DEVILLE: (smiling) I don't think you'll be needing those anymore. You can
get rid of them. Next order of business. Camels. I specifically
ordered three brown camels. The zoo sent us two tan ones and a
white one. We need three browns! Fix it.
BAILEY: (unsure) Okay … but how?
DEVILLE: (interrupting) Who's my prop master? I want to see the manger
we're working with.
TAYLOR: The prop master? That's Ben. He's been our prop man for
years.
(Ben walks out on stage carrying a small manger.)
BEN: Here's the manger!
DEVILLE: Hmmmm, that's not going to work. Haven't you heard my
vision—bigger is better! The play is entitled, "The Marvelous
Manger," not "The Miniscule Manger!" You can get rid of that
one, we're going big … no, strike that … we're going huge!
BEN: Mr. DeVille, this manger is where we've laid the baby Jesus
every year for the last 49 years. It's the centerpiece for the whole
show.
DEVILLE: Hmmm, well, call Hollywood and get me some real prop
builders! I want a two-story manger! In fact, get me my entire
Hollywood stage crew!
(Ben looks on skeptically.)
BAILEY: (speaks as she writes on clipboard) Two-story manger! Hollywood
stage crew!
DEVILLE: Time to rehearse! Act one, scene one—shepherds in the fields,
keeping watch over their flocks by night. Places!
(Everybody scrambles to the wings or to their places. The group of
shepherds take their place as DeVille sits in his director's chair,
holding a cone megaphone.)
DEVILLE: Annnnddddd … (through the megaphone) ACTION!
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