Actually, I think what happened here is that the scenes got shuffled. On the aired episode, we next see what is called "Scene D" in the script (more about that next time), and then this scene. But I'm going in script order, so let's continue with C.
SHIRLEY IS WATCHING FROM THE WINGS. MERRIT IS LECTURING AN AUDITORIUM OF COLLEGE STUDENTS. THE PROPS, SCENERY, AND COSTUMES ARE ALSO IN THE WINGS.
MERRIT
(SPEAKING FROM PODIUM) From these drama classes emerge the future stars of Broadway. Actors, writers, directors, and talented producers such as myself. Thank God I'm a biggy. But enough of me. Tonight I'm here to watch a young, new playwright-director perform her first original work.
His speech was cut down for the filmed version. The stock footage of the audience looks like 1950s people of all ages, although at least in color. Perhaps that eight-year-old boy and his grandparents in the front row were college students at the time, but I doubt it.
Laverne is "wearing her sleeping beauty costumes," yes, plural. But in the episode she's got a trenchcoat over it/them. Her slapping hysterical Shirley was added. Merrit's pretentious way of pronouncing "Feeney" is presumably Dick Patterson's finesse since there's no suggestion of it in the script.
This scene ends Act One, but, yes, on the air it went A, B, D, C.
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