PAIGE in FULL: a B-Girl’S Visual Mix-Tape Written, Choreographed and Performed by Paige Hernandez with Original Music by Nick Tha 1Da
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PAIGE IN FULL: a b-girl’s visual mix-tape Written, choreographed and performed by Paige Hernandez with original music by Nick tha 1da Paige Hernandez 7303 Willow Hill Drive| Capitol Heights, MD 20743 443-604-0855 [email protected] Additional Credit: PAID IN FULL written by Eric Barrier, William Griffin All rights owned or administered by Universal-Songs of Polygram Int.,Inc. on behalf of Itself And Robert Hill Music (BMI) © 1987 Used by Permission Notes about reading this prompt script 1. Lighting Cues are in red, red parenthesis denote a description of the lights 2. Only press or fire cues that have “GO” 3. “Autocues” are automatic cues and DO NOT NEED TO BE PRESSED OR FIRED as they are linked to other cues 4. This script syncs with the Qlab software for MAC. More tips on Qlab can be found on the back of the production report in the PAIGE IN FULL binder. PAIGE IN FULL | 1 PRESHOW 00 and (preshow light) L1 GO Preshow: Old school hip hop music is played as we see a Soul Train line on projections. If a DJ is present, then they will do a live set that mixes eighties hip-hop and top 40 hits. The set should last 15-30 minutes and no song should last for more than one minute. The set is fast paced, fun and energetic! 0.5 and L2 (blackout) GO SHOW START 1 GO The audience sees projected video of a cassette being placed in a cassette player. The play button is pressed and we hear “You are now in tune to Paige in Full (autocue 2) L3 (General wash with panels) GO Music begins as Paige enters and gets the crowd warmed up. PAIGE Good evening! How ya’ll doing? How ya’ll feelin tonight?!! I am so glad that you’re here! I’m Paige and tonight, I bring you Paige in Full. Projection of old school imagery that ends with a picture of Eric B. and Rakim PAIGE So why Paige in Full? 3 GO Well, I remember my Dad buying the 99 cent 1987 cassette tape of Eric B. and Rakim’s Paid in Full. I danced to that tape for what seemed to be decades…I loved the sample, the mix of cultural influences and of PAIGE IN FULL | 2 course Rakim’s simple yet impressive verse. I remember the video: white chicks dancing, Arabic writing and Eric B and Rakim hardcore in front of a money backdrop. Hip- Hop was beginning to reach out and blur lines standby L4 (purple) 4 GO PAIGE (rhyming) Thinkin of a master plan Cuz ain’t nuthin but sweat inside my hand To now test to see if I got pull I hit this stage…I bring ya’ll PAIGE IN FULL (autocue 5) Projection/sound: “REWIND”: To reverse the track. Go back in time to where it all started. (autocue 6) L4 (Purple) GO Sound/Dance: THE CONCEPTION Through dance Paige plays her father and mother meeting for the first time in a nightclub. Love ensues, then a proposal, marriage and then a passionate night. Ma becomes pregnant and dad helps to deliver the baby. MOTHER Paige. There’s something so different about this little girl (standby L5 general pulse) FATHER Something special and unique… MOTHER Raymond….what do you think about your little sister? 7 GO VOICEOVER She looks like an alien… L5 (general pulse) GO PAIGE (as 8 year old) I do feel like an alien L6 (General wash) GO most of the time and B-more is some strange planet that my parents decided to raise me on. And this…right here, 3rd PAIGE IN FULL | 3 grade with these cutthroat chicks is the BALTIMORE ZOO! These girls are all about their FILA’s, their finger waves and that crazy club music. Me? I’m on planet rock. Obsessed with Hip-Hop and all it has to offer. You see on my planet, Big Daddy Kane rules all and Queen Latifah is his first lady. We eat mixtapes and robot to dance breaks. We understand that you “don’t believe the hype” and that “you gotta fight… for your right… to paaaaaaaaaaaaarty”. Although I’m on a different planet, at school, I’m still a “threat”. PAIGE Ma, How am I a threat? MOTHER Because you’re smart beautiful and you have your own style. PAIGE Yea, but look at me. I’m 60 pounds, with pigtails that I sit on and I haven’t fought a day in my life. MOTHER Don’t you worry about those alpha females. They think they’re in some kind of competition with you. Jokes on them…you ignore them and you’ve already won. And focus on your school work or like your father says, “Grades drop and heads get popped” And that’s word… PAIGE Mmmmhmm….word to your mother! Back in school, things got worse. It wasn’t just dirty stares and sucking teeth. Now it became personal cause girls started running they lips. PAIGE IN FULL | 4 CHERRIA What do I think about Paige? (smacking lips, sucking teeth). She is wack, corny and phony. Which is a shame, cause she got potential being light brown wit good hair and all. Sike! Who am I kidding? That pochahontas flavor is plllllllllayed out! PAIGE Cherria! I hear you talking about me and I don’t why you talking bout me cause I ain’t never do nothing to you but be respectful and cooooordial (my mother taught me that word). Why you always be dissin me for no reason?? CHERRIA Girl, please! Everyone knows that since you came to the school, you’ve been a weirdo. You the only one willing to get suspended for wearing your walkman and you always talking to yourself! PAIGE Newsflash!!!! I be rapping!!! Like Monie Love or Roxanne Shante. Whoops…I forgot. You listen to Anita Baker and she bakes nothing! CHERRIA Whatever Pocahontas….you just watch your back so that you don’t get banked before lunch. PAIGE I am not Indian! I am Black Cuban and Chinese. Peace, Hola and Ne how. And I bet you can’t spell any of that!! CHERRIA Nobody can be that many things you pathowogical liar. Eating Chinese carryout, don’t make you Chinese! PAIGE PAIGE IN FULL | 5 Look…just don’t mess with me I’ll hit harder than the overweight lover Heavy D! (to the audience) 3rd grade was tough dealing with all these (unsure of the word) alpha…bet…girls. I was in more fights than I can mention and things really got ugly when I started fighting back. I even beat up this boy who was picking on Nick. I threw him into the monkey bars and made him eat woodchips. PAIGE After a while, I had skin as tough as a crocodile and no one messed with me. And that was fresh, cause then I could work on my rhymes: P.A.I.G.E. in the H.O.U.S.E Come correct don’t try to disrespect me See I got more game than Parker Bros. Keep it all in the family just like Sally Struthers Ayo- I’m not even tougher than leather But I look a lot better than your mother in pleather! PAIGE In this basement, I did everything. I break danced to break beats. Break…the beat….Hurrah 8 GO Projection/Sound: “BREAKBEAT”: the part of a song that the DJ loops and the B boys dance to aka the regular playlist of the Hernandez Household. (autocue 9) Optional lights for DJ mix Projection and sound are played of hip hop’s famous break beats. If DJ is present this a 2-4 minute set of recognizable break beats. Set should be fast, upbeat and should include several tracks. DJ can interact with the audience or add any “performance” effect. Set fades as Paige interrupts as “MAMA” Optional lights come to a halt and return to general wash PAIGE IN FULL | 6 MAMA Girl! Hush up all that noise! Ten minutes! Ten minutes and dinner is almost ready. PAIGE Ten minutes. That’s just enough time to make it to the next commercial break of In Living Color. And then I get to see my favorite part, my idols…THE FLY GIRLS! PAIGE Fly girl Oh so fly girl Girl I’m fly Fly girl fly U can’t see me---covered in my attitude So sexy I’m rude So bad I’m good So suburb so hood But it’s all good Cause I’m so fly No lie and you know this Ballin’, fallin’, sprawlin’ All over that beat Can’t nothin’ stop my feet In my brand new Fila’s Or should I say fee-flies Fee fii foo fum Bring your jimbe or your beat machine drum Because I will break circles around it and then bury it In my backyard 1986 time capsule So dirty that there’s flies (standby L7-color scroll or pulse) Because they swarm in my honor Bzzz they ponder As they rub their feet together Who is so clever the ultimate fly of us all Opposite of a flower on a wall PAIGE IN FULL | 7 Ah yes, the fly girl Paige b-girlin’ on this stage provin’ once and for all who’s the flyest of them all Girl I’m fly Fly girl fly Fly till I die Oh so fly (sometimes audience says it) L7 (color scroll or pulse general to the beat) and 10 GO Music plays as Paige daydreams of being to be a “fly girl”.