A magnetic, musical manatee (John Legend) tries to convince the Story Pirates to form a marching band, but is he really who he says he is? Featuring two new stories: “Butts,” a song about, well, butts, sung by Broadway star F. Michael Haynie and written by Malachy, a 7 year old from Pennsylvania, and “The Audition,” a story about the trials and tribulations of putting on a brand new musical, written by a 10 year old from Massachusetts named Nora.
Scroll down for the original stories behind the episode!
Illustration by Camila Franklin
Butts
by Malachy, age 7, Pennsylvania
Butts are everywhere
Butts are nowhere
Butts are up
Your underwear
Butts are long
Butts are strong
Butts want to live in Hong Kong
Our adaptation of “Butts” was composed by Jack Mitchell
The Audition
by Nora, age 10. Massachusetts
NARRATOR: Usually stories start with “Once upon a time” and end with “Happily ever after”, but oh, no, this story is different. To set the scene, it was a loud, bustling day in New York City, where we find two writers, Tom.S and Tom.G, hard at work on their new musical, Dogs.
TOM.G: (on the phone) Yeah, I’ll get back to you on that Ronaldo, Ok, yeah, sounds good, bye!
TOM.S: (while pouring coffee) ‘Morning Tom, who was that?(he sips his coffee)
TOM.G: Oh, that was just Ronaldo, from set design, he wants us to make a deadline for the giant dog bone, the one you said should fall on all the dogs’ faces during “Daydreams”.
TOM.S: I forgot about the dog bone! Is he on the phone right now? Tell him to get on that! I’m going to the audit- (Tom.G shuts the door for his phone call) -ions :(
NARRATOR: And so, Tom.S set off for the auditions.
MONTAGE SINGERGUY: (singing in jazz monotone) Montage, we’re doing a montage, until Tom get’s to the auditions, yeah,yeah,yeaaaaaah! And now he’s there!
TOM.S: Here I am at the auditions! Let’s see who's first! I love this part, because they get to sing their own songs! Unlike most thetres I know! (music starts)
AUDITION #1: Your Pa-Pa-Paparazzi!
AUDITION #2: LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
AUDITION #3: (dead silence)
TINA: (feet shuffling) Um… I’m here to sing a song, but I just made it up. Is that okay?
TOM.S: Sure! What’s your name?
TINA: Uh… Tina.
TOM.S: Okay Uh… Tina, whenever you're ready!
TINA: Okay Tina, you got this! (singing) This is remembrance! The feeling that I can’t quite reach, but now I see that thiiis belongs to me! The moment I just walked in I felt it in my bones, but now I see that thiiis is a part of me. (quieter now) And now I see that this is a part of me. Thank you!
TOM.S: Wow! That was great! You got the part!
TINA: Thank you! I can’t wait to be on Broadway!
TOM.S: Oh, you won’t be on the street, it's only 7th ave, but it technically is a Broadway musical! Tom! Get in here!
TOM.G: What!
TOM.S: We found ourselves a Rizzabella!
TOM.G: The lead!?
TOM.S: Yep! Tina over here!
TOM.G: Great! We look forward to working with you!
NARRATOR: The End!
Roll Call Stories
The Strange Green Snow
by Isla, age 9 UK
Drake and Bobby McBobbyson (but we call him Bob for short) are best friends. They were having the
best me of their lives at a sleepover, at Drakes house, when Drake’s mum came in and said “boys, it’s
me to go to bed.”
They fell asleep and woke up to a ginormous fart! “Eeeewww!” they both said at the same me, then
they fell about laughing. Drake gets up and looks out of the window. “Come quickly Bob! It’s snowing,
but the snow is green!” Bob rushes to the window and gasps. He looks at the comic they had been
reading last night called ‘The Day of the Green Snow’.
Drake and Bob decide to go outside to explore. Bob picks up a handful of snow, and to his horror, it
starts wriggling in his hand. “Drake, it’s moving!” he shouts. At that moment, they hear a loud rustling
sound, coming from behind them. They both turn around and they couldn’t believe their eyes.
Standing before them was a big, fat, green snow alien! It turns out, it wasn’t snow at all, it was
actually ny green aliens – and now they were clumping together to make one giant monster alien.
Drake and Bob look at each other and whisper “run!”, and both shoot o running. The monster starts
following them and suddenly they hear an almighty roar. They turn around to look at what’s
happening and see the big giant alien monster eat the house! “Aaaaahhhh!” they shout. They see a
big bush and decide to hide behind it. Bob puts his hand in his pocket and nds the popping candy
that he had put in there yesterday. He had an idea! “Drake, let’s throw the popping candy in to the
monsters mouth”, he said. So they both got their popping candy and threw it in to the big alien
monsters mouth. Then, suddenly, the aliens were popping everywhere – up, down, le right –
everywhere!
The next thing they hear is a li le voice saying “why did you do that?”. Drake and Bob look down and
see lots of li le aliens looking up at them. Bob said “it’s because we don’t want to be eaten by li le
aliens, do we?” The aliens looked sad and said “no, no, no, we’re so sorry. We weren’t trying to eat
you, we were trying to ask you something.” “But why did you eat the house then?” said the boys. “It’s
because when we cough, we eat stu by accident. We’re so sorry” said the aliens. “It’s ok”, said Bob.
“But what did you want to ask us?” “Oh, we wondered if you could help us rebuild our ship?” said the
aliens. “Oh ok”, said Drake, “we’d love to. But rst, please can I have my house back?” The aliens
laughed and said “Yes, of course. Just give us a minute”.
There was a rustling sound again, as all the aliens that were ung everywhere came back to cling on
to the big clump. Then Drake and Bob heard a loud, rumbling sound, followed by the biggest fart
they’d ever heard.
“There’s your house”, said the aliens, with a giggle.
The End
Ghost Pepper
by George, age 5, Massachusetts
There was a ghost who had a house. He went to the beach and saw a man. He said hi but the man did not respond because it was a ghost talking. The man said who is that? And the ghost said Hi its me, Im a ghost.
Can I name you? Asked the man.
Yes! Replied the ghost.
I want to name you Jack.
The ghost went back to his house and got them a snack. He brought fruit and vegetables back to the beach. He shared the snack with the man. The ghost tried a ghost pepper first. It was labeled ‘ghost pepper:warning!” the man said, No no don’t eat that! But the ghost ate it anyway. It was really really hot so the ghost ran home for water. He took a sip and went back to the beach. He picked up another pepper with no sticker. The man said, no don’t eat that! Its another ghost pepper. The ghost ate it, had another drink, and started to feel funny. The ghost began to turn back into a human. It turns out a ghost pepper can save a ghost.
The man said, ‘woah!’ as JAck became a man.
Jack was so happy. Thank you! He said. Then Jefferey walked down the beach. The ghost said to the man, remind me of your name…
The End
That wasn't his last name but this is the end of the story!
The Chicken Cow
by Julia, age 7, Georgia
The Chicken Cow
Hi my name is cow. But I am a chickin cow? Yes I am! I luve to jump into leaves! POOF chicken again!
The End
