Frolics 1969 - The Script
Act II Scene:
NOTE: SONGS ARE IN THE BLUE FRAMES

Sun Person: What did Johnny say we're looking for?

Song

The sunnyside of the hill
A shadow very still
We'll find the tallest sunflower
Growing in a sunshower

We don't know what we'll find, but we will
On the sunnyside of the hill
(Repeat last two lines)

Why are the answers hidden in shadows?
Why can't the light of the sun bring them out?
Try and we hope it will burst like a sunflower
Are these the clues that we need to help out?

Astronauts sing:

We volunteered for this dangerous mission
Sunlamps do not heat up naerly as well
So we have reached this momentous decision
Head for the sunnyside of the hill.

Group 1

In a low volume:

Why are the answers hidden?

Repeated until end of verse

Astronauts

We volunteered for this mission

Group 2

The sunnyside of the hill, a shadow very still

Repeat constantly in 3/4

Group 3

Musical Improviso's Effects

 

All sing: The sunnyside of the hill

(Everyone searches. Stage left. Tsurus monsters enter from stage right. Girls scream and disorder)

Oh No, It's the Tsurus monster
Oi do we have Tsurus, OI DO WE HAVE TSURUS

Tsurus:

You're right, you do have Tsurus. Bluelueluelueluelue

Volga Boatman in 2/2:

You stepped on my sunspot
That's a very naughty thing to do
Now you will have tsurus,
I feel very very sorry for you.
Yes I do, I feel very very very sorry for you.

Chorus-in unison:

Mercy, Mercy. Oh Fuddyduddy

Astronaut #1 steps forward and says in recitative:

My name is goodness-honesty-virtue
Love-and-Truth-and Modesty and WholeSomeness,
but let's leave it on a first name basis,
I am the defender Def, I mean the Defender of Truth
Stand aside you villain or I'll harm you verilythusly

CHORUS:

Will harm you verily thusly

Astronaut:

or thusly I'll harm you verily

CHORUS:

Or thusly harm you verily

Astronaut:

or harmfully I will thus you.

Voice:

Tell it like it is brother

CHORUS:

HMMMMMMMMMMMM

Tsurus Monster:

Now stand back my good man, blueluelue, or my goodness, before I deliver to you quite a swell foop, or, or even a smushing thrash of my dwors, eh, a, a thrashing swush of my smorsch, oh, my, I'm not too well on Sundays.

Astronaut:

Never villain, you cannot do that to me.

Tsurus:

And why not, tell pray, not why?

Sun People:

When we were little sunbeams shavers of only two or three
our big mama said to we, said to we,
Love by the light of the sun.

Tsurus (Carried away):

By the light of the silvery moon ...

Sun People:

Boo, boo ... Say, what are you anyway?

Tsurus:

I'm T for Trouble, S for Sweat, U for Ugliness, R for Red, and U for Ubiquitous, and S for, uh, for uh,

Sun People:

S for Sunshine (on come colored lights and sun music)

Tsurus:

No, I can't stand it. Don't say that word.

Sun People:

S is for Sunshine, S is for Sunshine. Sunshine is cold, let's warm up the sun
Sunshine is cold, let's warm up the sun. That is our goal to turn the sun on

Tsurus:

Help me, I can't stand that help me, or I'm dead or delp me I'm a head. Oops (He dies)

Astronaut:

Well, now that we've done away with him, let's find that pot of gold.
Knock knock. A telegram: Your Sun is Dead
No, No, you mean your sun is Def
No, I'm def, the Defender of the Faith, Stand Aside
No, stupid that's the wrong line.
oh

Sun People:

Look, look what's happening to Him (Points to Tsurus - Monster turns into J.S.S.)
Why it's Johnny. Here's Johnny!

Johnny (Johnny Sunshine):

Hey Gang, I've been over a mountain and across the sea
you know the answer to your troubles lies under a tree
I bring the gift of experience clouded by the myth of Tsurus
or the myth of Tsurus clouded in the gift of experience. I forgot which.

Sun People:

Now we will find the Sunflower tree, the Sunflower tree, the Sunflower tree
We'll all get wise with the fruit of that tree
or the fruit of the loom we'll be

Follow the clues, How can we lose
Heat up the sun, we're number one
Sunshine is cold, let's heat up the sun
That is our goal to turn ourselves on.

Look, this sign says: caution, this sunflower tree may be harmful to your health.

Girls:

You'd better not eat it. It may be harmful

Boys:

Oh yes we will. It may be the Pill. It may be the thing that we need.

(The Boys eat the "Fruit" of the Tree. They "Turn On")

We are men of experience, the sun has made us wise.

J.S.S: (Speaking to the girls)

Why don't you come with me little girls
on a magic carpet ride
(Joined by other men)
We are men of experience
The sun has made us wise
(Girls "Turn On")

(Switch to ultra-violet light)

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