Rooted in Prayer

ROOTED IN PRAYER – A veggie tale like you’ve never seen before!

Join our hilarious cast of crop characters – Stringbean, Potato, Tomato, Lettuce, Peanut, and the always-sparkly Sunflower – as they discover what it really means to be rooted in God’s goodness and deep in prayer.

Expect: 🌱 Zany veggie humor
🎵 Three original songs (including one tuneless jam you’ll never forget!)
💬 Sassy sprouts and serious spiritual truth
🙏 A heartfelt message from Jeremiah 17:8 reminding us to be planted in God’s soil!

🍅 Will Tomato finally hit a high note?
🌻 Can Sunflower boogie and stay rooted?
👢 Do veggies wear rubber boots?? (We still don’t know.)

It’s 15 minutes of family-friendly fun, faith, and photosynthesis!

Don’t miss the garden party of the year!
Because in this patch... the veggies are awake, the prayers are deep, and the songs? Well... let’s just say you might be singing “Spit-a-Seed Boogie” all week long.

Cast: 6 m or f

• Stringbean
• Potato
• Tomato
• Lettuce
• Peanut
• Sunflower

Bible Reference: Jeremiah 17:8

Set: standard

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song:

• Three songs written for this drama:
• Two are parodies written to the old song “Down in the Valley”
• One is a silly song with absolutely no tune to it
• The third song is a serious song written specifically for this drama:
  “As I Think of My God” Copyright DramaShare 2009. Contact DramaShare

Lighting: standard

SFX: none

Props: none

Costumes:

• actors are dressed up as vegetables (may be full costume or just a hint of that character)

Special Instructions: none

Time: 15

Tomato, Potato, Peanut, Sunflower, Lettuce, and Stringbean are standing in a row, sleeping. Some are snoring. Tomato stretches, yawns, and grins brightly.

TOMATO:
Goooodddd morning, fellow members of the garden patch!

Other actors jolt awake, shocked by Tomato’s greeting.

STRINGBEAN:
Wha . . wha . . what?

POTATO:
Tomato, will you keep it down? Some of us are trying to sleep!

TOMATO:
Isn’t it such a gorgeous morning? Makes a gal want to sing, is what . .

LETTUCE:
Oh please no, not the singing again, Tomato!

PEANUT:
I’m with you on that one, Lettuce! I mean really! Somebody oughta tell that Tomato she can’t sing. Nice enough vegetable and all, but maybe leave the singing to Radish… or even Cucumber!

STRINGBEAN:
Cucumber has a lovely voice. Kinda seedy and melancholy.

SUNFLOWER:
Only good thing about Tomato’s singing—it does scare the crows away. And until our Farmer gets his act together and puts up some scarecrows . . .

POTATO:
Speaking of crows—what was with those weird birds last night? Flying around, squawking, keeping decent vegetables awake!

SUNFLOWER:
You got that right, Potato! (looks down beside herself, shivers) Not sure what those crows were eating yesterday, but they left a deposit on my lower branches and I mean . . . ewwwwwwwwww!

Tomato clears throat dramatically and sings off-key to the tune of “Down in the Valley”:

🎵
Out in the garden, where they plant shoots
You’ll feel the moist earth on your bare roots
On your bare roots, friends, on your bare roots
All of us veggies, lucky to be here.
🎵

PEANUT:
What kinda song is that? Don’t you know anything about music? It’s supposed to rhyme, for Pete’s sake! “Roots” doesn’t rhyme with “here”!

TOMATO:
Do you know how tough it is to come up with words rhyming with “roots”?

LETTUCE:
How about . . (clears throat, sings)
🎵 All of us veggies, wear rubber boots. 🎵

STRINGBEAN:
Lettuce, are you blond or what? Tell me, do you wear rubber boots?

LETTUCE:
Well, no, but . . .

STRINGBEAN:
Do any of us wear rubber boots?

LETTUCE:
Well, I am not like real sure. I mean, I always figure what goes on in the privacy of a plant’s root system is, like . . . private.

Tomato sings again:

🎵
If you like veggies, you will love us
We simply feed you, don’t make a fuss
Don’t make a fuss, dear, don’t make a fuss
Haul out your fry pan, supper’s on us.
🎵

STRINGBEAN:
Somebody give Tomato a quarter. Tell her to give us a call when she gets a voice!

POTATO:
Well, you have to admit—her song did rhyme that time. “Fuss” . . “us” . . rhymes.

SUNFLOWER (squirming):
Speaking of roots . . . my root is so itchy, it’s like driving me crazy!

PEANUT:
Don’t you just hate that? Your root has an itch, and what are you gonna do to fix it? I mean, it’s not like you can go and scratch it!

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