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The cast has all made it to rehearsal for the first time ever, just a few days before opening night. None of them know their lines, so Rox has allowed them to keep their scripts with them onstage as they run through the scene during which they are complaining about their boss – the old lady who now lays dead upstairs – and the buzzer she would use to beckon them to her every wish while she was living:
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MISS GROUT And with her lying up there cold and green there shall be no more ringing of that vile buzzer.
MRS. BATES Such a loathsome sound.
MR. PERCY Woebegone resonance it had. For truth, to be beckoned by such an awful blast of that repugnant buzzing - well, it made me feel like a butler.
MISS GROUT You are a butler.
MR. PERCY Couldn’t she have used a
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