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| This Skit is meant for older campers. Decide for yourself if it is appropriate for your younger campers or not. | |
| Required: | 4 or more campers a blanket |
| Preparation: | One person is Quazimoto, the hunchback of Notre Dame. One camper is a man with no arms. (keep arms inside shirt) One camper is his brother, also with no arms. The rest are policemen. |
| Script: | (best done as three separate scenes with other skits between) (Scene 1:) Quazi: Oh. Hello there. I'm Quazimoto, the hunchback of Notre Dame. I ring the bells. (He demonstrates pulling the ropes which swings the bells, up, down, up, down, and the big bells ring, bong, bong, bong, bong.) Quazi: It's hard ringing these bells. So I put an ad in the paper for an assistant. (2nd camper comes on stage and knocks at door) Quazi: Oh. That must be him now. (Go down the long winding spiral staircase, still hunched over.) I have a long winding staircase, you know. (Continue going down.) (Open the big heavy door.) Quazi: Hello? No Arms: Hi! I read your ad in the paper, and I want to be your assistant! Quazi: But you don't have any arms. No Arms: I really really really want to ring bells! Please please please, give me a chance! Quazi: Well. OK. Walk this way. (Go up the staircase, hunched and arms dragging) No Arms: I can't, I don't have any arms! (going up perfectly straight with arms behind them) Quazi: OK. Here are the bells. Here is how I ring them (up, down, up, down, bong, bong, bong, bong). I don't know what you're going to do. You don't have any arms. No Arms: I can do it! Just watch! (He gets a running start, then whacks the bell with his face.) Booooong!!! Quazi: Wow...that was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard! Please, Please do it again! (The assistant gets a running start, misses the bell and falls to his death.) Quazi: Ew. Squished bellringer. (Knock knock knock) (Quazimoto descends the staircase) Police: Quazimoto, do you know this man? (Quazimoto turns the guy over, looks at the face, puts him down again.) Quazi: No. But his face rings a bell! (Police drag dead body away while Quazi climbs back up stairs.) (Scene 2:) Quazi: Hmmm, quite a shame about that poor guy yesterday. I hope I get some help today. (No Arms #2 knocks on door. Quazi climbs down staircase again.) Quazi: Hello? No Arms: Hi! I read your ad in the paper, and I want to be your assistant! Quazi: I thought you were dead. Quazi: That was my brother! He so wanted to be a bellringer, that was his life's ambition! His greatest dream! With him dead, I felt that I just had to come and take his place!! Quazi: But you don't have any arms. No Arms: I really really really want to ring bells! Please please please, give me a chance! Quazi: Well. OK. Walk this way. (Go up the staircase, hunched and arms dragging) No Arms: I can't, I don't have any arms! (going up perfectly straight with arms behind them) Quazi: OK. Here are the bells. Here is how I ring them (up, down, up, down, bong, bong, bong, bong). I don't know what you're going to do. You don't have any arms. No Arms: I can do it! Just watch! (He gets a running start, then whacks the bell with his face.) Booooong!!! Quazi: Wow...that was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard! Please, Please do it again! (The assistant gets a running start, misses the bell and falls to his death.) No Arms: AAAAH! (splat) Quazi: Ew. Squished bellringer. (Knock knock knock) (Quazimoto descends the staircase) Police: Quazimoto, do you know this man?? (Quazimoto turns the guy over, looks at the face, puts him down again.) Quazi: No. But he's a dead ringer for the guy that was here yesterday. (Scene 3:) Two campers run onstage with a blanket stretched between them. They scan the sky as they shuffle around as if preparing to catch something falling from the sky. Quazi: Hey, you two! What are you doing running around outside my belltower? Police: Well, the last two nights someone has jumped from the tower and we're ready for him this time! |
Quazimoto, the Bell Ringer Camping Skit 
