Scene Eleven


The backdrop is a street in Shreaneck. The CHORUS of FERVENT PANDAS form a kind of Conga line as THEY dance and sing across stage. Behind them are DEEDELUS, MILLIAMA, SOMA and MAXIMUSH, still in their Panda suits. THEY attempt to duplicate what the Pandas are doing.
 
PANDAS
We’re on our way
To the Library at Marianat
That’s where we Pandas belong!

We’re on our way
To the place where the in crowd is at---
Where we’ll raise our voices in song!

They’ve got all these nooks there
Where knowledge we can seek out---
They’ve got all these books there!
We’ll have a Panda freak out!

We’re on our way
To the Library at Marianat
Where the coners and the cubers once sat---
But now it’s ours,
All ours!
MAXIMUSH

There it is up ahead.

(Backdrop rises, and we are in a restaurant. It is true that there are several different nooks, all with tables at which sit PANDAS eating and drinking voraciously. A large sign upstage center proclaims: THE LIBRARY AT MARIANAT---HOME Of THE BOOK-SIZED BURGER. Beneath it is a drawing of a burger in the shape of a volume with french-fries sandwiched in between the layers. And beneath that someone has scrawled: OUR FOOD IS GUARANTEED 100% DIURETIC FREE! Upstage left are two doors. One says PANDAS; the other PANDETTES. As DEEDELUS, MILLIAMA, SOMA and MAXIMUSH enter, THEY are surprised, but DEEDELUS is nonplused.)
DEEDELUS
Home of the Book-Sized Burger!

MAXIMUSH

Remember what our scientist friends said. Scientists know.
  (THEY stand center stage as the music of "The Library at Marianat" builds to a cacophonous climax.)  
CURTAIN SLOWLY FALLS
 
 


 
 

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