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The Musical Mummy
Act III
Scene I
[The desert, Ruins of Hamunaptra]
[Curtain rises]
[Battlefield: Legionnaires and Arabs fighting]
[Bodies strewn across floor, sound of gunfire]
[Rick O'Connell fires his rifle, stage left]
[Beni, cowers next to him]
Beni: War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Rick: Shut up!
Beni:[Cowers behind wall] I am so sorry. I am just a little nervous.
[Beni suddenly stands and removes his hat]
[I Will Survive Written By: Fekaris/Perren]
Beni: At first I was afraid I was petrified,
Kept thinking how I was ever going to preserve my hide
And then I spent so many times thinking how we didn't get along
But you are strong and you know to get along
And so we're here stuck in this place
I look around and find you here with that rifle pointed at my face
I should have found a new profession
I should have gotten my degree
If I'd have known for just one second that you'd always be threatening me
So now I'll go right towards the door
Don't turn around now
Cuz you're not my buddy anymore
Weren't you the one who threw me and said good bye
Think I'll help you, think I'll stay here and die
[Runs towards the door]
Oh no not I
I will survive
Oh as long as I know how to hide I know I'll stay alive
I got all my life to live
I don't know how long it is
I'll survive, I will survive
Hey Hey
[Stands in front of door]
Rick: [Still shooting]It took all the strength I had not to fall apart
Kept trying hard to shoot these guys and do my part
And now I'm running out of bullets and worrying for myself
I might die, but I will hold my head up high
And he left me on this dune
I'm not going to be happy when this war is through
And so he felt like bailing out
And just expect me to believe
That I'm going to save his skin and not beat him readily
[Runs towards the door]
[Beni sees him, runs inside and starts to close it]
So don't you dare close that door
You better open it or I'll beat your @$$ some more
Weren't you the one who said my strength was your ally
Think I'll surrender. Think I'll lose this war and die.
[Banging on the door]
Oh no not I
I will survive
Oh as long as I know how to shoot I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
And I remember where you live
I'll survive
I will survive
Oh [Rick mouths an explicit. Do I need to tell you what it is?]
[Men firing at Rick, Rick runs to stage left, men give chase]
I will survive
[Rick closes eyes]
[Sand starts flying in time with the song, men run]
[Rick opens eyes, looks around]
Rick: I survived!
[Lights out]
[Curtain]
Scene II
[Cairo, Museum of Antiquities]
[Curtain rises]
[Library, Evelyn on ladder putting away books]
Evelyn: Tuthmosis? What are you doing here? T….T, T, T, T
[Evelyn reaches for the other shelf, ladder stands on end]
[Original song: Help By: Lennon/McCartney]
Evelyn: [Shrieks]
[softly] Help….
I need somebody
Help
Not just anybody
Help…
You know I need someone
HELP!
[Ladder sways]
Evelyn: When I was cleaning in the library today
I never needed anybody's help in anyway
But now it seems I'm wrong
And I'm not so self-assured
And I now I find I've changed my mind
Since I've screwed up even more
Help me if you can I'm falling down
And I'd really like to stay safe and sound
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me
And now my life is flashing by in just so many ways
It seems that this could be the end of my days
But every now and then I feel so insecure
But now I really need help from the curator
Up here I find I need him like I've never done before
Help me if you can I'm falling down
And I'd really like to stay safe and sound
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please help me
When I was cleaning in the library today
I never needed anybody's help in anyway
But now it seems I'm wrong
And I'm not so self-assured
And I now I find I've changed my mind
Since I've screwed up even more
Help me if you can I'm falling down
And I'd really like to stay safe and sound
Help me get my feet back on the ground
Won't you please, please
Help me
Help me
Help me
[She falls against bookshelf]
[Evelyn screams]
[Bookshelves crash]
[Evelyn stands up, looks around] : Oops
[Curator comes in, stage right]
Curator: [Disbelief] What—How c—I—H-How—
[Spots Evy]
Curator: [in outrage] Oh, look at this! Sons of pharaohs!
Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but you!
Compared to you the other plagues were a joy!
Evelyn: I am so very sorry. It was an accident.
Curator: [still in outrage] My girl, when Rameses destroyed
Syria that was an accident. You…are a catastrophe! Look at my
library! Why do I put up with you?
Evelyn: W-well, you put up with me because I can—read
and write ancient Egyptian, I can decipher hieroglyphics and
heiratic—and I am the only person within a thousand miles
that can properly code and catalog this library! That's why!
Curator: I put up with you because your mother and father
were our finest patrons. That's why.
Allah rest their souls. Now, I don't care how you do it. I don't
care how long it takes. Straighten up this meshiver!
[Exit curator stage right]
[Noise is heard]
[Evy goes through door at back]
[Backdrop/set turns (I love this trick) and reveals an exhibit]
[Evy grabs a torch and slowly walks further in]
Evelyn: Abdul? Mohammed? Bob?
[Another noise is heard, she jumps]
[Evy walks over to a sarcophagus]
[Mummy suddenly pops up]
[Evy screams and jumps]
[Laughter. Legs appear in air]
[Jonathan sits up in sarcophagus, laughing]
[Mummy is propped up next to him]
Evelyn: [Angrily] Have you no respect for the dead?
Jonathan: [Drunkenly] Of course I do, but sometimes…
I'd rather like to join them.
Evelyn: [Angrily again] Well I'd wish you'd do it sooner
rather than later before you ruin my career the way you've ruined yours
[slaps him] Now get out.
Jonathan [still drunk] My dear sweet baby sister…I'll have you know
that my career is on a high note. [Gets out of sarcophagus]
Evelyn: High note, hah! Jonathan I'm really not in the mood for you right now.
[Sits on edge of statue]
I've just made a bit of a mess in the library and the Bembridge Scholars have
rejected my application form again. They say I haven't enough experience in the
field.
Jonathan: You'll always have me ol mum. [smiles]
[Evy smiles]
Jonathan: Besides, I have just the thing to cheer you up!
[Song from Jaws]
[Jonathan begins to sing in a drunken stupor]
Show me the way to go home!
I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago
and it's gone right to my head.
Wherever I may roam, by land or sea or foam.
You can always hear me singin' this song,
show me the way to go home!
[Adding sound effects]: Bome, bome, bome.
Show me the way to go home.
Bome bome bome.
I'm tired and I want to go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago
and it's gone right to my head.
Wherever I may roam, by land or sea or foam.
You can always hear me singin this --
[Evy interrupts]
Evelyn: Please, I'd prefer another useless trinket.
Jonathan: In that case…[pulls out key]
Evelyn: [Evy takes it, examines it]
Where did you get this?
Jonathan: [Nonchalantly] On a dig down in…Thebes.
My whole life I've never found anything, Evy. Please, tell
me I've found something.
Evelyn: [Opens key] Jonathan…I think you've found something.
[Pulls out map]
[Curtain falls]
[End scene]
