(Macavity approaches Bombalurina backstage...)

MAC: So, Bombalurina, how's it going?

BOMB: Mac, get lost. Tugger will clean your clock if he sees you talking to me!

MAC: RELAX, Bomb. I'm not trying to ask you out.

BOMB: Then what are you trying to ask?

MAC: Well, I noticed you don't have a major part in this parody, and you'd be a VERY sexy Evillene...

BOMB: So in other words, you're trying to thrust your part on me so you get out of embarrassing yourself.

MAC: EXACTLY.

BOMB: Well, Mac...give me a second to think about it. Second's up. NO.

MAC: RATS!

(Back on stage, Jennaperle is using her magic slate to guess Demothy's name...)

JENNY: Now let's get down to business, honey. What's your name, child?

DEM: Well, my name is...

POUNCE: What?

TUMBLE: My name is...

POUNCE: Who?

TUMBLE: My name is...

POUNCE: *mimics a turntable scratching* Slim Shady...

MATT: WRONG SONG!

JENNY: Wait...don't tell me...I'll ask my magic slate! (she pulls a slate out of her bag)

DEM: Your WHAT?

CET: TIIIIIIN ROOF...rusted!

KITTENS: Love shack, baby, love shack...

MATT: WRONG...forget it. Just forget it...

JENNY: (pulling out the slate) My magic slate. Now, I ain't gonna touch this slate, but on it the name of this kitten shall be written. And that name is...Shirley!

DEM: No...

JENNY: Denise?

DEM: No...

JENNY: Starletta?

MISTO: Now you know she's trying to do this trick. I always make this one work without a problem!

(Well, it's obvious that this trick is not working, so Demothy just writes the name down on the slate...)

JENNY: Ibiddy, dibiddy, and more of the same, now I'm beginnin' to see the name...DEMOTHY!

DEM: You call that MAGIC?

MISTO: I was thinking the same thing.

JENNY: Listen, I'm doing the best I can.

DEM: Then could you help me get home to Kansas?

JENNY: Kansas? Oh, I don't think so. That comes under the headin' of transportin' a minor across state lines. Maybe you better go see the Wiz.

MISTO: Good idea, I need to go to the cat box...

MATT: She said "see the Wiz", not "take a whiz"!

TUMBLE: Yeah! She'll have to go see the Wiz!

POUNCE: I bet he could do it!

CET: Demothy'll have to go see the Wiz!

DEM: Who?

JENNY: (sings) Sweet thing, let me tell you 'bout

The world and the way things are

You've come from a different place

And I know you've travelled far

Now that you've told me what it is

I'd better point you toward the Wiz

He's the Wiz, he's the tom, he's the only one

Who can give your wish right to ya...he's the Wizard

He can send you back through time

By runnin' magic through ya

All of the super power's his

MISTO: And *I* wanted to play him, but noooooo...I'm stuck here playing a dog YET AGAIN...

(This song goes on for a little more, but the real action is going on backstage, where Macavity is approaching yet another cat...)

MAC: Bustopher, buddy, pal...

BUSTOPHER: Don't "buddy" me! You keep stealing my Krispy Kremes!

MAC: Actually, Jennyanydots paid me to do that...she says you need to lose weight. But you still have the girth to fill out this Evillene costume!

BUSTOPHER: Are you saying that I'm fat?

MAC: No, I was just saying...

BUSTOPHER: I am insulted! Forget it! And get your fur trimmed, you miserable degenerate!

MAC: This is going to be tougher than I thought.

(Back on stage, Jennaperle is about to send Demothy on her merry way to see the Wiz...)

JENNY: But before you go, maybe you ought to take Examene's silver slippers.

DEM: Silver slippers?

(A munchkin pulls them off the corpse...well, really some discarded mannequin legs under our "porch"...and gives them to Jennaperle to put on Demothy's paws.)

JENNY: She always wanted me to have 'em. Here. I hope you don't mind second hand shoes.

DEM: I never had a pair this beautiful.

POUNCE: Which is just as well, since cats don't wear shoes...

JENNY: But you gotta promise not to take 'em off till you get home.

DEM: All right, I promise...but why?

JENNY: 'Cause they got some secret powers!

DEM: To do what?

JENNY: I don't know. That's the secret.

(Everyone groans.)

MATT: What? That was in the script!

(So anyhow, to make a long scene short, Jennaperle disappears and the Munchkits send Demothy and Mistoto on their way, telling her to take that oh-so-familiar road of yellow bricks (played by Exotica, Plato, and Bustopher Jones in yellow unitards).

JULIE: Why Bustopher?

MATT: Well...he's big enough to be the road of a small village...

BUSTOPHER: HEY!

(...but again, during Demothy's solo where she sings about going home, Macavity is still up to his old tricks...)

MAC: Tantomile, has anyone told you how beautiful you look today?

TANTOMILE: Let me guess...you want me to play Evillene instead of you, right? I can't think of any other reason why the Napoleon of Crime would be sucking up to me.

MAC: Uh...yeah.

TANTI: Well, I FOR ONE AM SICK OF THIS STEREOTYPING! JUST BECAUSE I AM A "WITCH'S CAT" DOESN'T MEAN I'M A WITCH! I'M A SWEETHEART BUT PEOPLE STILL THINK I'M A WITCH...

MAC: Sheesh, forget I asked! (walks off) What crawled up HER butt?!

(Moving right along with the action ON stage...Demothy is walking down the road until she comes to a cornfield, and is cornered by three crows--OK, it's really Quaxo, Bill Bailey, and Carbucketty wearing some of Griz's feather boas. She shoos them away, only to be accosted by a scarecrow, played by Skimbleshanks.)

SKIMBLE: Say, honey, you got any spare change?

DEM: What?

SKIMBLE: I said, you got any spare change? Some loose bread? Anything, till I get my head together?

DEM: Now what would a scarecrow do with money?

SKIMBLE: Well, I been savin' up to buy me some brains.

KNUCKLES: Funny, Macavity always tells us to do that.

NUNZIO: Speak for yourself and Big Vito, Knuckles!

DEM: That's silly! You can't buy brains.

SKIMBLE: You can't?

BIG VITO AND KNUCKLES: You can't?

DEM: No.

SKIMBLE: Well, how about that?

DEM: What do you want brains for? Isn't it any fun bein' a scarecrow?

SKIMBLE: Well, I thought it would be. But after fifteen minutes on this pole, I knew I wasn't goin' anyplace.

(Needless to say, Demothy gets the Scarecrow off his pole...)

SKIMBLE: Man, it sure feels good to stand on my own two hind paws again!

DEM: I guess you haven't had it easy, have you?

SKIMBLE: Honey, you know it...

(sings)

I was born on the day before yesterday

I had holes in my shoes, I was cryin' the blues

And I didn't have no place to stay

But I know

I know I'm gonna make it this time

'Cause I know

I know I'm gonna make it this time

I was born over on a hill not so far away

Out of three rubberbands, with old gloves for hands

And a suit that had been thrown away...

(Well, you see the direction this is going in, right? The Scarecrow doesn't want to be watching a cornfield his whole life, so Demothy gets him to accompany her and Mistoto to see the Wiz...)

MATT: Famous song from this musical coming up...so...

DEM & SKIMBLE: We know...no one goof it up!

(sing, along with the three cats playing the Road)

Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road

Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road

Don't you carry nothin'

That might be a load

Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road

DEM: Ease on down, ease on down the road

Ease on down, ease on down the road

Don't you carry nothin'

That might be a load

MISTO: Which explains why I'm skipping around in the background instead of in that little basket...

DEM: Ease on down, ease on down the road...

SKIMBLE: 'Cause there may be times

When you think you've lost your mind

POUNCE: Like when we do these parodies?

SKIMBLE: (hisses and resumes singing) And the steps you're takin'

Leave you three, four steps behind

DEM & SKIMBLE: Ease on down, ease on down the road

Ease on down, ease on down the road

Don't you carry nothin'

That might be a load

Come on

Ease on down, ease on down

Ease on down, ease on down

Ease on down, ease on down the road!

KEL: Since Veroni is off with "Survifur" I get to be special and pull the HTML break on ya'll.

SKIMBLE: (dancing on Bustopher) Aww, but we were having fun here!

KEL: (stares at the scene infront of her) I don't want to know... just keep telling myself that. I've seen a lot weirder... wait, actually I haven't.