TOMMY

Sample dialogue

• I’ve been picked on, wedgied, ridiculed, upper-decked, and cyber- bullied by elected officials. I am also currently failing out of this university. And though I too cannot sing a drop, there is nowhere I’d rather be than in the welcome embrace of Barden a cappella. But if you think this is like some high school club where you sing and dance your way through big social issues you’ve come to the wrong place. It’s nothing like that. That’s high school. This shit is real life.

  scene 31 — INT. HALLWAY/INT. BARDEN AUDITORIUM - A FEW DAYS LATER

• First up today...

  scene 32 — INT. AUDITORIUM - CONTINUOUS

• - I launch this year’s auditions.

  scene 107 — INT. AUDITIONS - SIX MONTHS LATER

• Listen up aca-ballers, I’ve been rejected by the army, shoved into a Dora backpack, and pushed into the girl’s locker room wearing nothing but suspenders. But no matter. I am in the world that I love. So, with the assistance of my boy, Justin -

  scene 107 — INT. AUDITIONS - SIX MONTHS LATER

• ... Sixteen bars of Kelly Clarkson’s “Since U Been Gone.” If a group likes you, they’ll contact you directly. My tone deaf sidekick Justin will collect your info.

  scene 31 — INT. HALLWAY/INT. BARDEN AUDITORIUM - A FEW DAYS LATER

Bookends

Often appears with

• BECA3 scenes
• CHLOE2 scenes
• JUSTIN2 scenes
• AUBREY1 scene
• BECA/CHLOE1 scene
• BENJI1 scene