Lesson Five

During today's lesson, I learnt the song 'Zero to Hero', the dance to 'Savages', and 'You got a friend in me'. 

Song - Zero to Hero

JIMINY

Bless my soul
Walt was on a roll!
Person of the week in U.S.A opinion polls...

PINOCCHIO
What a pro!

JIMINY
Walt put on a show!
Point him at a desk and you're talking CEO!

PINOCCHIO

He was a no one

ENSEMBLE GROUP 1
A zero, zero

PINOCCHIO
Now he's a genius,

PINOCCHIO and ENSEMBLE GROUP 2
He's a hero!

JIMINY
Here was a kid with his act down pat

ALL
From zero to hero in no time flat
Zero to hero...

JIMINY and PINOCCHIO

just like that!

Walt re-enters with Lillian and walks around the crowd shaking people’s hands, a group of young girls faint with excitement when he gets to them.

WALT

When I smile
The girls go wild with

GIRLS
oohs and aahs!

DOPEY
They slapped his face
on every vase-

Scolds Dopey for pronouncing vase incorrectly.

GRUMPY
-on every 'Vase'!

HAPPY

From appearance fees and royalties
Our Walt had cash to burn

BASHFUL
Now nouveau rich and famous

SLEEPY

He could tell you

What your hard work earns!

ALL
Say amen,
There he goes again!

HAPPY
Sweet-

GRUMPY

I don't believe it!

DOC
And he'll always lend a hand!

ALL

Folks lined up
Just to see his work

LILLIAN

And this perfect package
knows the way to make me smirk...

WORKERS

Disney, he comes he,
Sees, he conquers
Really, the crowds are
Going bonkers!
He showed his family brains, and love

ad. JIMINY and PINOCCHIO

From zero to hero, heavens above!

ad. FAMILY

Zero to hero and who'da thunk?

The Vicar, now standing on the rostra becomes a conductor for the frenzied crowd below, gospel style, people clapping their hands enthusiastically.

VICAR
Who put the 'mate' in animator?

ALL
Walt Disney!

VICAR
Who is the world’s best dream creator?

ALL
Walt Disney!

JIMINY

Is he bold?

ALL
Nobody braver!

PINOCCHIO
Is he sweet?

ALL
Our favourite flavour!

LILLIAN and STOKOWSKI
Walt Disney! Walt Disney! Walt Disney! Walt Disney! Walt Disney! Walt Disney!

ALL

Bless my soul
Walt was on a roll-

WALT
Undefeated!

ALL
Riding high...

STOKOWSKI
And the nicest guy!

ALL
...not conceited

JIMINY and PINOCCHIO
He was a nothing'

ALL
A zero, zero...

WORKERS
Now he's a genius

ALL

He's a hero!

He hit the heights at breakneck, speed;
From zero to hero...
Walt is a hero...
Now he's a hero... oohhhh!

WALT
Yes indeed! 

Song - Savages

GERMANY
What can you expect

From all the Jewish brethren?

Their whole disgusting race is like a curse!

They are all over fed,

They're only good when dead,

They're vermin as I said;

And worse!

 UK

They're savages! Savages!

Barely even human

Savages! Savages!

With a fatal flaw!

They’re tearing up the land, which means they must be evil

We now bring the sounds of war!

GERMANY

They're savages! Savages!

Now they've come to test us!

We welcome the sounds of war!

UK

This is what we feared

A second worldwide warzone

The only thing they feel at all is greed

Beneath that blackened hide

There's emptiness inside

I wonder if they even bleed?

They're savages! Savages!

Barely even human

GERMANY

Savages! Savages!

Killers at the core

They're different from us,

which means they can’t be trusted.

We will match the sounds of war!

UK

They're savages! Savages!

Try to lead a good life

But we bring the sounds of war!

GERMANY

Savages! Savages!
Let's get a few men!

UK

Savages! Savages

Now it's up to you men!

BOTH

Savages! Savages!

Barely even human

Now we (bring/welcome) the sounds of war!

Song-'You got a friend in me'

We found a friend in Walt,
We found a friend in Walt,
When the road looks rough ahead
and you're scared by the doubts inside your head,
We just remember what our old pal said;
‘Boy, you've got a friend in me’,
Yeah we found a friend in Walt!

ELIAS and FLORA
If you’re loved by your family,
I’m sure you too will see,
You got troubles and I got 'em too
There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for you,
We stuck together and we saw it through!
'Cause you've got a friend in me

ALL
You've got a friend in me!

Walt appears USC and begins to walk DSC.

WALT
Some other folks might be afraid of dreaming,
I once was too,
You see,
That none of them
Will ever learn, as much as I did,
It's me and you, kid.
And as the years go by

WALT and WORKERS
Our friendship will never die

WALT, WORKERS and ELIAS
You're gonna see it's our destiny...

WALT
You've got a friend in me

WALT, WORKER, ELIAS, FLORA’s and STOKOWSKI
You've got a friend in me,

ALL
You've got a friend in me.

 

Lesson Four

We are now getting closer and closer to the show and over the past few weeks I have become much more confident in my singing and acting. I am very worried about the show as we only have a short amount of time left and I still have not done two out of the three songs I have to sing in it, however, I am now confident with the song 'Circle of Life' and feel I will perform this really well in the show. Although my confidence has grown within acting, I still do not think that I am charactering my character enough and need to put more effort into performing this just as well as my songs. I know my lines now, so I just need to be confident enough to stop using my script on stage; I will give my script to one of my peers the next time we rehearse so that they can be my prompt whilst I'm performing, if I forget my line they can just prompt me with the first word of the line so that it jogs my memory and if I get used to doing this it will make me think more and memorise my lines better.