95) WHITNEY: (STANDS UP) I just wanted to apologize to you. What I said before—I didn’t mean it. I was just angry, and at the time you seemed like an easy target. Guess I was fooled, huh? You were amazing. I came back because I felt guilty and didn’t want to leave them without a final act. You should do this professionally. I know some people if you…
96) AMY: (SHAKES HER HEAD AND SMILES) I did have a singing career, Whitney—it was several years before I met my husband. What you said before—about me failing at something and being jealous of you? I was trying to explain that I started out a lot like you. I made a lot of money at it, and in itself there’s nothing at all wrong with that or being a success at what you love. It’s just that I let my life get so out of balance that one day I woke up with no real friends and no solid purpose for my life. Everything that could have easily been a blessing to me and the people around me became a curse—and it was my decisions that caused it, not God’s.
97) WHITNEY: So what made you change?
98) AMY: (CONTINUES TO SMILE) Well, one day I had my hairdryer and two different curling irons plugged off of the same outlet. It caused a small fire. In addition to giving me a stern warning not to do that again, there was this incredibly annoying firefighter who tried to talk to me about God. With my incredible maturity and grace at the time, I threw my water bottle at him.
99) WHITNEY: Then what happened?
100) AMY: He invited me to church—five times before I ever took him up on it. We were married two years later. Merry Christmas, Whitney. (WALKS AWAY AS LIGHTS FADE)
Final Scene Option II (CAN ALSO BE INCLUDED AFTER FINAL SCENE OPTION I IF TIME PERMITS BOTH)
SHORT MESSAGE COMES UP ON THE OVERHEAD SCREENS—THIS COULD BE A VERY SIMPLE WITH FADE-IN AND FADE-OUT TRANSITIONS:
(STATION CALL LETTERS)’S Christmas program received the highest local ratings in its time slot.
Three days later, an attempt was made to make up for the station’s budget’s losses through viewer donations.
Two anonymous donors matched all the other donations combined, and the station was saved for another year.
To be continued Christmas 201X…
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