KLONDIKE FEVER  (scene 2)

CURTAIN

The First Grade (Patriotic Pioneers) enter across the stage, boys from one side & girls from the opposite.

First Grade: (sings)Side By Side

Narrator 7: The year was 1892, word of a gold strike in the Klondike spread across the land.

Narrator 8: From Chicago, a giant wagon train began the arduous trek west.

Narrator 9: Before long, anger between the men and women forced a separation of the sexes. 

Narrator 10: A dispute over which way to turn.

Narrator 11: Left, or right.

Narrator 12: This way, that way.

All:  A complete breakdown in communication!

Narrator 11: Actually, how far did they get before all this happened?

Narrator 7: Around Damen and Fullerton.

Narrator 8: That is a nasty intersection. 

Narrator 9:Say, trains had been around over fifty years. What we’re they doing in a wagon train anyway?

Narrator 10: You’re right. (Turning to the groups.)

Narrator 12: Why don’t you take the train west ?

 First Grade (sings): On the Atcheson, Topeka & the Santa Fe