THE JITTERBUG SCENE!!

Wicked Witch says:

(laughs) You'll believe in more than that before I've finished with you. Take your army to the Haunted Forest, and bring me that girl and her dog! Do what you like with the others, but I want her alive and unharmed! They'll give you no trouble, I promise you that. I've sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them. Take special care of those ruby slippers. I want those most of all. Now, fly! Fly! Bring me that girl and her slippers! Fly! Fly! Fly!

Missing Scene:

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion walking forward thru Haunted Forest. The Jitterbug lands on the Lion's nose.

Lion:

(yells and growls) What's that? What's that? Take it away- take it away- Take it away! (cries)

Tin Man:

Hold still- hold still-- (slaps Jitterbug away)

Dorothy:

(jumps as the Jitterbug bites her leg) Oh! Something bit me, too!

Tin Man:

Now come on - you're acting silly -- (yells as the Jitterbug lands on his neck, Dorothy takes bug off)

Scarecrow:

Oh, come on now - everybody -- (yells as bug bites him, Scarecrow jumps in the air, falls to ground, and jumps up again)

Trees quivering and making noise.

Singing:

Dorothy:

Did you just hear what I just heard?

Lion:

That noise don't come from no ordinary bird.

Dorothy:

It may be just a cricket
Or a critter in the trees.

Tin Man:

It's giving me the jitters
In the joints around my knees.

Scarecrow:

Oh, I think I see a jijik
And he's fuzzy and he's furry
I haven't got a brain
But I think I ought to worry!

Tin Man:

I haven't got a heart
But I got a palpitation.

Lion:

As Monarch of the Forest
I don't like the situation.

Dorothy:

Are you gonna stand around
And let 'em fill us full of horror?

Lion:

I'd like to roar 'em down --
But I think I lost my roarer.

All run around, then huddle together.

Tin Man:

It's a whozis.

Scarecrow:

It's a whozis?

Lion:

It's a whatzis.

Tin Man:

It's a whatzis?

Lion:

Whozat?

Tin Man:

Whozat?

Scarecrow:

Whozat?

Dorothy dances and sings.

Dorothy:

Whozat?
Who's that hiding
In the tree top?
It's that rascal
The Jitter Bug.
Should you catch him
Buzzin' round you
Keep away from
The Jitter Bug!

All dance.

Dorothy:

Oh, the bats
And the bees
And the breeze in the trees
Have a terrible, horrible buzz.
But the bats and the bees
And the breeze in the trees
Couldn't do what the Jitter Bug does.
So be careful
Of that rascal
Keep away from--

Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion:

--The Jitter Bug! Oh, the Jitter-
Oh, the Bug
Oh, the Jitter-

All:

Bug-bug-a-bug-bug-bug-bug-bug-a-boo!

Lion runs over by a tree. The tree catches hold of Lion's tail. Scarecrow runs to release the tail, and the tree grabs Scarecrow. He gets free and runs to Dorothy held by another tree. Tin Man starts to chop at the tree, and a limb of the tree hits him over the head. He staggers and throws the axe, as they are singing...

All:

In a twitter
In the throes

Scarecrow:

Oh, the critter's
Got me dancin' on a thousand toes.

Tin Man:

Thar she blows!

All dance with each other, as the trees move in rhythm with the music.

The music stops as the army of the Winged Monkeys flies over the Haunted Forest, and the four look up. The Winged Monkeys fly down into the forest to capture the four.