synopsis: Dotty Dot - A Children's Musical
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Our story centers around a young girl, Dotty Dot (“My Name is Dotty Dot”), who each day leads a group of neighborhood children on an “Adventure of the Day.” This all takes place in a child-made fort in the backyard of the Dot house coined by the children as “Fort Funrageous.” On the day our musical takes place, the adventure of the day is to put on a play. The other children join Dotty in the fort to start working on the play: Jenny (Dotty’s best friend), Hamilton (who wears a purple scarf and loves the costume trunk), Mary Beth (Dotty’s obnoxious lackey), Bottomless Pitt (the left-out member of the group), and Polka Dot (Dotty’s kid-sister).
Mrs. Dot, Polka and Dotty’s mother, enters to ask the children, “What Do You Want To Eat” as a snack that afternoon, and all the kids decide on brownies. Through the magic of theatre, the brownies are cooked while the children have a dance break about their favorite foods and are ready to eat by the final pose. Bottomless is standoffish and doesn’t eat a brownie, so the children respond with the song “Are You Okay?” Bottomless assures everyone he is fine, just not hungry, and they continue getting ready for their play about two pirate queen sisters.
Dotty has been very bossy and controlling with the other children. Mrs. Dot, the perceptive mother that she is, tells Dotty she has to come inside for time out as punishment, and cannot finish the adventure of the day of putting on a play. Dotty bids the kids farewell with the over-dramatized tune, “Dotty’s Goodbye Song.”
The children are left with no leader, and it is Jenny, the quiet and shy one, who energizes the children and convinces them, with Polka’s help, that they can still put on the play for Dotty, and that she would have wanted them to finish. While getting ready, Bottomless gets up the nerve to ask Polka out, by way of letter, asking her to check one of the boxes: “Yes, No, Maybe.” Mrs. Dot comes to see the children’s creation and brings Dotty along to witness the children’s feat. The kids put on this show-within-a-show about two pirate queen sisters (much alike to Dotty and Polka) who fight over their town of Fort Funrageous (“Take That”) and learn with the help of the wise old man that they can share the town and everyone can get along. The children all take a bow and receive a standing ovation from Dotty, then go inside for some celebratory lemonade.
Mrs Dot and Dotty discuss the valuable lesson about getting along that the two queens in the story learned. Dotty realizes she has hurt the feelings of Jenny, Polka, and the rest of her friends, and that she must apologize. The mother and daughter share a tender moment about Dotty "Growing Up." The children come back outside, and Dotty works up the courage to apologize ("Dotty's Apology"). The children forgive her, and she expresses that their play taught her that everyone has good ideas and deserve to be heard.
Dotty has learned her lesson through the exact artistic means by which she was being bossy – theatre - and apologizes to her friends for treating them all so poorly. They sing a last song (“My Name is Dotty Dot Reprise”) where all the children get a chance to sing their individual names. The neighborhood children leave one by one, saying goodbye to Dotty and heading home for dinner. Bottomless leaves last and kisses Polka on the cheek. Finally on good terms as sisters, Polka goes inside, leaving Dotty alone in the fort, just as she was at the beginning of the adventure, having learned a valuable lesson.
Mrs. Dot, Polka and Dotty’s mother, enters to ask the children, “What Do You Want To Eat” as a snack that afternoon, and all the kids decide on brownies. Through the magic of theatre, the brownies are cooked while the children have a dance break about their favorite foods and are ready to eat by the final pose. Bottomless is standoffish and doesn’t eat a brownie, so the children respond with the song “Are You Okay?” Bottomless assures everyone he is fine, just not hungry, and they continue getting ready for their play about two pirate queen sisters.
Dotty has been very bossy and controlling with the other children. Mrs. Dot, the perceptive mother that she is, tells Dotty she has to come inside for time out as punishment, and cannot finish the adventure of the day of putting on a play. Dotty bids the kids farewell with the over-dramatized tune, “Dotty’s Goodbye Song.”
The children are left with no leader, and it is Jenny, the quiet and shy one, who energizes the children and convinces them, with Polka’s help, that they can still put on the play for Dotty, and that she would have wanted them to finish. While getting ready, Bottomless gets up the nerve to ask Polka out, by way of letter, asking her to check one of the boxes: “Yes, No, Maybe.” Mrs. Dot comes to see the children’s creation and brings Dotty along to witness the children’s feat. The kids put on this show-within-a-show about two pirate queen sisters (much alike to Dotty and Polka) who fight over their town of Fort Funrageous (“Take That”) and learn with the help of the wise old man that they can share the town and everyone can get along. The children all take a bow and receive a standing ovation from Dotty, then go inside for some celebratory lemonade.
Mrs Dot and Dotty discuss the valuable lesson about getting along that the two queens in the story learned. Dotty realizes she has hurt the feelings of Jenny, Polka, and the rest of her friends, and that she must apologize. The mother and daughter share a tender moment about Dotty "Growing Up." The children come back outside, and Dotty works up the courage to apologize ("Dotty's Apology"). The children forgive her, and she expresses that their play taught her that everyone has good ideas and deserve to be heard.
Dotty has learned her lesson through the exact artistic means by which she was being bossy – theatre - and apologizes to her friends for treating them all so poorly. They sing a last song (“My Name is Dotty Dot Reprise”) where all the children get a chance to sing their individual names. The neighborhood children leave one by one, saying goodbye to Dotty and heading home for dinner. Bottomless leaves last and kisses Polka on the cheek. Finally on good terms as sisters, Polka goes inside, leaving Dotty alone in the fort, just as she was at the beginning of the adventure, having learned a valuable lesson.
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