"Everybody, finally happy, is?" Yoda asked Miss Allison Erskine, sadly shaking his head, as he watched her texting and chatting on Facebook with the Broadway Knight Jedis and Padawan Learners. "Their Princess Leia Organa Solo, you must be!"
"Not everybody is, Da--, I mean Yoda," she said. "You know how it is when you have divas on the stage. First Wolfman and his stubborn refusal to be a fashion consultant. Then Mini-Me, demanding someone more interesting for Club 14 than Alex. Now Ciara! Can Spaccarelli and Tober be far behind? If this keeps up, the script for the spring show is going to be at least 300 pages long . . . just sayin'!"
Scene. At rise, a Dixieland band marches onstage, serenading the recently crowned beauty-queen, Cheyenne Ariel Harris. She wears an emerald green "Gone with the Wind" dress and carries a white parasol which she twirls with her delicate, white-gloved fingers. Brad Thompson leans in his Starbucks' doorway, smitten with Cheyenne's radiance. He smirks at the Bayou band's bombast, in spite of himself. Sensing Cheyenne's distaste for facial faux-pas, the famed jazz trumpeter, Maynard Armstrong and his Basin Street Blues Band, strikes up the Ira Gershwin/Vernon Duke tune, "I Can't Get Started with You."
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry . . . Wait a Minute!
"A Merry Christmas, to the Broadway Knights, I wis--" Yoda said, as Miss Allison Erskine interrupts.
Wait a minute, wait a minte, wait a minute! We have another problem. The Wolfman has given his seal of approval . . . but . . . well . . . it appears he's not the only diva, haunting the GMS stage. Mini-Me has definitely embraced her role as the villain, and has refused to perform, unless she has "someone more interesting in her club." Whatever will Alex say, when he discovers that his presence is not welcome at Club 14? We can't return to our Christmas festivities until we fix this problem. Otherwise, the Actors' Equity Union will shut us down. Just sayin'!
"Always, the Jedis, with my script, have problems. But, a solution to Jack's problem, I have."
Scene. Tuesday afternoon. Three-twenty-eight. Freddie "Mercury" Johnson, who has been moonlighting at Club 14- "Not for the money, but for the music," he says- plays "Bohemian Rhapsody" on an antique concertina. Viola enters, upstage center, dressed in a red sequined dress, carrying a steaming cup of cocoa and a fly-swatter. Blowing the dallop of whipped cream in Freddie's face, she swats the concertina out of his hand, and tells him to get lost. As he slinks off-stage, he is confronted by Viola's new house band coming onstage, the aging rockers, The Asian Rockers, a grunge band from Portland, Maine.
Wait a minute, wait a minte, wait a minute! We have another problem. The Wolfman has given his seal of approval . . . but . . . well . . . it appears he's not the only diva, haunting the GMS stage. Mini-Me has definitely embraced her role as the villain, and has refused to perform, unless she has "someone more interesting in her club." Whatever will Alex say, when he discovers that his presence is not welcome at Club 14? We can't return to our Christmas festivities until we fix this problem. Otherwise, the Actors' Equity Union will shut us down. Just sayin'!
"Always, the Jedis, with my script, have problems. But, a solution to Jack's problem, I have."
Scene. Tuesday afternoon. Three-twenty-eight. Freddie "Mercury" Johnson, who has been moonlighting at Club 14- "Not for the money, but for the music," he says- plays "Bohemian Rhapsody" on an antique concertina. Viola enters, upstage center, dressed in a red sequined dress, carrying a steaming cup of cocoa and a fly-swatter. Blowing the dallop of whipped cream in Freddie's face, she swats the concertina out of his hand, and tells him to get lost. As he slinks off-stage, he is confronted by Viola's new house band coming onstage, the aging rockers, The Asian Rockers, a grunge band from Portland, Maine.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Let's Hold on a Minute!
Daddy . . . I mean Yoda . . . we have a problem! It appears that the Wolfman's debut as leading man has left him feeling like a diva, refusing to play a fashion consultant. So I guess we're going to have to scrap our original idea- that was so good!- and start all over again. You know how it is: nobody respects the brilliance of the playwright . . . just sayin'!
"Kay-o, kay-o, kay-o! Write a tailored role, acceptable to Mr. Rogers, I will."
Scene. A city street in the Louisiana delta. Stage right, we see a Starbucks, owned by Pierre "Schwarzenegger" Lafitte and his betrothed, Antoinette "Snoopy" Balfour. Antoinette has left her life as a mall managers daughter, changed her name, to search for life's meaning. Next door, center stage, is Club 14, an avant-garde discotheque owned and operated by the villainness, Viola "Jack" Long, a distant relative of the infamous Huey Long. In order to drive business to his establishment, Pierre moonlights as the emcee at the club on weekends, when Reba Wilson Firestone rolls into town to perform torch songs for the college students who travel to the metropolis from LSU. A second Starbucks, owned by the star-crossed lover Bradley "Wolfman" Thompson- who always dresses in dark suits, starched white shirts, and lime-green ties- abuts Club 14, stage left. Brad's love interest, Georgia peach Cheyenne Ariel Harris, has promised to marry him when he finally learns "to wipe the smirk off your face." Brad has recently hired former skater, Freddie "Mercury" Johnson, who aspires to become the next Billy Joel, to play piano in his cafe. Freddie plays seventies songs every time Brad enters the set.
As the curtain opens, we see the two Starbucls owners leering at each other across the set, Bradley still having not learned how to wipe the smirk off his face. Pierre has brought in a group of Beat Girls from New York City to dance in front of his establishment. Brad has hired a ballerina from the Baton Rouge Ballet to compete. Viola has brought in a former mall security guard from Detroit to maintain her iron-fisted control of the street.
"Kay-o, kay-o, kay-o! Write a tailored role, acceptable to Mr. Rogers, I will."
Scene. A city street in the Louisiana delta. Stage right, we see a Starbucks, owned by Pierre "Schwarzenegger" Lafitte and his betrothed, Antoinette "Snoopy" Balfour. Antoinette has left her life as a mall managers daughter, changed her name, to search for life's meaning. Next door, center stage, is Club 14, an avant-garde discotheque owned and operated by the villainness, Viola "Jack" Long, a distant relative of the infamous Huey Long. In order to drive business to his establishment, Pierre moonlights as the emcee at the club on weekends, when Reba Wilson Firestone rolls into town to perform torch songs for the college students who travel to the metropolis from LSU. A second Starbucks, owned by the star-crossed lover Bradley "Wolfman" Thompson- who always dresses in dark suits, starched white shirts, and lime-green ties- abuts Club 14, stage left. Brad's love interest, Georgia peach Cheyenne Ariel Harris, has promised to marry him when he finally learns "to wipe the smirk off your face." Brad has recently hired former skater, Freddie "Mercury" Johnson, who aspires to become the next Billy Joel, to play piano in his cafe. Freddie plays seventies songs every time Brad enters the set.
As the curtain opens, we see the two Starbucls owners leering at each other across the set, Bradley still having not learned how to wipe the smirk off his face. Pierre has brought in a group of Beat Girls from New York City to dance in front of his establishment. Brad has hired a ballerina from the Baton Rouge Ballet to compete. Viola has brought in a former mall security guard from Detroit to maintain her iron-fisted control of the street.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Proud, I Was...
"Proud, I was, with the Broadway Knights!" Yoda exclaimed, after their performance of The Envelope. "A talented group, they are! The next theatrical leap, I cannot wait, for them to make. Georgetown Middle School, proud of them, should be." And with that, he took up his laptop and wrote the story line for the spring show:
Scene. Carlton "Wolfman" Jones, a star-crossed lover, works in an up-scale bridal salon, as a fashion consultant. He is dressed in a well-tailored suit, a white shirt, and a pink tie. The salon owner, the villianess, Cruella "Jack" Seville, rules her shop with an iron fist. Her best fashion consultant, Cheyenne Ariel Harris, who has shelved her love for music history and headed to the big city in pursuit of huge sales' commissions, is the object of Carlton's affection, but since Cruella will not tolerate romances in her salon, Carlton has to keep his ambitions under wraps . . . Meanwhile, a young bride, Autumn "Snoop" Perro, enters the salon in search of the perfect dress. Carlton and Cheyenne try to assist her, but are stymied at ever turn by her two aging Hippy parents, Melanie "Sunflower" Perro and her stoner husband, Don. Melanie repeatedly vetoes dresses, because, as she tells Autumn, "They clash with my leather jacket and tattoos!" In her distorted effort to provide ambience, Cruella has hired a piano player, former skater Freddie "Mercury" Matthias, who plays seventies music every time Carlton enters the set.
"Perhaps, because tired, I was, this idea, into my head, did spring," Yoda said, when questioned by the Mistress of the Game. "But stretch the Jedis, I will, so better they can be, when to high school, they go."
Scene. Carlton "Wolfman" Jones, a star-crossed lover, works in an up-scale bridal salon, as a fashion consultant. He is dressed in a well-tailored suit, a white shirt, and a pink tie. The salon owner, the villianess, Cruella "Jack" Seville, rules her shop with an iron fist. Her best fashion consultant, Cheyenne Ariel Harris, who has shelved her love for music history and headed to the big city in pursuit of huge sales' commissions, is the object of Carlton's affection, but since Cruella will not tolerate romances in her salon, Carlton has to keep his ambitions under wraps . . . Meanwhile, a young bride, Autumn "Snoop" Perro, enters the salon in search of the perfect dress. Carlton and Cheyenne try to assist her, but are stymied at ever turn by her two aging Hippy parents, Melanie "Sunflower" Perro and her stoner husband, Don. Melanie repeatedly vetoes dresses, because, as she tells Autumn, "They clash with my leather jacket and tattoos!" In her distorted effort to provide ambience, Cruella has hired a piano player, former skater Freddie "Mercury" Matthias, who plays seventies music every time Carlton enters the set.
"Perhaps, because tired, I was, this idea, into my head, did spring," Yoda said, when questioned by the Mistress of the Game. "But stretch the Jedis, I will, so better they can be, when to high school, they go."
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