FADE OUT
PERSON WALKS ON SCREEN. HOLDS UP SIGN THAT READS "SCENE II- WHERE WE MEET A CLOWN, AND CRAZY HIJINX ENSUE"
EXIT PERSON
FADE IN
1 WOODSTOCK GATES- DAY 1
TELUPAC and PARI are speaking. CONCERT GOERS strangely absent.
TELUPAC
EuGatnom's in the same boat as I am, but surely we can keep some peace
PARI
You are both decent people, you can do it (changes subject) Can I marry Julie??
TELUPAC
She's a little young, isn't she??
PARI
Not that young....
TELUPAC
Soon married? All my other children are dead and blah blah (Charlie Brown noise) (PARI dozes) .SEND IN MY CLOWN!!
CLOWN ENTERS in traditional clown apparel
PARI
(whispers to CLOWN) Dude, what in the name of all that is holy are you doing?
CLOWN
(honks nose) I'm the clown!! HA HA! (squeezes water flower into PARI's face)
PARI
(lunges at clown, fists up)
TELUPAC
(grabs PARI) BOYS!! BOYS!! (boxes CLOWN's ears) Tut, tut, off you go!! (he continues to CLOWN) Invite these people to our house (drags a wet PARI off stage, PARI is still trying to get the clown)
BOTH EXIT
2 ANGLE ON CLOWN'S FACE 2
CLOWN
Find the people who's names are written here? (turns paper every which way, confused look) Darn public school system, I can't make out a thing..I must find and ask a learned man..
3 PULL BACK 3
ROME AND BENVOLINA ENTER (ROME still being dragged)
CLOWN
Lucky me!! (dances a jig)
BENVOLINA (to ROME)
Tut man, go get some action somewhere else
ROME (waking up)
Psh, Plantain leaves are excellent for that (trails off, stares at the sun) (BENVOLINA holds up a cutout question mark bubble) For your broken shin
BENVOLINA
Man are you crazy? You are far-out, way far-out
ROME
No, not mad, I'm in more of a straight jacket than a loon, I'm imprisoned, starved, whipped and tormented (breaks suddenly, notices clown) good afternoon!!
CLOWN
Good afternoon, can you read?
ROME
Yea, but I'm bummed man.
CLOWN
That's too bad, can your read the alphabet? (holds up list)
ROME
Yes, provided I (breaks off) This is going nowhere (snatches list from clown) (ROME reads) Santana..The Turtles..Richard Nixon.Walt Disney. Mercuti and his brother Valentin...Uncle Telupac and people..Rosalin..Livi...Valentini and Tybal...Luci....Lively Helen.... Whoa, that's a groovy guest list!! Where's the party?
CLOWN
Up
ROME
To where? Supper?
CLOWN
To our tent
ROME
To who's tent?
CLOWN
My master's tent beside the great field
4 DOLLY to great field with sign "Great Field" and Tent 4
5 DOLLY back to ROME and CLOWN 5
CLOWN
(proudly) We reserved it.
ROME
I should have known (laughs, lighting flashes)
CLOWN
(looks around confused) fine fine fine, my master is-
(BENVOLINA hits CLOWN with club, gives camera thumbs up)
CLOWN
(glowers) fine, it's Telupac, provided you are not an EuGatnom, come have a drink (does back flips off set)
6 PULL OUT SLIGHTLY 6
BENVOLINA
(climbs up on extra's shoulders) The beautiful Rosaline that you love so much will be partying at the Telupac's together with the most beautiful girls of Upstate New York, aside from me. Go to it, and check out the other girls, I'll make you think your swan is nothing more than a crow (flips off extra's shoulder)
ROME
Someone more beautiful than Rosalin, Pish-Posh
(BENVOLINA glares at ROME)
ROME
Course you're stil number 1!
BENVOLINA
You thought Rosalin was beautiful, only because I am the most beautiful in Verona, and we aren't that backwoods, there are better, you need to mingle.
ROME
Fine then, I'll go, but for pleasures of my own
7 CUT TO EXTRA WITH SIGN 7
(EXTRA holds up SIGN stating "Act I Scene ii.5 Where the story gets really sidetracked")
EXIT EXTRA
(Random Woodstock shots, Doors playing "Light my Fire,")
8 FADE OUT 8
PERSON WALKS ON SCREEN. HOLDS UP SIGN THAT READS "SCENE II- WHERE WE MEET A CLOWN, AND CRAZY HIJINX ENSUE"
EXIT PERSON
FADE IN
1 WOODSTOCK GATES- DAY 1
TELUPAC and PARI are speaking. CONCERT GOERS strangely absent.
TELUPAC
EuGatnom's in the same boat as I am, but surely we can keep some peace
PARI
You are both decent people, you can do it (changes subject) Can I marry Julie??
TELUPAC
She's a little young, isn't she??
PARI
Not that young....
TELUPAC
Soon married? All my other children are dead and blah blah (Charlie Brown noise) (PARI dozes) .SEND IN MY CLOWN!!
CLOWN ENTERS in traditional clown apparel
PARI
(whispers to CLOWN) Dude, what in the name of all that is holy are you doing?
CLOWN
(honks nose) I'm the clown!! HA HA! (squeezes water flower into PARI's face)
PARI
(lunges at clown, fists up)
TELUPAC
(grabs PARI) BOYS!! BOYS!! (boxes CLOWN's ears) Tut, tut, off you go!! (he continues to CLOWN) Invite these people to our house (drags a wet PARI off stage, PARI is still trying to get the clown)
BOTH EXIT
2 ANGLE ON CLOWN'S FACE 2
CLOWN
Find the people who's names are written here? (turns paper every which way, confused look) Darn public school system, I can't make out a thing..I must find and ask a learned man..
3 PULL BACK 3
ROME AND BENVOLINA ENTER (ROME still being dragged)
CLOWN
Lucky me!! (dances a jig)
BENVOLINA (to ROME)
Tut man, go get some action somewhere else
ROME (waking up)
Psh, Plantain leaves are excellent for that (trails off, stares at the sun) (BENVOLINA holds up a cutout question mark bubble) For your broken shin
BENVOLINA
Man are you crazy? You are far-out, way far-out
ROME
No, not mad, I'm in more of a straight jacket than a loon, I'm imprisoned, starved, whipped and tormented (breaks suddenly, notices clown) good afternoon!!
CLOWN
Good afternoon, can you read?
ROME
Yea, but I'm bummed man.
CLOWN
That's too bad, can your read the alphabet? (holds up list)
ROME
Yes, provided I (breaks off) This is going nowhere (snatches list from clown) (ROME reads) Santana..The Turtles..Richard Nixon.Walt Disney. Mercuti and his brother Valentin...Uncle Telupac and people..Rosalin..Livi...Valentini and Tybal...Luci....Lively Helen.... Whoa, that's a groovy guest list!! Where's the party?
CLOWN
Up
ROME
To where? Supper?
CLOWN
To our tent
ROME
To who's tent?
CLOWN
My master's tent beside the great field
4 DOLLY to great field with sign "Great Field" and Tent 4
5 DOLLY back to ROME and CLOWN 5
CLOWN
(proudly) We reserved it.
ROME
I should have known (laughs, lighting flashes)
CLOWN
(looks around confused) fine fine fine, my master is-
(BENVOLINA hits CLOWN with club, gives camera thumbs up)
CLOWN
(glowers) fine, it's Telupac, provided you are not an EuGatnom, come have a drink (does back flips off set)
6 PULL OUT SLIGHTLY 6
BENVOLINA
(climbs up on extra's shoulders) The beautiful Rosaline that you love so much will be partying at the Telupac's together with the most beautiful girls of Upstate New York, aside from me. Go to it, and check out the other girls, I'll make you think your swan is nothing more than a crow (flips off extra's shoulder)
ROME
Someone more beautiful than Rosalin, Pish-Posh
(BENVOLINA glares at ROME)
ROME
Course you're stil number 1!
BENVOLINA
You thought Rosalin was beautiful, only because I am the most beautiful in Verona, and we aren't that backwoods, there are better, you need to mingle.
ROME
Fine then, I'll go, but for pleasures of my own
7 CUT TO EXTRA WITH SIGN 7
(EXTRA holds up SIGN stating "Act I Scene ii.5 Where the story gets really sidetracked")
EXIT EXTRA
(Random Woodstock shots, Doors playing "Light my Fire,")
8 FADE OUT 8