From APPLAUSE, Book by Betty Comden, Adolph Green Essential page Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Lee Adams (suggested musical format) numbering**

KAREN 56. Stage action is (to Margo) indented 3 Dialogue Margo, you’ve been kicking us all around long enough. Someone ought to give you inches from begins 1.5 a good swift one for a change! left; put in inches from parenthesis. A left side to (She leaves.) blank line is account for inserted before binding. and after. Dialogue is EVE single-spaced. Miss Channing . . . if I ever dreamed that anything I did could possibly cause you any Dialogue unhappiness, or come between you and your friends . . . please believe me. extends to 1.0 inch Character from right name in all MARGO margin caps; in the (in a low, weary voice) center of the Oh, I do. And I’m full of admiration for you. Stage action page. (stands, approaches Eve) reliant on the If you can handle yourself on the stage with the same artistry you display off the proceeding stage . . . well, my dear, you are in the right place. dialogue is indented to the (She speaks the following lines as the music left of the character name. of WELCOME TO THE THEATRE begins.)

Welcome to the theater, to the magic, to the fun!

(She sings.) Lyric are in all WHERE PAINTED TREES AND FLOWERS GROW CAPS, sepa- rated line to AND LAUGHTER RINGS FORTISSIMO, line by either AND TREACHERY’S SWEETLY DONE! musical phrasing and/ NOW YOU’VE ENTERED THE ASYLUM, or the rhyming THIS PROFESSION UNIQUE scheme and ACTORS ARE CHILDREN clearly PLAYING HIDE-AND-EGO-SEEK . . . indented from Stanzas are the left separated by a margin. blank line and SO WELCOME, MISS EVE HARRINGTON, distinguish TO THIS BUSINESS WE CALL SHOW, For duets, or themselves by YOU’RE ON YOUR WAY characters dramatic TO WEALTH AND FAME, singing counter- point, thought and/ UNSHEALTH YOUR CLAWS, or changes create two from verse to ENJOY THE GAME! colums side by chorus to YOU’LL BE A BITCH side, following bridges, etc. BUT THEY’LL KNOW YOUR NAME the same format FROM NEW YORK . . . TO KOKOMO here.

WELCOME TO THEATRE, MY DEAR, YOU’LL LOVE IT SO! **There are many ways to paginate your play, from the straight forward numerical sequence of 1, 2, 3 to an older format of I-2-16, (meaning Act 1, Scene 2, Page 16).