[Movie Script]Happy Birthday, Wanda June

               HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WANDA JUNE



by
Kurt Vonnegut
                           ACT ONE



SCENE ONE



SILENCE.  Pitch blackness.  Animal eyes begin to glow in the

darkness.  Sounds of the jungle climax in animals fighting.

A SINGER is heard singing the first bars of "All God's

Chillun Got Shoes."  HAROLD, LOOSELEAF, PENELOPE, and WOODLY

stand in a row in the darkness, facing the audience.  They

are motionless.  A city skyline in the early evening

materializes outside the windows.
The lights come up on the living room of a rich man's

apartment, which is densely furnished with trophies of hunts

and wars.  There is a front door, a door to the master

bedroom suite, and a corridor leading to other bedrooms, the

kitchen and so on.
                         PENELOPE


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