Angie Lines Act 1 Scene 1

🎶 Will shout “Bravo” on cue (Bravo!) 🎶

Dee Dee: Angie!

I’m so proud of you! This is an important show. The critics are going to love it.

Trent: And yet I’m only known as “that guy” on the beloved 90s sitcom “Talk to the Hand”. I’ve begun to question the very meaning of my existence. Is a life on the stage really any life at all?

Hey guys.

Dee Dee and Barry: Angie!

Sorry your show closed on opening night. Again.

Dee Dee: Thanks

Welcome to the world of the unemployed.

Barry: I thought you were in “Chicago”

I just quit. 20 years in the chorus and they still wouldn’t let me play Roxie Hart. You know who they have playing the role these days?

Barry: Who?

Tina Louise. You know, Ginger from “Gilligan’s Island”?

Barry: My god. Is she still alive?

Not really, no.

Dee Dee: You see? We’re wasting our lives.

It’s true. Oh, well. At least we’re all in the same boat.

Trent: But the Times has castrated you as it were.

Yeah. He wrote you off as “aging narcissists”

Barry: Wait a minute. I know how we can still love ourselves, but appear to be decent human beings. We’ll become celebrity activists.

Brilliant!

Trent: Um… Poverty?

Barry: Too big.

World hunger?

Barry: With my back? Forget it. Whats the biggest problem in America right now? Go.

Well, I think it’s the electoral college. It needs to be abolished.

Dee Dee: as an exercise, just assume we don’t know what it is and explain it to us.

Well, the electoral college was created to allow the smaller states to have power in a Federalist government. If the amount of electoral college votes a states received was directly proportional to its population then the -

Dee Dee: Yes. A little injustice we can drive to-

Barry: a safe non-violent, high profile, low risk injustice.

Angie: Let me see what’s trending.

Global warming, shrinking ice cap, dying penguins…

Hey. What about this girl?

Barry: What girl?

It's all over Twitter. She lives in a small town called Edgewater, Indiana. She's a lesbian and she wanted to take her girlfriend to the high school prom and the PTA went apeshit.

Barry: Yes! It checks all the boxes, and as a bonus it's gay, which is something I can relate to! Are you all with me?

All: Yes!

Dee Dee: We’ll have a rally!

All: Oooooooo. A rally!

Trent: We’ll carry picket signs!

And make T-shirts!

Barry: I’ll get Sheldon to tag along. He can find us a venue.

Wow. Can we really do this?

Dee Dee: We’ll need an anthem.

Like “We Are The World”!

Trent: Andrew Lloyd Webber will write something for us. He's a huge fan of my Phantom. Leave it to me.

Wait! How will we get there?