Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain (67 page)

]BELLE enters as MRS. POTTS exits.]

LUMIERE, BEAST, and BELLE

[The BEAST retrieves a large Tony Award from the
wings. The Disney characters pose around it and then
turn the center of the award around to reveal a Mickey
Mouse silhouette emblazoned on the center. They point
to it lovingly. Blackout. I

"Stop Cats!"

VOICEOVER

And now, welcome to auditions for the longest-running
show in Broadway history!

[Music from A Chorus Line. Lights up on auditioning
cats.]

VOICE-OVER (ZACK)

Got it? Right. Let's do the whole combination now
facing downstage away from the litter box!

UI I, five-six-seven-eight!

CATS

FEMALE CAT

CATS

[In counterpoint.]