Script

Audition Central: Dear Edwina JR.

Script: Katie Spoonapple

EDWINA
Oh, who wants to go to stupid old Kalamazoo anyway!

(Suddenly EDWINA is interrupted by her little sister KATIE SPOONAPPLE who comes out of the audience, carrying a duffel bag and crying. EDWINA stops crying when she sees her.)

Katie???

KATIE
Leave me alone!

EDWINA
Katie Spoonapple, what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at the Summer Math Olympics?

KATIE
(Unintelligible.)
Iwanaweh!

EDWINA
What do you mean you ran away? You can't run away! Mom and Dad are going to freak!

KATIE
Who cares about a gold medal in trigonometry, anyway!

EDWINA
You do! It's been your specialty since the third grade.

KATIE
I'm never doing another math equation as long as I live.

EDWINA
What? Come on, start from the beginning.

KATIE
Well, we were getting ready for the multiplication trials, and Sally Farnsworth was sitting next to me. And next to her was Mary Kay Hooper.

EDWINA
Isn't that the girl you beat out for All-State champion in the Division Division?

KATIE
Yeah. Anyway, she and Sally became super best friends for the week. And as we finished our equations, I happened to finish first.

EDWINA
Of course!

KATIE
And I brought my answers to the judge, and everybody clapped!

EDWINA
Hoooray!

KATIE
And then all of the sudden Sally whispered, "I HATE THAT GIRL KATE, SHE THINKS SHE'S SO GREAT!"

EDWINA
And you heard her&

KATIE
Everyone did! And Mary Kay nodded.

EDWINA
Maybe you just imagined it&

(KATIE looks at EDWINA and sniffles.)

No?

(KATIE shakes her head no and starts to cry. EDWINA comforts her.)

All I can tell you is - for a bunch of math champions - those girls sound pretty stupid.

KATIE
Just forget it.

EDWINA
Hey&

KATIE
Well, all I want to know is& when do I get a best friend for the week?

EDWINA
Oh, Katie&