The school bell had rung. School was now in session. The 4th graders had all sat down and were talking amongst themselves.

"Good morning students." Mr. Garrison said. "As you all know the musical auditions are in today." The whole class was silent and some students exchanged looks. "Look I know most of you don't care, but for those who do we are going to perform the musical, Who & Why."

"Who & Why? What the hell is that musical about?" Clyde muttered.

"Who & Why is a murder mystery musical." Wendy stated. "It features a detective named Joe who is invited into a mansion to help solve the murder of Mrs. Danielle Wellington. Joe is accompanied by her daughter Jessica and they fall madly in love while trying to solve the mystery, however-"

"-Okay Wendy." Mr. Garrison interrupted. "Don't spoil the damn show."

"Ha! Mr. Garrison yelled at you hippie!" Cartman laughed.

"Anyways today we are gonna learn about why Columbus was a mass murderer." Mr. Garrison stated.

As Mr. Garrison faced the board to give his lecture, Cartman turned to face AJ, who was trying to stay awake.

"AJ, psst. AJ wake up." Cartman whispered.

"Hmmm what?" AJ responded.

"You're falling asleep in class again." Kyle whispered joining the conversation.

"Mmm yeah I know. I was up late again practicing my song for my audition for the musical." AJ spoke. "Lana kicked me out of our room because I was being too loud and she wanted to sleep. So i ended up practicing in the living room and passing out on the couch."

"Speaking of auditions. I'm going to audition too." Stan said.

"What? You're not serious are you Stan?" Kyle responded.

"Yeah Wendy's going to audition and it would be great if I did too. That way I can prove to Wendy that I care about her interests so we can get back together."

"Oh..."

"I'm auditioning." Kenny said.

"You too Kinny?" Cartman asked.

"Yeah Lana and Butters convinced me to." With that being said Lana and Butters waved over to Kenny.

"Well if all of you are trying out, I guess I will too." Kyle said.

"But dude, you're not even prepared." Stan said.

"Do I really have to? You just read a few lines from the musical and sing a song."

"Pfff well I'm not auditioning." Cartman said interrupting Stan and Kyle. "I'm just going to auditions to see AJ. Right AJ?...AJ?" Cartman turned to see AJ sleeping on her desk completely drooling. "Eh, wake up." He began to snap his fingers at her, but she still was fast asleep. "I give up."

As soon as the end of the school day bell rang, students rushed home except for the ones auditioning for the musical and those who were there to watch. To everyone's surprise, a lot of the boys showed up to audition.

"Okay I'll bite." Bebe said. "Why are you boys here? You never audition for the musical."

"Well," Craig said. "This year we wanted to."

"Bullshit." Red responded. "You always told me that you hated musicals."

"Let me guess," Bebe said. "You're only auditioning because the musical has a lot of killing involved."

"Whoa, she's good." Clyde said.

"Not me." Stan said. "I'm auditioning for a completely different reason."

"And what would that be?" Bebe asked. Stan silenced himself and then spoke,

"Because, because Token was auditioning this year."

"What?" Token said from a distance.

"Yeah, I didn't think a lot of guys were gonna show up and I didn't want Token to be one of the only guys auditioning." Stan lied.

"Ugh huh." Bebe said raising an eyebrow. "Whatever, I have to go practice my song for the audition. Come on Red."

Time had passed. Kenny, Lana, and Butters had finished their audition and Stan was next to audition followed by Kyle, after Kyle was some fifth grade girl, and after her was AJ.

"Stan Marsh!" Mr. Garrison shouted. Stan gulped and went on stage in front of Mr. Garrison and Mr. Mackey. He could easily make out Cartman in the audience sitting with Kenny, who decided to stay and watch while Butters and Lana went home. There were also a few other students who stayed to watch besides Kenny. One of them was Wendy.

"Heres the script, m'kay." Mr Mackey said handing Stan the script. "Please read those set of lines right there, m'kay."

"There she is," Stan spoke. "Lying on the floor. Mrs. Danielle Wellington. This poor woman, killed by a chandelier. If there is one thing I know is that this woman was murdered. That chandelier was cut with a knife and I'm certain the killer is in this very room. Jessica, lock the doors and windows, nobody is to escape."

"That's fine, Stanley." Mr. Garrison said. "Now your song?" Stan sang his song and as soon as he finished, he sighed in relief. "Thank you, Broflovski!"

"Oh this should be good." Cartman cackled to Kenny. Stan sat down on Cartman's other side just when Kyle walked on stage.

"M'kay Kyle." Mr. Mackey said. "Do you have a song to sing?"

"Don't you want me to act out some of the lines from the show?" Kyle asked.

"No need to Kyle, m'kay. Your speeches are enough to convince us you can act."

"My speeches? But what do my speeches have to do with-"

"-Just sing your damn song!" Mr. Garrison groaned.

"God dammit." Kyle muttered. Kyle closed his eyes and sung his song and finished.

"Good thank you." Kyle hopped off the stage and took a seat next to Stan as the fifth grade girl walked on stage.

"Dude, your singing has really improved." Stan said.

"Really I thought I sounded like shit." Kyle replied.

"Dude not even." Kenny said. "You sounded nice, even Cartman let his mouth drop a bit."

"I did not. Stop making shit up Kinny." Cartman responded.

"Look, AJ's coming on stage." Stan said.

"About damn time." Cartman said.

"M'kay, AJ here's the script could you read these lines?" Mr. Mackey asked.

"Sure." AJ replied. AJ cleared her throat and began to read the lines, but as she read them, everyone in the room began to giggle. Her acting was just plain awful. She stumbled across words and most of the time she sounded like she was a robot on drugs.

"Mmmmmkay. How about you sing your song." When AJ sang her song she didn't sing as beautifully as Wendy did, but she sang alright. As AJ finished, she was about to walk off stage when Mr. Garrison spoke,

"AJ could I talk to you after auditions?"

"All righty." AJ smiled and hoped off stage to join her sister Cassandra, who also came to watch AJ audition in the row behind the boys. A few others auditioned and it was finally the end. As the four boys stood up from their seats, AJ ran off to go see Mr. Garrison. Cartman was going to follow her when he felt a foot stomp on his.

"Fuck!" He shouted.

"That's for laughing at my sister's audition." Cassandra said as she left for her locker to collect her things to go home.

"You had it coming." Kenny snickered.

"I did not laugh." Cartman replied.

"Yeah you did!" Kyle shouted. "You covered your mouth with your hand to hide your smile."

"Fuck off, Keel."

"It's Kyle dammit!"

"You know what, fuck all of you guys." Cartman walked away from his group of friends to go find AJ and Garrison. When he found them, they were standing in a secluded corner outside the auditorium so he quietly listened in.

"Look AJ," Mr. Garrison spoke. "Your singing is great, above ensemble worthy. However, when you act it's like taking a knife and continuously stabbing the side of my head with it."

"Soooo...I didn't make it in?" AJ asked.

"Not exactly. I was hoping that instead of being in the show, that you would become a part of it."

"I don't understand."

"I was hoping you would join the stage crew. You see, we could use more of a hand with the behind the scenes. Are you up to it?"

"Please say no." Cartman prayed.

"Sure." AJ responded happily.

"God dammit." Cartman whispered to himself.

"Great." Mr. Garrison said and walked away. As soon as AJ was alone, Cartman ran up to her.

"Hey Car Car." She said. "Guess what? I-"

"-Are you out of your fucking mind!?" Cartman shouted.