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An Original Musical by Bruce Mccoy BLUE an original musical by Bruce McCoy Bruce McCoy 24176 Hollyoak G Aliso Viejo Ca. 92656 714-655-1698 [email protected] () "BLUE" SYNOPSIS The early sixties, Rock n' Roll is dead. Elvis has left the army for a wimpy film career. Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Richie Valens and Eddie Cochran are gone. Jerry Lee Lewis' career is shattered after he marries his 13 year old cousin. Chuck Berry's in jail and Bill Haley's Comets were burnt out. The music scene is dominated by pre-fab, pompadoured pretty-boy singers all named Bobby. The Beatles won't arrive for several years. But young people are starting to wake up to changes in the air. They are beginning to develop a sense of self. This is evident in Southern California, where the climate and lifestyle center around the beach. A small but growing legion of teens are discovering surfing. This beach culture phenomena will soon wash over America but for now is practiced by relatively few. This new culture adopts folk music as it is able to be played and sung around bonfires on the beach. Some rebel against the boring songs they hear on the radio to create a new music that reflects the excitement of surfing a wave. There are also some who are becoming aware of the damage being inflicted by modern polluters to the water and air. How the industrial pace of the world is having an effect on the environment. Especially the oceans. Big Oil is soon to learn the power of the people when the people unite for a cause. ACT ONE SCENE 1 Huntington Beach in Southern California, September 28, 1961. There are oil derricks overlooking the beach as far as the eye can see. There are several oil drilling platforms close off shore. Except for the ocean, this could be Saudi Arabia or Texas. -- DAY (Lights up to reveal a beach set with sand and a blue ocean. The sides of the set are festooned with oil derricks that stretch to the horizon. All barefoot actors on the beach always have oil stains on their feet and legs.) (The voice of a radio DJ is heard) DJ It's a fractious Friday for all you boss beach lovers out there and the weather here in the Southland is dynamite baby! Highs in the 80's and lows in the 70's, I mean, whatta you want! It's time to flip over, slap on the baby oil and sizzle the other side. (MORE) 2. DJ And don't miss Blayne and the Wave Breakers tonight at the Rendevouz Ballroom, down on the peninsula, playing that new surfer music he's getting famous for. And now back to some bodacious rock 'n roll... (DJ voice fades) (As the DJ's voice fades, three girls in period bathing suits bound on stage and begin to sing "Rock 'n Roll Almost Died") (Prologue) ROCK N' ROLL ALMOST DIED AND YOU CAN FEEL IT DEEP INSIDE. THE PASSION HAS GONE AWAY. BUY WHAT COULD SAVE THE DAY? ROCK N' ROLL WAS HURTIN' AROUND '62. IF YOU WEREN'T THERE, WE'LL SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU. ROCK WAS KINDA CHEESY AND SO UNCOOL. BUT SOMEDAY THERE WILL BE FOUR LADS FROM LIVERPOOL. (OOOOOH) PRESLEY'S IN THE ARMY, CHUCK BERRY IS IN JAIL. JERRY LEE'S BRIDE WAS 13 AND HIS RECORDS WOULDN'T SELL. BUDDY HOLLY'S PLANE CRASH TOOK THE BIG BOPPER TOO SOON. LITTLE RICHARD IS A PREACHER, NO WOP BOP A LOO BOP A LOP BAM BOOM! THE DANCES WERE KIND OF FUN, DO THE TWIST AND THE JERK. HULLY GULLY, DO THE PONY, MAKE THAT MASHED POTATO WORK. EVERY SINGER WAS A BOBBY, JOHNNY, OR A FABIAN. SEEMED THAT ROCK N' ROLL WAS NEARLY AT IT'S END. BUT THINGS WERE ROCKIN' OUT IN CALIFORN-EYE-A. THE KIDS WERE LEARNING HOW TO SURF AND LEARNING HOW TO PLAY. PTHE MUSIC HAD THE THRILL OF SURFIN' ON A WAVE. AND HAD THAT SPECIAL SOMETHING THAT BOYS AND GIRLS ALL CRAVE. ROCK N' ROLL ALMOST DIED. AND YOU COULD FEEL IT DEEP INSIDE. BUT TAKE THE OCEAN ADD A SUNNY DAY AND ROCK 'N ROLL WILL FIND A BRAND NEW WAY. (As the girl singers run off the stage, two men enter from stage left onto the beach. They are unsuitably and unseasonably dressed in dark, 50's style business suits, hats, and leather shoes. They are sweating in the hot sun and are obviously very uncomfortable.) SLICK (Mopping his brow and coughing) 3. Man, this sea air is making me sick. I'm used to air with a little attitude. Air you can sink your teeth into. Air that smells like...money! LIAM (His hat is unusually large and he has noticeable sideburns) You know Slick, I've always liked the ocean. It's really beautiful. SLICK Yeah, I know, full of fishes that are great deep fried with tartar sauce and fries,right pal? But, we digress. Do you know how much oil is below our feet right now? LIAM (Looks at the bottom of his shoes and begins to count on his fingers and remarks sarcastically) Let's see, at two dinosaurs per square foot, times... SLICK (Interrupts) Funny! All the surveys say it could be lakes, rivers, oceans of it! Do you know how much that is worth? LIAM (Chuckles and starts counting on his fingers again) Let's see, five dollars a barrel times...hey Slick, how many barrels in a lake? SLICK (Stares at the audience with a look of exasperation) Look wise guy, enough with the comedy. There could be millions, billions, trillions! If we can just lease this land with the mineral rights for the COMPANY... (They both bow their heads for a moment. Liam rolls his eyes.) 4. We'll get a big fat bonus! LIAM Well if anybody can do it it's you! I regretfully remember up in Alaska when you sold the fisherman the idea that oil drilling causes vibrations that help the salmon find their way back to their spawning ground. That was really snaky. Or when you convinced that tribe in Brazil that an oil derrick was a fire breathing god? The look on their faces when it struck oil. That poor village thought the gods went crazy! Where'd they go? Did they ever come back? SLICK Who cares! We scored a big oil strike for the COMPANY. (They both bow their heads for a moment. Liam sighs audibly.) (Slick makes a gesture of dismissal) Listen, we've gotta lock up this little piece of future black gold here. But, look around, we're surrounded by our brother oilers. We have to move fast before they figure it out. Plus we have one thing on our side you can always depend on, that never lets you down...all humans are driven by pure, unmitigated greed! LIAM (Mockingly) And all because a couple of thousand years ago, a whole bunch of dinosaurs croaked around here. SLICK (Stares at the audience with a look of exasperation. His face then takes on a beatific glow) Ahh, dinosaurs! I love dinosaurs! They sacrificed their lives for modern man. If it wasn't for a bunch of big, dead dumb, lizards, why we'd probably be selling vacuum cleaners door to door. And instead, we work for the COMPANY! (Slick bows his head while Liam looks to the heavens to transport him anywhere but next to Slick.) (Slick starts to sing "I Love Dinosaurs When They're Dead". He prowls around the stage as he sings.) 5. SLICK ONCE THERE WAS A COMET THAT CRASHED INTO THE PLANET. OR MAYBE A VOLCANO THAT BELCHED UP MOLTEN GRANITE. COULD'VE BEEN AN ICE AGE, THAT FROZE THEM ALL QUITE STIFF. OR LIKE A STUPID BUNCH OF LEMMINGS, THEY JUMPED RIGHT OFF A CLIFF. (RUBATO) BUT TO KNOW HOW IS IMPOSSIBLE. HOW A FOSSIL BECAME FOSSIBLE! OH, I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! (Whenever Slick mentions a dinosaur, it's authentic name and picture are on a cardboard sign that Liam holds up as they are mentioned. The entire cast appears in Dinosaur outfits and start dancing in a chorus line) (A bouncy accompaniment begins) OH, I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! IF THEY WERE COMMON BORN OR REGAL, PURE-BRED. DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEIR CLASS IS. 'CAUSE NOW THEY'RE OIL AND GASES. I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! THE VELOCIRAPTOR STARTED A CHAPTER ON HOW MUCH MONEY ONE CAN MAKE. WHEN HE AND HIS VELOCIBUDDIES BECAME AN OILY LAKE. TYRANNOSAURUS WAS TYRANNICAL BUT NOW HE'S VERY BANKABLE. TRICERATOPS? WHY YES, HE REALLY IS. OH, I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! SALTOPUS WAS AN OPUS WITH A SWEET BUT CRUDE FINALE. HE AND HIS HERD SOMEHOW GOT TRAPPED IN A DEEP, DARK, LONELY VALLEY. GIVE PROPS TO PROTOCERATOPS. DON'T MEET GIGANOTOSAURUS IN AN ALLEY. OH, I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! ALTISPINAX INSPIRED SYNTAX TO PRAISE HIS TIMELY DEMISE. ACHILLOBATOR WAS LIKE A GATOR WHO HAD BIG, BRIGHT, SHINY, EYES. ENIGMOSAURUS SANG IN THE CHORUS BUT WAS HARD TO UNDERSTAND. THESPESIUS WAS NOT AN ACTOR BUT HE ACTED VERY GRAND. OH, I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! ERECTOPUS WAS VERY POPULAR! AS WAS DONGYANGOSAURUS. CARDIODON HAD SUCH HEART. SKORPIOVENATOR BECAME QUITE POROUS. GASOSAURUS COULD TELL THE FUTURE. HARPYMIMUS WAS ANNOYING. BYRONOSAURUS WAS POETIC. STEGOSAURUS ENDED UP FLOWING. OH, I LOVE DINOSAURS WHEN THEY'RE DEAD! PARVICURSOR USED BAD, BAD WORDS.
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