Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng

Author:Georgia Byng [Byng, Georgia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-203407-6
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2002-10-20T07:00:00+00:00

SATRRING

MOLLY MOON

AND

PETULA THE PUG

Behind the scenes Molly sat in her cluttered dressing room, with Petula on her lap, feeling very nervous. Both were dressed in space suits. Molly’s face was thick with stage makeup, so that her face wouldn’t look washed out under the strong theater lights. Her eyes were defined with black eyeliner, so that they stood out, and her cheeks were sprinkled with glitter. Petula had been groomed, and both she and Molly had sparkly powder combed through their hair. Their other costumes, space wet suits and their sequined space dance outfits, hung on a steel rail. Vases of flowers covered every available surface, sent by everyone who loved Molly. Rixey knocked at the door and popped her face around.

“Curtain up in twenty minutes, Molly. How do you feel?”

“Fine, fine,” Molly lied.

“Well, break a leg, although you don’t need it. You’re a star, Molly, a sparkling star, and everyone will see it tonight. New York’s gonna love you.”

“Thanks,” Molly said, her stomach heaving. Rixey disappeared.

“Oh crikey, Petula, what have I done?” Molly moaned. Now the idea of making her fortune by being in a Broadway musical didn’t seem like fun at all. Her nerves were a thousand times worse than they had been before the talent show in Briersville. The thought of the audience tonight was truly terrifying. An audience made up of cosmopolitan New Yorkers, hard to please and ready to be dismissive. She knew the audience out there would be skeptical, critical, aggressive, and very, very difficult to excite … but worse than that, difficult to hypnotize. Molly remembered how Davina had been such a challenge to win over. Maybe there’d be well-practiced hypnotists in the audience. Like the sort of professional hypnotherapists who help people to give up smoking.

Molly tried to pull herself together. What was she thinking of? Of course she’d be much better than they were. She only hoped the new scene she had written into the beginning of the show, with the new props, would make things easier.

“Fifteen minutes to curtain up,” the P.A. announced.

Molly reached into her pocket for her pendulum and stared into its black spiral. “I will do it, I will do it,” she said to herself, over and over again, and then she kissed the pendulum for luck and put it back in her jumpsuit.

Molly and Petula made their way down the corridor and up the stairs to the side of the stage. Through the curtain Molly could hear the hum of the massive audience. Her hands began to sweat and her heart began to pound. “Break a leg, break a leg,” she heard people saying. She took her position in the cockpit of a silver spacecraft on the stage, ready for takeoff. “Ten minutes to go,” someone whispered to her. Molly’s stomach writhed. It was difficult to concentrate.

The orchestra began to play the overture: little pieces of music from different songs in the musical. The audience went quiet. Molly lowered her head, which felt full of cotton wool.

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