Teenager----------------------------------------dressed as a teenager
Teenagers---------------------------------------dressed as teenagers
PROGRAM TIME
Depending on songs choosen 30-45 minutes
PRACTICE SUGGESTIONS
Practice speakers first before you put the music to it.
SAMPLE
I REMEMBER WHEN MY PARENTS SAID…
By Caroline S, Mackay
(The curtains are closed and there is a podium or music stand set up by a mike on the left side of the stage. There is another mike placed on the stand for the child to pick up and use.) (There should be a mike on the right side of the stage for the other speakers to use.)
TEACHER: (Enters very pompous and arrogant.) I am here (cough cough) to answer the question. Is there anything in this world that an intelligent adult and a (raises nose in the air as if having a hard time saying) and a mere child has in common. This seems so obvious that is seems preposterous that it should have to be answered. (emphasizes) What can a mere child have in common with an intelligent, … diligent, …dependable, …responsible person like myself? Nothing! Nothing, not one little teeny weenie, (indicates with fingers) thing could I (emphasize I ) have in common with a child.
( A child should be sitting in the first row of the audience dressed in everyday, maybe torn knees type clothes. When the teacher asks what can a mere child have in common etc. The child should raise hand, wave it anxiously and try to get the attention of the teacher. The teacher should try to ignore it by turning or anything else he can think of.)
TEACHER: (finally recognizes and calls on the child) What is your problem? Don’t be rude. I have answered the question, you need not raise your hand. If you have forgot the answer to the question of what can a mere child have in common with an intelligent adult it is nothi…
CHILD: (stands up and loudly says as he walks forward) Parents. Do you have parents?
TEACHER: Parents? Of course I have parents everyone has par…
CHILD: (comes on stage acting very dignified) …That’s what we all have in common. (takes over the microphone while the teacher stands there stupefied) Why if you didn’t have parents you wouldn’t be here tonight and neither would they. (points to the audience) It doesn’t matter if you are rich or poor country or city, free or imprisoned, young (points to self) or old (looks at teacher)…uh, uh, ancient (points to teacher). We all have parents. So I guess that means we are in the same club.
TEACHER: Parents, what an astute answer. I remember my parents, they used to say some of the most utterly ridiculous things….
CHILD: (interrupts) ...yours too? Did your parents ever use the one (takes the teacher by the hand and starts to walk off stage to their left) I TOLD YOU SO…
TEACHER: (stops and looks at the audience) Are parents still using that one? When I was a lad they used to…(they exit left side of stage)
(Santa enters from the right side of the stage and goes to the mike)
SANTA: I remember when my parents said…
(The stage curtains open at this point as Santa speaks revealing a family seated at a table eating. They should all be wearing Santa hats. Mother and Father Claus are on the sides and Santa is facing the audience. The grown up Santa should go off stage and wait to come back in.)
FATHER CLAUS: Come on son eat up. Your mother slaved over a hot stove all day to prepare this feast fit for a king.
(Mother Santa heaps some more cooked spaghetti on the child’s plate. It should be heaped so high that the audience can see it as Father Santa speaks. Each time Mother Claus puts another spoonful on. The child’s eyes should get larger and large. He must react so the audience can see.)
MOTHER CLAUS: Clean your plate up…
(Mother Claus should look straight at the audience and lip sync what the chorus says.)
CHORUS: (all the chorus says this together and very loud) THERE ARE CHILDREN STARVING IN CHINA
