Monday, March 19, 2012

Christine Disembarks

I'll admit it- I'm not looking forward to this one because it's mostly spoken words...Oh well- I'll do it anyway!

Christine Disembarks

REPORTER
Hey! have the passengers disembarked yet?

MAN
Yeah! They're going through customs now!

WOMAN
Here they come!

MAN
Hey it's Mrs Aster! Mrs Aster over here!

MRS ASTER
Over there Lucille!

WOMAN
Is that the latest Paris style?

MAN
Look! It's Colonel Vanderbilt!
Thanks Colonel!

REPORTER
Hey Colonel, is Christine Daae still on board?

VANDERBILT
I believe so, young man!

WOMAN
What's she doing?

MAN
Hey! Christine! Where are you? Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!

MAN2
Look! There she is!

(Various people try to get her attention)

RAOUL
Her name- Her name is Madame de Changy! Stand Aside!
Gustave come here! No pictures please! No pictures of the boy!

MAN
Hey Christine! sing something!

MAN2
Your first performance in years, why ain't you singing at the Met?

RAOUL
The Viscountess has been engaged by the well-known impresario, Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, to open his new Manhattan opera house.

MAN
How'd he lure the great Christine Daae over here anyway?

MAN2
Ah, it's the money, right? All that American moolah!

RAOUL
My wife is an artist!

MAN
Yeah and it's her art that's payin off your gambing debts is what they're saying in France!

MAN2
Is it true you left your entire fortune on a roulette table in Monte Carlo?

RAOUL
Insolent Jackals! How dare you?

REPORTER
Hey kid! How does it feel to have a famous mother?

MAN
It this your first time to America?

MAN2
2 weeks til the opera house opens, what are you gonna do?

MAN3
You gonna go see the statue of Liberty?

MAN4
You gonna ride the new subway?

MAN5
Are you gonna go to the baseball

GUSTAVE
 I want to go to Coney Island! And learn how to swim!
Mother look, right over there! Across the square, that carriage!


Phew! Glad that one's done! As usual let me know if you have corrections!

3 comments:

  1. I wouldn't want to either, but you know only a real fan, or lover for the musical arts, WOULD! that why since you wrote this it just makes you 10 times better than any other person.

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  2. After "I believe so young man," the woman says "What's she doin'? Waitin' for the conducter?"

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