Veroni: Assemble people! Err.... I mean cats.
Tugger: Get on with it.
Veroni: I just wanted to say that...
Demeter: (starts singing) She wanted to say, "I...
Veroni: DEMETER!
Demeter: Sorry, but I’m really mad that I didn’t get to sing that song!
Veroni: Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that this has been really great and despite our reluctance at first to do this, I think we all learned about.... Hey, where are you going?
Misto: There’s still another scene to do! C’mon everyone! Let’s do this thing. (aside) I can’t believe that *I* said that!
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Pounce: The era of Cat-time had run out. But we did not know that then....
Tugger: After Tumblehouse’s death, Younger Bro went south of the border to join yet another rebel group.
Vicky: Everybody together now... Yo quiro, Uh-oh!
Demeter: Demeta Goldfur saw the signs of the coming war everywhere... and what she didn’t see, she invented because that’s what anarchists do best...
Veroni: DEMETER!
Demeter: Because of her pessimistic views and overall lack of enthusiasm over America, she would be deported as well..
Bustopher: Looker N. Garbagetin created the Justhehe Institute and it became in time (after people had gotten over making fun of the name) the center of darker colored-cat america.
Gus: Gusfather was now in the Heavyside Layer. At last peace and quiet!
Grizabella: HEY HONEY!!!!
Gus: Aaurgh! Maybe not so peaceful!!!!
Alonzo: Let’s hear it for the lovely and talented Grizabella, who agreed to do a cameo for us!
Veroni: Yeah, but you have no idea how much it cost me to get her to do it.
Griz: I’ll be expecting my royalties in catnip and various kitty toys of my choice.
Cetera: The passionate and beautiful Cetera Nesbit would loose her looks and fall into obscurity.... Whee!
Admetus: And the whole cast now knows how completely off her rocker this author is!
Munku: Father was killed when the Titanic hit an iceberg. As he went went into the sea, he saw two people on the prow of the boat holding hands and suddenly a woman appeared singing a song about her heart going on...
Pounce: Wait! I’m getting something.... I see a hunky teenage heatthrob, a song that is heard no matter where you go, and dollar signs galore!
Jenny: Mother mourned for a year. When this was over, Skimbah saw his chance and proposed. She accepted.
Pounce: They moved to California.
Jemima: They were now a family.
Tumblehouse and Cassie’s child runs out to Jenny.
Skimble: The current events and watching his children play gave Skimbah several movie ideas.... One, a disaster movie about a very large sinking boat that he anticipated would take a whole heck of a lot of money--so he shelved it for the time being. Two, a story about people on the ocean fighting a very large shark--but since he figured no one would want to see that either, he ditched it. The third he stuck with, about a bunch of children who constantly get in and out of trouble.
Jenny: Ohh, those little rascals.....
Skimble: Hey! That could work.
Before Skimbah could think this over any more, we see Tumblehouse and Cassie singing about their son. Everyone joins in.....
Tumble: I see his face.
Cassie: I hear his heartbeat
Both: I look in those eyes, how wise they seem!
All:
Well, when he is old enough, I will show him America!
And he will ride on the wheels of a dream!
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Gus: The people called it Ragtime!
Others: Ugh.
Veroni: Ah, well....
Skimble: (teasing) You say that often.. "Ah, well"
Veroni: (ignoring Skimble) Thanks you guys! It was great!
Tugger: I’m gonna be soooooo late for my date thanks to you.
Veroni: Hold on! I need to see Griz, Misto, Lectra, Vicky, Old Deuteronomy, Alonzo and Cori. The rest of you are free to go.
The aforementioned Cats: Awwwwww........ Now what?!
Veroni: You’ll see. I have another job for you guys......
So...... what’s this big secret that Veronikitty is hiding? Will Tugger make it to his date on time? Will Gus cave and go get a hearing aide? And who really cares? All that and more on the next edition of....
THE SPOOFLITE ZONE!!!
The musical 'Ragtime' belongs to it's creators Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahrety as well as Livent Productions. I'm just writing this fic for the heck of it and am making absolutely zero in the money department for writing this thing.
This fic is © Veronikitty