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music by Dana P. Rowe
book and lyrics by John Dempsey
#6 THE C WORD - Toffee/Kids
VOICE
(from offstage, very eerie)
TOFFEE, TOFFEE....
GINGER
STUDY HALL, TOFF.
GET YOUR HOMEWORK.
COCO
WHATCHA GOT TODAY?
TOFFEE
NOTHIN' BUT MATH.
WHAT'S THE WHOOP?
I MEAN, WHO USES MATH ANYWAY?
CANDY
BUT I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO BE
A NUCLEAR WHATSITS CRACKERJACK.
TOFFEE
WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
NOTHING I DO
WILL EVER BRING JONNY BACK.
NOTHING WILL BRING MY JONNY BACK....
GIRLS
(variously)
LIFE IS ROUGH,
BUT ENOUGH'S ENOUGH.
MORE'S IN STORE FOR YOU.
YOU LOVED JON
BUT HE'S COME AND GONE,
AND YOU STILL ARE GOIN' BOO-HOO-HOO.
YOU LOVED JON,
BUT YOU MUST MOVE ON.
YOU KNOW HE'D WANT YOU TO.
VOICE
(from offstage)
TOFFEE, TOFFEE...
TOFFEE
What was that?
GINGER
Toffee?
CANDY
What's the matter with you?
TOFFEE
EV'RY NOW AND THEN
I HEAR HIS VOICE,
HEAR MY DARLIN' JON.
EV'RY NOW AND THEN
I SEE HIS FACE.
YEAH, HE'S DEAD BUT HE AIN'T GONE....
JAKE
TOFFEE, I KNOW,
WE ALL MISS JONNY.
BUT COME BACK TO THE GROUND....
JOEY
GOTTA CHEER UP,
HE ONLY DIED....
JOSH
HEY, IT'S NOT LIKE HE'S SCREWING AROUND...
CANDY
Josh! Honestly!!
GINGER
What kind of thing is that to say to someone who just drove her boyfriend
to suicide?
COCO
Ginger's right. Jonny's a dead subject.
CANDY
Besides who can think of anything else with the prom just around the corner?
TOFFEE
Listen to you all! Someone died, and all you're worrying about is
who to take to the stupid old prom! As if any of that matters!
CANDY
Oh, Toffee, you're just upset. You can't mean that.
JAKE
We've gotta keen theme this year.
JOEY
An Evening of Miracles and Molecules...
COCO
What could be more important than the prom?
GINGER
And you'll be a shoo-in for Prom Queen, Toffee.
JOSH
You'll get the sympathy vote!
KIDS
(shooting a disgusted look at JOSH)
Ugh!
JOSH
What?!
TOFFEE
LIFE'S A TRAP
OF THE SAME OLD CRAP.
NO SUCH THING AS NEW.
GINGER
The "C" word. She said the "C" word.
TOFFEE
MOMS AND POPS,
AND SENIOR HOPS,
AND WHO IS DATING WHO-WHO-WHO.
FALL TO SPRING,
IT'S THE SAME OLD THING --
IT'S CRAP THE WHOLE YEAR THROUGH!
GINGER
Twice! She said it twice!
TOFFEE
IT'S CRAP THE WHOLE YEAR....
GINGER
Three times!
(MISS STRICT who has entered behind them and heard the whole
discussion, blows her whistle.)
MISS STRICT
That will be quite enough out of you, missy!
GINGER
She used the "C" word, Miss Strict. The really bad one: rhymes
with "map."
MISS STRICT
Thank you, Ginger.
TOFFEE
Snitch!
MISS STRICT
Toffee! Child! What sort of insanity is this?! Perhaps,
what you need is a little reminder of what Enrico Fermi High is all about!
The school motto, children...?!
BOYS
Rules!
GIRLS
Regulations!
MISS STRICT
And...?
ALL
Respect!! |
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