

Maui? Anyone here? Everything looks so deserted.

(As MOANA rehearses her speech, MAUI enters, unseen.)

"I am Moana of Motunui. You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the Heart of Te Fiti."

(a different approach)

"You will board my boat."

MAUI

Hey, nice boat. Mind if I take it for a little spin? Thanks.

MOANA

Hey! That's mine! Wait... Are you Maui? Shape-shifter? Demigod of the wind and sea? I, am Moana of-

MAUI

Hero of men.

MOANA

What?

MAUI

Maui, shape-shifter, demigod of the wind and sea, hero of men-

MOANA

Uh. I am Mo-

MAUI

Sorry, sorry. Men and women. Maui is a hero to all. I interrupted. From the top...

MOANA

Hold on. I'm here to-

MAUI

Of course, Maui always has time for his fans.

MOANA

I'm not your fan! I'm here 'cause you stole the Heart of Te Fiti! And you will board my boat, sail across the sea, and put it back!

MAUI

Um, it almost sounds like you don't like me, which is impossible 'cause I got stuck here for a thousand years trying to get the heart for you mortals. So what I believe you were trying to say... is thank you.

MOANA

Thank you?

MAUI

You're welcome.

END

 

SIDE 5

TAMATOA

Ooo-hoo-hoo, what have we here?

LEFT CLAW

It's a sparkly...

RIGHT CLAW

Shiny...

TAMATOA

Wait a minute! Eww, it's a human! What are you doing down here? In the Realm of Monsters?

MOANA

(improvising)

I just had to see you for myself.

CLAWS

(menacing)

Because you have a death wish?

MOANA

Uh... no. We mortals have heard of the tale of the crab who became a legend... and I need to know how you... became so... crab... ulous...?

TAMATOA

Are you just trying to get me to talk about myself? Because if you are... I will gladly do so! ... In song form!

END