Chapter Two

Charlotte is center stage, her siblings and the ensemble are frozen behind her.

C: There’s nothing astronauts love more

Than going downtown and training and learning more

We fly down in our spaceships and we work

Get our suits and start practicing after checking with the clerks

But our dad here, doesn't want us to go yet

Uh oh, but little does he know that his children, Loretta, Miles and me

Go down to the centers and then we

Everyone unfreezes.

All: Work, work

L: Loretta (spins and goes off to the side)

C: Charlotte! (does the same)

M: *bored* And Miles. (crosses his arms and doesn't move until his sisters pull him, the three spin in a circle and come back to their original positions)

All: Work, work. The Callisto Siblings!

L: Loretta

M: Miles.

C: Charlotte!

All: Work! (does the snap thing from the original)

M: Daddy said to be home by sundown.

C: Daddy doesn't need to know.

M: Daddy said not to go downtown

L: Like I said, you’re free to go, but

Look around, look around, so much to see at our headquarters!

C, M, L: Headquarters!

All: Loretta… work!

M: It's bad enough daddy wants to keep our place.

C: He just wants us to be safe.

M: He can’t avoid our role forever

L: Some day we must join the game, but

Look around, look around (spreads hands)

C: Loretta, remind me what we’re looking for

Men: She’s looking for me

L: Charlotte, I’m looking for a mind at work, work

I’m looking for a mind at work, work

Woah-oah

C, M, L:  Woah-oah

All: Woah-oah, work! (at this part, everybody spins and the does the snap thing again)

Everyone freezes and Charlotte comes to CS.

C: I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Some people say that I’m intense or I’m insane

You want a connection? I want equal reflections

So listen to my declaration

C, L: We hold these truths to be self evident

That all men are created equal

C: And if I met Thomas Jefferson

All: Oh! (do snap thing)

C: I would compel him to include aliens in the sequel

All: Work! (snap thing again)

Charlotte spins around and grabs her siblings arms and begins to sing again.

C: Look around, look around

At how lucky we are to be alive right now

C, L, M: Look around, look around

At how lucky we are to be alive right now

History is happening at headquarters and we just happen to border

With the greatest planet in the world

The greatest planet in the world!

(There’s a bunch of background chorus chaos happening right now, but I can’t put it all down. If you want an idea of what it would actually sound like, listen to the original, The Schuyler Sisters.)

C: I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas Paine                        L, M: Look around, look around

Some people say that I’m intense or I’m insane                                     So much to see here at headquarters

You want a connection? I want equal reflections

So listen to my declaration

C, L, M: We hold these truths to be self evident

That all men are created equal

All: Look around, look around

At how lucky we are to be alive right now

History is happening at headquarters and we just happen to border

With the greatest planet in the world

The greatest planet in the world!

All: Work, work

L: Loretta (They do the same spinning motions that they did above with these lyrics.)

C: Charlotte!

M: *bored* And Miles.

All: Work, work. The Callisto Siblings!

L, C, M: We’re looking for a mind at work, work (hey)

Work, work (woah!)

All: On the greatest planet in the

Greatest planet in the

World!

All: On the greatest planet in the world! (Everyone puts their hands up and waves them slightly.)