The Elevator Family Play Encore Theater Lima, Ohio

The School Day Begins

It’s Monday morning at 7:01.

You’re still half asleep; your homework’s half done.

Your shower is cold; your oatmeal’s dry.

Your mother forgets to kiss you good-bye.

You’re walking to school; it’s thirty degrees.

Your fingers won’t work; your toes and ears freeze.

Your zipper is stuck; your left sneaker squeaks.

Your backpack strap snaps; your soup thermos leaks.

You slip on school steps; you trip in the hall.

The toilet floods in the bathroom stall.

The gym door is locked; library’s the same.

The principal greets you by the wrong name.

Your classroom is hot; the coat rack is packed.

Your bean sprout is dead; your clay pot is cracked.

Your pencils are dull; the sharpener jams.

Your fingers get crunched when your desktop slams.

Your math partner’s gone; your neighbor is rude.

Your teacher’s again in a crabby mood.

The morning bell rings; it is 8:01.

Come cozy up to the whiteboard,

Another school day’s begun.

Blue Spring

Our blue front yard on the first day of spring.

Moomi Cartoon!

Echoes of the Elevator Family.

Elevator Play License

Directors and Teachers,
                     License The Elevator Family Play, based on the successful children's book The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans.  Check out script at Playscripts