(ADULT) SIMBA: Must be in excellent physical condition and dance and/or move very well.

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1 (ADULT) : A male lion in his late teens early 30 s. Male actor/singer to play the African lion, Simba. This actor must have charm and an urban sensibility as well as a strong pop/rock singing voice. Should be a high baritone/tenor and able to sing to an E5. (Range: B3 E5) Must be in excellent physical condition and dance and/or move very well. Hoping to be as tall or taller than the actress cast as Older Nala. SCENES: Simba and Nala Simba and Rafiki SONG: Endless Night Measures Hakuna Matata Measures (ONLY IF THERE IS TIME!) Check out YouTube Endless Night

2 and Nala tries to convince Simba he is King [The air grew cool and and strolled to a hilltop and watched the sun set.] [Very up. ] Isn't this a great place? It is beautiful. And there s lots more you haven t seen yet. Simba, I don't understand. You've been alive all this time. Why didn't you come back to Pride Rock? [Very casual.] And leave paradise? We needed you! I needed you. Well, I needed to... get out on my own. Live my own life. And I did! And it's great! [He sounds almost as if trying to convince himself as well as. decides to tell how SCAR and his HYENA hoodlums have laid waste to the Pridelands.] Simba, Scar let the hyenas take over the Pride Lands. [The worst thing he can imagine. Shock. Let it sink in.] What?! Everything's destroyed. There's no food! Nno water. If we go back together, we can do something about it. I can't go back.

3 [ starts to exit. goes to him.] Why? (Louder.) You wouldn't understand. What wouldn't I understand? (Hastily.) No, no, no... It doesn't matter. Hakuna Matata. (Confused.) What?! Hakuna MATATA. It's something that I learned out here. Look, sometimes bad things happen... (Interrupting.) Simba! (Driving the point home, irritated.)...and there's nothing you can do about it. So why worry? ( turns away from, but walks back up to him. She couldn t understand how MUFASA s son would turn his back on his Pride.) What s happened to you? You re not the Simba I remember. You re right! I m not. Are you satisfied?!?! No. Just disappointed.

4 You know, you re beginning to sound like my father. (Walking away again.) Well, good! At least one of us does! ( is obviously cut by the comment about his father; he tears into with his words.) (Angry.) Listen, you think you can just show up here and tell me how to live my life?! You don't even know what really happened! [ turns and leaves.] (Pleading.) I would if you would just tell me! Forget it! Fine! ( storms off.) (They exit in opposite directions.)

5 and - REFLECTING POOL [Night has fully set in. couldn t sleep. Confused by the new brought kept going around in his head. He decided a walk might make him drowsy so he sought solitude and guidance that the stars might bring. The jungle was unusually quiet. He strolled for a few minutes, then stretched out on a flat rock and gazed at the sky. It was packed with stars.) Aw, she's wrong. I can't go back. What would it prove, anyway? It won't change anything. You can't change the past. [ sits quietly. Soon his reverie is interrupted by an odd little tune. He couldn t tell where it was coming from, but something about the words was sad and disturbing.] [Offstage] WE WE NUGU! MI MI APANA! 1 ( is slightly annoyed by the chant and moves away in search of solitude., elated by the sight of, follows him. lies down., now in a nearby tree, starts his chant again.) WE WE NUGU! MI MI APANA! Come on, will you cut it out? (, laughing, is doing random acrobatics in the trees nearby.) Can't cut it out. It'll grow right back! (Laughs. starts walking away. follows.) Creepy little monkey. QUIET! (Quietly.) 1 This is a Swahili playground rhyme which translates to 'Thank you very much (squash banana), you're a baboon and I'm not!'... [T]he chant was heard by the filmmakers on their research trip to Kenya.

6 Would you stop following me? (High-pitched.) Ohhhhhhhhhhh (Jabbering quietly, then sings loudly.) Who are you? (Approaches, right in his face.) The question is: Whooo... are you? (Startled, then sighing.) I thought I knew. Now I'm not so sure. Well, I do know who you are. Shh. Come here. It's a secret. ear.) (She pulls 'S head over to whisper into his ear. She starts her chant into 'S WE WE NUGU! MI MI APANA! Enough already! What's that supposed to mean, anyway? It means you are a baboon, and I am not. ( laughs.) (Moving away.) I think... you're a little confused. [ begins to exit. s finger points in the nose.] Wrong! I'm not the one who's confused; you don't even know who you are.

7 (Irritated, sarcastic.) Oh, and I suppose you know? Sure do; you're Mufasa's boy. [ is in shock, hardly believing what he just heard. The old baboon knew his father? scoots away. Now had to stop her before she got away.] You knew my father? CORRECTIONnnnnAH! I know your father. [Feeling sorry he had to give such bad news to the old baboon.] I hate to tell you thinks, but my father died a long time ago. Nope. Wrong again! Ha, heh, heh! He's alive! [ walks toward a thick set of underbrush (JUNGLE FLORA), calling back to.] Come, I'll show him to you. You follow old Rafiki. She knows the way. NOTE: Asante Sana (Song pronunciation) Search Youtube: Squash Banana The Lion King, English < >

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