Thirty eight
Josh, Jessie, Rick, Frank, Faith and Blake were all at the auditions for Grease. Jessie was running for Sandy and Faith wanted to be one of the pink ladies. Josh, Rick and Blake were all auditioning for Danny and Frank wanted to just be an extra.
"Lori, Jessica, Alice, Jasmine, Emily and Rebecca can you come to the stage please," the drama teacher called. Jessie smiled at the others and stood up, following Emily to the stage. "Ok, so first off, our sandy has to be able to sing so we want you all to sing the first few lines of Summer loving. Jessica lets have you go first," she said.
Jessie grimaced. She couldn't sing very well but was going to make a conscious effort to do her best. She took a deep breath as the music started playing.
"Summer lovin' had me a blast,
Summer lovin' happened so fast,
met a girl crazy for me,
met a boy cute as can be,
Summer days drifting away,
to oh those Summer nights."
She glanced out at the audience. She saw Rick, Josh and Faith nodding appreciatively. She smiled self-consciously as Rebecca took her turn in the spotlight. Rebecca was a natural singer and her voice hit every note perfectly. Jessie felt her chances drop from 1 in 6 to more like 1 in 15. As she watched the other girls all did amazing as well. Lori stood out especially, which infuriated Jessie to no end. "Ok girls," Miss Gooden told them. "Now let's try out some acting. Jessie try this scene for me," she said handing Jessie a page of dialogue. Jessie swallowed hard and glanced down at the lines.
"It was like the best Summer, ever. He was so handsome and such a gentleman, which I'm sorry to say most boys aren't," Jessie read, grinning at Rick as she said it. She let the page of words fall to the floor where she had stored them in her photographic memory. "But I don't even know where he lives or where he goes to school. I'm never going to see him again and... I can cope with that. As long as he is happy, wherever he is, with whoever he is with. I couldn't bear to see him hurt by a girl. Oh but I do know his name," Jessie continued, swinging round suddenly and pulling her eyes off of Rick. "he's called Danny, Danny Zucko," she finished. She turned back to the front and smiled weakly. Rick winked up at her. He knew she meant the words in real life as well. He'd been drawn into her story telling though and hadn't thought about the meaning behind the words. But now he did. She was saying that even if he wanted to leave her, she'd be happy for him.
Rick watched as the other girls did slightly different scenes or interpretations of the scene Jessie had done. Rick felt that Jessie had been best but he grudgingly admitted that Lori had been good too. The girls left the stage and Rick wrapped his arms around Jessie and gave her a kiss as she came back over to them. He let go and she sat back down in her chair next to Faith. The boys were called up next to perform as Danny.
Jessie watched, close to hysterics at the dance moves the boys were being taught to learn. Sandy and Danny were both supposed to be able to dance but all the girls were known for being good dancers so hadn't had to be auditioned for that bit. Jessie laughed out loud as Josh failed to do the right move for a fifth time. He was struggling and Rick was hardly any better as he wasn't really supposed to dance due to his arm. It was funny watching his one arm struggle though. Faith, who was sat next to Jessie, was still managing to control the hysterics but only just. Blake was doing a fair job of getting the moves right and in the right order. Jessie had to admit she was impressed. She didn't know he could dance.
They then watched as the boys had to read a paragraph from the script. Josh went first and he said it aimed at Jessie, so he could focus clearly on the words. "She was stunning. She had my heart pounding like a jet engine. She just had a way with words. But that's over. It's back to school, Danny, time to get a grip, and get over her. She only would of broken your heart anyway. You can't let the lads see you like this. When do we get emotional," Josh said putting emphasis on the 'we'. They were doing an internal monologue that came before Summer lovin' in the play. Josh stepped back, looking slightly embarrassed. Jessie grinned at him, encouragingly and happily. She thought he was doing really well. Rick was up next. He had to use the words unlike Josh, who like Jessie had a photographic memory and could remember the words after just glancing through the page. He used facial expressions as he spoke but stumbled over some of the words. Jessie felt for him. It was out of his comfort zone, yet here he was standing up in front of everyone, performing to see how well he could do. Jessie clapped when he had finished and tried to catch his eye but he refused to look at her.
Blake was the last of the six boys to audition to do the monologue. He was filled with confidence and Jessie looked at him as if he was a different person. If you had seen him you wouldn't believe that this was the boy who only last night had had a psychotic moment and attempted to kiss Jessie against her will.
The next morning the cast list had gone up and there was a burbling all the way down the corridor leading to the notice board it was pinned to. Rick, Jessie, Faith, Frank, Josh, Elekra and Blake all walked down the corridor, noticing they were getting some strange looks as they passed. They stopped at the board and waited for everyone to move out the way before crowding round it to read.
Cast& Crew
Set designers: Elektra, Lydia Farrell, Alice Montgomery
Hair and makeup: Louisa Jones, Rachel Holliday, Ellie Wilson
Costume: robin ashton
Back stage hands: Mark Edwards, Joseph Farrell, Kia Mela, Kiana Mela
Sandy: Jessica Thomas
Rizzo: Faith Davies
Frenchy: Jasmine winer
Jan: Alice Haranah
Marty: Lori Wells
Danny:
A/N: I am so mean as I am not telling you who is Danny. Who do you reckon it will be? You may be surprised. I will give you a clue though it is either Rick, Josh or Blake. Let me know what you think. Also very sorry about the late update, had exams, Higher Education fair, Head Girl application. Sorry, Indigo :)