Chapter Seven
Leo: (spoken) Now this new scene is the scene where the...sitar player writes a secret song for the courtesan, so that whatever is happening...what--however bad things are that they--they remember their love and then...We can take it from your line Piper. So let's take it.
Piper: (spoken) We can't do this...
Argentinean: (spoken) Fear not, we will conduct our love affair right under the Maharaja.
Leo:
Seasons may change, winter to spring...
(Argentinean collapses)
Morris: (spoken)Honestly amigo, this is impossible.
Leo: But I love you, until the end of time. Come what may, come what may. I will love you until my dying day.
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Both Piper & Leo: Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place...
Dan: (spoken)My dear, a little frog!
Piper
and Leo: Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace...
Suddenly
my life doesn't seem such a waste.
It all revolves around you.
And there's no mountain too high,
no river too wide!
Sing
out this song and I'll be there by your side.
Storm clouds may
gather and stars may collide.
Leo: But I love you
Piper: I love you
Leo: Until the end
Piper: Until the end
Both: Of time.. Come what may, come what may, I will love you...
Leo: (spoken)The magical sitar player falls from the roof and says "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return"
Phoebe: (spoken - to Dan) This ending's silly. Why would the courtesan go for the penniless writer? Whoops! I mean sitar player...
Cast: Come What May - I will love you - Come what may, I will love you til my dying day.
Dan: I don't like this ending.
Morris: Don't like the ending, my dear Dan?
Dan: Why would the courtesan choose a penniless sitar player over the Maharaja who is offering a lifetime of security? That's real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave the courtesan with nothing. I suggest that in the end the courtesan choose the Maharaja.
Toulouse: But, but, but surely! Surely but that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of Truth, Beauty, Freedom and...
Dan: I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR RIDICULOUS DOGMA! Why SHOULDN'T the courtesan choose the Maharaja?
Leo:
Because she doesn't LOVE YOU!
(horrified silence)
Leo:
H-Him... H-Him, she doesn't love - she doesn't love him
Dan: Oh, I see. So, Morris, this ending will be rewritten with the courtesan choosing the Maharaja and WITHOUT the lover's "secret song". It will be rehearsed in the morning ready for the opening tomorrow night.
Morris: My... my dear Dan. That will be quite impossible!
Piper: Morris! Poor Dan is being treated apallingly! These silly writers let their imaginations run away with them. Now why don't you and I have a little supper, and then afterwards we can let Monsieur Morris know how we want the story to end. Hmm?
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Piper: Thank you, Prue.
Leo: I don't want you to sleep with him.
Piper: He could destroy everything... It's for us... You promised... you promised me you wouldn't be jealous, you pro-... it will be alright, yes, it will. He's waiting for me...
Leo: No
Piper sings: Come what may...
Leo: Come what may...
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She had gone to the tower to save us all. And for our part we could do nothing but wait.
Piper: My dear Dan. I hope I have not kept you waiting...
Phoebe: Don't worry Shakespeare! You'll get your ending... Once the duke gets his... end.. in (Leo tries to hurt her) You keep your 'ands off me!
Argentinean: Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends BAD!
Piper: The boy has a ridiculous obsession with me. I mean, I... I indulge his fantasy because he's talented. We need him... but only until tomorrow night...
Argentinean:
(spoken) We have a dance in the brothels of Buenos Aires. It tells
the story of prostitution and a man... who falls in love... with her.
First there is desire. Then passion. Then... suspicion! Jealousy,
anger, betrayal! When love is for the highest bidder, there can be no
trust. Without trust there is no love. Jealousy, yes, jealousy, will
drive you, will drive you... MAD!
(sung) Roxanne... you don't
have to put on that red light. Walk the streets for money, you don't
care if it's wrong or if it is right. Roxanne! You don't have to wear
that dress tonight... Roxanne. You don't have to sell your body to
the night!
Leo: His eyes upon your face, his hand upon your hand, his lips caress your skin. It's more than I can stand!
Argentinean/
Leo: Roxanne/Why does my heart cry?
Roxanne/Feelings I can't
fight!
Leo: You're free to leave me but just don't decieve
me and please belive me when I say I love you!
Dan: (spoken) If this production suceeds you will no longer be a can-can dancer. You will be... an actress. I will make you... a star. (he brings out a necklace) A gift... from this Maharaja to his courtesan.
Piper: (spoken) And... and the ending?
Dan: (spoken) Let Morris keep his fairy tale ending...
Argentinean/
Leo: Roxanne, you don't have to put on that red light/Why does my
heart cry?
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress
tonight/Feelings I can't fight...
Argentinean: Roxanne
Leo: You're free to leave me but just don't deceive me and please believe me when I say I love you.
(Leo
is now beneath the balcony where Dan and Piper are. Piper spots
him.)
Piper: Come what may... I will love you until my
dying day (spoken) No!
Dan: (spoken) No? (sees Leo) Oh, I see... it's our vey own penniless sitar player.
Piper: (spoken) Dear Dan..
Dan:
(spoken) SILENCE! You.. made me... believe... that you loved
me...
(Dan starts to hit and abuse/rape Piper)
Argentinean: Roxanne...
Leo: Why does my heart cry? Feelings I can't fight.
Chorus/Argentinean:
Why does my heart cry/You don't have to put on that red
light
Feelings I can't fight/ Roxanne, you don't have to put on
that dress tonight.
Argentinean: ROXANNE!
Leo: Roxanne! Feelings I can't fight...
Dan: Feelings I can't fight!
Leo: Roxanne...
(Chocolat punchs Dans lights out)
