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MONIQUE:
We will begin our first ���Star Training Session��� by focusing
on instrumental techniques. Instrumental students, please step
forward. (Clare, T, Noah, and three other students step forward in a
line.)
BRICKLEBEE: Alright, let���s see what we���re working with. First, Fiddle Girl.
(T plays a line)
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BRICKLEBEE: Very nice. Now, Drummer Boy.
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(Noah plays on drums)
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BRICKLEBEE: Excellent! Now, Clarinet.
Here goes. It���s gonna be great. (Clare plays, then reed breaks again)
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(jokingly) Oops! Another broken reed. It���s not easy to do that,
folks. You gotta work at it, (in rhythm of last song) work, work,
whatever.
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(Kids giggle)
BRICKLEBEE: Okay . . . I���d advise everyone to practice your audition pieces,
and (switching into announcer mode, looking at the invisible camera)
remember . . . your entire futures are riding on this very important
day.
ZACH:
(as he looks in direction of invisible camera) Who is he talking to?
CLARE:
(coming alongside Bricklebee and looking intently in the direction he
is looking) Are you seeing people we���re not seeing?
NOAH:
(aside to Clare) I think he���s lost it!