Scene 1
Opening strains of “Enter Sandman” play. The Boss and his henchmen file in and sing their number.
Henchmen:
Evil's here, run and hide
Lock your kids up inside
Bad guys have arrived
We have to come destroy
All the good girls and boys
With our wicked ploys
We will trick and fool them
Put them in a trance
Exit right, enter strife
No good citizen
Will stand any kind of chance
Henchmen 1: Uh, Boss? What IS the evil plan?
Henchmen 2: A destroyinator?
Boss: That's so last year.
Henchman 1: So what is it?
The Boss: Video games.
Henchmen: VIDEO GAMES!
(They look delighted, then confused.) Video games?
The Boss: All we have to do is get them to quit caring, then everything will fall apart all by itself. I've
designed a special video game to put them in a permanent trance.
Henchmen: Genius!
Henchman 2: Except . . . that won't work on the girls.
The Boss: Of course it will. All you have to do is pick the right game.
(Cackles evilly. All exit.)
Enter all the youth. Girls and boys are on opposite sides of the stage.
Band plays music of School's Out for Summer
Hero Girl 1: EFY is going to be a week of awesomeness!
Hero Boy 1: (to Gamer kids) Are you sure don't want to go?
Gamer Boy 1: That's not a vacation!
Just Dance Girl 1: It's so serious!
Hero Girl 2: You guys are crazy. It's totally fun!
Hero Girl 1: And there's a dance. A huge dance. With boys. So many cute boys!
Hero Boy 2: Yeah, like me! (Other boys laugh and cut him down to size with a hair tousle.)
Hero Girl 2: (Rolls eyes.) Obviously, they teach great self-esteem there.
Hero Boy 1: You guys would seriously rather just veg?
All Gamer kids: YES!
Hero Boys and Girls shrug and exit stage with their suitcases/duffels/etc toward EFY.
Music starts for “I Want to Be Sedated Music” as the curtain opens.
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours ago
At school, we hate it!
So much to learn so much to know
No thinking, we hate it!
Throwing out my schoolbooks,
Pulling out my games
Hurry, hurry, hurry before I go insane
Give me something fun to do
Thinking hard's a pain
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
No thinking, we hate it
No working, we hate it!
Just Dance Girl 4: So no thinking, no working. What do we do now?
(Doorbell chimes. Girl 1 and Boy 1 each run off stage and return with a video game.)
Just Dance Girl 1: I got ding dong ditched and they left a video game.
All Just Dance Girls: What is it?
Just Dance Girl 1: Just Dance 17!
All Girls:
(Squeals of excitement)
Gamer Boy 1: I got ding dong ditched, too. Some game I never heard of called “Shirk Your Duty:
Black Outs 3.”
(All the boys cheer)
The girls and boys take their nearest exit .
Scene 2
The curtain opens to reveal the gamer girls and boys playing their respective games. Girls are frozen
and only the boys are lit. Two boys are playing and the rest are sitting and watching but horsing
around. The Boss peeks in and smiles.
Lights go off on boys and light up girls instead. Music starts. Love You Like a Love Song plays and
girls do the dance badly. Song starts again, quieter, and the first group of Ordinary Citizens enters the
stage.
Ordinary Citizen 1: Help! Help! My cat is stuck in the tree! I know there are Eagle Scouts in there.
Can you come help me?
Gamer Boy:
(Rises and moves in a zombie shuffle like he's going to eat the citizen who runs offstage
screaming. Gamer Boy returns to the game.
Enter another citizen and a police officer.
Ordinary Citizen 2: I don't know why she didn't show up a court today. She's normally a responsible
girl!
Police officer: We need her testimony to convict this guy of theft and bring down this burglary ring.
She's our only eyewitness!
They knock. Another Just Dance Girl dances over.
Just Dance Girl: Sorry about court. Gotta dance.
(Slams door.)
Soldiers march on stage.
Soldier 1: War, right here on our borders! We need recruits!
Soldier 2; I heard the young people of this town have a deep sense of duty to God and country.
(Knocks on door.)
Gamer boy zombie shuffles over and opens the door.
Gamer boy:
(Groans)
Soldiers slam the door and scramble back.
Soldier 2: We don't need that kind of soldier!
(They run off stage.)
Light changes to an eerie blue and the kids do their zombie thing in front of their TV screens. The
Henchmen dart in from the side.
The Boss: My evil plan is working.
Henchmen: Mwahahaha!
(The henchmen dart back offstage. The curtain closes.)
Scene 3
EFY kids walk with the closing curtain, stopping when it's fully closed.
Hero Girl 1: EFY is seriously the best!
Hero Boy 1: I know! I can't wait to jump in and start changing things for the better around here.
Hero Boy 2: First up, motivate our scout troop to work on their citizenship merit badges.
Hero Girl 2: And we're going to set a record for the number of girls earning their Young Women's
medallion.
Curtain opens and the girls are lit.
Hero Girl 1: All right, girls! We're back, and we have some fantastic ideas for what we can-
-(Another
Hero Girl tugs on her shirt.)
Hero Girl 2: They're not listening. It's like they can't even hear us. What going on here?
Hero Girl 1:
(Running and peering at several of the girls, unable to get their attention.) They're in a
trance. It's the game! They can't stop playing!
Hero Girl 2: Hey, sis! It's me! Stop the game.
Gamer Girl 1:
(with great effort) I . . . can't . . .
Hero Girl 1: I'm all for having a good time, but this is taking it a little far. Have you been playing this
the whole time we were gone?
(The girls all slowly nod, but none of them look away. The henchmen
suddenly barge in. )
The Boss: Give up now.
Hero Girl 2: What are you doing in here? You can't just barge in like that.
Henchman 1: Of course we can. Bad guys don't knock.
Hero Girl 1: Why are you here?
The Boss: This is the first stop in world domination.
Hero Girls: How?!
Henchman 2: The Boss made a game they can't stop playing!
Hero Girl 1: No way. We'll stop you. These are good girls.
The Boss: Good luck with that.
(They move off to the side to watch. A Hero Girl tries to turn the TV off and another attempts to unplug it. It keeps working.)
Hero Girl 2: He's rigged the TV. We can't turn it off.
Hero Girl 1: Then we'll have to talk them down. Girls, this isn't the only kind of fun to have.
Hero Girl 2: Yeah, you can have fun doing things that make the world a better place.
Girls begin to slow down their dancing and perk up.
The Boss: No girl can resist this song.
(Takes a gadget from his pocket and changes the music to Just
The Way You Are. The girls go back into dance mode.)
Hero Girl 1: We're depending on you! You can't just check out! The girls slow down their dance and
start to become more alert. The Boss puts on another song, Never Gonna Give You Up.
Hero Girl 2: It's not working! We need drastic measures. This calls for cute boys!
Hero Girl 1: Let's go get them!
(They hustle off stage and the light switches to the boys. The Hero
Boys are snapping their fingers in front of the zombie faces and shaking the boys but getting no results from the boys in zombie poses).
Hero Boy 1: Nothing! They're zoned! I can't even turn off the power supply. What is going on?
The Boss: I'll tell you what's going on: mind control through my epic video game, “Shirk Your Duty:
Black Outs 3.” And the girls are all under my control, too.
Hero Boy 2: No way. You got the girls to play video games?
The Boss:
(Shrugs.) Just Dance 17.
Hero Boys:
(Slap their foreheads) Genius!
Henchmen: EVIL genius!
The Boss: I'll prove it. Since the dancing worked so well for the girls, let's try it on the boys.
Hero Boy 1: Those guys? They'll never dance. All they know is the deacon shuffle.
(Hero boys
demonstrate.)
The Henchmen walk off doing evil laughs.
Hero Boy 2: How are we going to break the zombie trance?
Hero Boy 1: What's more interesting than video games?
Hero Boy 2: Cute girls! Let's go get them!
(The Hero Boys run to meet the girls.)
Hero Girls: We need your boys!
Hero Boys:
(at the same time) We need your girls!
Hero Boys and Girls: They're in a trance!
(All stop and look at each other in horror.) Uh oh!
Henchmen:
(offstage evil laughter)
Hero Boy 1: You know what this means.
Hero Girl 1: Desperate times, desperate measures.
(All Hero Kids rip open shirts to reveal CTR
superhero shirts.
Hero Girl 2: Let the epic battle begin!
Final Countdown plays.
We're battling evil, and we have to win
The Boss wants to beat us
And brainwash our friends
We must find the courage to
Stand for the right
(Stand for the right)
It's time to bust out a brilliant plan
It's the final countdown
Hero Girl 1: I know how to save the girls! The only way they'll quit is when they master the game. We
have to get into the game to do it.
Hero Girl 2: I just aced Advanced Video Game Design. I can hack it. Let's go! (They exit)
Hero Boy 1: Yeah, let's go!
Hero Boy 2: What are we going to do?
Hero Boy 1: I have no idea. We're dudes. We'll figure it out when we get there.
(They run off stage.
The curtains open to reveal two of the girls in the game now. The music for Kriss Kross/“Jump” starts and the girls give them a routine they can do. At mastery, the spell snaps.)
Gamer Girl 1: Whoa. What happened?
Hero Girl 1: Some evil genius trapped you guys in a never ending game of Just Dance. There's no time
to explain. We have to go rescue the boys!
Gamer Girl 2: They're playing Just Dance?
Hero Girl 2: Of course not! He used some game with stuff blowing up. Let's go!
(Girls rush off. Light
switches to boys.)
Hero Boy 2: We've tried everything. Nothing's working!
Hero Boy 1: There has to be a way. Hit them with everything you've got!
Hero Boys:
(Take turns yelling out stuff. The girls rush up and stop short to watch. The Henchmen
come out stage left and watches too looking worried.)
You can date my sister!
I'll do your chores for a week!
I'll do your chores for the summer!
You can drive my car!
Hero Boy 2: Nothing! Nothing is working!
Gamer Girl 2: My brother's in there. I know exactly what will work.
(Yells) FREE PIZZA!
The trance breaks. The boys rub their eyes and sniff the air for pizza. The Henchmen are throwing a
tantrum at their defeat.
The Boss: I'll be back with even more powerful video games.
Hero Boy 1: It won't work.
(Speaks to the Gamers.) How did you like playing video games non-stop
for a week?
All Gamer Boys and Girls: WE DIDN'T!
Hero Girl 1: How would you like to do something fun that actually matters?
All Gamer Boys and Girls: YEAH!
Music for One Thing starts.
The world gets dark as night
When we don't even try
When we refuse to see
we're selfish and asleep
We've just gotta give now
We're awake and now we see
The world just needs our help now
So let's go out doing
So get up, get up, get out of your beds
Do something good instead
The world needs something only you have
it needs that one thing
So get up, get up, get out of your beds
Do something good instead
The world needs something only you have
it needs that one thing
So let's go out doing
