Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble Down Center
Bonus: Pick a Little, Tell a Lot
AARON
Uh, we are sitting here in the Columbia Montour Chamber of Commerce building and we just wanted to
AMY
Ooh, hold on.
You got real quiet for some reason again.
AARON
Did I move?
AMY
I don't think so.
AARON
Chicka chicka chow chow.
AMY
Yeah, yeah, you're, you're wee again.
AARON
Why am I wee?
AMY
I don't know.
ELIZABETH
Wee. Wee.
AARON
I haven't moved.
AMY
All right. Talkie talkie for me.
AARON
Check, check, check, check, check, check.
AMY
Yeah. Oh, now I need to turn you back down. That's nice.
AARON
Okay. Sorry.
AMY
Don't be sorry.
AARON
I gotta Tickle the microphone with my nose.
AMY
Okay, talkie for me. Talkie, talkie, talkie.
AARON
Check, check, check, check, check, check.
ELIZABETH
Check, check. check check check check, check, check, check, check, check, check, check check.
AMY
Check, check, check, check. Let's see if we all check at the same time...
ELIZABETH
Pick a little, talk a little...
AMY
I would alienate our audience to let them know that I despise that musical.
AARON
You take umbrage with, with Professor Hill do you?
AMY
I, I just, I find the whole thing asinine.
AARON
That was my very first musical. I have such a soft spot for that musical.
ELIZABETH
I have a soft spot, cause my dad used to always do that song, and my job was to try to hold on to the pick a little talk a little, pick a little talk Oh, while he would sing over top.
Pick a little more, yeah. And we would do that together. We did that in some Frank Sinatra tunes. Oh, there you go.
AMY
Fly me to the moon
ELIZABETH
Yeah. He would be in the car. He'd look at me, go (bump) (bump) (bump) (bump) (bump)
Cause that's the play in. Like my upbeat.
AARON
Need my piano in the right hand.
AMY
I should have a soft spot for Oklahoma because my grandmother and I used to drive to, uh, to school every morning going, Oh, what a beautiful. Although my grandmother is genuinely tone deaf, genuinely tone deaf, um, and I attribute a lot of my issues, uh, with singing to her being
tone deaf and–
AARON
My grandmother was deaf and there's nothing–
AMY
I didn't know your grandmother was deaf.
AARON
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That whole side of the Seachrist family in the lower North Umberland county, the Deppen family, uh, have hearing challenges. And, uh, my... Uh, Grandmother, she, she went deaf when she was 18, or started losing her hearing when she was 18, and when we were mostly through my older years, she couldn't hear at all, but there was something about the way she would sing when she would rock a baby that was so lulling.
It was, it was, it was... There was no root center at all in the pitches that she would sing. Mm-hmm. . But there was just something because it was only vibration. Yeah. Because she was only feeling the vibration of the thing. Wow. Wow. I was, yeah, I dunno. That's fascinating. It's, that's a near and dear thing to my heart,
ELIZABETH
Wow. I wish you had a recording of it.
AARON
Yeah. Oh, well, I, uh, I don't know if it'd have a recording of her singing to a baby, but, yeah. Yeah. She, she, she was the maternal figure one, also one of, she was one of eight. She was the eldest of eight, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah mothered the bottom four, you know,
AMY
My mom was at the bottom of her nine so she’s scrappy
AARON
She’s the baby.
AMY
She's not quite the baby, but she's close and there were only three girls so she can hold her own Well, that's not true. There's more than three girls. I'm a terrible terrible daughter. Okay.
