Sorry for starting a couple different things rather than continuing other stuff, but I already had this started.
The theater was mostly empty in the calm early morning, save for a few seats in the front row taken up by Rosita, Eddie, Gunter, Meena, Johnny, and Ash, all of whom were lounging comfortably. Mr. Moon sat on the edge of the stage in front of them as he explained the threater's next event.
"So it's a fundraiser?" Rosita asked with pen and notepad in hand.
"Of sorts. It's more of a charity event really." The koala explained. "Nana Noodleman has asked us to contribute to an organization she's sponsoring. We're one of a number of local businesses that were recruited to help." Mr. Moon perked up with pride as he said this "The funds are going towards a local homeless shelter in the city. Our goal is to collectively help raise the 125,000 dollars needed." He continued as he got up to pace the length of the stage. "So, we're here to come up with ways to help reach our goal. Any ideas?" He said with an enthusiastic look towards his company. Ash was the first to raise a hand from spot curled up in one of the theater seats. Surprised to see the teenager contributing first, Moon was eager to hear what her idea was. "Yes, Ash!"
"Why don't we just tell people that if they donate enough, Johnny does the next show shirtless. His fangirls would probably donate enough to fund the shelter themselves." Ash explained these in a cool tone, leaning against the armrest with her head in her hand as she try to hide how amusing the idea actually was. Johnny was not a fan of this idea, as was made evident by the look of flustered horror on his face. Everyone looked at Ash in shock to how blunt she was and Johnny sputtered out something intelligible before finally being able to respond.
"Wot!? Why do I haf ta be the one bein' humiliated on stage? I'm not-"
"You're a teenage heartthrob. Your fans would probably pay anything to see you topless." Ash shamelessly explained with a smirk. She knew she was right and everyone else present awkwardly shifting in their seats (save Gunter who was snickering) were in silent agreement.
Johnny looked to the others for some kind of counter, but when no one said anything, he groaned and slumped in his seat. Mr. Moon spoke up. "Now Johnny, we're only passing around ideas. Obviously we don't expect you to-"
"Nah, I'd do it." Johnny cut him off, much to Mr. Moon's surprise. "Unde' one condition." The teen continued and turned to smirk at Ash. "You'd hafta' preform too. Some ditzy little pop song in that stupid, pink leotard getup. I'm sure your fans'll love it." He leaned back in his seat arms crossed as he spoke.
"I picked out that dress." Mr. Moon mumbled taking offense to the comment, but no one paid him any mind. Everyone was focused on the rocker and rebel, watching with either concern, amusement or (in Gunter's case) delight.
Ash took Johnny's preposition as a challenge, and she wasn't about to back down. "Alright, fine." She sneered at him with a determined glare. "Heh, while we're at it, we should make Meena rap too." She added nonchalantly as she turned her head back to look toward the stage, a slight smirk on her lips.
Meena's ears immediately perked up at this and she went wide-eyed. "What? No!" She quickly detested, not wanting to be involved in the other two teens apparent quest to humiliate themselves.
She was now the center of attention of many inquisitive looks. Eddie was the first to ask. "You can rap?"
Meena shook her head frantically, "Nononono, absolutely not!" She denied as her face started to turn pink behind her ears.
"I have proof on my phone that says otherwise~" Ash hummed as she pulled her phone and waved it a bit.
Meena's eyes got even wider with panic. "You said you deleted that!" She shushed.
"You shouldn't sing with your headphones on if you don't want others sneaking up on you." Ash smiled.
Meena made a grab for the phone over Johnny, her words coming out in a desperate hiss. "Ash, give me that!"
"Make me."
The three teenagers fell into a tussle of Ash trying to keep her phone out of the elephant's reach and an amused Johnny holding Meena back.
"Can you send me that?" Johnny laughed out to Ash. Before he could get an answer, Rosita cut in.
"Will you three behave!" The mother was standing in front of them now glaring them down. The teens froze then quickly readjusted themselves in their seats. Once they were seated properly, Rosita shot a glare to Eddie and Gunter who were giggling off to the side. The two fell silent under her scrutiny. After a moment, her gaze soften and she turned to her boss. "You were saying, Mr. Moon?"
The koala was pulled away from writing down Ash and Johnny's suggested acts as he was address. "Yes, well, those are some interesting ideas, but-"
"But completely inappropriate!" Rosita cut the theater owner off sternly. "This is a family-friendly theater after all, right Mr. Moon?" The mother was standing in front of the stage with her head turn toward Mr. Moon, looking at him expectantly.
"Well, not necessarily." The koala began. "Yes we host a lot of family-friendly events, but they don't all have to be. We could put on a more... adult show." Rosita was looking at her boss in shock as he continued. "The only problem is we would need more acts." Mr. Moon was pacing the stage as he spoke, speaking more to himself than the crowd in front of him. He was brought out of thoughts by Ash's voice.
"Oh, we can come up with acts. Why don't you just pass around a pen and paper." To Ash's delight and Rosita 's horror, Mr. Moon passed around his clipboard with paper he had been taking notes on and a pen. Rosita too flustered to write anything and passed it to an eager Eddie before returning to her seat. Once it had made its way through the giggling group, Mr. Moon regained possession of his clipboard and began looking over what the others had wrote.
"Alrightie, it seems our first suggestion was for Gunter to preform a pole dancing route..." The theater owner began. That was obviously Eddie's suggestion. He could tell just from the sloppy handwriting. Under it was the suggestion of partners pole dancing with Rosita, written in Gunter's glitter pen. "Gunter, I don't get the feeling Rosita will want to join you for this particular performance." As Mr. Moon said this, Rosita's face became stricken and she shook her head.
"Awwww! Rosita, vhy not?!" Gunter pouted at his dance partner. "It is great for your gluteus! And it vould be fun!"
Despite his pleads, the mother pig still looked unenthusiastic about the idea. Mr. Moon decided she probably wouldn't be convinced and crossed out Gunter's suggestion. Clearing his throat, the theater owner continued. "Moving along, the next item is a lovely song suggestion for Mike! And the song a Westside Story classics." The koala had a knowing smile on his face as he peaked over his clipboard at three teens who had all seen the suggestion. All three were trying to keep a straight face with varying degrees of success. Everyone else present was left in confusion as to why this idea was so funny. The confusion dissipated as Mr. Moon continued, his voice teasingly innocent, "I'm sure Mike could do a lovely rendition of 'I Feel Pretty'." Johnny was the first to lose his restraint and doubled over in his seat, covering his mouth with his hands and chuckling. Judging from the smooth penmanship and it's placement on his list, Mr. Moon guessed Mike's song request came from Meena. Underneath was an added detail in Johnny's handwriting. "And the next suggestion is for his to be in costume! What a excellent idea!" The actual words on the paper were just 'in drag please' with an arrow pointing towards Meena's writing.
Eddie began snickering into his hoof and even Rosita was smiling in amusement. "Oooo! Ve can make him look so pretty!" Gunter chirped, his voice lacking any irony.
The pig's earnest response made Mr. Moon smile. It wasn't that the theater owner saw anything wrong with Mike wearing a dress, he just knew what the mouse's reaction to such a suggestion would be and it would be hilarious. 'And after all, if Mike wanted to have a say in this, he should show up at these meetings' Mr. Moon thought to himself as he circled the two ideas together before reading the last item on his paper. "And lastly, we have a request for-" he stopped at read over the suggestion again, his eyes widened and smile gone. Slowly, the koala continued. "For the owners of the theater to preform a rendition of 'Car Wash'." The koala's eyelids lowered and he looked over at Ash. The porcupine meet his gaze with a devilish grin on her face from where she was comfortably nestled in her seat. "Also in costume." He added lamely.
"What? It only seems fair that you guys join in on this. And this song seemed... fitting." Ash smiled knowingly as she spoke the last word.
"Uh, Buster? H-how does she know about that?" Eddie stuttered out with wide eyes fixed on Ash, even as his head turned towards Mr. Moon.
"A little bird told me." Ash purred, glancing between an exasperated koala and a nervous sheep. Everyone else present was either confused by the whole transaction or was Meena, who was desperately trying to hide away behind her ears.
Mr. Moon sighed and glanced down at his watch. He shot up from his seated position on the edge of the stage. "Whoops! I kept us past our meeting time. Okay, great job brainstorming, everybody! You all had some really creative ideas!" All the animals were dismissed and dispersed throughout the theater to complete whatever tasks they had to do. The koala headed off to his office with Eddie following after his.
"Buster! Wait up!" Eddie called as he caught up to his friend. "You're not actually gonna make a show out of this, are you?!"
"Of course not." Mr. Moon drawled out comfortingly. "This was just to get everyone thinking. We might be able to spin something off of these ideas. Gunter seemed perfectly comfortable with doing a more mature act. But we still have plenty of time to come up with a show, so I wouldn't worry so much if I were y-"
"Mr. Moon, I have Judith from the bank on line 2." Ms. Crawly cutoff her boss as the pair entered her office.
Mr. Moon sighed and shook his head a little. "Well, no use bringing back habits." He said with a small shrug good bye towards Eddie before responding to Ms. Crawly. "I'll take the call in my office." The theater owner's clipboard was casually discarded on the old lizards desk as he walked by. In hindsight, leaving a list of racy acts and the information for putting together the charity show on the desk of his easily confused secretary wasn't a wise choice. Because with that careless act, Buster Moon had sealed the fate of his next show.
Mwahahaha! I know I started something else, but this was something I started and love this idea! Honestly, I still don't feel I have the skill for this idea, but the support I've gotten recently pushed me to post this. Nothing shows how much you love characters like putting them in horrible embarrassing situations. Again, let me know if anyone wants me to continue this. (also if anyone has song requests for Johnny, Ash, Meena, and Gunter, I'm open to suggestions)