Posted on December 7, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Opportunity

LUCY
Brett wants Kendra to be his girlfriend.
But Brett is the boy that I want to be with.
I only want what’s best for my best friend…
So do I wait, acting fake, ‘til she makes a mistake
Or do I take the reward that I really want to take?
If I prayed to God and cried a little,
Maybe he’d provide a little
O-P-P, Opportunity!
O-P-P, Opportunity.

The other CHEERLEADERS – MOLLY, CASSIE and CHARLOTTE – enter and sing with LUCY, perhaps acting as her minions.

CHEERLEADERS
O-P-P, Opportunity,
O-P-P!

LUCY
Opportunity.

CHEERLEADERS
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh,
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh.

LUCY
God, what a good girl I could be
If I only had an itty-bitty opportunity.

KENDRA runs in and leads the CHEERLEADERS in their new routine.

CHEERLEADERS
Here come the Quayle Quails burnin’ up the field!
HO!
Here come the Quails and you’re never gonna know what hit ya!
HO!
We got the heat! WHAT?
We got the heat! WHAT?
We got the heat and we’re turnin’ in up! COME ON!

Here come the Quayle Quails ready to begin!
HO!
Here come the Quails and we’re bringin’ it in!
We got the O-P-P,
The O-P-P,
The opportunity, opportunity to win!

LUCY
I can see being Brett’s new girlfriend.
We could be king and queen of this school.
OMG, and you know that he wants me.
But since it’s Kendra he asked, then there’s nothing to say.
Unless I scheme and I plot ‘til she’s out of the way?
If it didn’t make me hate myself,
I bet I could create myself an

CHEERLEADERS
O-P-P!

LUCY
Opportunity.

CHEERLEADERS
O-P-P!

LUCY
Opportunity.

CHEERLEADERS
Hey-o!  O-P-P, Opportunity,
O-P-P!

LUCY
Opportunity.

CHEERLEADERS
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh,
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh-oh.

LUCY
How will he know that he really wants me
If he never even gets a little opportunity?

And now the cascade begins, which consists of Kendra being flipped from one girl to the next.  It’s complicated and elaborate and depends on split-second timing.  It also depends on KENDRA being on top of the pyramid at the end.

CASSIE, CHARLOTTE & MOLLY
O-P-P, O-R-T, UNITY!
O-P-P, O-R-T, UNITY!
O-P-P, O-R-T, UNITY!
O-P-P, O-R-T, UNITY!

Whoa-oh! Whoa-oh-oh!
Whoa-oh! Whoa-oh-oh!
Whoa-oh! Whoa-oh-oh!
Whoa-oh! Whoa-oh-oh!

Through some miracle of manipulation, LUCY has ended up atop the pyramid and KENDRA is on the ground.

LUCY
What kind of best friend would I be
If I didn’t take advantage of an opportunity?