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OPENMIKE
(Animated and characterful.)
Let’s try that again, and louder this time … are you ready for this?
AUDIENCE
(Participating widely.)
Yes, Mike!
OPENMIKE
(Ebullient.)
That’s better! Let me hear you put your hands together for the Orchestra of MissFortune!
SCENE 2
(A musical piece with no dialogue.)
MISSFORTUNE
(MISSFORTUNE stands just below the stage, facing the orchestra, with her back to the audience. She lifts a baton and taps her lectern smartly. Her students sit up straight, quite alert, and watch as each of the marines picks up a French horn.)
ANGRYBARD
(On his debut appearance thirteen year old ANGRYBARD knows that this is the first signal. Nervously, he rises to his feet, standing in the back row of the orchestra, poised at the kettle drums.)
MISSFORTUNE
(MISSFORTUNE smiles at him sympathetically and encouragingly, willing him to give the sort of robust performance which she knows he’s capable of. In return ANGRYBARD displays a half hearted smile which cannot disguise his sense of foreboding.)
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