So this weekend was the performance of my high school's musical, "Bye Bye Birdie". It's pretty much about Elvis, except the singer's name in this is Conrad Birdie.

I'm friends with two of the leads, Conrad and Albert(Conrad's manager. He's the real main character of the play, not Conrad), and a few of the side characters, the one teenage girl's(the one Conrad is supposed to kiss before he goes into the army) father, as well as the boyfriend of that teenage girl.

Anyway, all of them are in trouble now, because last night, the last night of the play, they had a little fun and did some ad-libbing.

Scenario #1

In one scene, Conrad is supposed to walk over to the refrigerator and take out a root beer, but when he opened the refrigerator the prop people had forgotten to put any in, so he improvised and slammed the door and said, "THERE'S NO BEER!" because in the scene he was rather frustrated.
Albert replied, "Well, I don't know what you're going to do about that. ... Okay, I drank it all. But don't tell mama."
It wasn't that big of a deal. They continued on with their normal lines after that, 'cause the stuff they put in fit in just fine.

But for this, they're in trouble because they ' promoted alcoholism'.

Scenario #2

The last scene is Albert tricking Conrad and Albert's mother into getting on a train to New York while he stays behind so he and his love Rose can get on a train to wherever(they used our hometown for lulz). While the train is 'moving away', both Conrad and the mother are supposed to throw their bags, then Rose comes on stage. However, only the mom threw her bag. Then after Rose had already come on stage, Conrad threw his.
Albert looked over and said, "The train threw up."
The crowd EXPLODED in laughter.
Rose altered a line from, "Oh Albert, you didn't want us to get on that train!" to "Oh Albert, you didn't want us to get on that sick train!"
The crowd was laughing so much that they had to pause because you couldn't hear what they were saying over the laughter. It was wonderful.

Then, Albert is supposed to say, "It stands to reason, Rose. Why get on a train to New York when we have tickets to Stanford(they used my hometown, but I don't feel like using it)?"
Rose says, "What's in Stanford?"
And Albert said, "Nothing."
The crowd laughed, so he continued, "Except for ten bars. And ten churches. Three hair salons. Oh, and a Wal-Mart Supercenter!"
They had to pause for all the laughter again.
Then he said, "Did I forget to mention Toro(a company that imploys a LOT of people here)?"
They had to pause again, and then they finished the scene as normal.

They're in trouble for all of THAT because "There's room for improv, but they took it across the line". Whatever. They made it HILARIOUS. Besides, they're all seniors(except for the girl who played Rose). It's their last fall production. The last musical.

And they've been threatened with 'administrative reprocussions' such as being banned from the play in the spring.

Oi.

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