Singing

Duet Singing

(Repeating)

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Just then Piotr walked into the room dressed in a goat outfit with several robes. He was playing Doctor Dillamond. "Settle down, now! I have read your most recent. And I am AMAZED to report the progress! Although, some of us still tend to favor form over content...Miss Glinda." he said while handing her back her essay.

"It's GAlinda." Kitty said from where she sat on one of the benches.

"Excuse me...Glinda." he said while handing the papers to John and letting him pass them out.

"I really don't see what the problem is. Every other professor seems to be able to pronounce my name."

Rogue rolled her eyes before standing. "Maybe pronouncing your precious name isn't the soul purpose of Doctor Dillamond's life. Maybe he's not like every other professor. Maybe some of us are different."

Kitty smiled amusedly. "Oh! It seems the artichoke is steamed." she said while turning to giggle with her friends.

"Class, class! Miss Elphaba has a point! As you know, I am the sole Animal on the faculty. The token Goat, as it were. But it wasn't always this way. Oh, dear students, how I wish you could've seen it as it once was. Where you could walk down the halls and see an antelope explicating a sonnet, a snow leapord solving an equation, a wildebeast waxing philosophic. Don't you see, dear students, how our dear Oz is becoming less and less..." Piotr seemed to think about it before turning to Elphaba, "Colorful. Now, who can tell me what sent these motions into place?"

Rogue raised her hand and said, "From what I heard, it all started with the great drought."

"Exactly. Food grew scarce, people grew hungrier and angrier. And the question became "Who can we blame?" Can anyone tell me what is meant by the term "Scapegoat"?" he saw Rogue raise her hand and turned away. "Someone besides Miss Elphaba? Ah yes, Miss Glinda..."

"It's GAlinda...with a GA. I don't see why you can't just teach us history instead of always harping on the past."

"Well, perhaps these questions will enlighten you..." he said before walking over to the board in the back before turning it. On the board where the words ANIMALS SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD. "Who is responsible for this? I'm waiting for an answer..." he said while everyone stayed silent. "Very well, that will be all for today...You heard me, class dismissed!"

Everyone quickly left the room except Wanda and Rogue. Wanda wheeled forward a bit, but Rogue and Piotr both had their backs turned to her. "You go on ahead, Nessa." Rogue said.

Wanda nodded and wheeled off-stage right while Rogue walked closer to Piotr. She looked to the board. "Animals should be seen and not heard..."

"Oh, Miss Elphaba, don't worry about me, go along and enjoy your friends."

"Oh, that's alright. I have no friends. Would you like to share my lunch?" she asked as he sat on a bench and she pulled out a sandwich and held it out to him.

He happily took it. "Oh, thank you! How kind." he said as he ate it. She smiled lightly and handed him the paper to a candy bar. He was about to eat it, but saw the board again. Piotr lookd to the ground with sadness in his eyes. "I seem to have lost my apetite."

"You shouldn't let statements like that bother you. I mean, I always do, but you shouldn't."

Kris watched from backstage and smirked. So far so good, but she needed Remy to be able to sing soon. "Ren, get Remy ready for the next scene with Sam. Go." she said as Brenna hurried to find them. She then turned back to the others.

"Oh, Miss Elphaba, if only it were a matter of words on a chalkboard. But the things one hears these days...dreadful things...I've heard of an ox, a professor from Quox no longer permitted to teach, who has lost all powers of speech. And an owl in Munchkin Rock, a vicar with a thriving flock forbidden to teach, now he can only SCREECH! Only rumors, but still, enough to give pause to anyone with paws. Something bad is happening in Oz."

Rogue looked at him worriedly. "Something bad? Happening in Oz?"

He nodded. "Under the surface, behind the scenes, something Baaaaaah...Sorry. Bad..."

"Dr. Dillamond, are you alright? Shall I fetch you a glass of water?"

"No, I don't know what came over me."

"So, you're saying that there are animals that have, somehow, forgotten how to speak? But how is that possible?"

"Well, with so much pressure not to..." he started just as Storm came in.

"I heard there was some sort of disturbance in class. Are you alright, Doctor? Oh, Miss Elphaba, you're still here! I thought you would've been on the way to my seminar by now."

"Yes Madame, ordinarily I would be but..."

"But what? I do hope I haven't missplaced my trust in you. Magic is a very demanderating mistress, and if one has ambitions of meeting the Wizard. I'm sure Doctor Dillamond sees my point." she said before leaving.

"I'd better go. Doctor Dillamond, if something bad is happening to the Animals then someone has to tell the Wizard. That's why we HAVE a Wizard. So nothing bad...

"Nothing all that bad..."

"Nothing truly baaaaah...Sorry, bad."

"It couldn't happen here, in Oz..."

Kris let out a breathe she had been holding before turning to Remy and Todd. "You guys ready for the next scene?" she asked them.

"Ready as we'll ever be." Todd said with a shrug.

"Good, 'cause this is when Remy is first seen. He needs a big entrance." Kris said right as Todd wheeled Remy onstage in a "buggy".