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George Plautz -- Part Two -- The Performance

On the day of performance, everyone gathers at the designated sight on time. The set is brought in, the properties laid out, the costumes readied to be put on. But first, the set needs to be put up. There is a strong wind and the planned performance area is a direct hit. The set keeps BLOWING OVER! What to do?!
 
Last minute corrections are the hallmark of theatre and in this case something needs to be decided quickly. George grasps on to the idea to turn the whole thing around and make what was to be the audience seating area the stage and what was to be the performance area, seating. On the ground. The set can be secured to the picnic shelter so won't be blown down.
 
Everyone joins in the new set up. Actors need to be versatile!!

EVERYONE HELPS RELOCATE THE SET
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THE CANVAS IS UNFURLED
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THE STAGING IS LASHED TO THE HOUSE
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THE NEW ARRANGEMENT IS MADE TO FIT
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"WILL IT STAY?!
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"IT LOOKS OKAY"
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"JUST ABOUT READY"
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"LET'S WAIT FOR THE AUDIENCE"
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AND THE AUDIENCE GATHERS
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IN THE SHADE OF THE TREES

THE PLAY IS INTRODUCED BY FOUR NARRATORS
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THE FOUR CHEERLEADERS

The narrators introduce the setting: the girl's dorm, the boy's dorm, the forgetful professor's house. The plot develops as a freshman boy arrives with his mother and brothers. The mother instructs the brothers to keep the young man, Hero, away from the girls. Of course, he falls immedeately in love with Julia, who he spies looking out of the girl's dorm. She falls in love with him, too, but there is only one problem: she is engaged to be married to the local university fooball hero, Miles Glorious. Hero bribes his brother to help him win her and take her to be married in Reno. The plot thickens when Julia is hid in the forgetful professor's house. The professor returns and, hearing a "Youuu whooooo," believes his house has become haunted. He calls for ghost busters and continues to search for his long lost son and daughter.
 
 

THE "GHOST BUSTER" ARRIVES
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THE PROFESSOR BELIEVES THE GHOST BUSTER
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AND LEAVES A RING WHICH THE OTHER BROTHER KEEPS

The professor is told that if he runs five times around the campus, his son and daughter will be found and the ghost in his house will be gone forever! He runs, leaving his ring --which is identical to those of his two lost children -- in the hands of Sammy, Hero's brother.
 
Meanwhile, Julia's fiance, Miles Glorious, is on his way to claim his bride. The boys must do something. They decide to say that Julia has died of a smiling disease. Sammy will pretend to be Julia.
 
Miles appears and is devastated to hear that his Julia has died. Full of grief-filled passion, he goes to kiss the corpse, but when he does so, the corpse jumps up. Of course, it is Sammy and he runs off leaving Miles in confusion. In the chaos that follows, the professor returns, bumps into Sammy who he thinks is his daughter because s/he is wearing his ring. When Julia suddenly appears and says she has a ring identical to it, we find out that Julia is his daughter. Finally, Miles catches up with the woman he is chasing and realizes his ring is the same as Julia's and the professor's. The family is reunited at last and Hero is free to marry Julia!

"Oh, my Julia!"
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THE PROFESSOR, UNITED WITH SON AND DAUGHTER
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AT LAST!!



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