Sunday, August 23, 2020

"That's Entertainment" script, Scene B

"Int. Stage," which is described as "a very simple, elegant setting."  If by that you mean Rhonda in front of a blue curtain, then sure.  Interestingly, she was supposed to sing in three styles, not two.  We do get her singing as a "torch-singer a la Helen Morgan of the 1930's."  But the '40s style isn't in this draft, and the second page of the scene goes straight into the '50s, as on the episode.  Maybe they wanted more of a contrast. 

Then we dissolve to Scene C....

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