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Barry Kornhauser Cast: 2m., 2w.
CHARACTERS
NARRATOR, female
ELECTRIC GUITAR PLAYER, female
ELECTRIC BASSIST, male
DRUMMER, male
The three actors portraying the musicians each need to be able to play sixty seconds of hard-rock sound (although not necessarily well). This same minute of music is repeated in various permutations throughout the scenes. If that cannot be accomplished, it is possible for the sound to be pre-recorded with the actors miming the actions of playing their instruments.
SETTING: A stage.
TIME: Seven minutes from Now.
AT RISE: A dimly lit stage. Lingering UC is a heavy-metal teen band comprised of a female ELECTRIC GUITAR PLAYER, male ELECTRIC BASSIST and male DRUMMER. Once they begin playing, their music should have a sound Rolling Stone magazine once described as "dinosaurs eating cars." Over the musicians' heads, across the width of the stage, hangs a single string of unlit Christmas lights. Downstage to one side, the set model of this production sits on a poduim. Other than this, the stage is bare, void of any apparent design—all of which is replicated on the model, of course. A teenage female NARRATOR, carrying a clipboard and wearing a stopwatch around her neck, enters opposite the podium...
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