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For Preview Only 1 Book by TIM KELLY Music and Lyrics by BILL FRANCOEUR © Copyright 1998, by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc. PERFORMANCE LICENSE The amateur acting rights to this play are controlled exclusively by PIONEER DRAMA SERVICE, INC., P.O. Box 4267, Englewood, Colorado 80155, without whose permission no performance, reading or presentation of any kind may be given. On all programs and advertising this notice must appear: “Produced by special arrangement with PIONEER DRAMA service, INC., Englewood, Colorado.” COPYING OR REPRODUCING ALL OR ANY PART OF THIS BOOK IN ANY MANNER IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN BY LAW. All other rights in this play, including those of professional production, radio broadcasting and motion picture rights, are controlled by PIONEER DRAMA service, INC., to whom all inquiries should be addressed. For preview only 1 GROOVY! A Musical Comedy Tribute to the 1960s Book by TIM KELLY Music and Lyrics by BILL FRANCOEUR CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of speaking) # of lines TRAVIS PERKINS......................music festival promoter, 94 about 20 MURIEL .....................................another 96 ANN ..........................................hippie wannabe 26 SYLVIA ...................................... another 27 ALICE ........................................another festival promoter 88 TONY ........................................ sound man 17 ELMER CRUMB ........................apple farmer 30 MRS. PORTER .........................irate citizen 69 SHERIFF WITHERS .................bewildered law officer 67 MILLIE KUBRICK ......................flower child 13 BEADS ...................................... male hippie 21 MARY QUAINT .........................London fashion designer 29 GINGER .................................... photographer 10 HIPPIE GIRL WITH FLUTE .......hippie 14 MRS. IDA KAUFMAN ................runs an animal shelter 42 IRIS ........................................... of musical group the Lemon 28 Bugs TORK ........................................ a Lemon Bug 29 ANDY ........................................ another 25 MILDRED .................................. nurse 14 MISTY DAWN ...........................hippie 16 SWASHBUCKLER ....................biker 17 JOYCE RUFFIN ........................town reporter 29 CHUCK MIDDLETON ...............about to be drafted 21 CALIFORNIA COWABUNGA ....surfer 22 CALIFORNIA IVY ......................another 16 STANLEY KELLOGG ................talent manager 27 JACKIE PIERCE .......................another 26 MRS. SHERWOOD ...................Ann’s mother 29 EXTRAS/CHORUS MEMBERS as/if desired For preview only CALIFORNIA COWABUNGA ................surfer CALIFORNIA IVY ...............................another STANLEY KELLOGG ..........................talent manager JACKIE PIERCE ................................another MRS. SHERWOOD ...........................Ann’s mother EXTRAS/CHORUS MEMBERS ...........as/if desired MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE MC 1 Power to the People .................................Male and Female Folksingers, Company MC 2 Music, Beads and Flowers ....................... Travis, Alice, Tony, Muriel, Beads, Millie, Elmer MC 3 Lemon Bugs in a Lemon Air-o-Plane �������������� Iris, Tork, Andy, Company MC 4 Brothers and Sisters .............................Travis, Muriel, Alice, Joyce, Chuck, the Lemon Bugs, Hippies MC 5 Anything is Possible ...................................Cowabunga, Ivy, Company MC 6 Groovy! ............................................................... Company ACT TWO MC 7 Entr’acte ....................................................... Instrumental MC 8 We May Not Pass This Way Again ....................Travis, Muriel MC 9 The Pied Piper of Rock and Roll ������������������� Hippie Girl With Flute, Company MC 10 We Almost Had a Breakdown ������������������� The Lemon Bugs, Company MC 10a Groovy [Reprise].................................................. Company MC 11 Epilogue—A Tribute ............................................. Company MC 11a Curtain Call ................................................... Instrumental MC 11b Exit Music ..................................................... Instrumental For previewiii only SYNOPSIS The action takes place at Crumb’s Apple Farm. The time is the 1960s. ABOUT THE SETTING A field in Crumb’s Apple Farm. The field is now functioning as the command center for a forthcoming pop music festival. What looks like an open tent is positioned UPSTAGE CENTER, ideally on a platform. In the back of the tent is a banner reading: “MUSIC, BEADS AND FLOWERS.” The following are inside the tent: a table at LEFT covered with posters, leaflets and a guitar; at RIGHT, a cot, pillow and blanket; CENTER, a desk facing out to the audience with a chair behind and a stool to one side. On the desk is a microphone, typewriter, cup with pencils, typing paper and walkie-talkie. Outside the “tent,” which is open to full audience view, is shrubbery UP RIGHT and UP LEFT [cutouts of apple trees would look great but not necessary]. DOWN RIGHT is a rustic bench with some shrubbery behind it. The same for DOWN LEFT. Here and there a tree stump would look good. For previewiv only GROOVY! PROLOGUE MUSIC CUE 1: “Power to the People.” The opening strains of music are heard. East Indian in flavor, mysterious in nature, it evokes all of the “alternate consciousness” of the counterculture: the hippie, the flower child movement. The COMPANY ENTERS from LEFT and RIGHT during the music and freezes in silhouette poses of jubilant song and dance. As the Indian MUSIC FADES, a SPOTLIGHT COMES UP on a MALE FOLKSINGER and a FEMALE FOLKSINGER seated on stools DOWN CENTER. They are both holding guitars. The MALE FOLKSINGER has a harmonica in a brace around his neck. They begin playing and singing. The rest of the COMPANY is still frozen in a silhouette. MALE FOLKSINGER: (a la Bob Dylan. Sings.) Hey there, brothers, there’s a feelin’ comin’ down. FEMALE FOLKSINGER: (a la Joan Baez. Sings.) Hey there, sisters, come together, gather ’round. MALE FOLKSINGER: (Sings.) Pack up all your troubles, take a ride upon the wind. FEMALE FOLKSINGER: (Sings.) Come and sail with us again. BOTH: (Sing.) Close your eyes, can you see it in your mind? (LIGHTS UP. FOLKSINGERS join the COMPANY swaying to the music.) COMPANY: (Enthusiastic and energetic. Sings.) It was a generation of love, a generation for peace, A generation of flower power, seize the hour, come on along. It was a time to share and commune, take a trip to the moon, It was a time to go back to nature, change legislature, Write a big hit protest song. And everybody sang... Power to the people all across the land, Hey now, everybody lend a hand. Singing... Power to the people! Rise up and beat the drum, Sing it, shout it, “We shall overcome.” FLOWER CHILD ONE: (Speaks.) Welcome to our loving tribute to the 1960s... FLOWER CHILD TWO: (Speaks.) A time of hippies and flower children... FLOWER CHILD THREE: (Speaks.) Love-ins and be-ins! HIPPIE ONE: (Speaks.) Protest marches and sit ins... For preview1 only HIPPIE TWO: (Speaks.) The 1960s was a time of great social change. And it seemed every crusade had its own slogan. FLOWER CHILD ONE: (Shouts.) Slogans like, “Keep the faith, baby!” FLOWER CHILD TWO: (Shouts.) “Don’t trust anyone over thirty!” FLOWER CHILD THREE: (Shouts.) “Hippie Power!” HIPPIE ONE: (Shouts.) “Flower power!” FLOWER CHILD ONE: (Shouts.) “We shall overcome!” HIPPIE THREE: (Shouts.) “Take a hippie to lunch!” (ALL reprimandingly look at HIPPIE THREE, who sheepishly smiles.) FLOWER CHILD ONE: (Speaks.) Peace and brotherly love was the message of the day. HIPPIE ONE: (Speaks.) Can you dig it? The 1960s was a real trip, man! COMPANY: (Sings.) It was a time to grow and achieve, stand up for what you believe. A generation of brotherhood and sisterhood, all riding a storm. It was a time to move and reach out, a time to stand up and shout. A generation of understanding, yet demanding wide-spread social reform. And everybody sang... Power to the people all across the land, Hey now, everybody lend a hand. Singing... Power to the people! Rise up and beat the drum, Sing it, shout it, “We shall overcome!” HIPPIE ONE: (Speaks.) To be a true child of the sixties, you first had to learn how to speak the lingo. (To COMPANY.) Everybody ready? (ALL acknowledge. To AUDIENCE.) Are you ready to tune in? That means listen. (To CAST MEMBERS.) All right, let’s rap. (TO AUDIENCE.) That means discuss. (To CAST MEMBERS.) Hit it! (NOTE: Assign each phrase to a different member of the CAST. Phrases should be rattled off quickly and energetically. Phrases may be directed to other CAST MEMBERS or in reference to other CAST MEMBERS. Or if you prefer they can be spoken directly to the AUDIENCE. In any event go for the humor.) COMPANY: (Shouts.) “He’s really far out!” “She blows my mind!” “She’s out of sight!” “He’s spaced out!” “Just let your light shine!” “You’ve got good vibes!” “Hey, get your head together!” “What a mind-blower!” “I’m really zonked!” “Don’t hassle me, man!” “Keep on truckin’!” “Can you dig it?” “Right on!” “It’ll be a gas!” “It’s streamline, baby!” “He knows where it’s at!” “She’s tripped For preview2 only out on love and peace!” “That’s what she’s into!” He’s a straight- lookin’ dude!” “She makes me paranoid!” “She’s groovin’ on the scene!” “I’m doin’ my own thing!” “She’s hip!” “He’s bad karma!” “That’s heavy, man!” “Uptight, out of sight!” “What a bummer!” “Wow! Dig all the beautitul freaks!” HIPPIE ONE: (Speaks.) And last but not least... COMPANY: (Sings.) “It’s groovy!” And everybody sang... Power to the people
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