Act I – Scene 7
Goodbye Blue Sky
Setting – London, England, 1944, and 1940 (with YOUNG PINK added).
(Bird chirping noises are heard, along with a distant airplane noise. Enter WINIFRED and YOUNG PINK. The stage is nearly empty, besides the white wall that is ¾ of the way built along downstage. The two walk across the stage.)
YOUNG PINK: (pointing up, in awe) Look, mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky!
(Exit WINIFRED and YOUNG PINK. Music starts, while a red light shines prominently onstage. Bombing sounds are heard. A beautiful actress dressed as a black eagle with Nazi symbolism on it dances across the stage slowly, referencing the Blitz of London in 1940)
PINK and CHORUS: (offstage)
Ooooo…. (repeats twice more)
(Enter the frightened ones, nearly naked men wearing gas masks on, walking like apes towards the stage. Nazi eagle is still dancing.)
Di-di-di-did you see the frightened ones?
Di-di-di-did you hear the falling bombs?
Di-di-di-did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter,
When the promise of a brave new world unfell beneath the clear blue sky?
(The frightened ones come onto the stage and begin to run amok crazily. YOUNG PINK comes onto the stage as if he were lost. As he passes the Nazi eagle, the actress stops dancing, turns the boy around, bends down, and kisses him very passionately, symbolizing the fascism and Neo-Nazism that corrupts him in his hallucinations later in life. Exit the Nazi eagle and YOUNG PINK, holding hands together.)
Ooooo…. (repeats once)
(The frightened ones begin to dance in the way the eagle did.)
Di-di-di-did you see the frightened ones?
Di-di-di-did you hear the falling bombs?
The flames are all long gone,
But the pain lingers on.
(The frightened ones begin to leave.)
Goodbye blue sky,
Goodbye blue sky,
Goodbye,
Goodbye.
(Black out.)
