Script

Hi, I'm Bobby, your new next door neighbor. We just moved here from St. Louis&

Great! Can you sing?

Umm&

Can you dance?

Well&

You'll learn!

(Bewildered)
I just came to drop off these brownies from my mom!!!

(ANNIE and some other KIDS place LARS on a stretcher.)

Make me proud, kiddo! You're going out there the new kid on the block& but you're coming back a STAR!

(Gives LARS a hug.)
Be brave, Lars!

(Preparing himself to receive a hug from Edwina.)
I stubbed my toe, Edwina!

(EDWINA ignores him, throwing sheet music at BOBBY as the KIDS help LARS offstage.)

I heard there's a kid my age who lives here.

You must be thinking of my sister Katie. She's at the Michigan Summer Match Olympics in Ypsilanti. [pronounced: Ipsilanti]

Oh, well, I heard that we were moving in next door to the best piano player in town. Do you give piano lessons?

You must be thinking of my sister Myra. I'm sure you can talk to her after the show.

Oh, then you must be that drummer I heard practicing this morning. You sound great!

You must be thinking of my brother Joe.

Well& who are YOU?

I am Edwina Spoonapple, advice-giver extraordinaire. Perhaps you have heard of me.

Not really.

Would you like to be in our show?

No thanks.

No thanks necessary!
(Grabbing his arm.)

Now Bobby& we'll just get you started on the opera, and the big tap number and&
(Gets an idea.)

You can't eat fire by any chance, can you?