Page 24 - The Kid Who Played The Palace

(Moment) Same guy. Alyson— lead sheets. Gotta get dressed. (Exits, as Alyson puts the material
together and hands it out.)

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Boom! Another loud crash and a framed poster falls off the wall. Chris picks it up.

CHRIS
(Reading poster) "April 3rd, 1925" He's like my age here.

STEPHANIE
He still is.

ADAM
(Takes poster from Chris and reads aloud and quickly with an old-time radio feel) "Little Benny Rosen
Junior- first kid to play the Palace‖ Yowza, yowza.

(Benny has re-entered)

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Benny's shirt is now buttoned, his slacks belted, and he's puffing a freshly-lit cigar.

(The kids feign loud coughing and choking)

BENNY
Oh, stop it. Air‘s much worse out there.

STEPHANIE
(Referring to poster) Benny, how come you stopped making movies?

BENNY
That‘s not a movie. It‘s a-

ADAM
What about now? How about ―Benny Rosen Junior- his entire life. On screen."

CHRIS
That'd be a looonnng movie.

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