A/N—On 'Beauty pageant', the 2nd show, there was some characters on there such as Marjorie, the friend she was gossiping with and others but if you remember that show, what was really the character was Julia's speech "The Night the Lights went out in Georgia". That speech moved on its own and I saw a reunion show on the women one time where Dixie Carter said one speech has been recited in more gay bars . It may have but its never been recited on here so this is my take.
Disclaimer—I do not own the show 'Designing women'. That glory belongs to Harry Thompson and Linda Bloodworth-Thompson.
Summary—A security camera in that dressing room must have been there , because all of Georgia knows Julia's speech and the humiliating moment of Marjorie Lee Winick.
It just so happens that a 'play' of sorts is going on.
The actor playing Julia gracefully gets up from the dressing table and goes and closes to door to keep 'Marjorie Lee' in and she walks to her and asks her in a tongue that 's lace with graceful poison and asks,
"Aren't you Marjorie Lee Winick, the current Miss Georgia World?"
The snippy blenched blond says,
"Why, yes, I am" "I'm Julia Sugarbaker, Suzanne Sugarbaker's sister, I couldn't help but overhearing part of your conversation" "Well, I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone was listening"
Marjorie starts to leave when Julia stops her and says,
"Yes and I gather from you comments there is a couple of other things you don't know, Marjorie, for example, you probably don't know that Suzanne is the only contestant in Georgia pageant history to sweep every category except congeniality. That is not something the women in my family aspire to anyway…"
Marjorie keeps trying to get away and saying,
"But…." "Or when she walked down t he runway in her swimsuit, five contestants dropped out on the spot or when she emerged from the isolation booth to answer the question, "What would you do to prevent war?", she spoke so eloquently of patriotism, battlefields and diamond tiaras that grown men wept and you probably didn't know Suzanne wasn't just any Miss Georgia, she was the Miss Georgia! She just didn't just twirl just a baton, that baton was on fire! And when she threw that baton into the air, it flew higher, further, faster than any baton has ever flown before! And hitting a transformer and showering the darkened arena with sparks and when it finally did come down Marjorie, my sister caught that baton! And twelve thousand people jumped to their feet for over 16 and one half minutes of thunderous ovation and flames illuminated her tear stained face!."
Marjorie keeps backing up and trying to stop Julia, but to no avail and she only continues,
"And that Marjorie, just so you will know and your children will someday know, is the Night the lights went out in Georgia!"
Marjorie finally weakly says,
"I'm sorry, I didn't know"
Julia straightens up and says,
"Now, you do…."
All of a sudden, they hear a massive thunder of applause coming from that very room and three judges, one young man and 2 women clap and one woman in a flowing beige dress with short brown hair says,
"I was there that day that this happened and this is the best play that has ever happened to recapture that moment! You nearly forget that you are in a "gay" bar and not at some theater, what is your name?"
The actor clears his throat then says.
"I'm Princess Georgia" "Well, Miss Princess Georgia, that is the best acting I have ever seen!"
Just then the young man speaks up and says,
"I'm Quinton Shively and I am the producer at the community theater and I say that it the best performance ever of a moment in history! You are great! Wouldn't you say Marjorie?"
Marjorie sits there in a black funk thinking,
'Don't they remember that it was my most humiliating experience? Only to be replayed on these so called 'actors'!'
She quickly smiles like a snake in the grass and says,
"Oh yes, I agree"
Everybody in the room continues to clap for Princess Georgia.
A/N—The first female judge in the story was Debbie Hammond who I think was Marjorie's friend she was gossiping with. I might have her name wrong.
Well, how did I do?