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OVER AGAIN
Music and lyrics by Ben Kopp
Book by Ben Kopp and Margot Greve
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ROLES
SAM – mid-twenties – ERIK WEINHART
MOLLY – mid-twenties – MIRANDA DIPIETRO
DONNY – mid-twenties – CALVIN REA
MANDY – mid-twenties – STEPHANIE HOOD
JESSIE – early twenties – MARGOT GREVE
MARK – late twenties – WHO KNOWS
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Three Hundred and Sixty-Five

Music, lyrics and book by Ben Kopp

Scene 1

(Lights up on stage, SAM and MOLLY stand stage left and right respectively holding each a
cardboard box. Each box is filled with the others personal belongings to be used as props
throughout the show, they meet center stage, swap boxes and place them downstage)

(Light change, dim, bar-like. SAM sits on chair upstage. The actors playing DONNY, MANDY,
JESSIE and MARK make up the CHORUS. They sit as in chairs as though at a bar. MOLLY
stands downstage right. She removes a black dress from the box and puts it on)

01 – Opening

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(Throughout the song, the chorus moves with chairs creating the different moments described in
the song)

CHORUS: Hang up your coat

Order a drink
Get yourself a chair and wash your hands in the sink
The rain outside is total elation
Nothing to contribute to the conversation

MOLLY: I don’t think you can actually know if someone is having a good time when you’re out,
until they order a third drink. Before that, it could go either way. Everybody has to get at least
one drink. You go out with people you like, the bar is a little less crowded than usual for a
Saturday, you hang up your coat and sit down at a table: at that point you’ve still got that feeling
that anything can happen, so you order some beer you’ve never tried and will probably end up
hating, or some cooler that tastes too fruity. When you order a second drink, I think you’re still
testing the waters. Like why not, I’ll have another. There’s still risk in ordering a second drink.
But three is when you know. You’ve committed to the evening with three. The night we met, I
ordered a third drink.

CHORUS: Hang up your coat

Order a drink
Talk to all the people and don’t even think
The rain in my mind is total elation
What’s with all the pressure for a conversation?
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SAM: The bar starts to fill up with strangers that are loud.

MOLLY: I notice your jacket first. It looks out of place at the table because it’s old and faded…
and purple. The bar we’re at is nice, I got dressed up, and you’re wearing a purple rain jacket.
It’s Mandy’s idea to play cards. She chooses euchre. I suggest strip euchre, so you would have to
take off that jacket. I don’t know why I said that, I don’t know you. But you laugh. The night we
met I ordered a fourth drink.

CHORUS: Hang up your coat

Order a drink
Waltz around the table and throw up in the sink
The pain in my mind is giving me patience
Listen to the rhythms of the conversation

SAM: The bar is packed but I can only hear you.

MOLLY: You talk about a job interview you have next week.

SAM: You talk about your soap opera obsession.

MOLLY: You talk about colonizing mars.

SAM: You talk about the class you took on the civil war.

MOLLY: You talk about the Rolling Stones.

SAM: You talk about Daft Punk.

MOLLY: I order a fifth drink and tell you to burn that purple jacket. You say you could go home
and change it. I say we both could go.

CHORUS: Just forget and go

Oh no
Just forget and blow some dust off the table

MOLLY: I needed to finish my drink now, faster than I should. You were smiling. I loved your
smile. The night we met I already loved something about you.

CHORUS: Drink it all drink it all down

Hearing the hearing the sound

MOLLY: The sound of shot glasses clinking together, of pool breaks, of slurred words.

CHORUS: Make up a story and leave

One that they wouldn’t believe
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MOLLY: I needed to leave the bar with you right now.

SAM: I was friends with you for about one minute before I realized that wasn’t enough.

MOLLY: A lot can change in one night.

So I put on my coat
Walk out the door
The rain outside is starting to pour
The rain in my mind is giving me patience
Walk into a cab and start a conversation
Just forget and go
Oh no
Just forget and blow some dust off the table

(Music. SAM and MOLLY kiss. He takes off her dress and she takes off his shirt. They get into
bed together)

Scene 2

(It’s now the next morning. Both are asleep. We see SAM wake up, clearly hungover. Music
starts)

02 – What Comes Next

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SAM: Wake up
8 AM blues
I’ve got the icy sick demeanor of a man who’s had a night full of booze
Slow down
I gotta piss
Walk to the bathroom feeling like my head’s in a mist
The pain in my brain is getting hotter and hotter
And it’d be insane to not go get some water

(SAM pulls a Britta and glass out of his box)

And let me tell you the Britta delivered

Tastes like I’m sipping from God’s own river
Stumble back to my room feeling half dead
What do you know there’s a girl in my bed

Oh no
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How did you get here?

Did you break in last night or just somehow magically appear
But wait just a second it’s coming back to me now
At a bar with some friends who were talking too loud
Nowhere to go, I felt like a mess
Look across the table see a girl in a black dress

That’s you
Sitting by the door
You in the black dress and now that dress is on the floor
And I’m hearing you snore
Boy do you snore
Should I count to four and go leave my house for the day
And when I come back you’d have gone away
But maybe it’s time for a good old shake-up
So I will just stay here until you wake up
But what comes next?
We just had sex
And I had fun
Did you have fun?
And now that we’re done
How do you feel?
How do you feel?

MOLLY: I feel alright

SAM: Shit! You’re awake.

MOLLY: Yeah.

SAM: Yeah… Right.

MOLLY: Yeah. So… how you doing?

SAM: Me? Me I’m good, you know.

(Silence)

SAM: And how are you?

MOLLY: Good good. Besides the splitting head ache, exhaustion and nausea. Listen, you got
any water? I’m so freaking dehydrated I can feel my cells dying.

SAM: Yeah, sure. Sure! Just one sec.

(SAM pours her a glass of water)

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MOLLY: Ooh, it’s cold.

SAM: Yeah.

MOLLY: Nice Britta.

SAM: Yeah.

MOLLY: People say you can’t taste the difference but they’re straight up lying.

SAM: I know right!

MOLLY: There’s so much shit in tap water.

SAM: Exactly! You’ve got to filter that shit out.

MOLLY: Exactly!

SAM: I don’t want to die prematurely

MOLLY: Yes! Yes, exactly.

SAM: Yeah.

MOLLY: Yeah. Hey, do you have an Advil or something?

SAM: Right! Yes! Let me check.

(SAM goes through his box, realizes it’s not there, exits to get some)

MOLLY:
What happened last night?
What words were said?
To get me out the bar and in the cab and from his arms into his bed
Slow down, I gotta puke
I gotta puke

(SAM re-enters)

Where can I puke?

SAM: That way!

(MOLLY exits. SAM stands there, sounds of puking are heard)

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SAM: You k?

(More puking is heard, MOLLY returns)

SAM: How ya doing?

MOLLY: Oh you know… I… I’m not really the kind of person who does that.

SAM: Yeah. (Hands her the Advil) It’s expired but should be fine. And don’t worry about it.

MOLLY: Yeah.

SAM: Me neither you know? Last night… I’m not usually the kind of person that does that.

MOLLY: Really?

SAM: Yeah.

MOLLY: Yeah? Well… you were good… at it.

SAM: Really?

MOLLY: You surprised?

SAM: No! No, you know, just… no I’m not, I’m not.

MOLLY: Good, yeah.

SAM: Yeah, you know, you too… my lady.

(MOLLY laughs)

SAM: Never saying that again, ugh.

MOLLY: Good call, good call.

SAM: Right well…

MOLLY: Hey, you wanna go get some breakfast or something?

SAM: Breakfast... Oh you know I totally would but I have like a million things I have to do for
—

MOLLY: Look, you have my number. I had fun last night. Call me if you want to go for
breakfast or lunch or dinner or drinks or whatever. Ok? See you…?
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SAM: Sam.

MOLLY: See you around Sam.

SAM: See you around, Holly—

MOLLY: (as she exits) Molly!

SAM: Molly!

(SAM starts to pace)

02b – What Comes Next pt. 2

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SAM: Take some time to think about the sirens in my head

Take some time to think if there was something I misread
I know the nearing future tends to shake my bones

MOLLY: What comes next?

SAM: I gotta live in this state of the pure unknown

MOLLY: What comes next?

SAM: Right now I know you as the girl who snores

But maybe I could try to

MOLLY: You know I could try to

BOTH: Get to know you a little more

Just to see what’s in store

SAM and MOLLY: (layered) Take some time to think about the sirens in my head
Take some time to think is there was something I misread

BOTH: Take some time

I need to take some time

SAM: But what comes next?

MOLLY: What comes next?

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BOTH: What comes next?

(SAM takes the black dress off the floor and places it in his box)

Scene 3

(DONNY and MANDY enter, the best friends of SAM and MOLLY respectively)

DONNY: Whenever Sam is in need of advice, he knows who to come to. His best buddy, his
right-hand man I know exactly what to say to help him out. And he trusts me. Who wouldn’t? I
should charge for the advice I give but it’s priceless. You couldn’t get better advice from a
therapist, only from Donny!

SAM: Donny! Man, I don’t know what to do. I feel like it’s a little fast, but I met this girl last
night and we went home together—

DONNY: NICE!

SAM: —and she’s funny and smart and I want to ask her out—

DONNY: What?! Nah, nah, man you can’t. It’s too fast, you got to let the night breathe like a
fine wine. Play it cool man.

SAM: You think so?

DONNY: Yeah! You got to make her wait. She should be texting all her friends saying what an
asshole you are by the time you actually do reach out.

SAM: I don’t know…

DONNY: Trust Donny! Have I ever led you astray?

SAM: Yes.

DONNY: What? When?

SAM: How about the time you told me women find it sexy when you wear their underwear? Or
when you told me I should play hard to get by flirting with Tamara’s mom? Or when—

DONNY: Look, I know what I’m talking about! I’ve had way more one-night stands than you.

SAM: I guess.
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DONNY: (To audience) Priceless.

(SAM turns to MOLLY)

SAM: Hey!

MOLLY: Hey!

SAM: So, I was thinking, since you’re probably starving because I didn’t take you out for
breakfast, would you maybe want to grab dinner tonight?

(MOLLY turns to MANDY)

MANDY: We’re supposed to be best friends but it’s more of a mother daughter relationship. We
go to the club or bar and I’m the one responsible for making sure some seedy guy doesn’t sneak
her into a car late at night. You do your best but she’s a sneaky one and sometimes she slips
through my fingers.

(To MOLLY)

What were you thinking? You leave me at the bar with his douche friend and give no explanation
of where you’re going. He could have been a serial killer for all you know.

MOLLY: Yeah but he wasn’t! He was actually really cool, and he didn’t say anything about the
fact that I puked all over his bathroom floor when I didn’t make it to the toilet in time.

MANDY: That’s a really full picture of this guy’s character.

MOLLY: Well I liked him, and he asked me to dinner and I want to go.

MANDY: Fine, go ahead, I’m not your mom…make good choices.

(MOLLY turns to SAM)

MOLLY: Dinner would be great.

Scene 4

(MANDY and DONNY exit. MOLLY pulls out a teddy bear from her box, cuddles it. She also
pulls out a bottle of tequila. She takes a sip, and then offers it to Sam. He laughs, and takes a sip.
She sits with on the floor, head in SAM’s lap)
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SAM: I actually don’t like camping.

MOLLY: How do you not like camping? (She sits up) Like not at all?

SAM: My family went once, and we were all miserable. Rained the whole time. We’re more of a
“Disney World every once in a while” kind of family. And Niagara Falls once. I also have a
vague memory of a haunted hay ride. But no camping. I think we were all just too lazy for that.

MOLLY: That’s really sad.

SAM: Is it? Like c’mon, what was I really missing?

MOLLY: A lot! You don’t understand the kinds of stories you get from a good camping trip.

SAM: Oh yeah?

MOLLY: Oh yeah.

SAM: Ok, go ahead and tell me the story of the really cool stick you found.

MOLLY: Wow…

SAM: Or tell me about the awesome hike you did in the mud.

MOLLY: One time I almost died!

SAM: No you didn’t.

MOLLY: Yes I did!

SAM: C’mon, I really doubt –

MOLLY: I was almost eaten by a bear!

SAM: What?

MOLLY: (laughing) Just be quiet and listen alright. So, I was at this park way up north, where
you can really rough it you know, not some lame family park. It was me and my two friends
from high school, this big trip before our last year. It was awesome, the whole trip was awesome.
On the second last day though, I was chilling in my lawn chair, reading a book when I heard this
rustling behind me. I wasn’t freaked or anything because I thought it was just some dumbass
squirrel or something. But when I turned around, I saw that it was a bear! A freaking bear!
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03 – Stop the Clock

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SAM: Woah woah woah woah watch the clock

(While SAM sings the song, MOLLY continues to gesture the story silently)

MOLLY: A huge black bear…

SAM: I think it’s almost time for bed

I could stay up a little bit longer to listen to you

MOLLY: And I was just standing there, petrified, not knowing what to do, while this big ass
bear starts lumbering around like he owns the place.

SAM: Woah woah woah woah wait some more

MOLLY: Its paws were (gestures size) THIS BIG.

SAM: I’ve never listened so hard to someone’s words

A sermon that’s just for us
Keep going
Keep going
I like the way you talk

MOLLY: So, my friend Rachel comes out of the tent and lets loose this huge scream and this
bear just look at her like “what?” and then grabs the package of Oreos from the table and starts to
leave. I swear to god he was like a foot away from me at one point. What if he decided to
abandon the cookies and go for me? Tell me I didn’t almost die.

SAM: Woah woah woah woah what a life

MOLLY: Mere inches from death…

SAM: Where I can be here right now

I could stay up the rest of my life to listen to you

MOLLY: It was such an adrenaline rush! I felt like I could run a marathon. For a split second it
felt like I might chase it down and fight it for our cookies. They were double stuffed.

SAM: No reason
No reason
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No reason to stop

MOLLY: And I remember later that night, we were down by the water, lying down on the rocks.

Look at how bright the stars are tonight

So far away yet perfectly clear
No city lights makin’ em disappear
Some days I wish I could travel through time
If I could go back anywhere
I think I’d go there…

That night.

SAM: Woah woah woah woah what a night

MOLLY: Thanks for listening

I think it’s almost time for bed

SAM: I could stay up a little bit longer

MOLLY: Ok.

SAM: No reason
No reason
No reason to stop

BOTH: Woah woah woah woah…

(Molly puts the teddy bear back in her box. Sam puts the bottle of tequila back in her box. They
move together and then go to bed)

Scene 5

04 – What Comes Next pt. 3

SAM: Wake up

MOLLY: Wake up wake up

SAM: 8AM blues

MOLLY: What else is new?

What else is new?
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SAM: But 8AM is not so bad when I spend 8AM with you

MOLLY: With you

I feel okay
So then we eat some toast and have a kiss and then we go our separate ways

SAM: But I’ll see you later

MOLLY: You’ll see me later

When we go out for dinner at our favourite place

SAM: Or grab a pint

And get shit-faced

MOLLY: Then we go back to mine, but usually yours

BOTH: And have some steamy sex against the bedroom door

MOLLY: I think it’s almost time for bed

(They go to bed. Light change, another morning.)

SAM: Wake up

MOLLY: Wake up wake up

SAM: 8AM cruise

MOLLY: You mean the 8AM blues

SAM: I don’t because

8AM is not so bad when I spend 8AM with you

MOLLY: I feel
Pretty okay
So let’s get up, eat some toast and then we’ll go our separate ways

SAM: But I’ll see you later

MOLLY: You’ll see me later

We could grab a pint and get shit faced
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SAM: Or go to dinner at our favourite place

MOLLY: Then we go back to mine but usually yours

MOLLY: And have some mediocre sex against the bedroom door

SAM: Steamy sex

MOLLY: I think it’s almost time for bed

(They go to bed. Light change, another morning)

SAM: Wake up

MOLLY: Wake up wake up

SAM: (looking a MOLLY) you’re my 8AM muse

(MOLLY smiles a little half-heartedly)

SAM: Because 8AM is not so bad when I spend 8AM with you
Right now
I’m feeling great
So let’s get up and eat some toast

MOLLY: And then we’ll go our separate ways

SAM: But I’ll see you later

MOLLY: You’ll see me…

SAM: Later!

(SAM turns to the audience)

(add MOLLY into this first part)

When we go to dinner at my favourite place

Or grab a pint and get shit faced
Then we go back to mine, or possibly yours
And have some steamy sex against the bedroom door
And then we go to bed
Wake up
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8AM’s a paradise
No one has a better life than lil’ old me
It’s another morning where I feel great
Let’s go our separate ways
But I know I’ll see you later
When we get some takeout from my favourite place
Or grab a pint and get shit faced
Why would we ever go back to yours?
When it’s at my place we have sex against the bedroom door
Then we go to bed

(While SAM continues to sing enthusiastically, MOLLY sits on the bed and watches)

Eat some toast

Grab a pint
8AM’s a paradise
Sex against the bedroom door
Get shit faced
Get some takeout from my favourite place
We can go our separate ways I know I’ll see you later when we

Eat some toast

Grab a pint
8AM’s a paradise
Sex against the bedroom door
Get shit faced
Get some takeout my favourite place
We can go our separate ways I know I’ll see you later when we

Eat some food

Grab a pint
I think it’s time for bed

(SAM gets into bed. MOLLY gets up, looks at SAM and stands center. JESSIE and MANDY as
CHORUS enter and flank MOLLY)

05 – Routine

MOLLY: Kind of crazy how life repeats itself

Like a million times
Over again
I’m wondering if this killing my health
I’m feeling sick
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But I don’t have a cold

That’s routine
That’s routine

And it’s going to make me go insane

Oh

(MOLLY brings SAM out of the bed a controls him like a rag doll)

The first time you bring Chinese food home

It was a lot of fun
The seven hundredth time you bring Chinese food home
I think I’m done

Life can only go in one direction

JESSIE: You have to move forward or die

MOLLY: I’m asking myself the same old question

MANDY: Am I really in love with this guy

ALL: Tha- Tha- That’s routine

Tha- Tha- That’s routine

MOLLY: And it’s making me lose my mind

(riff)

Sitting on the couch watching TV all night

Having sex on the bed after you turn off the light
We are stuck in a loop
It’s not that I don’t like “The Devil Wears Prada”
But after four straight Sunday’s I think I gotta
Break this routine
Break- Break- Break this routine
Break- Break- Break this routine

ALL:
Break- Break- Break- Break- Break- Break- Break- Break- Break- Break-

MOLLY: Break up.

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Scene 6

(Light change. SAM gets out of bed. Chorus sets up a dinner scene, where MOLLY and SAM
are sitting at a table)

MOLLY: I think we’ve made a mistake.

SAM: Yeah, we shouldn’t have ordered the garlic bread.

MOLLY: No, I mean us.

SAM: (laughs) Yeah.

(MOLLY is silent)

SAM: What?

06 – The Breakup Waltz

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MOLLY: There comes a time

A time in my life
Where I start to wonder
If I’ll be your wife
I’ve thought about this
I’ve actually thought a lot
And I think I’ve realized
That’s not what I want
It’s kept me up at night
Pacing left pacing right

I think
I need to go and take a break from you
But OK, we can finish our food

Look I’ll be honest, it’s not me it’s you

(SAM sits for a bit, not moving. MOLLY holds eye contact. CHORUS sings)

CHORUS: Oh no
They’re breaking up
Ooo way oh
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They’re comes a time in your life

When you break up
Ooo way oh

SAM: Are you gonna say anything more

(MOLLY says nothing. SAM leaves. Change. SAM is alone, back to the audience, obviously
masturbating. DONNY enters.)

DONNY: The boy can’t finish when the boy is sad. He should’ve reached out to someone, like
me! I know what the boy needs. I call it the three L’s. Liquor, laughs and a lady. This is the tried
and true method for dealing with being down in the dumps when the damsel has left you for shit.
The alcohol comes first, a case of beer, maybe something a little stronger depending on the
severity. From the liquor comes the laughs, maybe we’ll get plastered and watch a classic
Sandler movie, like Happy Gilmore, or the Water boy. Classic. Then comes the lady. This may
take a little more time, but he needs a rebound. Not whatever this is. (Gestures to the jerking)

(SAM becomes more furious in the jerking)

DONNY: C’mon buddy you can do it!

(SAM gives up, panting)

DONNY: There it is, poor guy.

SAM: It’s not working

I think I’m giving up and going to bed
I’m tired
My right arm is dead

(He crawls into bed. You here a little sobbing.)

(MANDY enters. MOLLY pulls out a lipstick from her box and applies it)

MANDY: She told me she wanted to go to the club. I told her it was too soon. But does she
listen?

MOLLY: I need to go somewhere dark, sweaty and filled with guys!

MANDY: Fine.
What I want to do is break open nice bottle of red, complain for a few hours, maybe have a heart
to heart, but for some reason her solution is to drown her problems in terrible music, dancing and
some big random guy.
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MOLLY: (at the club) Ooh you’re strong, come over here, dance up on me.

MANDY: Every single time.

MOLLY: Yeah – hey c’mon man get your hands off my ass. Listen buddy I mean it! Stop it let
go of me! Hey Mandy! Mandy! Help!

(She goes, takes out her phone makes a call)

SAM: Hi-

MOLLY: (in tears and drunk) I know what you’re going to say, you’re gonna ask me why I’m
calling, and I know I shouldn’t be doing this but I miss you, and there was this awful guy at the
club, and I wanted to tell you that I’m sorry, because I didn’t want to hurt you, and I just want to
say…

I miss you
Is it possible to just be friends?
Let’s have dinner
Just the two of us at dinner

SAM: Umm…ok. Ok that sounds good I’d like that. That’s a good idea!

DONNY: That’s a terrible idea!

(Lights change. MOLLY and SAM sit center stage, at dinner. DONNY and MANDY enter on
either side of them)

DONNY: She was always so controlling.

MANDY: He was always so passive.

DONNY: She made him scared to do things like take a night off to hang with guys. And she was
rude! When he introduced us, she called me Danny…it’s Donny!

MANDY: He would just let his anger build up. Like if he had a complaint, he would just quietly
keep it to himself and not say anything. He also just wasn’t that nice. One time when he was
drunk, he called me a THOT.

MOLLY: What a time

SAM: To be alive
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BOTH: We once were dating and now we are friends

SAM: Not crossing any lines

MOLLY: Look at us we’re just fine

SAM: We’re so mature

That makes me glad

MOLLY: We’re not sad

SAM: I wanna have sex with you so bad

MOLLY: What?

SAM: Nothing!

MOLLY: There comes a time

A time in my life
Where I can just move on without any fight
Look at us now
It’s not even hard
Existing together
We’ve moved so far
It’s not weird

MANDY: Well I mean it kind of is—

MOLLY: It’s not weird

It’s not weird
It’s not weird
Not weird at all
It’s perfect
It’s not weird at all

It’s a second chance.

(Light change. SAM pulls the bottle of tequila back out of her box. DONNY and SAM are
drinking. SAM is sulking)

DONNY: The boy doesn’t want to do anything when the boy is sad. Look at him. Pathetic. I did
my best lemme tell you, the three L’s and everything. I told him not to be friends with her, it
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would just turn him into a bigger grump, and now look. He needs someone new, that’s all. Just a
new, smoking hot lady. Not whatever this is.

SAM: God I can still taste her on my tongue.

DONNY: That’s disgusting. Look man you need to stop this. Sitting around isn’t doing you any
good. Let’s go out and do something. Like play catch or something, I don’t know.

SAM: You know what, you’re right!

I think
That’s it about time to stop moping

DONNY: And start groping!

SAM: And start hoping

(SAM gets baseball and glove out of his box. MANDY enters)

MANDY: I told her not to be friends with him, I knew it would just make him sad. But she
didn’t listen. I also told her not to rush into anything new, but here she is with her new man, and
his name is-

MOLLY: Mark
He’s big and he’s strong
In Mark’s arms are where I belong
He like cider and the Red Sox
We just sort of clicked
He likes to golf and watch the office
And he’s got a massive heart

And dick

MANDY: Mark is the broiest bro I’ve ever seen in my life. He has a beer pong trophy in his
room, right under a Lamborghini poster.

(Change. Mandy exits. MOLLY and MARK stand together)

MOLLY: Mark, Mark

Just the right spark
That my life needed
Look at us now

MARK: Me and my lady

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MOLLY: Together for two months

MARK: Isn’t that crazy

MOLLY: A perfect pair

MARK: We’re two of a kind

MOLLY: Just how

BOTH: Lucky am I to find

MARK: A girl who likes to go out clubbing

And has a great face
And likes to have sex all the time
And let’s me sleep at her place
And watches baseball with me
And even said she’d like to play
And she doesn’t even mind
That I’m an aspiring DJ
Oh I’m a DJ

I call myself Marky Mark.

MOLLY: And the funky bunch?

MARK: What?

MOLLY: Never mind.

Scene 7

(DONNY and SAM are throwing a baseball back and forth)

SAM: And at the end of the day, I’m better off by myself. I don’t need her, or anybody right
now. Right now it’s time to just focus on me.

DONNY: I don’t think I’ve ever heard a man say those words.

SAM: You’re a dick.

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DONNY: I’m just telling the truth! And I can tell that you’re lying, you don’t want to just “focus
on yourself”. You’re just saying that because you got dumped.

SAM: She didn’t dump me!

DONNY: So, then what happened?

(SAM is silent)

SAM: Yeah, ok, but I don’t like saying it like that, that I got “dumped”. It makes me feel like a
shit, a literal shit, when you say I got dumped.

DONNY: Fine. You were set free.

SAM: That’s stupid.

DONNY: No it’s not, trust me man, you have been set free. Un-shackled, broken out of
maximum security…

SAM: Donny, I’m not you, I don’t make out with strangers at bars, or have numbers on my
phone that are just hook-ups. I’m more of a “cook dinner together on a Sunday night and then
watch The Devil Wears Prada” kind of guy.

DONNY: Look man, I know you don’t understand my whole set of ideals, but I’m gonna let you
in on a little secret.

SAM: I’m thrilled.

DONNY: You should be. It’s called my motor.

SAM: What?

DONNY: My motor. My sweet sweet motor.

SAM: What are you talking about?

06 – My Motor

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eK9NVRdUooPX8NYDPuyRtttpqVcigx4w

DONNY: Right now I’m hearing your voice, and it’s giving me some crazy thoughts
There’s something that I gotta say, which you can stay to hear or not!
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(DONNY waits. SAM stays)

DONNY: Ok
In my mind there is something and I find it very hard to explain, but let me try
It’ll be informative
And…enlightening
Not at all frightening

It’s my motor, that’s what I call it, it’s in my head

And it’s sometimes green sometimes pink or blue or black or red

SAM: It’s your motor?

DONNY: That’s what I said.

The thing about my motor is it’s never really satisfied

It’s how I drink it’s how I think it’s how I live and sometimes
It’s how I prioritize
You see my motor doesn’t like it when I’m depressed, or when I’m distressed,
and maybe you’ve guessed that it is what controls me
It’s ok, I allow it, see the thing about it
Is that I can’t live without it

So remember way back, I was dating this girl

I think her name was Monica

SAM: Like in Friends.

DONNY: Sure

SAM: Right

DONNY: It was going pretty well but it ended in a hole

Remember why?

SAM: At a party you made out with Nicole

Mandy saw you and she told, just more of the same
God, why are you like this?

DONNY: My motor was to blame.

SAM: What?
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DONNY: Just listen

So I was raging at this party you know Peter’s condo

Commotion, Peter just got that promotion
(sings) It was an ocean of people, all had drinks in their hands
And let me tell you I was wasted I could barely stand
So I sat down on his sofa and just smiled
When I drink a lot of whiskey I just smile
And when I smoke a bit of weed I just smile
So I thought I would just sit there for a while

So there I was on the couch, with a smile, feeling lost

Mind is spinning, like a salad being tossed
Feeling bloated, I’m expelling exhaust
Then I see Nicole across the room, sitting with her legs crossed

SAM: So?

She was staring at me, looking into my soul

And I got really confused, like “Whatchu doing Nicole?”
Then she started walking over and I tried to get away
But my ass was glued to the comfy couch and so I had to stay

SAM: Your ass was glued?

DONNY: I was drunk! And high…

And Nicole said you’re a hot guy, I just dumped my other guy, wanna be my new guy, just for a
night?

SAM: And you said “Alright!”

DONNY: No! Believe it or not I said no. In my head. I didn’t actually say that because my
motor…remember my motor?

My motor’s never satisfied it has to keep moving, or else I’m losing.

And then my motor kicked into gear, it said:

“Listen up bitch, ‘bout time I took the lead

Don’t be a pussy! I’m the one who knows what you need
Calm the fuck down man, I’m not trying to taunt you
But look at this girl man, she said that she wants you…”

And I said no…

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I’m in a relationship, it’s going really well

And if I do this, it guarantees my ticket to hell
I don’t care if this makes me a bitch and a loser
But I think it’s time that I call an uber…

But my motor wasn’t going to give up…

And it said “I will make your life hell if you don’t take this opportunity
Besides you’re drunk, you have a sort of immunity
C’mon you’re wasted! That lets you off the hook
I’m trying to give you back the freedom that your girlfriend took!
But time is ticking down man, she’ll probably leave soon
And no one will see you if you do it in the bathroom…”

SAM: And?

DONNY: You’re probably thinking “man I’ve figured out what’s wrong with ya”
But I had more fun that night than I ever had with Monica

All I’m saying.

SAM: Maybe you’re not crazy.

DONNY: Right?

SAM: This is what I need right now. Something fun, something casual, even if it’s only for one
night.

DONNY: Exactly. You don’t need a relationship. You need time to breathe.

SAM: Yeah. Time to breathe.

(SAM takes a deep breath in, and lets it out)

DONNY: So whatever you do, don’t rush into anything.

(JESSIE appears, holding a ukulele, on the other side of SAM.)

JESSIE: Hey, I wrote you a song.

DONNY: Don’t be afraid to be single for a bit, don’t start dating the first girl you meet ok?

JESSIE: It’s about us. You and me.

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DONNY: Please don’t.

JESSIE: Here it is!

07 – Jessie’s Song

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qC6ZDyPZ8mSnj_xWricdQiY_KdqaHg1L

I was just a lonely girl whose heart would second guess

Always hoping to get more but somehow getting less
I was just a lonely girl searching in the dark
Waltzing through the wilderness until I found a spark

And that was you

And life is fair
You’re something new
My teddy bear

SAM: Have we really...like…zeroed in on a nickname here, I mean teddy bear is a little, uh…a
little…

JESSIE: Every day you’re in my life the sun shines brighter still
Life’s a sweeter ride when you don’t have to go uphill

I’m riding with you

The boy I like
Sunday afternoon
A tandem bike
Ah

SAM: I need to get to know you a little more

JESSIE: On a tandem bike

This Sunday! I rented one! It’ll be fun!

SAM: Yeah! That sounds awesome. I…I will totally be there.

JESSIE: Yay!

SAM: That song is so nice.

JESSIE: Aw thanks! It comes from the heart.

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SAM: Yeah. I feel the same.

I was just a broken hearted boy who’d lost his way
Wondering if I’m sick or crazy maybe I’m just gay

But there you were

At that place

JESSIE: At Phil’s party.

SAM: Across a crowded room

I liked your face

JESSIE: Ah

SAM: But I need to get to know you a little more

DONNY: What the fuck

JESSIE: You liked my face

SAM: I did. You…had a great face.

JESSIE: You’re my teddy bear

My teddy bear

(Enter MOLLY talking to MARK)

MOLLY: I was almost eaten by a bear

Isn’t that crazy?

MARK: I don’t think a black bear would’ve had an aggressive response.

MOLLY: It totally could’ve though!

MARK: No.

MOLLY: Ok.

JESSIE and MARK: I can’t wait to get to know you a little more

MOLLY and SAM: I just need to get to know you a little more

MOLLY: Every day you’re in my life I feel so much more fulfilled

Life’s a sweeter ride when you don’t have to go uphill
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(MARK starts to exit)

Look around at everything it’s shiny clean and new

Shiny clean and new
Shiny clean and new

(MOLLY pulls out her phone and calls SAM)

MOLLY: Hey!

SAM: Hi!

MOLLY: How’ve you been doing? It’s been a while since we’ve talked.

SAM; Yeah it has! I’ve been good, I’ve been really good. Just living my life you know?

MOLLY: That’s great. Me too, me too. So listen, I don’t know if you’ve heard about this big
party happening next Friday. At Peter’s place, he’s living in this new townhouse and it’s
apparently massive. He’s having this housewarming and it’s supposed to be crazy.

SAM: Sounds crazy. Um…I’m not sure I think I might have plans with Jessie for next Friday…

MOLLY: Jessie?

SAM: Yeah! She’s…she’s my girlfriend.

MOLLY: Wow look at you!

SAM: Yeah, you know.

(Silence)

MOLLY: Well I’m sure she’s great if she’s with you.

SAM: Thanks.

(Silence)

MOLLY: So this party…

SAM: Oh yeah! I’m not really sure. Sorry.

(Silence)

MOLLY: Come on Sam! I really want to see you.

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SAM: You do?

MOLLY: Yeah. I miss you.

(Silence)

SAM: Well, I don’t know, I’m not…I just feel that—

MOLLY: Don’t worry, I get it. Well…see you around.

SAM: See you.

(She hangs up. SAM stands there. His phone rings again. He answers quickly thinking it’s her
calling back, but instead hears DONNY)

SAM: Hello?

DONNY: Peter’s having a banger and we are gonna go and get smashed!

SAM: No, no, I can’t go.

DONNY: Why not?

SAM: Molly just called me and asked me to come and I told her I couldn’t because—

DONNY: She called you?

SAM: Yeah!

DONNY: And you told her you couldn’t go?

SAM: Yeah.

DONNY: Why?

SAM: I, I, have plans—

DONNY: Dude I think she wants to bang.

SAM: I doubt that.

DONNY: That’s what it sounds like.

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SAM: I’m with Jessie!

DONNY: So what?

SAM: I’m dating someone else! Jessie! I’m dating Jessie!

DONNY: Bring her than, show Molly what she’s missing.

SAM: I can’t!

DONNY: Why?

SAM: Jessie doesn’t really like parties.

DONNY: Look you’re coming to this party whether you like it or not. You need a night out. So
either bring her or get a babysitter and leave her behind.

SAM:… Fine, I’ll come.

(SAM and DONNY move stage right)

Scene 9

(MOLLY and MANDY enter stage left)

08 – What Do You Do

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cYVnD5TkS3dVEGOCINalsw5TaMRZvmN8

SAM: What do you do

When you’re out at a party
And your ex is here and she might wanna sleep with you

How do you feel

When you’re out at a party
And you just wanna drink and drink and eat some food

MOLLY: What do you do

When you’re out at a party
You look around and see he’s not here

So grab a drink
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Talk with people

Go to your bag and grab another beer

SAM: I want a smoke

DONNY: You want a smoke

SAM: I need a smoke

DONNY: I need a smoke because

There’s a guy over there who’s playing guitar
He thinks he’s cool but he only knows Blackbird

SAM: Why did I come?

DONNY: We’re having fun

SAM: I’m starting realize that

BOTH: (We’re/I’m) not going home

DONNY: No fucking way

SAM: Look around and everything’s slanted

This tequila makes me feel romantic
My head is churning like the north Atlantic
Pull out my phone

“I’m here. Where are you.”

And
What do you do

SAM: Donny, Donny where is Donny?

(Pulls out his phone and calls him)

DONNY: Hello?

SAM: Donny! She’s here man. I don’t know where but somewhere. In this house. I feel like
something bad is going to happen. I don’t even know why I came here. I need your help Donny. I
need you to come here and slap me in the face. I need you to slap me in the face. Right now!
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Donny!

DONNY: Who is this?

(SAM hangs up, frustrated. Tries to storm off but wobbles a bit. Now focus on MOLLY and
MANDY)

MANDY: Kinda crazy how life repeats itself

And there she goes
She’s getting hammered again
Wanna have fun but I gotta prepare myself
Because I know
She’ll have no one to talk to but me

BOTH: Oh here we go

MANDY: I know what you’re doing, I’m telling you to not

MOLLY: I hear what you’re saying but I need a shot

MANDY: And
What do you do
When you’re out at a party
And you pre drank a bunch because you know that you’re a sinner

And you keep drinking more

And it’s hitting me hard
It’s probably because I only had chips for dinner
Good god I’m drunk

SAM: Look around and everything’s messed up

Everybody looks so fancy and dressed up
I know what I’m thinking
Time that I fessed up
Pull out my phone

“Sup”

And
Why did I say that

All other actors now appear as a chorus

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CHORUS: There comes a time in your life

Come morning day or night
You wish that you weren’t lonely
There’s only so much you can do alone
There’s always someone who
You wish was always around

MOLLY: I wanna be around you

I wanna hear your voice

SAM: I wish that I had never found you

But now I’ve got no choice

BOTH: But I don’t know where you are

SAM: I don’t know where you are

MOLLY: Where you are

(In the midst of their searching for each other, DONNY stumbles downstage, high as fuck)

DONNY: I took a hit that was too big

Might’ve been a mistake
Looking back on things I’ve done
There’d be a few that I would change
Oh
Took a hit that was too big

My throat’s on fire
How did I get here?
Like…here where I’m standing
How did I get here how did I
Oh
Took a hit that was too big
Please help me find a way back to yesterday when I felt

Normal
When it all made sense
Lord give me a sign please give me a sign
You’ve left me blind you’ve left me
Oh
Took a hit that was too big
And I’m losing my mind quick
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I am so hungry I need some food right now I want some

Toast
With raspberry jam
I’m a simple man who likes raspberry jam
I am what I am I am what I
Oh
Took a hit that was just way too big

(He goes off to find some toast. SAM re-enters, in a state of full panic.)

SAM: And
What do you do
When you’re out at a party
And your ex is here and she’s probably gonna sleep with you

What do you do

MANDY: What do you do

SAM: When you’re out at a party

MANDY: When you’re out at a party

BOTH: And you can’t walk out cos your legs won’t move

SAM: What do you do

DONNY: What do you do

SAM: When you’re out at a party

DONNY: When you’re out at a party

BOTH: And the room is starting to spin around you

SAM: What do you do

ALL (except MOLLY): At a party

SAM: And it feels like you’ve been tied in a knot

I’m way more messed up than I thought
Drank too many beers smoke too much pot
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Ate too many chips did too many shots

(During the last verse of singing, SAM frantically goes through both him and Molly’s boxes,
throwing the contents all around the stage until he finds the bottle of tequila. He pours himself
another shot, and drinks. Silence. SAM looks at the sky. Unknown to him, MOLLY has come up
behind him.)

MOLLY: Hey!

(He waits. He turns around and sees her.)

SAM: Hey.

MOLLY: Staring at the moon?

SAM: Yeah.

MOLLY: Doing shots?

SAM: Uh…no. Well yeah I have been. But I don’t think I should do another.

MOLLY: I’ll do one with you.

SAM: Ok. Awesome.

(He hands her the bottle)

MOLLY: (holding up the bottle) Here’s to Tequila. Always there when you really don’t need it.

SAM: Here, here.

(She drinks, and reacts.)

SAM: I love your shot face.

MOLLY: My shot face?

SAM: You make the same scrunched-up face every time you do a shot. Haven’t you gotten used
to the taste by now?

MOLLY: Don’t start with me about faces buddy.

SAM: Why not?

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MOLLY: What about that face you make whenever you swallow any sort of pill, no matter how
small it is?

SAM: What are you talking about?

MOLLY: Even if it’s a puny little Tylenol it’s always – (makes the face)

SAM: I think my throat is below average in size!

MOLLY: (imitating) I think my throat is below average in sizeeee

SAM: Ok, ok, at least I can…I can hold my liquor, but you –

MOLLY: Don’t you dare bring it up!

SAM: What? When you threw up in the stairwell on the way up to our apartment, and it smelled
in there for like…ever?

MOLLY: Our uber driver that night was very swervy.

(They both laugh. A pause)

MOLLY: “Our” apartment?

SAM: What?

MOLLY: You said it was our apartment.

SAM: Oh yeah. I meant my apartment.

(A pause)

SAM: For a while it did kind of feel like ours.

MOLLY: I loved that apartment.

SAM: So did I.

(There is a lead up to a kiss and then SAM and MOLLY kiss. Unclear who initiates. CHORUS
enters and moves around them, dimly lit.)

CHORUS: Order a cab

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Finish your drink

Close the door behind you
And don’t even think
The people below
Leave em behind
Take off your clothes
And close your eyes

Scene 10

(Light change, the next morning. SAM sits up in bed, waking up MOLLY)

SAM: You’re awake.

MOLLY: Yeah.

SAM: Yeah… Right.

MOLLY: Yeah. So… how you doing?

SAM: Me? Me I’m good, you know.

(Silence)

SAM: And how are you?

MOLLY: Good good. Besides the splitting head ache, exhaustion and nausea. Listen—

SAM: About last night—

MOLLY: I know.

SAM: I’m just—

MOLLY: I’m really happy.

SAM: What?

MOLLY: I’m happy.

SAM: Ok.

MOLLY: I’ve missed you.

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(SAM is silent)

MOLLY: Haven’t you missed me?

(SAM is silent)

MOLLY: This is good! It’s like we get a second chance.

SAM: A second chance again.

MOLLY: No it’s different. I’m different.

11 – Change

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FQntCu1dOAgVB_FFqW8qu1kt9r_GuqJl

SAM: You say it’s new

You say you’ve changed
You’re thinking what we’ve been through has raised the stakes

Look at us now
What have we done
Things always look different in the morning sun

But I don’t know

(Silence, he turns toward her)

MOLLY: What’s there to know?

I’m right here
Things once were cloudy now they’re clear

But I don’t know

SAM: How did this happen?

MOLLY: The night’s a blur

SAM: Retrace your steps

MOLLY: What happened first?

SAM: I forget

MOLLY: I danced with Mandy in the living room

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SAM: Donny was high

MOLLY: So were you

I caught you staring at the moon

SAM: Then you came up to me and sat on the grass

SAM and MOLLY: We talked so much I lost track of time

SAM: Then you touched my arm

MOLLY: No, you touched mine

SAM: Doesn’t matter

Here we are
You really believe we’ve come so far

But not at all

We haven’t come far at all

MOLLY: But when we kissed you didn’t refuse

SAM: I was drunk

MOLLY: That’s not an excuse

SAM: I know

MOLLY: You must’ve known that you wanted this

SAM: I wanted this

But oh

MOLLY: Oh
To be with you I’m happy to change

SAM: But nothing’s changed

As much as I miss you

If we do it again

It would end the same

I’m still the same
I still like routine

MOLLY: A second chance, that’s what this is

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SAM: But how can a second chance start like this?

What do you want?

12 – Cloudy Haze

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dsFGLv-2WSUR_QnJqWw-TIyGkaBkExLP

MOLLY: Please stay don’t run away

But don’t remain
Being ready is a made up phrase
A cloudy haze
For me
But oh

(SAM starts to clean up the mess on stage, putting everything back in the boxes)

I’m sorry
I know that isn’t enough
I wish there was a word I could say
Or a sentence
Some combination of words I could find
I wish I could find
So you’d know
So you’d know

What I’m feeling

What I’m feeling

Just stay don’t run away

But don’t remain
Being ready just takes a little time
Fighting against my own mind
But oh

(SAM hands MOLLY her box, and exits with his box)

I think I’m ready

No I’m just ready
Sorry I took so long
Took some time
Took a lot of time
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(Lights fade out on MOLLY alone)

End of Play