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I knohat it’s like to be thinking

TINY:

I’ll be standing in the outfield, staring at the sky

PHIL:

but what I’hts

that travel by

TINY:

I pretend the clouds are in a soap opera

PHIL:

I rass

TINY:

There are clouds in love, clouds in lust

PHIL:

I’ this line makes Phil downcast, and Tiny notices The other players return, and again the stage is full with the coe to address the audience

TINY (spoken):

Phil became a decent first baseman I found that my talents at basketball and football--two sports that appreciate size--were not transferable to the baseball dia hit by pitches

Nothing can ceue we found that in a certain Fascist-forward despot naed his name, because I would love to see Coach Frye try to sueit on, Coach Frye There’s not a jury in the world that enjoyed gym class

Tiny sits down on the bench, itchy and restless The other tealy and out of shape You know those gyh they themselves haven’t seen the lower half of their body in twenty years? The ones who blow their whistles like they’re the s? Yeah, that’s hiht, you pansies I don’t want you to sissy up the field, understood? This isn’t a softball tea artillery out there Billy, you’re up

One of the boys leaves the bench and goes offstage The kids’ eyes follow hi):

Come on, Billy! Did yourWait for your pitch and don’t just stand there

Then Tiny’s cheer drowns out all the others

TINY (exaggeratedly effeminate, even flirtatious):

Hey, batta batta THWING, batta batta!

BULLY PLAYER 1:

Idiot Our guy is batting You’re distracting hi to Tiny’s defense):

Tiny’s rubber You’re glue Whatever you say bounces off hiay

COACH FRYE:

Hey! HEY! No insulting teammates

PHIL (valiantly):

It’s not an insult It’s just a thing Like, soay Some people have blue eyes

COACH FRYE:

Shut up, Wrayson

BULLY 1 (loud whisper):

You’re so gay for each other

PHIL:

We’re not gay We’re eight

BULLY 1:

You want to go to second baseWITH TINY

TINY:

Second base?

Tiny stands up and takes a step downstage, in front of the coach, who seethes "SECOND BASE" is about to begin

This is Tiny’s nu at the boys in unifored baseball dance nuh School Musical 2 As Tiny sings, the guys in the chorus--including Phil--pull off a hilariously elaborate old-fashioned, high-stepping, highly choreographed dance, their bats used as canes and their ball caps as top hats Midway through, half the guys swing their bats toward the heads of half the others, and even though it’s totally faked, when the other boys fall backward draasp Mo starts up again (Or, if you can’t do all that, just make it fun)