Into The Musical

Official Overview
Adam has a plan to get closer to a girl he likes, and The Storyteller works behind the scenes.

Synopsis
The episode begins with The Storyteller, who welcomes the audience back to The Adam Hendrickson Show. The Storyteller gives us a quick refresher on The Victorians Soundtrack. explaining that Adam has not yet received a response. A visual gag with Adam constantly refreshing his inbox displays his obsession, and The Storyteller expresses that perhaps all Adam needs is a distraction.

We cut to Adam sitting in Scott's Basement with the rest of The Gang. Tyler explains how odd it is to be in high school, and James brings up the story from This is Your School Part 2 where Adam froze in front of the English class. Adam tells us the unabridged version of this story, where he made eye contact with Victoria. Adam also explains how Victoria must be in the school musical, since she was handing out flyers for kids to join it. James wonders if perhaps Adam has feelings for this girl, or if he maybe he thinks she has feelings for Adam. But Adam tells The Gang that he saw Victoria talking to another boy as well, and that the only path he would have towards her would be joining the musical, which he is definitely not going to do, so he is just going to assess the situation once more in class next week.

In class next week, we see a conversation had between Foster and Victoria, where Foster can be seen writing in his journal. Victoria seems quite annoyed by Foster, wanting to know if he is writing about her, to which Foster responds "I haven't written about you since middle school". Victoria seems upset by this, but we transition to Adam and James, who are sitting in the next row up. Adam notices that Foster and Victoria seem bitter with each other. Suddenly, the morning announcements come on, and Dr. Hoffman explains that the school is looking for a freshman who is interested in helping out with the behind the scenes for the musical, working in the sound booth. She says that anyone interested should speak to Mr. Kristoff in the choir room after school. Adam can't believe what he is hearing, and expresses how perfect that was to just fall into his lap.

We transition to the choir room, after school, where Adam sees Mr. Kristoff opening up the Whitelake Chamber Choir. One of the members of chamber choir seems to be ill-prepared which immediately upsets Mr. Kristoff. He ends up throwing the student out of the classroom, who passes Adam, still watching from outside in the hallway. Mr. Kristoff sends the choir out to rehearse in sectionals, and Adam enters the room. He introduces himself to Mr. Kristoff and explains that he is interested in working in the sound booth. Mr. Kristoff sits down with Adam at his desk, and tries to explain as much as he can about the sound booth, going into detail about how the soundboard itself is quite ancient, so much so that when Mr. Kristoff pulls out the manual that came with it, it crumbles to dust on his desk. Before they can get much further, or before Adam can really ask any questions, Mr. Kristoff reminds Adam that he needs to catch his bus. Adam promptly leaves, as Mr. Kristoff calls him Alex instead of Adam.

In Adam's room, Adam sits down at his desk, and opens up his email. He searches for "Keith Alexander" but gets no results. He turns to his music, tacked up on a bulletin board to his left. He picks a piece of music off of it, and holds it up next to his blue notebook. He compares the two versions of the same song. One being crude and simple, and the other being more professional and accurate. He smiles to himself, enjoying the idea that he is slowly getting closer to unlocking The Victorians Soundtrack through his own musical skill.

The next scene is introduced with a timecard that reads "The Next Day". We see Adam outside of Whitelake High School. He looks up, mesmerized by it much like seen in This is Your School Part 1. The main doors are locked, so he walks around the edge of the building to another set of doors, eventually entering, passing a sign that reads "Join The Musical!". The Storyteller appears behind a door.

We next see Adam within the auditorium, watching the students on stage. Suddenly, he hears a voice from above. We look up to see Amber on the catwalks. She comes down the spiral stairs and meets Adam in front of the sound booth. Adam realizes that Amber is the tour guide from his first day, and Amber says that she remembers Adam asking about the musical. She quickly takes Adam into the sound booth and begins to ask about why Adam decided to join the musical. Adam doesn't really know what to say at first, but eventually goes into detail about Victoria, and how he kind of followed her into the musical. Amber tells Adam what she knows about Victoria, and even tells him that as a sound technician, he is going to have to interact with her at least to get her "mic'd up".

Mr. Kristoff barges in and asks Amber about some color cels on halogen lights on the catwalks. Amber explains that she was just showing Adam around the sound booth. Mr. Kristoff then notices Adam, who has quite an awkward interaction. Kristoff looks at a non-existent watch and promptly leaves. Amber takes Adam up onto the catwalks. Amber asks Adam what he thinks of Mr. Kristoff, and soon we learn that Amber is a member of The Chamber Choir. She explains the confusion behind the reason that one kid got kicked out of rehearsal. She goes as far to explain that the students rehearsing below aren't even aware of what their part is, let alone the name of the musical. Adam is really confused by this, but expresses "what a strange little world" and that he didn't think he'd have as much fun working in the musical as he was.

The Storyteller breaks off, and prepares us for what is about to happen next, explaining that it's going to be "scary", butt only because it has never happened before. He alludes to the idea that there will be some moment between Adam and Victoria, before letting us off in a practice room, where Adam immediately enters, and sits down on the piano. An orange bag can be seen on the table behind him. He begins to play The Victorians Theme, while clips of episodes past play showing Adam learning about the soundtrack, and transcribing it. His playing is interrupted as Victoria enters the room. She seems sorry to have startled him, but Adam welcomes her presence. She asks Adam what he was playing, and Adam begins to explain. Victoria shows interest, and notices that she saw Adam working in the soundbooth with Amber. She picks up her orange bag on the table, and calls Adam her "sound technician". She leaves and Adam is quite confounded. He sits for a second before giving a smile, and following her out, though now she is nowhere to be seen.

As Adam is leaving the school, The Storyteller appears in various ways behind him. As Adam walks out of the school entirely, we see that it is now dark outside. The camera zooms way way out so we see a large shot of the entire town. The camera zooms out even further to reveal The Storyteller, looking through great screen windows at it all, assumed to be the windows of The Room Above The Soundbooth

Transcript
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