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Something Bad is In Dr Dillamond's Class
Greg walked over and held his hand up for silence.
GREG:
(spoken) Settle down
Ladies and Gentlemen
Settle down now!
I have read your most recent essays…
And I am amazed to report some progress
Although, some of us still
Tend to favor form over content
Miss Glinda (He gave Fern back her paper and she sneered at him)
FERN:
(spoken) It's Galinda
GREG:
(spoken) Of course…Glinda (He spat this out and I really wanted to laugh. Too bad it wasn't in the script)
FERN:
(spoken) You know, I really don't see
What the problem is.
Every other professor seems to be able
To pronounce my name (She said it with vicious sarcasm and I stood up angrily)
SABRINA:
(Spoken) Maybe perfecting the pronunciation
Of your precious name is not the sole
Purpose of Doctor Dillamond's life
And maybe he's not like every other professor
Maybe some of us…are different (I was getting really riled up here. She acted as if I were a freak show because I'm a Grimm and an Everafter. That it's disgusting to be both)
FERN:
(spoken) Well, it seems
The artichoke is steamed (This caused laughter and I looked at her, angry and humiliated. The students laughed as well and Greg held up his hand and stomped down, trying to get their attention.)
GREG:
(Spoken) Class! Miss Elphaba
Has a point.
Come as you've noticed
I am the sole Animal on the faculty
The token Goat… (This gained laughs and I had to restrain myself from throttling who ever wrote this play. I swear they wrote it to torture me! Everything in it is based off my damn life!)
But it wasn't always this way
Oh, dear students, how I wish you could've
Known this place as it once was
Where you could have walked
And see an antelope explicating a sonnet
A snow leopard solving an equation, (I'm okay with Everafters but once it reaches animals doing algebra I'm done. That's a no, no in my book. Unless that animal is Puck…hmm…that sounds hornier than I intended it to sound)
A wildebeest waxing philosophic
Don't you see, dear students, what's being
Lost in our dear Oz. It's becoming less and less…
Well… (He looked at me as if he were looking for a word and my eyes narrowed. I knew exactly what he was about to say)
Colorful (This caused laughter among the audience and I grimaced)
Now, what sent this into action?
SABRINA:
(spoken) From what I read,
It began with the great drought (I stood up and looked around like a know-it-all)
GREG:
Precisely! (He walked over to the board and picked up a stick. This would be like another class. Ah dammit! His monologue before was boring enough. The stupid show didn't get sexy until the end of Act 1 and then Act 2. That was like a very sexy soap opera with a very sexy male leader…cough, Puck, cough)
Food grew scarce
People grew hungrier and angrier (Fern was starting to stare at him with complete and utter disgust)
And the question remained: Who can we blame?
Can anyone tell me what is meant
By the term "scapegoat"? (I raised my hand, not even looking up from my paper. Now that I think about I was like this when I first went to high school…different and a know-it-all…ah, I really was insufferable like Puck said I was)
Somebody beside Miss Elphaba (Fern stood up with her hand raised like a damn angel. Well, some angels are evil…like Lucifer. He's the devil now. I bet you Fern is his evil little spawn and she came from hell as a succubus. She's not doing a great job at that! Ha!)
Yes, Miss Glinda?
FERN:
(spoken) It's GA-linda
With a GA.
And I don't see why you just can't
Just teach us history
Instead of all this harping on the past (She looked like she meant it. Idiot didn't even know that the word 'history' comes from the Latin root 'historia' which means 'finding out, narrative, or history'. Ah damn! I sound like a walking, talking dictionary…I didn't know that. Something was giving me this information. I didn't dare look at the audience but it was that prescence again. The prescence was highly intelligent, I'll give it that)
GREG: (He does an awful lot of talking right? But for some reason I respect him. Strange? I know…)
(spoken) Well, perhaps these
Questions will enlighten you (He walked back to the board and swung it around. Great! More words that I have to pretend to read. This was the most boring scene. I want to convince Puck to love me again! And that would only happen in the animal scene. I wonder what we're going to do about that make out scene…that'll be fun! On the board was written 'ANIMALS SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD'…harsh! I may have agreed with that once but never again!)
Who is responsible for this?
I'm waiting for an answer!
Well…that will be all for today… (Nobody moved. This was strange…when we rehearsed he never seemed so passionate. I focused my magic and found a strange prescence in him as well. What's up with today?)
You heard me! Class dismissed!
SABRINA:
(spoken) You go ahead, Nessa (Daphne nodded and rolled herself away. Greg sat down, his back to me. I pitied him and I stayed)
'Animals should be seen and not heard'
GREG:
(spoken) Miss Elphaba!
Don't worry about me.
Go join your friends (Too bad I don't have any except for Daphne, Red, Vanessa and no longer Puck…Puck was being a bitch about us breaking up. I can't BELIVE he thought I was serious! His silver eyes were still intact every time he looked at me)
SABRINA:
(spoken) Oh that's alright.
I don't have any friends (I just remembered…Daphne and Red are basically my sisters. They don't count as friends)
Would you like to share my lunch? (I sat down next to him and I felt good about being compassionate. But I felt even better being wicked though I wasn't…yet anyway)
GREG:
Oh well…thank you!
How kind… (I took out a wrapped up candy bar and held it open. He slipped the paper from underneath it and began to eat it. There was laughter in the audience. I had to keep from laughing myself. He held out the paper he had just bitten out of. I don't think he was supposed to but something suddenly took over him just as that other prescence)
I've seemed to have lost my appetite
SABRINA
(spoken) You shouldn't let ignorant
Statements like that bother you.
I mean I always do but you shouldn't.
GREG:
(spoken) Miss Elphaba, if only it
Were just a matter of words on a chalkboard
But things one hears these days…
Dreadful things…Miss Elphaba (Suddenly, the music started up and Greg would sing. He's actually damn good!)
(sung) I've heard of an Ox
A professor from Quox
No longer permitted to teach
SABRINA:
(spoken) What? (I can't believe I was caring but the emotions were raging now and I was actually angry…what the hell?)
GREG:
(sung) Who has lost all powers of speech
SABRINA:
(sung) What?
GREG: (He sounded genuinely worried. I wonder why…he's not a goat!)
(sung) And an Owl in Munchkin Rock
A vicar with a thriving flock
Forbidden to preach
Now he can only screech!
Only rumors - but still -
Enough to give pause
To anyone with paws
Something bad is happening in Oz
SABRINA:
(sung) Something bad? Happening in Oz?
GREG:
Under the surface
Behind the scenes
Something baaaaaaad. (He bah like a real goat…he never sounded that realistic in rehearsals…uh oh. I have to ask Nessa…Nessa? Her name is Daphne! Something was wrong. Someone was in my head…and I could do nothing to change it. Suddenly, the prescence only represented itself through my emotions. And I was worried)
SABRINA:
(spoken) Doctor Dillamond, are you alright?
Can I get you glass of water?
GREG:
(spoken) I don't know what came over me (Neither did I…he wasn't only talking about bahing…he was talking about being controlled by our counterparts…were incarnations of those were playing! And the prescence…where they here? Were the actual people here? I know Glinda was here but was Elphaba really here?)
SABRINA:
(spoken) So you're saying that
All these Animals have some how
Forgotten how to speak?
How is that possible?
GREG:
(spoken) Well, with so much pressure not to (Then Belinda came storming in with her ugly robes/kimono thing. It was only ugly because she was wearing it. Anything, Kathleen made was so not ugly!)
BELINDA:
(spoken) I heard there was
Some sort of disturbance in class
Are you alright, Doctor? (Greg waved his hand, trying to make her relax. Like she cared!)
Miss Elphaba, you're still here!
I would've thought you would've
Been on your way to my seminar by now
SABRINA:
(spoken) Yes, Madame, ordinarily I would be but…
BELINDA:
(spoken) But? I do hope I haven't
Misplaced my trust in you
Magic is a demantering mistress (And so are you, bitch! Whoa…I don't feel that bad about Belinda. Sure, I hate Fern but not Belinda…at least I don't think so. What did she do to me? I mean Elphaba?)
And if one wishes to meet the Wizard
Well, I'm sure Doctor Dillamond understands
SABRINA:
(spoken) Doctor Dillamond - If something bad is happening
To the Animals, someone's got to tell the Wizard.
Because once he knows about this he'll make it right. (I knew I was being naïve but in this if the Wizard was so great then how'd he become that stupid deadbeat that works in Macy's)
That's why we have a Wizard to keep Oz wonderful.
(sung) So nothing bad...
GREG:
(spoken) I hope you're right:
BOTH
Nothing all that bad:
GREG:
(sung) Nothing truly baaaaaad:.
(spoken) Sorry, "Bad" (Greg ran off stage and I was left alone and the spotlight zeroed in on him)
SABRINA:
(sung) It couldn't happen here
In Oz. (Well…I bet you a million bucks it could. Elphaba was a fool…but so am I. I had believed that nothing like that could happen to my life. Now here I am trapped in a town and can't get out without a mythical sword that it's my ex-boyfriend soon to be boyfriend soon to be husband's car trunk. Wow…that sounds so far fetched if I didn't know the truth I would believe it myself!)