Christmas Musicals for Church
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16 633171-16 SCENE 2 (Persia. Lights come up on a group of fi ve musicians. They briskly speak over one another as they bustle about, packing up their instruments to leave for their next performance area.) ANIKA: (briskly, no nonsense) Who left the camel untied? He's run off again. (ANIKA continues walking around the stage, looking off stage left, and off stage right.) ABEL: (running completely across stage as he shouts over his shoulder) Not meeee! BABAK: (snooty) It was most certainly not me. VASHTI: (matter of fact, dryly) It was probably Tirzah. You know she's trying to teach that camel to talk. TIRZAH: Not to talk. Just to communicate. He's very sweet. He's one of the band, too. ANIKA: If he's one of the band, I need to update my resume. (She walks off , checking things off on a list.) BABAK: In a sense, she's right. If that camel didn't carry my instrument for me, I'd be too worn out to give my best in our concerts. VASHTI: (dryly) And wouldn't that be a shame. TIRZAH: Come now, Vashti, Babak is a very talented musician. BABAK: The top of my class. It's harder than you think to fi nd a musician of my caliber who will still travel. ANIKA: (walking briskly back through) The camel. Where. Is. That. Camel? We've got to get to our next performance town. TIRZAH: He'll be back. We have an understanding. He just needed a little… "me time." VASHTI: (speaks it) Eye roll. ANIKA: (frustrated) That's it. We're going without the camel. VASHTI: (yelling obnoxiously) Going without the camel! BABAK: (alarmed) Going without the camel?? ANIKA: (no nonsense) Going without the camel! Do we have Abel? VASHTI: (yelling obnoxiously to no one in particular) We've lost Abel! BABAK: Leave Abel, but fi nd the camel. I absolutely cannot carry my own instrument. ABEL: (running on) I'm here. I had to pack up my newest project. I've made some new drum sticks. For Preview Only