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Show Type
Musical
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
America, Present Day
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 3

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EVAN Hi, Cheryl.

CHERYL Hello.

EVAN I’d like to come home.

CHERYL Why?

EVAN I miss you.

CHERYL Really?

EVAN Of course. You know I love you.

CHERYL I have had no recent evidence of that.

EVAN I’m thinking of changing.

CHERYL You’re who you are, Evan. So it’s better this way.

EVAN How can never being together be better, especially when we’re expecting our first child?

CHERYL Because this way I’m not always wondering when you’ll be home. I can simply sit here and enjoy a nonalcoholic drink all by my disconsolate self.

EVAN Then at least let me ask you something. As you know, the Emmy Awards are tomorrow evening. May I ask if you’ll grace me with your lovely and distinguished company?

CHERYL The Emmys are part of the problem, Evan. You love winning them, apparently, even more than you love me and the child you will soon be the conspicuously neglectful father of. EVAN That’s simply not true.

CHERYL Then why do you spend your entire life overachieving on behalf of the network?

EVAN I’m just doing my job, sweetheart. I do have a contract.

CHERYL Then maybe you need to rethink your job, if by some as-yet-unrevealed resource you have the capacity to do so. Meanwhile, good luck at the awards show.

(hangs up)

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