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ACT ONE
SCENE 10
Tinman with Apple Trees in front of his cottage.
During the light change, the stage revolves and three large ApPLE TREES
come center stage laden with bright red apples. The TINMAN, standing
in front of his ruined cottage, is hidden from them. DOROTHY, TOTO,
and the SCARECROW enter in conversation. Music fades out.
SCARECROW.You're hungry? But Ithought only crows got hungry.
DOROTHY. All living things need to eat.
SCARECROW.Idon't need to eat. (Suddenly worried) Does that mean I'm not alive?
DOROTHY. Oh, no, Scarecrow. You're the liveliest friend Iever had.
SCARECROW. Why thank you. Just for that you can eat as much of my hay as you like.
And then you won't be hungry anymore. (Takes a great handful out of his jacket.)
DOROTHY. Oh, no, scarecrow. Icouldn't do that.
SCARECROW.You don't have to worry about me. So long as I keep my legs
well stuffed, Ican walk to Emerald City no matter what shape I'm in up top.
DOROTHY. It's a very kind offer but Idon't eat hay.
SCARECROW.Oh, well perhaps it's just as well. (Stuffs the straw back into himself) A little
mother field-mouse has a nest in here and she wouldn't like to be disturbed.
DOROTHY
suddenly sees the
ApPLE TREES.
DOROTHY. Oh,look Scarecrow, apples!
SCARECROW.Apples, what's apples?
DOROTHY. Inthe trees.
SCARECROW.You mean all those little red birds hanging upside down by one leg?
DOROTHY. They're not birds. They're something you eat and they're delicious.
DOROTHY
The
TREE
runs forward and picks an apple from a low branch.
takes the apple back and slaps her wrist.
DOROTHY. Ouch!
FIRST TREE. What do you think you're doing?
DOROTHY. We've been walking a long ways and Iwas
hungry and - did you say something?
The
FIRST TREE
gestures to the other two.
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FIRSTTREE. She was hungry!
SECOND TREE. She was hungry!
THIRD TREE. How would you like it have someone come along
and pick something off of you?
DOROTHY. I'm sorry! I keep forgetting I'm not in Kansas.
SCARECROW.Come along, Dorothy - you don't want any of those apples. Yuck!
FIRSTTREE. Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?
SCARECROW.Oh, no! It's just that she doesn't like little green worms!
FIRSTTREE. Worms! (To the other
TREES)
Did he say we had worms?
SECONDTREE. That's what it sounded like to me.
SCARECROW.(Whispered to DOROTHY) I'll show you how to get apples.
(Louder) Sure you got worms, worms, caterpillars
and probably a whole bunch of wood lice too.
THIRD TREE. How dare you! Let's give it to him, girls!
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Apple Throwing
Seep. 116
(Orchestra)
The
TREES
throw handfuls of apples at the
SCARECROW.
FIRSTTREE. Take that, and that!
SECOND TREE. Base slanderer!
SCARECROW.Look out Dorothy
The
SCARECROW
runs about the stage catching and collecting the apples.
THIRD TREE. How do you like them apples?
SCARECROW.We like them just fine.
The
SCARECROW
approaches
DOROTHY
with a handful.
FIRST TREE. I've suddenly twigged.
SECONDTREE. So have I. They've made saps of us all.
THIRD TREE. I think it's time we boughed out.
The THREE TREES move away upstage and turn their backs on the proceedings.
Their movement reveals the TINMAN, motionlessly holding an axe raised,
in front of his ruined cottage. DOROTHY starts forward.
The TINMAN is covered in rust. Music out.
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DOROTHY. Why, it's a man! A man made of out tin!
SCARECROW.What?
DOROTHY. Yes. Oh -look!
and the SCARECROW examine the
Through rusted jaws, he speaks.
DOROTHY
TrNMAN
closely.
TINMAN. Oil can! Oil Can!
DOROTHY. Did you say something?
TINMAN. Oil can!
DOROTHY. He said oil can.
SCARECROW. Oil can what?
DOROTHY. Oil can?
DOROTHY looks around for it and eventually sees it on the ground.
She picks it up.
TINMAN. Ahhh.
DOROTHY. Here it is. Where do you want to be oiled first?
TINMAN. My mouth - my mouth!
SCARECROW.He said his mouth! The other side!
DOROTHY.
Yes - there.
TINMAN. Me ...e....me ...e...M-m-my, my, my, my goodness, Ican talk again!
Oh - oil my arms, please - oil my elbows. Oh! Oh!
DOROTHY and the SCARECROW take turns
oiling the TINMAN and exercising his stiff limbs.
DOROTHY. Here.
and the SCARECROW oil the TINMAN'S
the axe and itfalls to HIS side with a clank.
DOROTHY
arm holding
TINMAN.Oh!
DOROTHY. Did that hurt?
TINMAN. No, it feels wonderful. I've held that axe up for ages.
DOROTHY. Oh goodness! How did you ever get like this?
TINMAN. Well, when Iwas flesh and blood like you, Ifell in love with a Munchkin
maiden whose mother hated me. So to stop me from marrying her daughter she
hired the Wicked Witch of the West to put an evil spell on my axe. When Itried
to chop down a tree it chopped off my leg instead.
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SCARECROW.It chopped your leg off?
DOROTHY. That's terrible.
TINMAN. But by good fortune I knew of a wonderful tinsmith and he
made me a new leg almost as good as the old one. So back I went
to work and you know what happened?
DOROTHY. Something terrible I bet.
TINMAN. I swung my axe again and dang me if it didn't take off the other leg.
SCARECROW.You should a got a new axe.
TINMAN. I guess you're right. But I got me a new leg instead. And back I went to work.
SCARECROW.You sure were persistent.
TINMAN. This time I chopped off both my arms.
DOROTHY. Ohmy.
SCARECROW.I can see how you could a chopped off one arm
but how did you manage to chop off the other one?
TINMAN. I told you. The axe was enchanted.
SCARECROW.Of course. See Dorothy, if I had a brain I coulda
worked that out for myself.
TINMAN. I sometimes wish I hadn't got a new pair of arms from the
tinsmith 'cause the last time I swung the axe was worst time of all.
SCARECROW.I don't want to hear this.
The SCARECROW
covers his ears.
DOROTHY. What happened?
TINMAN. I split myself right down the middle.
DOROTHY. Oh, you poor thing.
TINMAN. So the tinsmith gave me a new head and body,
but on the way home I got caught in a terrible rainstorm and rusted solid.
SCARECROW.Itjust wasn't your day, was it?
TINMAN. I've been here ever since.
DOROTHY. Well, you're perfect now.
The
TINMAN
turns his head sharply towards DOROTHY
and it sticks.
TINMAN. My - my neck, my - my neck. (DOROTHY
and the SCARECROW
oil his neck)
Perfect? Just bang on my chest if you think I'm perfect. Go ahead - bang on it!
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SCARECROW
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gives it a thump and we hear a gong sound.
SCARECROW.Beautiful! What an echo!
TINMAN. It's empty. The tinsmith forgot to give me a heart.
DOROTHY& SCARECROW.No heart!
TINMAN. No heart!
DOROTHY. Oh!
TINMAN. All hollow. And as long as I have no heart,
I can never love my Munchkin maiden.
The
TIN MAN
gulps and starts to cry.
DOROTHY. Oh, please don't cry, Tirunan. You'll rust again.
TINMAN. I used to carve her name on every tree.
The
TREES
turn back again, rubbing their rumps.
FIRSTTREE. You can say that again.
The
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TREES
march forward and sing in harmony.
Tinman/Trees
-ir I Only
Had
a Heart"
(Tirunan, Dorothy & Three Trees)
TREES.
Said a Tinman rattling his jibs
To a Strawman sad and weary eyed ...
TINMAN.
Oh the smith gave me tin ribs,
But forgot to put a heart inside.
TREES.
Then he banged his hollow chest and cried '"
TINMAN.
When a man's an empty kettle
He should be on his mettle
And yet I'm torn apart.
Just because I'm presumin'
That I could be kind-a-human,
If I only had a heart.
I'd be tender, I'd be gentle,
And awful sentimental
Regarding love and art,
I'd be friends with the sparrows
And the boy that shoots the arrows,
If I only had a heart.
Picture me- a balcony,
Above a voice sings low
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TREES. (spoken in rhythm)
Wherefore
art thou, Romeo?
TINMAN.
I hear a beat
DOROTHY.
How sweet!
TINMAN.
Just to register emotion,
Jealousy, devotion,
And really feel the part.
I could stay young and chipper,
And I'd lock it with a zipper
If I only had a heart.
Dance.
The TINMAN dances with the TREES during which he pumps his elbows,
causing the funnel oh his head to whistle and emit steam. After the dance:
TINMAN.
Oh, I may be presuming
That I could be kind-a-human.
I'd be friends with the sparrows
And the boy that shoots the arrows,
DOROTHY.
You could stay young and chipper
TINMAN.
And I'd lock it with a zipper
If I only
DOROTHY.
If you only
TREES.
If you only
ALL.
Had a heart.
The
TINMAN
starts to collapse.
DOROTHY. Are you all right?
TINMAN. I'm afraid I'm a little rusty yet. (Wobbles uncertainly) Oh-oh,
The
SCARECROW
applies the oil can.
DOROTHY. Perhaps you can visit the tinsmith again
and ask him to give you a new heart.
TINMAN. Oh, no. He went out of business long time ago.
TINMAN & SCARECROW.Ran out of tin.
DOROTHY. Then why don't you come with us to the Emerald City
and ask the Wizard of Oz for a heart?
TINMAN. Suppose the Wizard wouldn't give me one when we got there?
DOROTHY. Oh, but he will! He must! We've come such a long way already.
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