RICHIE

And What if Im next?

What if Im next?

What am I gonna do

I haven't got a clue

I gotta think of something

What does he want

What does he want

Stories from the past

I better find one fast



DON, MAGGIE, GREG, BEBE, RICHIE, VAL, PAUL

What should I say What can I tell him



BOBBY

As I got older I kept getting stranger and stranger,

I used to go down to this Busy intersection near my house

rush hour and direct traffic. I just wanted To see if

anybody'd notice me. That's when I started breaking people's

houses -- oh, I didn't steal anything --just re-arrange

their furniture. And



VAL

And Orphan at three

Orphan at three

Mother and dad both gone

Raised by a sweet ex-con

Tied up and raped at seven

Seriously Seriously

Nothing too obscene

I'd better keep it clean



DON, CONNIE, MIKE, SHEILA, RICHIE, VAL, DIANA

What should I say? What can I tell him?



BOBBY

You wanna hear about school? I went to P.S. Shit. See,

I was the kind of kid that was always getting slammed

into lockers and stuff like that. Not only by students --

by the teachers too. Oh and I hated sports, hated sports.

And sports were very big. I mean, it was jock city, but

I didn't make one team. See I couldn't catch a ball if it

had elmer's glue on it. And didn't my father have to be

this big ex-football hero, he was so humiliated, he didn't

know what to tell his friends. So he told 'em all I had

polio. On father's day I'd to limp for him, and



JUDY

And God, Im a wreck

God, Im a wreck

I don't know where to start

I'm gonna fall apart

Where are my childhood memories?

Who were the boys

What were my toys

Gone beyond recall!

And why am I so tall

What should I say





VAL, RICHIE, MAGGIE, CONNIE, JUDY, DIANA

What can I tell him?



JUDY

And



CONNIE

And



RICHIE

And



VAL

And



BOBBY

(out of pantomime)

And mother kept saying: "If you don't stop burning brother's

toys, we're going to have to send you away." And I was always

thinking up these spectacular ways how to kill myself. But then

I realized -- to commit suicide in buffalo is redundant!