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Audition Central: The Music Man KIDS
Script: Gracie Shinn
SIDE 1
MAYOR SHINN
As Mayor of River City I welcome you River Citizians to the Fourth of July exercises. Now, the Wa Tan Ye Girls will present a spectacle my wife—
(MAYOR SHINN looks at his notes.)
—in which my wife – Eulalie MacKecknie Shinn, will take a leading part.
(EULALIE MACKECKNIE SHINN and the other WA TAN YE GIRLS pose and gets ready to perform. TOMMY sneaks onstage and drops a large book behind the GIRLS. The crash scares them. EULALIE swoons.)
EULALIE
I’m shot, George, who shot me?
(There is a considerable disturbance as MAYOR SHINN comforts EULALIE.)
CONSTABLE
Who set off that cracker?
GRACIE
Tommy Djilas did it – Tommy Djilas did it.
ALMA
Yes, it was Tommy Djilas!
MAYOR SHINN
Mrs. Shinn will... recover. Now the Paine’s Fireworks Spectacle will be...