ACT ONE
(Lights up. It is the scene of the outside of a rather small house. BEN DANDY, MARY DANDY, SAL DANDY, and JACK DANDY enter with boxes. This should show that they are moving.)
Jack: Mom, do we have to move? I mean. . .come on. New school, new friends, new bullies,.
Mary: Jack, there are no bullies at Redwood Middle.
Sal: Are you sure? Scrub day is pretty big back then. Luckily, I'm going to the high school. (He puts his boxes in the "truck" offstage.)
Ben: What's Scrub Day?
Jack: Exactly. Do you know what they do on Scrub Day? The eighth graders torture the seventh graders throughout the whole day while sixth graders get to watch and enjoy.
Ben: It won't happen. (He exits.)
Mary: If it does, I'll talk to principal. Deal! (exits)
Jack: UURRRGGGHHH! No one gets it! (SAL enters)
Sal: Don't worry, bro. You can lead scrub day next year. If you ever make it! (he laughs as he leaves into the house.
Jack: (not meaning it) Oh yeah! (exits)
(A big moving truck is shown going across the stage. After it leaves, the MOVING WORKERS are shown behind it.)
Music Starts, "Footloose" (originally from the musical "Footloose")
SOLO WORKER #1
Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours for what
Oh tell me what I got
(During the next phrase, SCHOOL KIDS, including GIRLS TRIO, BETSY, TINA, ROGERS, CHARLIE, are seen at desks in school.)
SOLO WORKERS #1/2
Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours for what?
SCHOOL KIDS
For what?
WORKERS
For what?
SCHOOL KIDS
For what?
TINA
Been working too damn hard
I'm punching that same card
Eight hours busting my butt
Oh tell me what I got
WORKERS
I've got this feeling
That time is holding me down
GIRLS TRIO
I've got this feeling time is holding me down!
SCHOOL BOYS
I'll hit the ceiling, or else I'll tear up this town
ALL
Tonight I gotta cut loose
Footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me offa my knees
Jack, get back
C'mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose
GIRLS TRIO
You're playing so cool
Obeying every rule
Dig way down in your heart
You're burning, yearning for some -
ALL
Somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
BETSY/TINA
Life ain't passing you by
ALL
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
WORKER #2
If you'd only loose
ALL
Cut footloose (whoa-o-oh-oh)
Cut footloose (whoa-o-aoh)
First! We've got to turn you around
Second! Then put your feet on the ground
Third! Now take a hold of your soul
Life keeps holding me down
Everybody cut everybody cut footloose!
(Blackout.)
(Lights up. It is the scene of the outside of a rather small house. BEN DANDY, MARY DANDY, SAL DANDY, and JACK DANDY enter with boxes. This should show that they are moving.)
Jack: Mom, do we have to move? I mean. . .come on. New school, new friends, new bullies,.
Mary: Jack, there are no bullies at Redwood Middle.
Sal: Are you sure? Scrub day is pretty big back then. Luckily, I'm going to the high school. (He puts his boxes in the "truck" offstage.)
Ben: What's Scrub Day?
Jack: Exactly. Do you know what they do on Scrub Day? The eighth graders torture the seventh graders throughout the whole day while sixth graders get to watch and enjoy.
Ben: It won't happen. (He exits.)
Mary: If it does, I'll talk to principal. Deal! (exits)
Jack: UURRRGGGHHH! No one gets it! (SAL enters)
Sal: Don't worry, bro. You can lead scrub day next year. If you ever make it! (he laughs as he leaves into the house.
Jack: (not meaning it) Oh yeah! (exits)
(A big moving truck is shown going across the stage. After it leaves, the MOVING WORKERS are shown behind it.)
Music Starts, "Footloose" (originally from the musical "Footloose")
SOLO WORKER #1
Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours for what
Oh tell me what I got
(During the next phrase, SCHOOL KIDS, including GIRLS TRIO, BETSY, TINA, ROGERS, CHARLIE, are seen at desks in school.)
SOLO WORKERS #1/2
Been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours for what?
SCHOOL KIDS
For what?
WORKERS
For what?
SCHOOL KIDS
For what?
TINA
Been working too damn hard
I'm punching that same card
Eight hours busting my butt
Oh tell me what I got
WORKERS
I've got this feeling
That time is holding me down
GIRLS TRIO
I've got this feeling time is holding me down!
SCHOOL BOYS
I'll hit the ceiling, or else I'll tear up this town
ALL
Tonight I gotta cut loose
Footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me offa my knees
Jack, get back
C'mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose
GIRLS TRIO
You're playing so cool
Obeying every rule
Dig way down in your heart
You're burning, yearning for some -
ALL
Somebody to tell you
That life ain't passing you by
BETSY/TINA
Life ain't passing you by
ALL
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
WORKER #2
If you'd only loose
ALL
Cut footloose (whoa-o-oh-oh)
Cut footloose (whoa-o-aoh)
First! We've got to turn you around
Second! Then put your feet on the ground
Third! Now take a hold of your soul
Life keeps holding me down
Everybody cut everybody cut footloose!
(Blackout.)