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Slay It With Music

At last I can show those Lalas in Lotusl...

Overview

Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 1
Time & Place
Hollywood, 1960s
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Musical
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

Context

Text

At last I can show those Lalas in Lotusland what a real actress is! And not in those silly new films with robots and spies and kewpie dolls! No. I'll be in the kind of film only someone with my background and pizazz can do!

(Maniacally laughing, then calmly stating:)

A hip 60’s horror movie. Yeah! Just like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford! My old producer, Happy Hathaway, phoned yesterday and wants me—the great Enid Beaucoup—to star in his marvelous flick, CHOP CHOP! I’m going to play a serial killer masquerading as a housewife.

A movie relevant to our times! So, watch out, world! My creative juices have fermented in the cellar too long. I'm vintage stuff, my darling. And it's time to fizz again! THIS is a role I’d kill for, again and again.

(Recited lyric like a specch)

AFTER LONG YEARS OF COLD SECLUSION,

MY CAREER GETS A BLOOD TRANSFUSION,

LOVELY AS SCREEN ILLUSION...

A SECOND CHANCE.

TROUBLE AND RUMOR ONCE CONSPIRED

SO SOMEHOW I COULD NOT GET HIRED;

NOW I'VE WHAT I DESIRED...

A SECOND CHANCE.

NOW I'VE FOUND

WITH EV'RYTHING I'VE FACED --

SECOND ROUND --

NO SECOND WILL I WASTE.

FAREWELL TO EV'RY SAD AND BLUE TIME,

DEALING WITH TYPES WHO LIE AND TWO-TIME.

THIS DAY BEGINS A NEW TIME:

(Proudly)

A SECOND CHANCE.

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