BEATSHEET
ACTS	SEQ.	BEAT DESCRIPTIONS
ACT I	1	Spot is staring into the distance where he sees the Maelstroms looking happy and high-fiving each other with their fins. They are touching the soft inside of shellfish and swimming quickly away before the shellfish snap shut.
	1	Spot, looking sad, turns away from the Maelstroms and begins to sweep sand with his fins.
	1	Spot stops sweeping and stares into the distance where he sees the Maelstroms, who are now closer and still looking happy and high-fiving each other with their fins, bounce on a crab and get away before the pincers grab them.
	1	Spot, looking sad, turns away from the Maelstroms and begins to doodle in the sand with his fins.
	1	Spot stops doodling and looks down.
	1	Spot is looking at a picture he has drawn in the sand of the Maelstroms bouncing on a crab.
	1	Spot draws himself into the picture.
	1	The Maelstroms swim by and see the picture Spot has drawn.
	1	The Maelstroms wave at Spot with their fins in a gesture to join them.
	1	Spot, looking happy, swims off with the Maelstroms.
ACT II	2	The Maelstroms get excited when they see a sleeping whale.
	2	One by one the Maelstroms sneak up and touch the whale’s face and then smile and high-five each other.
	2	It is Spot’s turn to touch the whale but Spot is afraid (his heart is pounding and his eyes are huge and he is in a semi-fetal position).
	3	Spot closes his eyes and swims slowly towards the whale’s face, tentatively waving his fin around in an effort to touch the whale.
	3	Before Spot reaches the whale, the whale wakes up and slowly opens its eye.
	3	Spot pokes the whale’s eye with his fin.
	3	Spot opens his eyes and, seeing that he is staring into the eye of the angry whale, is terrified.
	4	Spot starts swimming away from the whale as fast as he can.
	4	The whale chases Spot into a hole in a rock.
	4	The whale rams the rock.
	4	A terrified Spot is looking out of the rock.
	4	The whale shakes his head in pain and swims away.
ACT III	5	The Maelstroms come by looking around for Spot.
	5	The Maelstroms find Spot as he is leaving the hole, still looking uneasy, and wave at him with their fins in a gesture to join them.
	5	Spot vehemently shakes his head in refusal.
	5	Spot, looking determined, and the Maelstroms, shrugging disinterestedly, swim in different directions.
	5	Spot looks at the picture he had drawn before joining the Maelstroms.
	5	Spot frowns.
	5	Spot sweeps away the picture with his fins.
	5	Spot, looking focused and intent, begins to draw a picture of a picture of himself smiling and alone.