Wednesday, September 9, 2020

"Debutante Ball" script, Scene C

And now it's time for the subplot, in the cellar of the Pizza Bowl, "slightly later that night":

THIS IS A SMALL ROOM ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE BEDROOM SET.  THERE ARE SEVERAL CARTONS, BEER KEGS AND CASES OF BEER CANS ON THE FLOOR.  ALSO SOME BROKEN TABLES AND CHAIRS.  ON THE UPSTAGE WALL THERE IS A SMALL BARRED WINDOW ABOUT SIX FEET UP FROM THE GROUND.  IT IS BOARDED UP AND HIDDEN BEHIND SEVERAL LARGE CARDBOARD BOXES.  SQUIGGY, SHIRLEY AND FRANK ENTERS [sic].  SQUIGGY HOLDS THE DOOR OPEN.

There are only two notable changes in the roughly two pages of dialogue.  The first is the later addition of Shirley's line about wanting to get changed before taking the royal papers to Lenny and Laverne, which is a nice set-up of her line in the ladies' room about not being embarrassed to not be dressed up at the ball.  And then when Frank says that they're all locked in, Squiggy was supposed to again refer to "the mummy's tomb."

Also, the final stage direction for the scene was "They all look at each other for a beat.  Frank and Shirley run to the door and start pounding on it yelling for help."

Thus ends Act One.

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