Script
Audition Central: Dear Edwina JR.
Script: Edwina Spoonapple
BOBBY
Hi, I'm Bobby, your new next door neighbor. We just moved here from St. Louis& EDWINA
Great! Can you sing?BOBBY
Umm& EDWINA
Can you dance?BOBBY
Well& EDWINA
You'll learn!BOBBY
(Bewildered) I just came to drop off these brownies from my mom!!!
(ANNIE and some other KIDS place LARS on a stretcher.)
LARS
Make me proud, kiddo! You're going out there the new kid on the block& but you're coming back a STAR!EDWINA
(Gives LARS a hug.)Be brave, Lars!
SCOTT
(Preparing himself to receive a hug from Edwina.) I stubbed my toe, Edwina!
(EDWINA ignores him, throwing sheet music at BOBBY as the KIDS help LARS offstage.)
BOBBY
I heard there's a kid my age who lives here.EDWINA
You must be thinking of my sister Katie. She's at the Michigan Summer Match Olympics in Ypsilanti. [pronounced: Ipsilanti]BOBBY
Oh, well, I heard that we were moving in next door to the best piano player in town. Do you give piano lessons?EDWINA
You must be thinking of my sister Myra. I'm sure you can talk to her after the show.BOBBY
Oh, then you must be that drummer I heard practicing this morning. You sound great!EDWINA
You must be thinking of my brother Joe.BOBBY
Well& who are YOU?EDWINA
I am Edwina Spoonapple, advice-giver extraordinaire. Perhaps you have heard of me.BOBBY
Not really.EDWINA
Would you like to be in our show?BOBBY
No thanks.EDWINA
No thanks necessary! (Grabbing his arm.)
Now Bobby& we'll just get you started on the opera, and the big tap number and&
(Gets an idea.)
You can't eat fire by any chance, can you?