The Nightmare Before Christmas Page #5

The WITCHES come next...

MAYOR, CORPSES, VAMPIRES, WITCHES

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back and

Scream --

The Gelatinous Lumps instantly reasemble to form the Third

Ghoul.

THIRD GHOUL:

-- like a banshee make you jump --

The Third Ghoul immediately bounces out of sight again...

SALLY:

stumbles into view, still hurrying. She sings with everyone

else...

MAYOR, CORPSES, VAMPIRES,

WITCHES, SALLY

-- out of your SKIN!

This is Halloween, --

SALLY:

excitedly spots someone coming -- though he's still out of view

for us:

SALLY:

-- Everyone scream, won't ya

Please make way for a special guy...

THE OTHERS:

turn to look.

MAYOR, CORPSES, VAMPIRES,

WITCHES, SALLY

Our man Jack is --

SALLY:

-- King of the Pumpkin Patch.

MAYOR, CORPSES, VAMPIRES,

WITCHES, SALLY

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now.

They part to make way for

JACK SKELLINGTON, THE PUMPKIN KING,

astride his SKELTON HORSE, boots set backwards in the stirrups as

is done for the honored dead. Jack is tall, long-limbed and

bone-thin. He is formally attired, and wears an elegant bat bow-

tie.

Sally gapes tragically at Jack. But he rides right past without

noticing her.

Accompanying Jack are most of the CREATURES AND MONSTERS we've

met, the various inhabitants of Halloweenland. Everyone else

falls in behind Jack -- including a stumbling, almost-left-

behind-gawking Sally.

EVERYONE:

This is Halloween, THIS IS HALLOWEEN (etc.)

THE HANGING TREE

hurries to join the parade. He brings up the rear. The HANGED

MEN bobble on their ever-tightening nooses, their tongues and

eyes popping out.

The tighter nooses make the Hanged Men's voices reed-thin and

high -- contrasting to the enormous Hanging Tree's lone basso

profundo:

HANGING TREE AND HANGED MEN

In this place we call home

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin Song

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