Magic Time!

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                        VIVIAN
       C'mon, Dorothy Jean, you've already 
       sat through the picture five times.

                         RUBY
       I'm sure Greta will forgive you 
       this once.  Now come along.
 
                       DOROTHY
       Oh, alright…

She reluctantly follows after RUBY and VIVIAN, glancing back at the screen.

GRETA GARBO in Anna Christie

DOROTHY does a spot-on impression of Garbo’s famous line from the movie.

                        DOROTHY
       "Gif me a viskey, ginger ale on the 
       side, and don't be stingy, baby."

INT. MOVIE THEATER—STAGE. DAY.

A string of star-shaped lights blinks on and off on THE WONDER KIDS “ACT” SIGN.  SOUND of an ORGAN bellowing lustily, in full orchestral splendor, the swinging INTRO to “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing).”  

DOROTHY and VIVIAN prance onto the stage in time to the music, SINGING, and dancing to WELCOMING APPLAUSE.

And then we see it, at the front of the theater, in all of its magnificent glory.  The Leviathan of Sound. The MIGHTY WURLITZER ORGAN, with its gleaming metal pipes stretching toward the heavens like golden tentacles.           

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