Mark:
Well, I get the feeling most of you always knew what you wanted to do. Me, I didn't. I was just a kid for a while. Oh then one day, well, my father had this fabulous library in the back of the house, and when I was, about eleven, I guess, I found this medical textbook. It had pictures of the male and female anatomy. Well, I thought that was pretty interesting. I use to read that book a lot
Zach:
Were you interested in medicine? Or were you just into the pictures?
Mark:
No, I
Val:
Hello twelve
Richie:
Hello thirteen
Maggie:
Hello love
Al:
Changes, oh!
Bebe:
Down below
Diana:
Up above
Val:
Time to doubt
Mike:
To break out
Richie:
It's a mess,
Maggie:
It's a mess
Paul and Judy:
Time to grow
Maggie and Al:
Time to go
Connie, Bobby, and Richie:
Adolesce
All
Adolesce
Too young to take over
Too old to ignore
Al:
Gee, I'm almost ready
All
But What For?
There's a lot
I am not
Certain of
Hello twelve
Hello thirteen
Hello love
Mark:
And from the book I diagnosed my own appendicitis
Next day I went to our doctor down the block. Sure enough, acute appendicitis!
They rushed me right to the hospital
Well, I figured this book
Would cover ev'rything
The rest of my life
And when I was thirteen, I had my firstWet dream. I went right back to the bookMilky discharge, Milky discharge, milky discharge, Gonorrhea! I was in shock, I mean gonorrhea! Before i'd even started. I was terrified. I couldn't tell my mother I had Gonorrhea! So, the book said, drink a lot of water
Zach:
Is that all the book said?
Mark:
No, it said take penicillin, strepto-something-or-other, but I couldn't do anything about that unless I told somebody
So all I could do was drink the water
And I drank like twenty gla**es a day
For three weeks. I almost drowned. Finally I went to confession and told the priest that I had gonorrhea! Well , he was in shock too
"who have you been with my son?"
Nobody. Nobody
"then how can you have gonorrhea?"
I told him about the book's diagnosis for milky discharge and he set me straight. It's the only time the church ever helped me out. Well, I was
Connie
Four foot ten!
Four foot ten!
That's the story of my life
I remember when ev'rybody was my size
Boy, was that great. But then everybody started moving up and, there I was, stuck at
Four foot ten!
Four foot ten
But I kept hoping and praying
I used to hang from a parallel bar by the hour
Hoping i'd stretch
Just an inch more
'cause I was into dancing then, and I was good. And I wanted so much to grow up to be a prima ballerina. Then I went out forCheerleader! And they told me: 'no dice, you'll get lost on the football field. The pom-poms are bigger than you." I spent my whole childhood waiting to grow
Val:
Tits! When am I gonna grow tits?
Paul
Secret, my whole life was a secret
Mike:
One little fart! And they called my "stinky" for three years. Ah!
All
Goodbye twelve
Goodbye thirteen
Hello love
Bebe:
Robert golet, robert goulet
My god, robert goulet!
All
Oh!
Down below
Up above
Don:
Playing doctor with evelyn
Richie:
I'll show you mine
Richie:
You show me yours
All
La la
Kristine:
Seeing daddy naked!
All
Time to grow
Time to go
Sheila:
Suprise!
Mom and dad were doing it
Bobby:
I'm gonna be a movie star
Connie
But you see, the only thing about me that grew was my desire
I was never gonna be maria tallchief. I was just
This peanut on pointe! That was my whole trip, my size. It still is. God, my last show I was thirty-two and I played a fourteen-year-old brat
Zach:
Ah hah, the year of the chicken, thirty-two?
Richie:
Puck-puck-puck-puck, girl!
Connie
So, I got caught But I don't look it. And I shouldn't knock it ,cause i've always been able to work
From the time I was five in "King and I."
"king and i."
Up 'till now i've never stopped 'cause whatever I am
I am
Diana:
So excited because i'm gonna go to the high school of performing arts! I mean, I was dying to be a serious actress. Anyway , it's the first day of acting cla**, and we're in the auditorium and the teacher, mr. KarpOh, mr. KarpAnyway, he puts us up on the stage with our legs around each other, one in back of the other and he says: "okay. We're going to do improvisations. Now, you're on a bobsled, it's snowing out. And it's cold. Okay. Go!"