From PBS Nation (MC Rib, feat. Roey Jizzolo) (2012), by Kate Jones & Joey Rizzolo.
© 2006 Joey Rizzolo Four Neos (a conductor and three in the orchestra) are onstage with music stands. Other Neos may be assigned parts of the play for emphasis. The orchestra keeps time with a steady rhythm throughout, unless noted. ALL [whispering, one person drops out of each line] CONDUCTOR CONDUCTOR & ORCHESTRA
Bucket Hugger! (x7)
[whispering] There are uses
There are uses for a bucket known from here to Baton Rouge.
A water-filled receptacle can be a handy centrifuge.
Put it in a car and it becomes a bucket seat or
An accessory of gluttony for greedy trick-or-treaters.
It’s a smoking apparatus for the marijuana junkies.
If a barrel isn’t handy, you could fill it up with monkeys,
Or the colonel’s special recipe of breaded chicken pieces,
Or spackle, pickles, driveway sealant, paint, or human feces.
© 2006 F. Omar Telan & Joey Rizzolo
MALE NEO. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
FEMALE NEO. O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
MALE NEO. Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
FEMALE NEO. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
VO NEO. Please stand clear of the closing doors.