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(Stadium lights are down; MOB on field in symphony formation)

"In the beginning, He made the heavens and the earth, and liking the

way it looked, decided to call it a day.  On Wednesday, He made the

grasses in the field, and the poppies in the meadow, and the peyote

cactus in the desert.  Before the weekend came, He fashioned Man out of twigs and topsoil, and breathed life into him with the Holy

Bicycle Pump.  For now it was all passably good.  Being a bit bored

with good, He created the not-quite-as-good, and called His

handiwork . . . Frog."

MOB plays first few bars of "Zarathustra" and spotlights hit costumed

Frog at the crescendo.  At finish, stadium lights come up, and MOB

steps into tree/lawnmower formation.

"Due to an oversight, Frog was forgotten when Man and Woman were

giving names to all the animals, and since Cecil, Francis, & Kermit

were already taken, Frog decided to earn himself the name Conniving

Scoundrel.  So Frog led Woman to believe that partaking of the

forbidden fruit would pave the way for clothing, and lipstick,

and hydraulic orange juicers; and she did bite.  Upon which a voice

thundered down from a large cardboard cloud (prop): "O crafty

Frog, from henceforth thy name shall be Horned Frog, and thou shalt

spend thy days hopping around on thy belly, getting shredded by

lawnmowers and mashed by tractor trailors."

During the preceding, Frog will have enticed Woman with an oversized

pineapple, then cowered under the cloud, then wandered into the

blades of the mower.  Blades of mower  revolve as MOB plays the

Theme from M*A*S*H.

"Despised as they were, Frog and his offspring refused to be kept

down on the pond.  Note how Joseph was sold into slavery for his

coat of many frogs.  After many weeks in the ark, remember how Noah

trusted a frog to search for dry land, and its triumphant return

with a lily pad in its mouth.  Baby Moses himself was found on the

river among the bullfrogs, and later plagued Egypt with a pestilence

so unclean and disgusting that the Pharaoh let the Israelites depart

before everyone got covered with warts."

During the script, formation will have changed from 'froG to 'GO';

music is reggae "Exodus".

"After many generations of this, the frogs looked forward to a day

when they would not be the standard of everything repulsive in the

world.  They could not understand why wanton women should be called

Prostitoads, or why thieves should be whipped with a frog-o'-nine-tails.

They protested the charge that Frogs spread leprosy, when anyone

with a ganglia in his head knew that leprosy came from eating

unwashed vegetables.  Great was the Frogs' relief when word arrived

that someone important was on a mount preaching, "Blessed are the

spotty little reptiles, for they shall inherit free samples of

Compound W."

Music is "Go Tell It on the Mountain" in mountain or wart formation.

"At last, there were flies at the end of the tunel.  Maybe the Frogs

would not always wind up as food for owls.  maybe they would not

always suffer the humiliation of mean children sticking lit firecrackers

in their mouths.  Maybe, just maybe, there was such a thing as . . .

Frog Heaven."

MOB exits to "At the Hop."

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