Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The musical


Scene one will open with the people gathering and moving toward left stage. There will be young men carrying all sorts of guns and a few more arcane things like knives, pitch forks, etc., wealthy old men with decorative canes and three piece suits with cigars clamped between their teeth, wealthy old women dripping in jewelry and a few militant women chewing gum and carrying an assortment of weapons.

They will all have somewhat vacant eyes, hard faces, loud strident voices and a flush on their face to match their gleeful smiles.

The initial song will be to the tune of We will gather at the river. But the words will be, "We are gathering for Trump, no matter what he asks of us . . . " The movement will be four four time, militaristic, but erratic in places.

Scene two opens with everyone wearing sheets, like the KKK, but each one will have a little orange fuzzy pom pom attached to the point on top. A large flat screen television will be hung high center stage showing actual clips of Trump pouting and shouting and spewing forth Trumpisms. The people will spontaneously respond, together, or singly, at times like an old time revival meeting. "Oh Yes!" rather than Amen! as they raise one arm high.

This scene will end with everyone marching off stage singing, to the tune of Onward Christian Soldiers, "Onward Trumply soldiers, marching off to war with our fuzzy pompoms fluttering forever more!"

Scene three will again have the screen in center stage. This time showing soldiers shooting aging beauty queens, lynching people of Spanish descent, burning mosques, and factories filled with slaves working for Masters. There will be crying children reaching through bars for their mothers and at the end a picture of swimsuit models serving drinks to old men around a pool.

The actors will  be back in their scene one clothes, dancing madly around congratulating each other and singing, to the the tune of Take me to the river, "Take me to the good life," but there will be increasing confusion showing on their faces and fear on the older wealthy women's faces.  By the end of this scene there will only be the biggest, brawniest young men and wealthiest older men left on stage, the others having slunk away.

The young men will gather in groups around the old wealthy ones like football players in a huddle, giving grunts and shouts of solidarity in the field.

Scene four opens with the tv screen showing world leaders in a garbled conversation no one can really understand and a recreation of the oval office underneath. A man dressed to look like Trump will walk out, pick up his phone and grow more and more petulant until he finally takes a key and opens a drawer in his desk. He will pull out an over sized button and punch it victoriously, smiling from ear to ear! He might even utter, "Take that!'

Then he will cover his mouth with both hands and look wide eyed at the audience as he realizes what he's done and a huge white flash of light will fill the screen on the television, flash on the stage and everything will go black as an orchestra quietly plays, "America."



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