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What Was Whit Thinking?

music by Philip Seward

book by Trevor Paulito

lyrics by Maria Stedler

CAST:

Kylie, Shane, Jerod, Whit

TIME: Present

PLACE:

Fatburger, The Griffith Observatory, and The Getty Museum

Musical Numbers

Act One

integrated

script	score

If Life Were a Musical	Kylie	2	5

Bacon Cheese and Beef	Shane	4	13

Is He the One?	Kylie	7	21

This Will Never Work	Jerod	9	27

Texting Underscore	Instrumental	11	33

Act Two

Right Before Your Eyes	Whit, Kylie	2	41

What Was Whit Thinking?

Kylie and Shane sit at an outdoor table at a Fatburger. Shane devours a huge double-patty baconburger, sloppily. Kylie is doing her best not to be appalled, as she delicately eats her veggieburger.

KYLIE

O-k-kay, so we’ve established you and bacon....

SHANE

I know! (mouth full) You don’t know what you’re missing! You’re on a blind date at Fatburger only to get a veggie thing!?

KYLIE

Yeah, silly me. So. So, what do you do? What’s your job?

SHANE

I mean, it’s dripping down my elbows.

(She looks at his elbows. She reaches for a napkin, but decides not to intervene.)

KYLIE

Yes it is. And your job. You got a commute?

SHANE

Two patties! It’s like, twice the beef.

KYLIE

It’s exactly twice the beef, yes.

SHANE

I don’t know which I like better, the beef or the bacon.

KYLIE

Well, fortunately you got ‘em both together, so you don’t have to decide. Speaking of deciding, do you have decisions you have to make at work? What do you do? I’m asking you, what do you do?

SHANE

And they do something with the cheese. God, it’s good. C’mon, forget the veggie thing. Lemme buy you some beef!

KYLIE

No, I’m good.

SHANE

Hot beef. Bacon. I could eat like three of these.

(Kylie takes a bite of her veggieburger; Shane continues to ravage his burger. She sings "If Life Were a Musical.")

KYLIE

If life were a musical

I could hear what he is thinking.

He’d sing his inner thoughts

While he’s chewing and drinking.

If life were a musical

Even though his words are brief,

I’d know his inner thoughts

Were more than “burger bacon beef.”

I wish I could say it’s a record:

Three minutes to judge a blind date,

But already I know it’s time now to go.

Here’s someone I could learn to hate.

If life were a musical

Then his subtext would be clear.

He’d dance his inner thoughts

To a click track in his ear.