Cocktail Party

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FRIDAY NIGHT AT 2 AM
Cocktail Party
The Neon Sponge (Simmons Hall Multipurpose Room)

Come and enjoy food, drink, and live entertainment from a lounge pianist and some of the city's most puzzling vocalists at a club so cool, you'll never notice all the holes in it.


[Due to space limitations, please send no more than two team members to this event.]

[We would appreciate it if each team could bring a food item or (non-alcoholic) beverage to this event. If your team's name begins with a letter from N to Z, please provide a food item; A to M, provide a beverage.]


NIGHTCLUB MEDLEY (Lounge Singer Puzzle)

CASTING:
Alice's Restaurant		Kiran
Oliver!				Tanis, Todd
Lady Marmalade		Tanis, Nori, All
Alcohol			Dan
Natural Woman		Chris in a dress (all others on backups)
Summertime			Kiran				
The Internet Is For Porn	Dan, Nori
Xanadu			Tanis, Chris, Nori, All


As Hunters enter, Greg is at the piano, noodling
cocktail-loungeishly. Solvers mingle; a videographer (who?) is taping
the whole event. Singers can mingle as well, except for Chris, who
remains offstage (out of the room, somewhere) in a dress.

EMCEE (Greg?) (when we're ready to start):

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the Neon Sponge,
Normalville's premiere entertainment venue. I hope you're all having a
great time this weekend, never mind about a few silly meteors, right?
I'd like to bring up a few of our fellow townspeople to do one of our
favorite medleys, all about that thing we love the best, The Mystery
Hunt. So I hope you'll all relax and listen to the vocal stylings of
Normalville's very own swinging sextet, The Norms. Take it away!

KIRAN: (spoken)
This song is called Alice's Mystery Hunt, and it's about Alice, and
the Mystery Hunt, but Alice's Mystery Hunt is not the name of the
Mystery Hunt, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I
called the song Alice's Mystery Hunt.

(sung:)
You can get anything you want at Alice's Mystery Hunt
You can get anything you want at Alice's Mystery Hunt
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Mystery Hunt


KIRAN (spoken):
Please, can I have some more?

WIDOW CORNEY (Tanis) AND MR. BUMBLE (Todd):
Mystery Hunt! Mystery Hunt!

MR. BUMBLE (all these lines could be sung by both of you):
Never before has a boy wanted more!

MR. BUMBLE AND WIDOW CORNEY
Mystery Hunt! Mystery Hunt!

WIDOW CORNEY
Won't ask for more when he knows what's in store.

MR. BUMBLE
There a dark, thin, winding stairway
Without any bannister
Which we'll throw him down, and feed him on
Cockroaches served in a canister

BOTH
Mystery Hunt! Mystery Hunt!

MR. BUMBLE
What will he do when he's turned black and blue?
He will curse the day
Somebody named him

BOTH
Mys-tery-Hunt!

(Possibly spoken over transition music: More? More? More?)


TANIS, NORI:
Hey Sister, Go Sister, Soul Sister, Go Sister (x2)
He met Mystery Hunt down in Old New Orleans
Struttin' her stuff on the street
She said 'Hello, hey Joe, you wanna give it a go?
'Mmm Hmmm Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Da Da 
Gitchi Gitchi Ya Ya Here
Mocca chocolata Ya Ya
Creole Lady Mystery Hunt

ALL (except Chris):
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Creole Lady Mystery Hunt


DAN:
Mystery Hunt, my permanent accessory
Mystery Hunt, a party-time necessity
Mystery Hunt, alternative to feeling like yourself
O Mystery Hunt, I still drink to your health

I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered Mystery Hunt


CHRIS (entering, in a dress) [back-ups in parentheses]:

Lookin out on the morning rain (Ah - ooo)
I used to feel so uninspired (Ah - ooo)
And when I knew I had to face another day (Ah - ooo)
Lord it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you
Life was so unkind
But you're the key to my peace of mind

Cause you make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel
Like a Mystery Hunt woman (woman)

[repeat chorus]


KIRAN:
Mystery Hunt,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry


KATE (Nori)
The Mystery Hunt is really really great 
TREKKIE MONSTER (Dan)
For porn
KATE 
I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait 
TREKKIE 
For porn
KATE
Huh? 
There's always some new site, 
TREKKIE
For porn!
I browse all day and night 
TREKKIE
For porn!
KATE
It's like I'm surfing at the speed of light
TREKKIE
For porn!
KATE
Trekkie!

TREKKIE
The Mystery Hunt is for porn 
KATE
Trekkie!
TREKKIE
The Mystery Hunt is for porn, 
KATE
What are you doing!?
TREKKIE
Why you think the Hunt was born?
Porn porn porn


TANIS:
A place where nobody dared to go,
the love that we came to know
They call it Mystery Hunt

CHRIS:
And now, open your eyes and see,
what we have made is real
We are in Mystery Hunt

NORI:
A million lights are dancing and there you are, a shooting star
An everlasting world and you're here with me, eternally

ALL:
Mystery Hunt, Mystery Hunt, (now we are here) in Mystery Hunt
Mystery Hunt, Mystery Hunt, (now we are here) in Mystery Hunt

Now that I'm here, now that you're near in Mystery Hunt
Now that I'm here, now that you're near in Mystery Hunt, Mystery Hunt