EDN 71 pile CLASS PRESIDENT (RE: MICROPHONE) Is thia thing on? Okay, Claes of 19--(FEEDBACK)--I'm honored to have das your president. When I took office ears ago, we were mere freshmen. No to my vieion, leadership and prot row, we have become. AUG 01 2004 5, p faz of Thanks for your eu, last dance of the las career. So find that 3 some memories! that time, the of our high school ial aomecne and make ante starts the intro to ON SUMMER" KIDS franticallygry to get together with their ep&gial someone. DAVE seea CAROLINY, then the BIKINI GIRL, He go&@ to the BIKINI GIRL, They daiwg. “KEEP ANAMYE ON SUMMER" HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS 'D GOODBYE LAST SEPTEMBER WORDS T STILL CAN HEAR P AN EYE ON SUNMER THIS YEAR IEP AN EYE ON.... "INSTRUMENTAL" (CONTINUES UNDERNEATH) MARCELLA goes back to EDDIE, her boyfriend. They hug as if they haven't seen each other for years. MARCELLA I missed you, Eddie! EDDIE Not as much as I missed you, sweetheart. MARCELLA This is the moat incredible night of my life. It's like we really are in California! EDDIE I know, honey. It smelle like the gym, but it feels like the beach. MARCELLA I love being in California with you.Epie + ANS 91 20n4 p2[z p2ize EDDIE 7 Me too. Hey, what's with Caroline? I mean has au she ever danced? MARCELLA Don't you dare make fun of her. For someone who's totally out of it she is really nice. HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS DAVE ie dancing with the BIK: St Gate aE DAVE incredible eyes, Plus incredible and ears and stuff like that. BIKINI GIRL Trust me, yOy'll do a lot better if yor BOBBY taps on the shoulder. BOBBY Don't waste your t: babe. ‘This is our nigyt. faxity case, starts dancing with BOBBY. DAVE (TO THE BIKINI GIRL)/ aw, yore not my type anyway. BIZANT GIRL (0 BOBBY) ‘g his type? I'll giveffou a hint: and is covered Alth wool, HIGH SCHOOL SINGERS WE'LL BE GRADUATING... Everyone is paired off e: CAROLINE and the CLASS PI They stand awkwardly watchiy other couples dance.Coble T- AUG Ot 2005 5, p! (z 3 2a me fj ee (TO CAROLINE) On behalf of the entire student body, I'd like to thank the French Club for Sponsoring such a festive event. CAROLINE TByak you. Tt was a lot of hard work, but momayts like this, it's completely worth 4 CLASS PRESIDENT Tell me.\Would you like to...dance? (SHRUGS) builds to a perfect moment as CAROLINE and the CLAS PRESIDENT finally move out ontf the dance floor. HIGH scHooP®rNGERS THIS YEAR KEEP AN EYE ON 000... PRINCIPAL Hey, you want to hit those lights, Jimbo? No need for tears, most of you will be working at the factory, so you'll be seeing each other every day. ‘Now the sooner you leave, the sooner we can start cleaning up. FLUORESCENT LIGHTS snap on signalling the end of the dance. KIDS put on their coats and say good night. LIGHTS isolate EDDIE and MARCELLA on the SURFBOARD. EDDIE stands proudly next to MARCELLA as che poses. FLASH!Epvie IF AUG 01 a e2(2 2004, EDDIE Pp 422 How great ie thie? High school is finally a, over! I've never been so happy in my whole i MARCELLA I'm sad, Eddie. What's going to happen to us? EDDIE We'll still be together. MARCELLA But it's all going to be different. i: {ACCUSINGLY) “How can you be happy? EDDIE Maybe happy ien't the right word. MARCELLA Then what? EDDIE aad. T guess T'm actually kind MARCELLA Oh, Eddie, we are so alike it's ecary! As KIDS drift out of the gym, aa EDDIE and MARCELLA bundle up in their big coat "WOULDN'T IT BE NICE?" EDDIE WOMQDN’T IT BE NICE IF WE WERE OLDER WOULDN'T HAVE TO WATT SO LONG N'T IT BE NICE TO LIVE TOGETHER OF WORLD WHERE WE BELONG. ‘and MARCELLA exit onto the ET. The set pieces from the GYM are replaced by a LAMP-POST, The chorus of COUPLES in overcoats ing in background harmonies. WOULDN'T 1 IN THE AND TING WHEN THE DAY IS NEWEPRIe TIT Pl [2 AUG 01 2004 as. ps7 2e BOBEY & DAVE & EDDIE ROUND ROUND GET AROUND I GET AROUND EAH GET AROUND ROUND ROUND T GET AROUND ORT AROUND ROUND ROUND I GET AROUND The BEACH KIDS pick up #fe vocals as DAVE begins dancing music in his head. BEACH GUYS AROUND ROUND ROUND I GEY AROI GET AROUND ROUND ROUND I GET AROUND ROUND ROUND I GET AROUND ROUND ROUND..1 GE! WAH WA 000 SE 0000 000 000) AHH 000 000 GE ‘AHH 000.000 GET DAVE is gdnoing alone outside his HOUSE. fhe door opene and his n-chewing SISTER comes SISTER Hey, doofus! You were back an hour ago! And here, anyway, dancing J fosed to have the car Rat. are you doing out the car? & SHIFT to CAROLINE going to a PODIUM "WHEN I GROW UP CAROLINE mbere of the Claas of 19-- (CHE! aledictorian is a great honor. of hard work when others were out on d going to football games and getting real. ink and having, if I can believe the rumors) fro-marital...activities. My question is thia: If I'm so smart, then how come I didn't figure out how to have more fun in high school? THE LIGHTS SHIFT to later. BEACH GUY I DIG THE SAME THING THAT TURN ME ON AS A KID... WILL EDDIE Hey, Dave, will you sign my yearbook? i DAVE a I don't think so, Eddie.Eprie Tr AUG 01 2004 16. alg po(2z How come? I don't know. Kinda what? DAVE You know. Kinda...gay. EDDIE tt _-If. wa sign each others yearhooke? _ DAVE (CONFIDENTIALLY) Look, you're my friend and everything but we don't have to put it in writing. BOBBY comes over, EDDIE Hey, Bobby! Will you sign my yearbook? BOBBY Sure, man. ~ BOBBY and EDDIE sign each ot: yearbooks as DAVE stands apart. BOBBY (cont'd) How "bout you, Dave? DAVE hurriedly serpy ce in BOBBY'S yearbookse@0BBY looks at it in mock r+ DAVE (SNAPS) Alright!{4 AUG 01 2005 ** pr BEACH GUY pt(22- WON'T LAST FOREVER STUDENTS FOUR TWENTY-FIVE) BEACH GIRL Tr's KhyD OF SAD STUDENTS (TWENTY-STA TWENTY-SEVEN) WON'T LAST. FOI (TWENTY-EIGHT IT's KIND OF SAD (THIRTY THIRTY-ONE) BI WON'T LAST FOREVER a (THIRTY-TWO. WZ and EDDIE hurl their e air to celebrate. WAY 10 THE BETTER LIFE THE SHACKLES NEVER HOLD ME DOWN GONNA MAKE A WAY FOR EACH HAPPY DAY MY LIFE TURNS AROUND jwmene BOBBY (cont'd) Man, everyone seems to have their whole life planned. EDDIE We've got plans. That factory isn't going anywhere. BOBBY Yeah, well, maybe wa oughta be going somewhere. DAVE Like where?ebrie pr AUG 012004, 20. 02/4 pe 22 BOBBY Like out of this dead-end town. How does California sound? I mean we got a surfboard, even if it's kinda lame. EDDIE (LAUGHS) Guys like ug? In California? BOBEY WILL NOT WAIT FOR ME THAT VERY SAME LO THAT PASSED ME BY C'mon, this is our last chance, we gotta do it! We'll take Dave's car EDDIE I LAID DOWN ON MY BED VOICES IN MY HEAD ‘NOW “HEY IT'S pefffY A DREAM" DAVE T don't know, my car's kind of a heap, EDDIE No, Dave, everybody dige your car! BOBBY How many friends do you think you'd have if it weren't for your car? DAVE Look. I'm just going to say this, okay?epne wr AUB 0 1 2004 pad BOBBY P al Le What? (BLURTS IT ter's car! DAVE OUT) It's not my car! Okay? it’s BOBBY and EDDIE stare at him. BOBBY Your sister's car? But you said-- DAVE --T've said a lot of stuff... and.all of it's true. (BEAT) Except about my car. EDDIE I thought I knew you, Dave. DAVE (CONCERNED) You guys are still my friende, right? BOBBY Nah, thie changes everything, Now you're just one more jerk with a bad report card. DAVE Really? ROBBY Of course not, you idiot! We're friends. IE We'll always be friends! BOBBY Not so fast, Eddie. T'm not ready to make that kind of commitment. EDDIE 80 who's got a car we can take? ng) BOBBY How about Dougie? Great car, great guy, and ever since the accident he never says a word. EDDIE Perfecto!us e AUG 01 2004 22. e Hl p lof 22 a Except I owe him money. (BEAT) And I trashed wy, his house on Halloween. (BEA) And I just, roke up with his sister, BOBBY Man, you just spread joy wherever you go. DAVE You know who hag the most dynamite car in the class? Caroline. BOBBY we that.car. How do. we gat it? (OFF THE LOOKS) Me? Well of course she'll say yes What girl wouldn't? But then we'll be, stuck wi Zs DAVE "11 just stay here the rest of our lives and\rot and die ‘cause you wouyfn't ride in a car wXth Caroline. COME ON WE'RE FREE TO (OH BOY YOU JUMP FoR J NOW WON'T YOU COME ot (WHEN YOU BREAKAWAY YOU'RE FREE 10 (BREAKAWAY) COME ON YOU" (BREAKAWAY) CAROLINE looks behind her gure he isn't after acmeoneeppie i ( |e AUG 012004 se. p puflaz 60 TARE A LESSON CAROLINE BEACH GUYS & GIRLS A TOP-NOTCH SURFER BOY CATCH A WAVE, CATCH AL URSELF A BIG BOARD ‘000 WA 000 WA GO CATCH SOME RAYS ON THE SUNNY SURF AND WHEN You CATCH A WAVE YOU'L SITTIN’ ICH A WAVE YOU'LL BE SITTIN’ POF THE WORLD. WORLD BE SITTIN’ CATCH A WAVE TOLL BE SITTIN‘ ON TOP OF TEE THE LIGHTS SHIFT. BOBBY, DAVE) and EDDIE are wandering on the beach, feeling out of it. RHONDA, from THE LAST CHILI DOG, comes out. of the water in a wet suit. RHONDA, Hey, doll-face. Don't you even say hello? RHONDA, i figured I'd check out California, see what all the shoutin's about. Man, T shoulda looked at a map. Would have been a lot faster to come by land. EDDIE Guys, it's Rhonda! The mechanic who digs me. BOBBY Hey. DAVE Hey. RHONDA Hey. EDDIE Twas afraid I'd never see you again! MARCELLA suddenly appears in a pss pool of light in a wedAUG 012006 ss, (2/22 EDDIE is seriously freaked. EDDIE Whoa! What about Marcella? DAVE Man, you just gotta get over her! EDDIE How? How am I supposed to get over her? -- EDDIE is torn. between. MARCELLAand RHONDA, who slips out of the wet suit and ie stunning. | "HELP ME RHONDA" EDDIE SINCE SHE PUT ME DOWN OUT DOIN’ IN MY HEAD LATE AT NIGHT MORNING I JUST LAY IN BED BOBBY, DAVE, & BI WELL RHONDA 000, LOOK SgAPINE FOR YOU TO a HELP ME, RHONDA HELP ME GET HER Ot fow BOW Bow... BEACH GUYS HELP ME, RHONDA ONDA, RHONDA HELP HELP ME, RHONDA HELP ME, RHONDA HELP HELP ME, RHONDA HELP ME, RHONDA HELP HELP ME, RHONDA HELP ME, RHONDA EELP HELP ME, RHONDA HELP ME, RHONDA HELP HELP ME, RHONDI HELP ME, RHONDA HELP HELP ME, Ru; HELP ME RHONDA, RHONDA (BOW BOW BOW BOW) HELP ME RHONDA, RHONDA HELP ME RHONDA, RHONDA (BOW BOW BOW BOW) LP ME RHONDA, RHONDA HELA ME RHONDA, RHONDAcys vie AUG 012004 eile p32 BOBBY What are you after, Dave? We went out, she wants me, I'm net ready to make a commitment. cece ne DAVE. Nah, net teday. T just like x jut one's around, BEAT) & back? What #ifference does DAVE et felt like hanging out. ro, HIMSELF At THE WATER) We just don't han sed to. THE LIGHTS SHIFT to the ARCADE. EDDIE and RHONDA are laden down with stuffed animale they've won. EDDIE haa snacks. SITTIN’ (SITTIN' IN MY CA HOUSE. z YOUR HOUSE) 'VE BEEN HAVING FUN ALL SUMMER LONG EDDIE You're incredible, Rhonda. You've made me forget all about ella, RHONDA If you've forgotten her then how come you keep bringing her up?cule Vi pure AUG 0 1 2004 73. pl¢[22. Never again. REONDA Eddie? 1 could let you down easy, but that not my atyle. I'm outta here. EDDIE What? I don't und at RHONDA Okay. Let's see how elee I can say it. I'm leaving. Our relati ip is over, Goodbye, --» We'xe through. Is-it getting-any.clearer?- EDDIE You can't leave! RHONDA Eddie, you're a sweetheart, but I got a full ride to M.I.T. My engineering skills rock. I gotta think about the future. EDDIE The future? What about our future? RHONDA See, Eddie, when yee talk about "our future" you're really talking about the past. And that's something we can do in the future. RHONDA kisses EDDIE and leaves him sitting numbly surrounded by th stuffed animals. He standa up and falls down, still aizry-] LIGHTS SHIFT to the BEACH. DAVE is watehing BOBBY surf and ing totally alone, BEEN TRYING HARD TO FIND THE PEOPLEcyte WIC DAVE Can I trust you? CAROLINE Qu can trust me. (TAKES HIS ‘s keep swimming. Dave. Come on, ‘S DOWN on CAROLINE and DAVE f@ they go into deepor water. up on BOBBY. He makes it up d and this time he totally confident stays up. surfing, joined other SURFERS. moment. THE LIGHTS SHIFT to the glowing GIGGLES CLOWN FACE where EDDIE is standing in the drive-thru lane placing his order. EDDIE ++.and I'd like two hamburgers, two cheeseburgers, and two hamburgers. Large fries, onion rings, small fries, a atrawberry shake, and onion rings. And medium fries. And 4 cheeseburger. And a hamburger. MARCELLA (V.0.) (THROUGH THE CLOWN FACE) Eddie? Why are you ordering so much? EDDIE (STUNNED) Marcella? What are you doing here? MARCELLA (V.0.) I wanted to see the world too, Eddie. Plus, I missed you. EDDIE Z missed you too! That's why I ordered all this food. o kill the pain. MARCELLA (V.0.) oh, Eadie. While EDDIE kissea the CLOWN FACE, MARCELLA comes out of GIGGLES. ‘They hug. EDDIE It's amazing we found each other. It makes me believe in fate.EVRIE Tw AUG Oy e213 plof2z MARCELLA It makes me believe in the telephone. TI called your parents and got your addre. EDDIE I'm just glad you're here! We've gotta tell Dave! He's the one who broke up with you, he should know we're back together. MARCELLA Are we really and truly back together, Eddie? EDDIE Baby, you know we are. MARCELLA, It's been awful without me around, hasn't it? EDDIE (BEAT) A living nightmare. ‘ MARCELLA And now...it's a dream come true, getting married at the country club. EDDIE Whoa! We never decided that. MARCELLA But I thought that's what we wanted. EDDIE No, that's what you wanted. MARCELLA You mean you don't? EDDIE Marcella, I love you. But I'm not the guy I used to be. I've seen the open road, I've felt the wind in my face, I've taated freedom. so you can't push me around anymore. I've gotta do what's best for Eddie. MARCELLA (SMALL VOICE) Well...do you etill want to get Married? EDDIE (THINKS) Yes. Yes I do. MARCELLA To me?envi Ut AUG 2094 p 2l3 pli[zz. EDDIE Yes. Married to you. MARCELLA This fall? EDDIE Yes. This fall. MARCELLA Where should we get married, Eddie? EDDIE I don't know. (BEAT) The country club. MARCELLA Okay, Eddie. We'll do it your way. As EDDIE and MARCELLA kiss, the BEACH GUYS sing, “WOULDN'T IT BE NICE" EDDIE, MARCELLA, & BEACH GUYS OW IT SEEMS THE MORE WE TALK ABOUT IT MAKES IT WORSE TO LIVE WITHOUT IT) § TALK ABOUT IT. BUT LE BEACH GUYS WOULDN'T tr SE NICE BEACH GUY (GOODNIGHT, BABY) (SLEEP TIGHT, BABY) TS SHIFT to the SECLUDED fat NIGHT. DAVE and CAROLINE strolling in the moonlight, 411 in their bathing suits. CAROLINE, You know it is, Dave. 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