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PIPPIN
Scene 1
At the rise, the stage is filled with smoke and in total darkness except for moving hands. The hands are illuminated by a light curtain consisting of ungelled floodlights focused directly upwards mounted on the stage floor which keeps the stage in virtual darkness, so that the writhing hands exist in a strange, macabre limbo.
Then, from the center of the rotating hands, the face of the LEADING PLAYER appears and is hit by a spot light. HE crosses the light curtain and moves downstage to the audience and sings.
As the song progresses, we can see a bare stage populated by a GROUP of ACTORS. Their costumes are of an undetermined period.
But THEY are definitely PLAYERS:a troupe. One by one, THEY come through the light curtain, and are hit by spot lights;until finally, THEY all come forward and join in the song.
LEADING PLAYER:
JOIN US ­ LEAVE YOUR FIELDS TO FLOWER
JOIN US ­ LEAVE YOUR CHEESE TO SOUR
JOIN US ­ COME AND WASTE AN HOUR OR TWO
DOO­DLE­EE­DO
JOURNEY ­ JOURNEY TO A SPOT EX­
CITING, MYSTIC AND EXOTIC
JOURNEY ­ THROUGH OUR ANECDOTIC REVUE
WE'VE GOT MAGIC TO DO ­ JUST FOR YOU
WE'VE GOT MIRACLE PLAYS TO PLAY
WE'VE GOT PARTS TO PERFORM ­ HEARTS TO WARM
KINGS AND THINGS TO TAKE BY STORM
AS WE GO ALONG OUR WAY
FASTRADA:
INTRIGUE ­ PLOTS TO BRING DISASTER
BERTHE:
HUMOR ­ HANDLED BY A MASTER
TWO GIRLS:
ROMANCE ­ SEX PRESENTED PASTORALLY
LEADING PLAYER:
DEE­DLE­EE­DEE

LWS
EI:
ILLUSION ­ FANTASY TO STUDY
CHARLES:
BATTLES ­ BARBAROUS AND BLOODY
LEADING PLAYER:
SO JOIN US ­ SIT WHERE EVERYBODY CAN SEE

AL
L:
WE'VE GOT MAGIC TO DO ­ JUST FOR YOU
WE'VE GOT MIRACLE PLAYS TO PLAY
WE'VE GOT PARTS TO PERFORM ­ HEARTS TO WARM

KINGS AND THINGS TO TAKE BY STORM
AS WE GO ALONG OUR WAY
WE'VE GOT MAGIC TO DO ­ JUST FOR YOU
WE'VE GOT MIRACLE PLAYS TO PLAY
WE'VE GOT PARTS TO PERFORM ­ HEARTS TO WARM
KINGS AND THINGS TO TAKE BY STORM
AS WE GO ALONG OUR WAY
WE GOT OUR WAY OUR WAY
MAGIC TO DO WE GOT
MAGIC TO DO
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