Do You Believe?
Cast
Grandmother (Nana): 65 She has a five year old grand daughter named Chloe
Wisdom: 65 She is a Retired
Tooth Fairy and teacher
Thoot: 16 Apprentice
Tooth Fairy
Theet: 14 Apprentice
Tooth Fairy
Setting: Living Room of Nana’s House.
She is babysitting Chloe. It is
late at night and she is trying to text Laura, her daughter. She does not really know how to text).
NANA
(She talks on the
phone)
Laura-
Chloe lost her big front tooth tonight from biting into an apple. She put it under her pillow. The tooth fairy will come later as she
always does. Don’t worry; Chloe is fine
and really excited for the tooth fairy.
I remember your first tooth that you lost; you couldn’t wait to put it
under your pillow. How time flies. See you tomorrow. Love you, Mom.
(Nana goes to the other
room)
We now go to Fairyland, and
to Wisdom’s classroom.
WISDOM
Theet,
Thoot, where are you? Time for class on
Tooth Fairy origins.
THEET& THOOT
Coming
(all tangled in their wings)
WISDOM
Sit down.
THOOT
We hear that every day. Hey, Theet Remember?
THEET
Oh yeah, …everyday!
(Straitening her wings)
WISDOM
All
right Theet, that’s enough. Now, one
more tidbit that you need to know.
THOOT
What’s a tidbit?
WISDOM
It’s a small piece of information. Did you know that in other cultures they
have different names for us?
THEET
Yeah…
WISDOM
Theet, that was uncalled for. You have to pay attention and finish your lessons because you
have your first assignment later tonight.
THOOT
Theet, be quiet! Wisdom, are we really going to become tooth fairies?
WISDOM
Yes
you are… if you pass your test and can recite the rules.
THEET
Oh
great, rules for tooth fairies, what’s next?
Oh, whatever…!
WISDOM
All
right. Now, do you remember the names of the tooth fairies in other countries?
THOOT
I
do. In Spanish countries we are called
Raton de los dientes.
THEET
What’s
that mean?
THOOT
Tooth
mouse. You know that! In France we are called La Petite Souris,
and in Italy we are called Fatina or Topino. So there you go smarty-pants!
THEET
OK
miss know it all. La Petite Souris. The little mouse.
Fatina means tooth fairy and Topino
means little mouse. So…and in Scotland they believe in The White Fairy Rat
who purchases teeth with coins.
THOOT
Wow
Theet, you did your homework! (Laughs)OK,
my turn. In Spain we are called el
Ratoncito Perez, the tooth mouse.
In Ireland we are known as Annabogle. It seems like the Tooth Fairy started out as a mouse in lots
of countries.
THEET
I
wish it had been a dog, much more fun and cuddly! (Laughs)
THOOT
Ok, who throws their teeth onto the roof of their house?
THEET
The Asian countries do, because they want their tooth to
be replaced by the tooth of a mouse.
WISDOM
You’re doing great girls. Now why do the Asians want their
teeth replaced by mouse teeth?
BOTH
It’s because mouse’s teeth continue to grow and stay
healthy all their lives. (All laugh) Imagine how long and scraggly our teeth
would be!
WISDOM
Great girls. Do you all remember how the Tooth
Fairy came to be?
THOOT
(Thinks
for a moment) No, I can’t remember.
THEET
OH, so you missed some lessons too! (Laughs)
WISDOM
All
right girls the tooth fairy came from a French fairy tale La Bonne Petite
Souris, from the 18th century. An awful king puts the queen into a dark tower room. She is very sad and doesn’t eat and grows
very thin. She gets three peas a
day. One day a little mouse scurries
out from under the door. The queen is
sad and has nothing to feed him.
THEET
More mice! At least we are fairies now!
WISDOM
The queen finally doesn’t even eat her peas
and so she gives them to the mouse. The
mouse realizes her generosity and changes into a beautiful fairy and listens to
the Queen’s story. The fairy changes
back into a mouse to help the queen defeat the evil king by hiding under a
pillow and knocking out his ….?
THEET
TEETH!
Cool, Hey Thoot, we could make big bucks. Wait till the kids are asleep and knock out a tooth. Next night we rake in the dough!
THOOT
Maybe
you but not me. Now listen up!
WISDOM
All right girls, that’s enough. Theet, you better pay attention or you will go back to being the
one who has to just clean teeth! Now
raise your hand if you know the answer.
Number one. The number of adult
teeth?
THOOT:
32
WISDOM
How
many incisors
THEET
4
THOOT
No,
8, tops and bottoms
THEET
She
didn’t say top and bottom.
WISDOM
All
right girls. How many canines or bicuspids
THEET
Woof,
woof.
THOOT
4,
They are the pointed teeth next to the incisors.
THEET
All
the better to bite you with!
WISDOM
Theet.
You must pass this or tooth fairy bites the dust and you go back to cleaning
teeth!
THEET
OK,
OK
WISDOM
Bottom
teeth, number of incisors?
BOTH
4
WISDOM
Top
number of pre-molars?
BOTH
8
WISDOM
Total
number of molars?
BOTH
12
WISDOM
Great,
now let’s go over the rules.
THEET
More? I’ve got things to do!
THOOT
Come
on, come on we could go out tonight and make a kid really happy.
THEET
Oh,
they stop believing in us when the reach the age of 5.
THOOT
Not
unless someone tells them too!
WISDOM
Theet,
don’t you believe? You’re one of us, or
maybe you don’t want to be?
THEET
Oh
come on guys, don’t gang up on me. I
just can’t understand why they DO believe?
WISDOM
Girls,
listen to me. I wasn’t named Wisdom because
of my teeth!
THEET
Huh?
THOOT
Wisdom
teeth, the ones that come in late and usually have to get pulled…So. No work
for us!
WISDOM
When
I was little, my mother told me all about how I would grow up and become a
tooth fairy just like her. She said it
was very important that I kept the tradition alive.
TTHEET
Was she a Tooth fairy too?
Wisdom
Yes
she was. Even in her day, children were
losing faith in imagination and believing. I was taught to believe in all
people, because there was good in everyone.
I believed in Santa Clause, The Easter Bunny, and The Tooth Fairy. Everyone said that I wore rose-colored
glasses and was like Pollyanna.
THOOT
Pollyanna?
WISDOM
She
was a little girl that believed in the good in everyone. Anyway, I was like her and since I knew I
was destined to be a Tooth Fairy, I believed.
As I got older….
THOOT
You’re not old.
THEET
Well,
you are OLDER! (Laughs)
WISDOM
(Laughs) Thanks Theet. As I got older I saw all these children that
had lost their imagination and didn’t believe in anything or anyone. It was
very sad. Older kids told them they
were babies to believe and they were silly.
Other kids would hassle them, and called them names.
THOOT
Were
you ever called names, Wisdom?
Wisdom
I was because I believed. All the children wanted to be liked, so they lost the childlike wonder
of believing and having that wonderful imagination that kids have. I swore that I would bring imagination back
to children and every child that lost a tooth would begin to believe again. So, Theet, are you on board?
THEET
Yeah
it sounds cool, why not still believe.
I get to travel more! Yeah, it’s
cool!
WISDOM
Ok
girls, on to the rules.
THEET and THOOT alternate lines.
(THEET starts.)
Make sure the child is asleep.
Flutter softly.
Turn off your sparkle light.
Check under pillow first.
If not there, check top of dresser or
in stuffed animals.
Leave the same amount per tooth, per
child.
Do not leave notes.
Kiss the child’s forehead gently.
Turn on sparkle light.
Flutter softly.
Leave.
THOOT
OK
Wisdom, How’d we do?
WISDOM
You’re
in. You are both now a genuine Tooth
Fairy. Now, here’s the list for
tonight.
Back
at Nana’s house
(Nana calls Laura)
NANA
Laura,
Chloe is asleep with Molly, her stuffed puppy, cuddled in her arms. Her tooth is under the pillow and we are
anxiously waiting for the Tooth Fairy. OK, I’ll see you tomorrow, come on over
for breakfast. Love you, bye. (She
hangs up and heads to the bedroom)
Back in Fairyland
WISDOM
OK girls, the first stop is Nana’s house where Chloe lost
her first tooth.
THEET
How
do you know where all these places are?
WISDOM
I
get a list just like Santa; only it’s not Naughty Or Nice list but a
Lost My Tooth list.
THEET
Oh!
WISDOM
You
are on your own now. You will go
together for the first few times and then you will go separately. OK?
THEET
We
have to go together?
THOOT
What’s
wrong, don’t you want me to go with you?
THEET
OK,
but let me do the talking!
THOOT
There
is no talking. You know that.
THEET
Well
that’s going to be hard for me, you know!
THOOT
Yeah,
I sure do! (Laughs)
WISDOM
Ok
girls, Wings?
BOTH
Check.
WISDOM
Sparkle
light?
BOTH
Check.
WISDOM
W. Fairy dust?
BOTH
Yeah,
bags full! (Laughs)
WISDOM
Then
off you go, follow the rules Theet, and most of all, have fun and believe. I love you.
The girls fly off in a cloud
of sparkle dust.
Back at Nana’s house
(Nana is in her robe about to go to bed, when she hears
a rattle)
NANA
What’s
that?
(Theet
has flown too fast, didn’t look and crashed into the side of the house)
THEET
Ouch, that hurt
THOOT
Pick
yourself up and for goodness sake, be quiet!
NANA
Is
any one there? (Looks around) It must have been the wind. (Turns off the lights) The tooth
Fairy better come tonight or Chloe will be so disappointed. (Goes to bed)
(Theet is slowly raising the window when...)
THOOT
(Whispering) Stop, close it. We’re fairies, we can just glide through. (She
glides through the window)
THEET
(Whispering) I must have missed that
class! OK I’m in.
THOOT
(Whispering) Turn off your light; you
don’t want Nana to see us!
THEET
(Whispering) Oh, sorry. OK where is the tooth? (Laughs)
THEET
(Whispering)
Look at
her, she is so sweet. She’s hugging her
stuffed dog as if it’s real.
THOOT
(Whispering)
To Chloe, it is real. She loves that
dog and believes that he will keep her safe.
She is young and full of imagination and still believes. I hope all the kids we go see are like this.
THEET
(Whispering) Me too. Our job is to
help them keep this imagination alive, right?
THOOT
(Whispering)
Yeah, our job is a small reminder that fairies do exist.
THEET
(Lifts up pillow) (Whispering) Oh Thoot, look she has a
little pink satin bag with Tooth Fairy written on it. She even wrote us a poem. Listen:
As I lay me down to sleep,
I give you this little tooth
to keep.
I ate an apple and out it
came,
Maybe the next will be the
same.
I bit,
I crunched,
Ouch!
There it was, white but
yucky,
I guess I was really lucky.
That’s really cool!
THOOT
(Whispering) Yeah, she’s a cute kid. Now
open the bag and take out the tooth.
Put in the shiny quarter, drop in some sparkle dust, close the bag, and
off we go. This time don’t try opening
the window! (Laughs) Are you
coming?
THEET
Wait,
a minute, I can’t leave yet. (Looks
at Chloe) So this is what a kid looks like that still believes. Look at
her, soft smiles, warm hugs and in her dreams hoping that the Tooth Fairy will
really come. I love this job. One last thing. (She places a soft kiss
on Chloe’s forehead. It glows in the
dark)
They Fly off
Back at Nana’s house, next
morning. She tiptoes in Chloe’s room
and looks at her.
NANA
(She sees the kiss mark and reaches under the
pillow and finds the bag with the shiny quarter and sparkle dust.) Oh, Wisdom, I knew you wouldn’t forget.
