Script

Audition Central: Doctor Dolittle JR.

Script: Tommy Stubbins

SIDE 1

MADELINE
The year is 1837. We are in Puddleby-On-The-Marsh.

TOMMY
A fishing village in the west of England.

MADELINE
My name is Madeline Mugg. Maddie for short. I m Irish and I m the local Cats Meat vendor, which means I sell fish and meat scraps for all the cats in Puddleby, and that s how I got to know Doctor Dolittle.

TOMMY
My name is Tommy Stubbins. I m just a kid. But John Dolittle is the most amazing human being I ever met in my entire life!

MADELINE
Doctor Dolittle is the only man in the history of the world who ever learned how to talk to the animals!

TOMMY
He knows everythin there is to know about science, an the sun an the moon an the stars!

MADELINE
He s altogether a marvelous man  and he understands the Irish. He can blarney with the best of us.

TOMMY
Everyone loves Doctor Dolittle. He is far and away the most popular man in Puddleby.

MADELINE
He has his medical practice in a small house just outside the village.



SIDE 2

DAB-DAB
Quack, quack.

DOLITTLE
... it seems he d had a row with his wife, wasn t looking where he was going, and flew straight into the mast of some fishing boat.

TOMMY
You mean he told you all that?

DOLITTLE
Yes...
(administrating to DAB-DAB))
Quack, quack, quack! There we are.

DAB-DAB
Quack, quack, quack.

DOLITTLE
You ll be all right by the morning.

DAB-DAB
Quack, quack, quack.

DOLITTLE
(to DAB-DAB)
Absolutely, I ll get word to your wife.