Audition Central: The Phantom Tollbooth JR.

Script: Reason

(The NARRATORS exit. RHYME and REASON enter wearing the same costumes they wore when we last saw them. They face the direction where MILO and TOCK will appear.)

REASON

Just a little further! Hurry!

RHYME

You re very near! You re almost here!

(The music fades out as MILO and TOCK enter. THEY are out of breath and seem dazed. They stop and stare at the PRINCESSES in awe.)

REASON

Welcome to the Castle in the Air. We ve been hoping someone would come.

RHYME

To reach this place, afloat in space, you both endured a fearful chase!

MILO

You must be the Princess of Sweet Rhyme!

RHYME

That is true.

(MILO bows awkwardly; she curtsies.) 

And who are you?

MILO

My name is Milo.

TOCK

I m Tock.
(to REASON)
And you must be the Princess of Pure Reason!

REASON

(seriously, but with a twinkle in her eye) 
Based on the evidence, and through the process of elimination, that would be a most logical assumption.

(TOCK bows; she curtsies.)

MILO

We ve come to rescue you.

(Both PRINCESSES are deeply moved.)

RHYME

How ever did you get permission from Azaz and the Mathemagician?

REASON

You must have been wondrously clever!

TOCK

Indeed, he was, Princess.

MILO

(shaking his head sadly)
Well, I don t feel very clever.

(Music begins: the introduction to MILO.) 

Now that we re up here, I don t know how to get us back down without the demons catching us. The truth is... I don t know much about anything. It never seemed to matter before.