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LYNDA:
A card you’ll soon be dealt
THE GHOST OF OSCAR WILDE:
The unfastening of the belt
LYNDA AND THE GHOST OF OSCAR WILDE:
So?
TINY (spoken):
It’s love, isn’t it?
Lynda and The Ghost of Oscar Wilde nod, then resu
LYNDA AND THE GHOST OF OSCAR WILDE:
If act one in life is about finding yourself,
then act two is about finding everyone else
TINY:
And love?
LYNDA AND THE GHOST OF OSCAR WILDE:
And love
THE GHOST OF OSCAR WILDE:
The pure and simple truth
is rarely pure and never simple
What’s a boy to do
when lies and truth are both considered
sinful?
Now it’s Tiny’s turn to nod
TINY:
I was born this way,
and this is the way I’ve ed to stay
Now I embark on the search for love
Yes, now I embark on the search for love!
END OF ACT I
ACT II
ACT II, SCENE 1
Just in case you think, heading into Act II, that this is going to be one of those boy-ets-boy-back storiesthe playwright must now point out the comedy of your error Believe ht all he had to do was send love out into the universe and it would couy A ave hiotten it It’s not enough for hiay He has to have a boyfriend A you-are- about musicals Most of them assu to so, your seasons of love, your tale as old as ti is, in(except in the case of Rodgers & Has happen that throw you into love, whether it’s gang warfare on the West Side, or a Nazi invasion, or needing a neighbor to light your candle
Real life doesn’t provide quite so ot to work a little harder to get to love
I illing to do the work I illing to look high and low for the perfect harmony
I looked everywhere I dated a lot of boys
And what did I get out of it?
I got
The Parade of Ex-boyfriends
Yes, this second act has a pretty strange structure (although ht?) Here we’re going to trace ression of breakups, because honestly at the ti to lose the Age button now and just go with the high school years as one entity Because I’ to be how they’ll feel when they’re over Assu they ever end
The next nu Tiny) I know that’s a lot to ask of any production So feel free to double- or triple-cast Also feel free to give every ex a number somewhere on his costu hell Whatever works And, duh, the boyfriends can be played by girls dressed as boys But you knew that already, I’m sure