(Scene opens to the ladies learning “Heaven Hop” BOB and BLUE are sitting in front of the audience on the floor watching. BOSS and KAT are sitting in their chairs. No techies other than EINSTEIN, who is at the board, are in this scene.)

FIFI: START RIGHT NOW AND DO THE HEAVEN  
          HOP HOP THE HEAVEN HOP

HER HIGHNESS:  
          DO THE HEAVEN HOP,
          DO THE HEAVEN HOP

CHURCH GIRL:  
           DO THE HEAVEN HOP,
           DO THE HEAVEN HOP

FIFI:  DO THE HEAVEN . . .

FIFI, HER HIGHNESS, CHURCH GIRL: HOP!

BOSS: Very nice. (To FIFI) Let’s take it from when the other girls join you in the dance instead of starting from the very beginning. I know you just learned the choreography so don’t worry if you mess up.

FIFI:

     HEAVEN . . . I’M GONNA TAKE YOU TO HEAVEN

     I’M GONNA SHOW YOU THAT HEAVEN-
BOSS: Just skip ahead to dance please…
FIFI, HER HIGHNESS, CHURCH GIRL:  

     SO . . . SPREAD YOUR WINGS

     AND START THEM FLAPPING

     LIFT YOUR FEET AND START THEM TAPPING

     START RIGHT NOW AND DO THE HEAVEN HOP

     THE HEAVEN HOP                                

     WAG YOUR ANKLES TO THAT METER

     LET YOUR SHOULDERS GENTLY TEETER

     IF YOU WANT TO PLEASE SAINT PETER

     TAKE UP THE HEAVEN HOP

     WHEN THE ANGELS PLAY LOW
      ON THEIR HARPS OF GOLD

      KNEEL AND PRAY LOW
      THEN GET UP AND SHAKE YOUR HALO

      LET THAT RHYTHM FILTER THROUGH YA
      TILL YOU HOLLER HALLELUJAH

      START RIGHT NOW AND DO THE HEAVEN
      HOP HOP THE HEAVEN HOP

(Instrumental dance. During this dance BOSS puts her head in her hands looking frustrated. She finally looks up at some point and stops them.)

BOSS: Um, lets stop there…I’ll see you all tomorrow. (BOSS and KAT exit into the office. Everyone begins to pack up. EINSTEIN picks up some chords and exits out of the room. CHURCH GIRL forgets her sweater and walks over to shop. She pokes her head into the shop and OVERACHIEVER comes out and they exit together. Everyone else is packing up their things.)

HER HIGHNESS: Whoo, she cannot dance!

FIFI: She sure can’t!

HER HIGHNESS: Every time I looked over at her my stomach began to hurt.

BLUE: She really was so off.

BOB: There wasn’t any move she was good at.

BLUE: She had like no expression and it was obvious that she hadn’t even begun to develop her character.
HER HIGHNESS: She kept looking at me as though she didn't know what to do. I know we had just learned it but it wasn’t that hard.

FIFI: Yea.. I noticed that she would watch to make sure she was doing it right thing
BLUE: She looked sooooooo psychotic when she was, um…what do you call it?
FIFI: shimmying?
BLUE: Yeah!
(HER HIGHNESS begins to imitate CHURCH GIRL. They all giggle. CHURCH GIRL re-enters and sees HER HIGHNESS. FIFI clears her throat to warn HER HIGHNESS that CHURCH GIRL is in there. HER HIGHNESS stops.)
HER HIGHNESS: (trying to cover.) Yeah, uh…that’s how that girl on TV the other night looked…
(Lights fade all except for a spot on CHURCH GIRL. CHURCH GIRL’S character music begins to play. Everyone freezes.)
CHURCH GIRL: I knew they were talking about me. There was no point in trying to hide it. I know I’m not a good dancer, but at least I tried. They could have helped me or given me a chance instead of making fun of me. I know I shouldn’t let them get to me, but I couldn’t help feeling hurt.

 (Music stops and lights come back up. CHURCH GIRL grabs her sweater and runs out of the room. The other awkwardly watch her go. Lights fade out. Scene ends.)

SCENE 1

(The scene opens to the dark theatre room. The stage right door opens. KAT enters)

KAT:   I HOPE LIFE TREATS YOU KIND
           AND I HOPE YOU HAVE ALL YOU DREAMED OF
(She carefully puts down her things and feels for the lights tripping a little bit, but continuing to sing.)
           AND I WISH YOU JOY AND HAPPINESS
(She turns on the lights with her back to the audience.)
           BUT ABOVE ALL THIS I WISH YOU LOVE
(She turns around at first with her eyes shut.)
           AND I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
(She opens her eyes and freezes noticing the audience.)
KAT: I’m sorry. I didn’t know that anyone else was in here. (She looks at them as though listening to a question they are asking.) Who am I? Oh, I’m Kat, the stage manager of our current musical “Anything Goes”.
(The door opens and BOSS enters.)
BOSS: Bonjour Kat! Early as usual? Excuse me while I deposit my things into the office. (BOSS exits into the office.)
KAT: That was Boss our very dramatic director. (BOSS pops her head out of the office.)
BOSS: Did you say something dear? (KAT shakes her head and BOSS goes back into the office humming now.)
KAT: She’s a wonderful director, just a bit over the top at times. (BLUE and BOB enter.)
BOB: But, wouldn’t it be groovy if they did like a radio show; like War of the Worlds?  
BLUE: Radio show would be great, but why would you want to do it about War of the Worlds? That’s been done. I personally think it should be about the life of a turnip. Though if you’re stuck on War of the Worlds you could do something similar to it, but change it to ceiling fans attacking the world instead of the usual aliens. (Scene freezes.)
KAT: See the would-be hippie with the psychedelic shades? That’s Blue. Wears those things everyday, the only explanation he can come up with as to why, is that everything turns an odd shade of green when he takes them off. (Gives a knowing look to the audience) and that (pause) is one of his more normal explanations. (pause) The guy standing next to him is Bob. I don’t really know why I call him Bob. He’s the kind of person who needs to be seen to be believed. If there was anyway to climb the flag pole and sing the national anthem in your underwear, he’d be the one to do it. (Scene unfreezes. BLUE and BOB continue their conversation and EINSTEIN walks in tangled in cords.)
EINSTEIN: (desperately.)Has anyone seen my Shure SM58 Condenser Microphone? (Everyone looks at him as though he was speaking Greek, but shake their heads. Scene freezes again.)
KAT: Poor guy…Einstein is a genius with lights and sound but I swear he’s going to strangle himself with those cables someday, and when that happens we’ll be left with nothing but a boom box and a toy microphone to sing in to. (pauses to think) Sure would be hell of a funeral though… (scene unfreezes. EINSTEIN exits into the office. BLUE and BOB continue their conversation once again, but are interrupted when HER HIGHNESS and FIFI walk in singing "De-lovely". HER HIGHNESS is overpowering FIFI and both are a bit off.)
HER HIGHNESS AND FIFI:
   TIME MARCHES ON AND SOON ITS PLAIN
   YOU’VE WON MY HEART AND I’VE LOST MY BRAIN
   IT’S DELIGHTFUL
   IT’S DELICIOUS
   IT’S DE-LOVELY
HER HIGHNESS: (to FIFI) Do you think you could sing on key for once in your life? You keep throwing me off! (Scene freezes. KAT crosses over in-between the small space between HER HIGHNESS and FIFI.)
KAT: To my left is (sarcastically) Her Highness. (turns to FIFI) To my right is her ever faithful pet Fifi. Do I really need to say anymore? (Scene unfreezes. BOSS and EINSTEIN come out of the office. EINSTEIN crosses to the board and begins to set things up. Through out the scene EINSTEIN exits and enters flustered looking for different parts of the board he needs. Everyone quickly warms up and gets ready for the start of rehearsal. During warm ups OVERACHIEVER wanders out from the shop leaving the door slightly open. He goes into the audience and lays down to go to sleep.)
BOSS: Places for act one scene two. (Everyone looks at her with confused looks on their faces.)  “De-lovely”…(They all say “Oh!” and get into places. She sits down in her chair and then realizes BILLY is not there.) Has anyone seen Billy?
FIFI: He went to-
HER HIGHNESS: (cuts FIFI off.) Alabama.
FIFI: He said he had some kind of-
HER HIGHNESS: (cuts FIFI off.) family emergency.
(Scene freezes, FIFI’s character music begins and lights go out all except a spot on FIFI. FIFI addresses the audience.)
FIFI: I just wanted to smack her. I’m so tired of being in her shadow. I don’t need someone to finish my sentences and speak for me. I wish just once I had the guts to stand up to her and tell her to shut up!
(Scene unfreezes.)
BOSS: And why didn’t he think to tell me that wonderful bit of information? (everyone is silent, not daring to say a word.) I understand. It’s only the principal rehearsals and this is just some stupid play. Why would you want to come to rehearsal anyway? And even if you have to miss practice for a good reason, why would you think to call the director to let her know. (pauses.) I’m sorry. It’s just very frustrating as a director to not have dependable actors in my shows. You can have very talented actors, but if they are not dependable and never show up to practice then there goes your show. I want this to be a lesson to all of you. In the future please let me know if for some reason you have to miss a day of rehearsal. Well lets continue. We’ll go right into you’re verse (turns to HER HIGHNESS.) since Billy can’t be with us today. (HER HIGHNESS crosses over to stage right and sits down on the bench. BOSS and KAT go over to two chairs in front of the audience. Everyone else finds a seat on the floor or somewhere in the audience.) I think I’d like you to be upstage left and as the song progresses the two of you will dance and make your way around the stage. (HER HIGHNESS crosses upstage left.)
HER HIGHNESS:
     I FEEL A SUDDEN URGE TO SING
     THE KIND OF DITTY THAT INVOKES THE SPRING
     SO CONTROL YOUR DESIRE TO CURSE
     WHILE I CRUCIFY THE VERSE
(A bunch of noise starts off in the scene shop drowning her out. HER HIGHNESS charges into the shop where she ends up being chased out by SARGE. SARGE is distracted from HER HIGHNESS when she spots OVERACHIEVER in the audience. She walks over to him grabs him and begins to drag him towards the scene shop. KAT Freezes the scene.)
KAT: That girl’s going to be in the Marines one day… Has a hide tougher than leather, and, as you can see, can kick the booty of every man, woman, and child she comes into contact with. She kicks our wonderful ‘Overachiever’s’ quite often, in case you didn’t notice… And that’s why she’s been forever christened as ‘Sarge’. (She unfreezes the Scene.)
BOSS: Let’s please take it from where we left off.
HER HIGHNESS:
     THIS VERSE I’VE STARTED SEEMS TO ME
     A TIN-PAN-TITHESIS OF MELODY
     SO TO SPARE YOU ALL THAT PAIN
     (Lights, and music fade. Scene Ends.)  

Cast of Characters (in order of appearance):

 KAT:  Stage Manager/ Narrator of the show

 BOSS:  The overdramatic director of the show

 BLUE: Random actor who plays the part of Sir Evelyn

 BOB: Goof-off actor who plays the part of Mooney

 EINSTEIN:  Sound and light technician of the show

 HER HIGHNESS:  Confident actress who plays Hope

 FIFI:  Talented dancing actress who plays the part of Bonnie

 OVERACHIEVER:  Very lazy set techie

 SARGE:  Head techie

 CHURCH GIRL:  Shy actress who plays the part of Reno

 JUMPER:  Crazy set techie who just wants to have a good time

Freeze!

By: Ashley Reiners, Brandon Brewster, Renee Reiners

Plot overview:

The dramatic comedy of Freeze! takes place in Riverdale High’s theatre room. We are taken through the rehearsal process of the musical “Anything Goes”, to see what goes on behind the scenes between actors,  techies, and director. The stage manager/ narrator, Kat shows us her views of each character. Is Kat’s perception of everyone correct or is she just being fooled by the masks of talented young actors and techies? You be the judge!

This is currently my senior direct xanga...you're welcome to read it and make commments but i just thought i'd letcha know what this was so you can unsuscribe or not read or whatever...

*Ash