TOMIKA SIDE 1

TOMIKA SIDE 1 Start The school bell rings. The KIDS start to relax as DEWEY packs up a satchel and starts to hand out cds to them. LAWRENCE is heading back. DEWEY: Here! The history of Jimi Hendrix by tomorrow! You! If it hadn’t been Jack Haley, then who? ZACK receives his CDS. He’s been thinking. ZACK: Will we be competing against other schools? DEWEY: There’s no question that a win will go on your permanent record. Hello, Harvard. Hello, Yale, Yo. DEWEY senses that Tomika is somehow out of it. DEWEY( CONTD): What’s wrong, Tomika? TOMIKA: You haven’t given me a job. DEWEY: Sure. Ok. Can you sing? Do you want to join Marcy and Shonelle? TOMIKA: No DEWEY: Then what do you want to do if you don’t want to sing? TOMIKA: I do want to sing. But I’m not a back-up singer. I’m a singer. DEWEY: It’s hard to be a singer, Tomika. But TOMIKA doesn’t seem to be argued out of it. DEWEY sighs. DEWEY (CONT): OK. If you wanna be a singer, sing something. Because I can’t make you a singer unless you can sing. END