Script
Audition Central: A Year with Frog and Toad KIDS
Script: Toad
SIDE 1
FROG
Hello, Toad.
TOAD
Hello, Frog.
FROG
How has your winter been?
TOAD
Well, I'm hibernating, so there isn't much to report. This is a very nice dream though.
FROG
Yes, it is. Well, I'm getting ready to wake up, so you better get back to your own dream.
TOAD
Yes, I'd better get back to hibernating. Spring is nearly here.
FROG
Oh, I think it's just around the corner.
SIDE 2
(Toad's alarm clock rings.)
FROG
Toad, your alarm clock is ringing. Wake up. It's spring.
(TOAD bashes the alarm clock. It breaks. The bell stops ringing.)
TOAD
Frog, what time is it? My clock is broken.
FROG
It's ten o'clock.
TOAD
Ten o'clock is my sad time of day.
FROG
Why?
TOAD
Because ten o'clock is when the mail should come.
FROG
And?
TOAD
I have never ever gotten a letter.
FROG
Never?
TOAD
Never ever.
FROG
Will you please excuse me, Toad? There is something I must do.
TOAD
Sure, go ahead Frog.
(FROG crosses to his own house. He sits at a table to write. A group of SNAILS enter.)
SNAILS
Hello, Frog.
FROG
Well, if it isn't my friends, the snails.
SNAILS
What are you doing?
SIDE 3
(The SNAILS slowly make their way across the stage. The scene changes to a riverbank. FROG and TOAD enter. FROG wears a bathing suit; TOAD wears a robe.)
FROG
It certainly is a lovely day for a swim!
TOAD
I want you to turn away until I get into the water.
FROG
Why?
TOAD
Well, because -- I look funny in a bathing suit.
FROG
You do?
TOAD
Trust me.
FROG
Very well.
TOAD
No peeking.
FROG
I won't peek.
(TOAD takes off his robe and slips into the water.)
TOAD
It's safe to look now. I'm in the water.
(TURTLE enters with a lunchbox and settles on the riverbank.)
Oh no.
FROG
What's the matter?
TOAD
Turtle. When I come out of the water, she will see me in my bathing suit. Would you ask her to leave?
FROG
Very well, Toad.
(FROG goes over to TURTLE.)
Turtle, I'm afraid you will have to go away.
TOAD
Why should I?
FROG
Well...
SIDE 4
(TOAD is catapulted into a snowbank. He is momentarily out of view. Then he pops his head up through the snow. FROG runs to him.)
FROG
Toad, that was magnificent!
TOAD
I'm alive.
(He checks to make sure.)
I'm alive!
FROG
Of course you are.
TOAD
I'm so happy.
FROG
Wonderful.
TOAD
And angry!
FROG
Why
TOAD
Frog, you left me all alone.
FROG
I couldn't help it, Toad.
TOAD
You suggested we go sledding! You put us at risk! I will never speak to you again!
(TOAD storms off.)
FROG
But Toad—
SIDE 5
TOAD
Frog is late. Maybe something has happened to him. Something bad. Something terrible. Maybe he is lost in the dark, or stuck at the bottom of a hole, or being chased by a wolf! Frog! Frog! Don't worry, I'll save you!
(TOAD is ready to dash to the rescue. FROG enters with a wrapped gift.)
FROG
Hello, Toad.
TOAD
Frog! You're safe!
(now miffed)
Where have you been?
FROG
I'm sorry to be late, Toad. I was wrapping your gift.
TOAD
For me?
FROG
Yes.
TOAD
Can I open it?
FROG
Of course.
(TOAD tears into the gift.)
TOAD
It's a clock! I needed a clock.
FROG
I know you did, Toad.
TOAD
I'll put it on the mantle.
FROG
This is a very peaceful Christmas Eve.
TOAD
It didn't start out that way.
FROG
I'm sorry I was late.
TOAD
I was very worried you know.