Sunday, June 20

Sweeping Up

Alright kids, pay attention, this might pertain to you someday. So, ten years from now, you want to create a show for broadway. Yes, I know, you're an unemployed plumber with only one arm who has no experience working in musicals or with liontaming, but that's beside the point. You need soemthing new, something different, a real "hit." That's when you remember this blog entry and your career skyrockets. Here's the pitch:

A young man named Robert is a prodigy. He's a master of all pursuits educational, physical, and philosophical. He can do practically anything he wants. So, graduating top in not only his class, but the entire state, he proceeds to forego his collegic career and becomes a High School custodian. Thus it is that the Janitor's adventures through a long life of being the most overqualified janitor ever begin. Here's a snippet to get your future creative juices flowing:
Anonymous Person: "He should have been a poet!"
Bob: "Don't I know it!"
Random Old Person: "He should have gone on to act!"
Bob: "That's a fact!"
Perfectly Ordinary Cyborg: "He should have done so much more."
Bob: "I know it to my core!"
And then everyone starts chanting their lines except Bob who goes on to sing:
"But I want to sweep! I want to clean!
I want to shine, I wish to polish, I need to shean!
It's all for a good cause, it doesn't give me pause,
I clean up messes, no matter what for,
I am Bob the Janitor!!!"

Now, honestly, isn't that the best pitch for a musical you've heard in quite some time? It's like a combination of "Mr. Holland's Opus" meets "Oklahoma" meets Mr. Clean. And here you get the idea for free. I envy you.

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