George's Gang LIVE!

**George's Gang Live!** was a musical with episodes coming to North Carolina Zoo's arena before The Conversations with George's Gang.

## Cast

* Korrina
* Valerina
* George Boggs
* Fawkes (phoenix)
* Percy (Indian blue peacock)
* Umby (long-wattled umbrellabird)
* Umby 2 (umbrella heron)
* Scarletto (scarlet macaw)
* Ellen (golden eagle)
* Raja (red-crowned crane)
* Secra (secretary bird)
* Rahonavis
* Skyla (The Uprising)
* Elesa (The Uprising)
* Cindy
* Carla
* Valerie 2 (male white peafowl)
* Andy (Andean condor)
* Kali (California condor)
* Buckbeak (hippogriff)
* Baldie (bald eagle)
* Challenger (bald eagle)
* Laura (common loon)
* Wilma (whooping crane)
* Garcia (grey-crowned crane)
* Whalley (white-naped crane)
* Gerry (gerenuk)
* Gordon (western lowland gorilla)
* Iris (Unova)
* Hatsune Miku
* Aroma
* Ella
* Harpina (harpy eagle)
* Phillipina (Philippine eagle)
* Osprey (3x)
* Sakura
* Dawn
* Marahute
* Allie (American alligator)
* Benny (grizzly bear)
* Carly (Bactrian camel)
* Dolly (bottlenose dolphin)
* Eli (African elephant)
* Fannie (greater flamingo)
* Georgia (giraffe Tinga Tinga form)
* Henry (hippopotamus)
* Iggy (green iguana)
* Janny (jaguar)
* Kelly (red kangaroo)
* Kingy (king vulture)
* Larry (lion Tinga Tinga form)
* Michael (Boots from Dora the Explorer form)
* Nora (lowland nyala)
* Olivia (tick bird Tinga Tinga forme)
* Olive (ostrich)
* Penny (java green peacock)
* Queenie (Victoria crowned pigeon)
* Queenie 2 (Gambel's quail)
* Ronald (Indian rhinoceros)
* Sophia (mute swan)
* Tommy (Bengal tiger)
* Ulysses (urial)
* Victor (lappet-faced vulture)
* Cassie (southern cassowary)
* Walter (walrus)
* Xmerellda (x-ray tetra)
* Xavier (great xenops)
* Yolanda (yellow-billed hornbill)
* Yolanda 2 (blue-and-yellow macaw)
* Yonny (yak)
* Zelda (zebra finch)
* Zigzag (Grevy zebra)
* Roady (greater roadrunner)
* Ronny (rhinoceros hornbill)
* Leslie (lesser roadrunner)
* Bella (bare-necked umbrellabird)
* Annie (Amazonian umbrellabird)
* Annie 2 (Sven the puffin forme)
* Horny (Horned guan)
* Argie (Great argus)
* Hoatzie (hoatzin)
* Woody (pileated woodpecker)
* Meowth (Kalos form)
* Mars (Diamond and Pearl)
* Lord Shen (from Kung Fu Panda)
* Mistress 9
* Jessie and James (Pokemon Live form)
* Ollie (South African ostrich)
* Sandy (sandhill crane)
* Ruppellie (Ruppell's griffon vulture)
* Tiny
* Shiny
* Don
* Buddy
* Connie Pteranodon
* Author Pteranodon
* Nigel Marven
* Ellison (emu)
* Queena (resplendent quetzal)
* Queen Red (red-tailed hawk)
* Alex (Alexornis)
* Kaban
* Merc
* Scar (Lion King forme)
* Zazu
* Ursula
* Aria (Kalos)
* Mairin
* Miette (Kalos)
* Sawyer (Kalos)
* Viola (Kalos)
* Alexa (Kalos)
* Narrator
* Bradley (ostrich)
* Diablo the Raven
* Darby (Winnie the Pooh)
* Pythonie (Albino Burmese python)
* Crested Guineafowl (multiple)
* Vulturine Guineafowl (multiple)
* Helmeted Guineafowl (multiple)
* Penguino
* Olivia 2
* Olivia 3
* Olivia 4 (okapi)
* Finley (flying monkey)
* Serena
* Ash (Kalos)
* Clemont
* Bonnie
* Toco (Toco Toucan)
* Kenny (Keel-billed toucan)
* Robert (red-crowned crane)
* Struthiomimus (multiple)
* Ronolla (southern red-billed hornbill)
* California quail (multiple)
* Abbysinian ground hornbill (multiple)
* Southern ground hornbill (multiple)
* Blue crane (2x)
* Blacky (black swan)
* White pigeons (multiple)
* Bianca (Unova)
* Team Flare (Kalos)
* Xerneas
* Yveltal
* Smaug
* Marvin Mosasaurus (Jurassic World form)
* Komodo Dragon (multiple)
* Nile Monitor (multiple)
* King Cobra (multiple)
* Rhana (greater rhea)
* Thomas Hutchinson
* Chiru

#### Octonauts Characters

* Captain Barnacles
* Kwazii
* Peso
* Shellington
* Dashi
* Professor Inkling
* Tweak

#### Little Bear Characters

* Little Bear
* Mother Bear
* Father Bear
* Owl
* Hen
* Duck
* Cat
* Emily
* Tutu
* Mitzi
* Trouble (mountain lion)
* Granny
* Otters
* Cub
* Poppy
* Pete
* Moose
* Mermaid
* No Feet

#### Walking with Dinosaurs Characters

* *Allosaurus*
* *Ankylosaurus*
* *Brachiosaurus* (1 adult, 1 adolescent)
* *Liliensternus*
* *Ornithocherius*
* *Plateosaurus* (1 adult, 2 hatchlings)
* *Stegosaurus*
* *Torosaurus* (2x)
* *Tyrannosaurus* (1 adult, 1 juvenile)
* *Utahraptor* (3x)

#### Sailor Crystal Moon Characters

* Luna
* Chibiusa
* Sailor Moon
* Sailor Mercury
* Sailor Venus
* Sailor Mars
* Sailor Jupiter
* Sailor Uranus
* Sailor Neptune
* Sailor Pluto
* Hotaru (Civilian Form)
* Witches 5

#### Jurassic World Velociraptor Characters

* Blue
* Charlie
* Delta
* Echo

#### Alphablock Characters

* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K

* L

* M

* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

#### Numberblock Characters

* One
* Two
* Three
* Four
* Five
* Six
* Seven
* Eight
* Nine
* Ten
* Eleven
* Twelve
* Thirteen
* Fourteen
* Fifteen
* Sixteen
* Seventeen
* Eighteen
* Nineteen
* Twenty

#### Lion Guard Characters

* Kion
* Bunga
* Fuli
* Beshte
* Ono
* Makini
* Anga

## Instruments

### Woodwinds and Reed Aerophones

* Piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, saxophone, harmonica, cane pan flute (pipe), 2 clarinets, recorder, 2 bassoons, didgeridoo, and accordion

### Brass

* 4 french horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 4 trombones (3 tenors and 1 bass) and bass tuba

### Strings

* harp, first and second violins, violas, 2 fiddles, dulcimer, cello, 5 mandolins, 7 guitars, double bass, and banjo

### Percussion with Keyboards

* timpani, bass drum, African drums, cymbals, lion's roar drum, rainstick, tambourine, triangle, snare drum, temple wooden fish, woodblock, xylophone, marimba, castanets, gong, maracas, 2 pianos, celesta, and whip

## Plot

#### Introduction

As the sun rises, Serena, calls the animals to the Tree of life. She greets George's birds, Ash, Clemont, George, Fawkes, and Bonnie, when presenting their grown-up Indian blue peacock to the gathered animals ("Circle of Life"). In the outlands, Scar, Jessie, James, and Lord Shen, lament their lost chance at becoming intellIgent. Back at her tree, Serena in shock danced a ballet: ("The Dovecatcher"). Foxes dance around Serena until George transforms into to a Microraptor and scares the foxes away. Meanwhile, the great blue herons fish for sockeye salmon and Atlantic salmon on the river ("The Fishing Chant"). George arrives and asks his best friend, a girlfriend named Iris, to come with him to the river. He lies to the egrets, cranes, black-necked storks, more stork species, and herons, about where they are going, and Blacky (the black-necked stork) and Helen (the great blue heron) allow the friends to go, escorted by Ronolla. George and Iris formulate a plan and manage to join Ronolla, while George brags about his future position ("I Just Can't Wait To Be King"). The friends go to the river and begin to explore. Ronolla catches up, but they are confronted by 15 African leopards. The leopards intend to eat the trespassers and they gloat about their find. George exits the stage and summons the gang to scare the beasts. Quickly, George came back with his animal friends and Serena and they rescued Iris and frighten off the leopards to the Outlands. George and his animal and character gang are disappointed and angry at Iris's reckless disobedience and explains the difference between bravery and bravado ("They Live in You"). Back at the animal graveyard, Lord Shen tells the cobras, Man-Eating Beasts, dinosaurs, and animals of his plan to catch George and his gang in a large net so that he can become king. He raises an army of villains promising that they will never go hungry again if they support him ("Be Prepared"). Back at the Zoo, George plays his magic flute. Animals appear and dance, enraptured, to his music. George hears Umby's pipe sounding offstage causing the animals to flee and George at the end of the song, hurries off to find him (aria: "How Soft and Sweet Your Magic Tone").

#### Act 2

On Lord Shen's signal, the villains start a Memelandian Goat-Antelope stampede into a gorge that is a key pass from Memelandia to the Alphabet Zoo. ("The Stampede"). Lord Shen tells Raja that George is trapped in the gorge. Suddenly a squawk could be heard. It was Secra the secretary bird and her legendary birds, They leaped after the stampede and manages to save their son, but as they try to escape, a battle begins between Raja and Secra. When the battle was not over Secra stomped Raja's wing and Raja begins to shriek as a soprano opera singer and Raja flew to George ("Secretary Bird and Red-Crowned Crane Dance"). Korrina went up to the tree and saw George went to the Flower Garden (a garden that houses flowers), Lord Shen summons the king cobra army. The cobras begin to slither him and bit George's arms, and legs, (NOT to mention his toes, head, and brain.) ("George was Attacked By Cobras"). George is playing dead, and all the animals, Serena, Korrina, Iris, and Valerie, mourn and wail in grief for George bitten by cobras in the garden. The track ends on a sinister note as Lord Shen enters and begins his eulogy for George. ("Serena and her gang mourn for George"). When Lord Shen took Valerie away to the Outlands, Valerie lets out loud scream when George yells "VALERIE!!!", and the gang is afraid. Back at Serena's tree, Serena and Korrina let out a scream "NOOOOOO!" as George is bitten by the cobras and Lord Shen takes Valerie in the Outlands ("Lord Shen Takes Valerie In Jail"). In the next scene with Man-Eating Beasts, king cobras, and dinosaur skeletons, Lord Shen sings his song with villains (aria: "Lord Shen's Song"). After Lord Shen's song, he places a dinosaur skeleton into the hand of George's second sister Valerie and Valerie talks to Lord Shen to protect the Zoo, but the peacock's rival, else he will disown and curse Valerie. When George woke up, he was not bitten by the cobras, instead, George threw the cobras into the Outlands, and George is victorious. The rhino hornbills land on the tree after the tragedy, the birds check for Olive's knowledge. In the aviary, George and Korrina watched red-crowned cranes, storks, egrets, toucans, cassowaries, flamingos, rheas, peacocks, macaws, and herons sing the Aviary welcoming song ("One by One"). Under Lord Shen's rule, the Zion river has made the Outlands beautiful, but in the process, has turned the Zoo and Memelandia into drought-ridden deserts. Valerie, now a prisoner of Lord Shen, listens to the king's woes. So Valerie in the Tyrannosaurus skeleton attempts to comfort the new king by singing "Let it Go" from *Frozen* in recent productions. The Man-Eating Beasts, cobras, and villains are complaining about the lack of food, but Lord Shen is only concerned with himself and why he is not loved. He is haunted by visions of the secretary bird battling with the red-crowned crane and rapidly switches between delusional confidence and paranoid despair. Suddenly, Serena lets Valerie out of the Tyrannosaurus skeleton and helps her freely and animals appear and saw Valerie becoming a free hero ("The Madness of Lord Shen").  Serena fiercely rebukes Lord Shen and resolves to leave the Outlands to find help. Her friends Iris, Korrina, Valerie, Secra, Robert, Thomas Hutchinson, Chiru, Raja, helmeted guineafowl, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, birds, animals, vulturine guineafowl, and the vultures, bless her for her journey (aria: "Shadowland"). When George finds Serena, He begins to sing his aria (aria: "Endless Night*"*). When George whistles his tune to the Tree of Life, Fawkes and Percy have summoned Chloe, tricksters (from The Lion King) toucans, blue and yellow macaws, owls, meerkats, scarlet macaws, and other hornbills danced around him (duet: "Papageno Duet"). When George returns to the outlands, Lord Shen and his villains all saw George and then they begin to attack him when George summons his gang to fight the villains away. When Lord Shen lets out a scream, Shen flew away to the elephant graveyard and George with his gang are victorious and George and his gang return to the zoo with success ("George's Gang Confront Lord Shen"). With the battle won, George's gang come forward and acknowledge George as the rightful hero. George ascends the Tree of Life and crows out like a rooster across the zoo. The Zoo and the animals including Lord Shen gather in celebration as Serena and her gang begins singing when continuing the Circle of Life ("King of Pride Rock and Circle of Life (Reprise)").