Saturday, 27 February 2021

Cast list and final script for "The Love Connection"

Cast list:

Romauldo - Maria

Gabrielle - Tyler

Taylor Sinclair - Claire M.

HAL - Danny

Camera operator/crew member, name Vikki Sheering - Rinko

Watson - Nolan

Coralee - Juliet

Ryan - Nolan

Ashley - Claire C.

Will - Ralph

Emily - Wesley (who also plays himself in "Which Box?")

Alphonoso Noso (audience who calls out) - Anson, Gabriel, Juliet, Benson, Ralph, Claire C., Nolan, 

"Which Box" cast 

Host - Jeff

Mark/Chris - Juliet

Rupert - Gabriel

Tequila Mockingbird - Benson

Electrical connection singers - Tyler, Michelle, and the two Claires

All dates will also be in the audience!

Remember!  There is no such thing as a small part, just small actors.  Make the best of what you have and the show will be great!


Final Script for "The Love Connection"

Love Connection!

 

Music.  Flashing lights. 

 

“Love Me Do” – presented by the Electrical Connection singers.

 

Gabrielle Storm and Romauldo Carduzzio run out from opposite sides of the stage, waving at the crowd.  (Crowd noises.)  They wave happily at the crowd.

 

Gabrielle:  Hey everybody!  Welcome to the Love Connection!  Hi, Romauldo!  How are you doing?

 

Romauldo:  Just great, Gabby!  You?

 

Gabrielle:  Great, too.  Hey, did I see you with a love connection last night?

 

Romauldo:  (coy)  I don’t know, Gabby.  Did you?

 

Gabrielle:  Are you blushing?  Audience?  Is he?

 

Audience:  Yes!  He is!  He’s blushing!

 

Gabrielle:  Well, folks.  I saw this young fella HOLDING HANDS WITH A LOVELY YOUNG WOMAN yesterday at the park.  They had one bubble tea between them . . . and not much else.  No social distancing there.  (She wags her finger at him.)

 

Want to tell us more?

 

Romauldo:  Well, not too much more – don’t want to jinx things in these early days.  We just met, and I am very interested – she’s not just beautiful outside, Gabby.  She’s beautiful inside, too.

 

Gabrielle:  Yeah, I think you were close enough to examine her internal structure!

 

(Audience laughs.)

 

Romauldo:  Well, enough about me.  Let’s get the show started.  Watson and Coralee went out on a date on our dime last night – let’s hear about how that went.

 

Gabrielle:  Come on down, you two crazy kids!

 

Watson and Coralee come down the opposite aisles.

 

Gabrielle:  Let’s give them a hand, everybody.  (The audience claps.)

 

Watson leans over to kiss Coralee, but she rejects him.

 

Romauldo:  Whoa!  That’s not a very auspicious start.  Coralee?

 

Coralee:  He was a bit of a disappointment, Romauldo.

 

Watson:  What?

 

Coralee:  He TOLD me he was a college graduate, but the college he went to was advertised on his own Youtube channel.

 

Watson:  So?

 

Gabrielle:  Audience?  What do you think of that?  (Mumbles from audience.)

 

Woman in audience:  Was it a real college?

 

Coralee:  It was called the College of School and offered degrees while you waited for your pizza to bake.  We went there for our supposed gourmet dinner.

 

Man in audience:  What kind of pizza did you order?

 

Watson:  Ham and pineapple!

 

Man in audience:  Okay, you’re a loser.

 

Other woman in audience:  I LIKE pineapple on pizza.

 

Man in audience:  You’re an idiot.

 

Watson:  In my defence, I did get straight A’s.

 

Coralee:  In what?  Anchovies?

 

Romauldo:  Ouch!  What do you say to that, Watson?

 

Watson:  Well, I didn’t think much of her either.  All she talked about was herself and her job – she wasn’t interested in me at all.

 

Coralee:  My job is interesting.

 

Gabrielle:  What do you do, Coralee?

 

Coralee:  I’m an astronaut.

 

(Audience hums with excitement.)

 

Coralee:  And I’m punting Watson to the moon.

 

(Wa-wa-waaa sound.  Watson and Coralee exit.)

 

Gabrielle:  Well, that date didn’t go as well as we had hoped, did it, audience?

 

Audience:  NO!

 

Romauldo:  Did everyone in the audience fill out their love connection forms?

 

Audience:  YES!

 

Gabrielle:  Great!  Let’s get our beautiful and talented Taylor Sinclair to collect the forms and feed them into the love connection computer, Hal!

 

Audience:  HAL!  HAL!  HAL!

 

Taylor Sinclair:  Ooo, Hal, you’re so popular.  I have the forms in my hand and will now feed them into HAL’s algorithmic hopper disgenerator.  Here we go, HAL!

 

HAL:  Taylor, I love the way you cook up all these characters for me to analyze.

 

Taylor Sinclair:  And I love your digital processors!

 

Gabrielle:  Okay, we all know that Taylor and HAL have a special relationship, right?

 

Audience member:  Yeah, weird!

 

HAL:  Shut up, stupid humans.

 

Gabrielle:  Okay, HAL, let’s see how last week’s dates, Emily and Will, got along.

 

HAL:  Will and Emily will not get together.

 

Gabrielle:  What?

 

HAL:  Emily does not like Will because of one small pet peeve.  JUST ONE . . . he chews with his mouth open.

 

Audience member:  That’s a big turnoff.

HAL:  YOU STUPID HUMANS!

 

(HAL transports himself into Gabrielle (how will we show this?)

 

Romauldo:  We hope you are as excited as we are to see what Emily and Will thought of each other!  (Audience cheers.)

 

Gabrielle:  (in HAL’s voice)  Stupid humans.

 

Romauldo:  What?

 

Gabrielle:  (her own voice) I hope they’re stupidly in love!  Come on down, Will and Emily!

 

(Audience cheers.  Will and Emily enter.)

 

Romauldo:  So Will, how did it go with Emily last night?

 

Will:  I am absolutely in love with her.  I can see myself spending a lot of time with her.

 

Gabrielle:  And Emily?  How about you?

 

Emily:  HE CHEWS WITH HIS MOUTH OPEN!  I can’t be with someone like that.

 

Gabrielle:  This sounds like quite a catastrophic conundrum.

 

Will:  Well, you know what, Ms. Perfect, do you think I didn’t notice your mommy issues?  Not everyone wants to be your mother, not the waitresses, not me, not MY mom!

 

Emily:  I am over this.  I can’t –

 

Will:  Yeah, well, so am I!

 

Romauldo:  Well, perhaps we’ll segue smoothly into our enormously popular “Which is the box?” segment while we sort out this little glitch.

 

Music - (Samantha)

Host: Gooood evening ladies, gentlemen, and temporal anomalies. My name is Host and welcome to “Which is the box!” The rules are simple. You pick a box and take the prize behind! The choice is yours!
Now enough of me talking, please welcome our contestants!

 

*the contestants walk on to the stage in a single file line*

 

Host: The contestants are (when the contestant name is called out the contestant raises their hand) Rupert! Chris! Mark! And Tequila mockingbird! Great to have you guys here. Do you want a banana?

 

Chris: no

 

(Chris is shot by a member of the production crew (Rinko). Chris is also Mark. After his death, Chris swiftly stands in the empty space where Mark is with a fake glasses or something.)

 

Host: Let’s begin with Rupert! Let’s give a hand to rupert!

 

The clapping begins. It does not stop.

 

Host: Alright Rupert, above the sound of the audience clapping, you must pick out a box! Which one?

 

Rupert: Rupert

 

Host: BOX 3!

 

The box opens, revealing a box.

 

Host: Your prize is a mysterious unmarked package I found outside of my box yesterday!

 

Rupert: Rupert

 

(The audience claps. The sound of clapping is incessant but is mysteriously quiet.)

 

Host: Let’s move on to Mark! Hello Mark, which box do you pick?

 

Mark: Box Number 4 please!

 

Crew member (Rinko) moves Box number 2 to the right side of box number 3. There is no box number 4.

 

Host: Alright and let’s see what you get!

 

The box opens, revealing wesley yu to be standing on the other side.

 

Host: Aww shucks, you get a bizarre incomprehensible eldritch horror!

 

Mark: But I paid five thousand dollars to get on this show!

 

Host: That is your own personal problem.

 

Mark looks at the eldritch horror and dies. Crewmember (Rinko) drags Mark off the stage

 

Host: NOW FOR TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD GIVE THEM A HAND!

 

The audience does not clap. They are silent.

 

Tequila Mockingbird: Hi host, glad to be here.

 

Host: Glad to have you here tequila, please pick a box.

 

Tequila Mockingbird: Box One please.

 

Box one opens to reveal car seats.

 

Host: YOU WIN A BRAND NEW 2021 SUBARU OUTBACK!

 

Tequila Mockingbird: OH MY GOD!

 

Host: BUT THAT'S NOT ALL

 

TEQUILA MOCKINGBIRD: WHAT ELSE IS THERE?

 

Host: CHECK UNDER THE SEAT!

 

Tequila mockingbird reaches under the seat to reveal a sword

 

Host: THAT'S RIGHT YOU ALSO WIN THE SWORD OF EXCALIBUR. ALL OF ENGLAND IS UNDER YOUR RULE

 

Tequila Mockingbird: OH MY GOD!

 

Host: BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE! Look behind the car.

 

Tequila Mockingbird walks behind the car

 

Tequila Mockingbird: OH MY GOD

 

Host: What is it?

 

Tequila Mockingbird: IT’S A PORTAL TO HELL

 

Host: THAT'S RIGHT YOU HAVE JUST WON ENTRANCE TO BEYOND THIS MORTAL COIL!

 

Tequila: OH MY GOD I FEEL THE WEIGHT OF MY SINS CRUSHING DOWN UPON ME I AM BEING KNEADED INTO THE VERY FABRIC OF EXISTENCE. MY SINS BURDENED ME TO AN ETERNITY OF NOT PAIN, BUT NOTHINGNESS. COMPLETE AND UTTER NOTHINGNESS.

 

Host: What else do you see?

 

Tequila: OH MY GOD

 

Host: WHAT IS IT

 

Tequila: IT’S FAMOUS ACTOR MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY 

 

Host: THAT’S RIGHT HE WAS SENT TO HELL FOR BEING IN THE MOVIE MAGIC MIKE (2012) 

 

Tequila: THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING! I SHALL SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!

 

Host: Godspeed Tequila, Godspeed.

 

A moment of silence.

 

Host: *Cheerfully* ANYWAYS AUDIENCE YOU HAVE BEEN AMAZING THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING, THAT IS ALL, GOODNIGHT.


“Which is the Box” theme music.

Romauldo:  AAAND we’re back!  Gabrielle, um, where is Emily?

 

Gabrielle:  I have no idea.  Maybe she’s dead . . . I mean, dead tired from what happened on their date.

 

Crew member comes out.

 

Crew member:  Emily . . . has been killed!

 

Will:  What?  She was fine before the break.

 

Gabrielle:  I don’t know.  You were pretty mad at her.  Are you sure you did not do anything to her?

 

Crew member takes Will away.

 

Romauldo:  Well, that seems to lead directly into the Survivor segment of the show!

 

Audience member:  Finally!

 

LOVE CONNECTION - SURVIVAL

 

SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON GABRIELLE AND ROMAULDO ON A DARK STAGE. In the live studio, Gabrielle and Romauldo are standing at the middle of the stage. A serious mood.

 

ROMAULDO

Tonight, our favourite couple will make a vote to decide on which other Survivor couple they think should be booted off the island. 

 

GABRIELLE

Now, we will join back with our favourites, Ryan and Ashley, and their vote, which will be the tie-breaker for tonight's decision. So far, it is one for Angus and Demi, and one for Taylor and Jordan. 

 

THE SPOTLIGHT FADES. A SPOTLIGHT NEAR STAGE LEFT SHINES. Ryan and Ashley appear under the spotlight. 

 

RYAN (anguished)

So, we've thought a lot about this decision, and even though we are close with both couples, at the end of the day, we still have to vote someone off. 

 

ASHLEY

I think that this voting process has brought Ryan and I closer together because of how difficult this is. 

 

RYAN (determined)

We decided to make this impartial and vote without a bias. 

 

ASHLEY

During the fishing competition, I saw Demi and Angus arguing a lot, but they made up afterwards. Like a lot. Like full on make out session. And I mean really just going for it. I don't think I've ever seen that much tongu-

 

RYAN

Yeah, Ashley, babe, I think they get it. 

 

ASHLEY

Well, anyways, when I think about Taylor and Jordan, I can just feel their chemistry. Like when they were making a fire together, sparks flew. 

 

RYAN

And because of that, we sadly vote Angus and Demi off the island. 

 

BACKGROUND LIGHT TURNS RED. Crowd gasps. 

ALL LIGHTS TURN OFF. Confused mumbles fill the stage and the audience. 

 

RANDOM PERSON

What's going on?! 

 

ALL LIGHTS TURN ON. Hal has taken over the stage and the broadcasting. As Hal speaks, it begins to glitch with anger. Gabrielle laughs evilly and then freezes.  When HAL speaks, she mouths his words.

 

HAL

Stop it! All of this! Stop it right now! 

(points to audience)

YOU! AND YOU! AND YOU! You're all being lied to. LIES! LIES! All of it! There is no real love. NO LOVE! And no one! NO ONE will leave this island! YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE. 

 

PLAY HAL'S CREEPY COMPUTER VOICE. Hal's voice becomes mixed with a human voice and a scary robotic voice. 

 

HAL

NO MORE LOVE. NO MORE LIES. GOOD NIGHT, SURVIVORS. 

 

Happy Game Show music plays!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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