Scene 7 – Business Woes
Scene 7
Business woes
Set: Office – Stage right; a doorway, coat on a hanger, desk with chairs, computer. Stage left; features a small conference table to accommodate 6 and a coffee machine on a credenza.
Scene: People coming and going from Tommy’s office.
Executive 1 “Can we review this proposal together?”
Tommy “Nice try. come back when you’re prepared”
Tommy gets his Secretary on the intercom “Please ask the management team to come to my office in 10”
Executive 2 “Do you have a couple of minutes for me”
Tommy “ Not right now.”
Executive 3 “I have a problem”
Tommy “After”
The 5 person management team enters his office. They sit down around the conference table.
Tommy “We’re on budget for this month.
Management team member 2 “But the budget was for a terrible month”
Tommy “Exactly”
Management team member3 “So why call a meeting?”
Tommy “You know the expression misery loves company?”
Management team member4 “yes ,so?”
Tommy “That’s not it. Misery loves miserable company!”
“What I’m trying to say is you can predict a storm coming but when it hits, you don’t say boy am I a good forecaster. You say damn, this is bad”
Mgmt team member 1 “I’ll say it again. You have the worst job in the company!”
The secretary pages Tommy.
He gets up from the conference table walks over to the desk and picks up
Tommy listens then turns to the Management team “Please excuse me I have to take this”
Allison is on the phone.
Tommy “what’s wrong?”
She is hysterical “they just called from the Dr’s office.”
Her voice goes very quiet “The biopsy. The results came back highly suspicious. Meet me at the Dr’s office.” 
Cue the music
Tommy gets up from the desk. The spotlight focuses on him.
The management team remains at the conference table visible but not highlighted. They become the ensemble for the first chorus.
During the first verse in darkness a sparse Dr’s waiting room set is created at centre stage. A receptionist behind a desk, a couple of chairs, and a couple of patients waiting.
During the second verse Allison arrives at the Dr’s office visibly upset checks in and sit’s down to wait. The Dr.’s waiting room and the office conference table with the management team are visible but not highlighted. From the second chorus to the end of the song the management team and Dr’s waiting room patients provide the back vocals.
Song-Keep it alive
Let me tell you a secret I’m never one to give up on a fight
Never run from a battle
Something worth holding on to will surely take from you a pound of flesh
Glimmer of hope, ray of light
Not the way that we planned it Life has a tendency to throw you curves
What’s the next challenge? Tell me (no don’t).
Make a plan execute it nothing can stand in your way believe that.
Who will be the last standing?
Chorus
Keep it alive
Keep it alive
Live for tomorrow. Survive the day. Overcome obstacles put in your way.
Keep it alive
Keep it alive
Just keep on going. Find inner strength. The power of “tomorrow is a-no-ther day”.
So damn hard to keep going where do we find the strength to carry on
Build on your inner courage
It’s so easy to let go So easy to let the whole house of cards fall
But that’s not who we are
Find inspiration come up with reasons to just carry on
The people around you
Find your true inspiration focus on what it is that we all want
It’s our driving obsession.
Chorus
Keep it Alive
Keep it alive