ACT I PRELUDE In the dark, sweet music starts to play. Before too long, there is a FLASH OF LIGHT, and we see a FAIRY roaming aimlessly, perhaps in the audience area. The music adjusts accordingly. Dark again. More music. Another FLASH OF LIGHT. This time TWO FAIRIES are spotted, equally lost. This happens a few times, revealing more fairies, seemingly lost. In the final darkness, the music builds as the actors get into place for the beginning of the show. SCENE 1 VARIOUS CHILDREN'S HOUSES. TODAY. A number of children sit at computers, tapping away rhythmically as the song progresses. Above them, we can see A LARGE SCREEN projected. This screen depicts what the children sing about. (We don't need to see the various children's houses onstage, just a clearly-delineated area that accommodates different locations. The computers themselves can be represented merely by keyboards, or, perhaps, pantomimed completely.) "CLICK CLICK CLICK" KRISTEN WHEN I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING THE FIRST THING THAT I DO AARON BEFORE I WASH DENISE BEFORE I BRUSH EDWARD BEFORE I MAKE MY BED KRISTEN IS I TURN ON MY COMPUTER AND THE SCREEN COMES INTO VIEW LANA WHICH MAKES ME GRIN... FRANKIE AS I BEGIN... NATHAN WHAT I WAS BORN TO DO... KRISTEN I...SIT...AND... ENSEMBLE CLICK, CLICK, CLICK I CHECK MY EMAIL YES, I CLICK, CLICK, CLICK FROM YOU TO ME MAIL AARON AND I GO TO MYSPACE WHERE I UPDATE MY BLOG DENISE THEN I DOWNLOAD PHOTOS OF MY COUSIN'S CUTE DOG KRISTEN I LIVE TO... ENSEMBLE CLICK, CLICK, CLICK JUST WATCH MY FINGERS AS I CLICK, CLICK, CLICK KRISTEN MY KEYBOARD SINGERS! ENSEMBLE OH, I WISH THAT I COULD SIT HERE ALL DAY I'D BE SO GLAD TO CLICK THE HOURS AWAY COME ON LET'S CLICK, CLICK, CLICK EDWARD SURFING ALL OF MEDIA ENSEMBLE GOTTA CLICK, CLICK, CLICK LANA HEY! I'M IN WIKIPEDIA! ENSEMBLE WE WILL... CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, WE WILL CLICK, CLICK, CLICK! ENSEMBLE (cont'd) EVERY HOUR EVERY DAY! The song ends. As the applause fades, the children remain at their computers, and softly echo the rhythmic chant of "click, click, click" for a bit as the scene progresses. From the aisles, a cricket named CLIFFORD and a frog named RIBBET enter and survey the scene. Clifford is a sharp, energetic little creature. Ribbet is on de-caf. The animals, in reality, are a distance away from the kids, looking from whatever vantage point they have on the kids in their houses. CLIFFORD Are you lookin' at this? RIBBET Yup. I'm lookin'. CLIFFORD So you're seein' what I'm seein'. RIBBET Yup. Lookin'. Seein'. Takin' it all in. CLIFFORD We got a big job ahead of us. RIBBET Yup. Big job. Biiiig job. CLIFFORD I don't know if we can get away with it. RIBBET Why not, Clifford? CLIFFORD Well, look at 'em! Sitting at home, totally hooked to the computer. We'll never get them to do what we want them to do! RIBBET But they've got to help us! We promised the fairies we would find them places to live! CLIFFORD Let me think, Ribbet! MONICA enters. She is a beautiful monarch butterfly. Clifford reacts badly. CLIFFORD (cont'd) Monica! I'm glad you're here! Where is everybody else? MONICA They're coming, don't worry. Have you found the special person yet? CLIFFORD No! (indicates kids) And I doubt we'll find the special person there! MISSIE, a hummingbird, flitters onto the scene. She is energized, and pretty much can't stop moving. She also talks very, very quickly. This is a constant with her. Whenever she talks, she's like this. MISSIE Hello, hello, hello. Sorry I'm late. I had a lot to do this morning. Lots and lots to do. Looking for houses, you know. Have to find houses for the fairies very soon, very soon. Hummmmmm. Hummmmmmm. Lots to do. Lots and lots to do. Looking for houses. Sorry I'm late. House-looking. That's what I was doing...Hummmmmm... CLIFFORD Missie! Missie! Slow down...slooooow down. Relax. MISSIE (not succeeding) Okay. I'll relax. Gotta slow down and relax if I wanna help you guys. Slowin' down. Slowing down now. Relaxing. Relaxing as fast as I can. Relaxing... Clifford and Ribbet grab her, and hold her. CLIFFORD Deeeeep breath. (she tries, fails) Deeeep....deeeeeeeep breath... (tries again, gets closer, fails, flits) One more time....deeeeeeeeeep....breeeeeeath... This time she succeeds. Takes a nice, deep breath, and stops moving for the first time. Clifford, Ribbet and Monica look at her, wait a beat. Then smile. She smiles. Then she starts moving furiously again. MISSIE Okay. That was a nice rest. Now let's get to work. Work, work, work, if we wanna get this