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You’re remarkable!
But I can’t stay with you just because you want
ht?
Jimmy leans in to kiss Tiny But this time it’s on the cheek
JIMMY:
You’re marvelous!
I don’t expect you’ll understand!
You’re delectable!
I know you’ll find another man!
And that other man can be
as wonderful to you
as you are to me!
Only he’ll feel the sa:
You’re wonderful!
But I can’t date you!
Jimmy exits
TINY:
But I don’t want anyone else! (to audience) Or at least I thought I didn’t want anyone else Then a few days passed The Jiot smaller and smaller until I didn’t even feel it anyain Then I realized, uuy out there wasn’t swearing he’d never date an actor
Mostly, I felt I had to widen the dating pool, because right noas feeling pretty kiddie-sized And even if I wasn’t quite ready to dive into the ocean of guys that aiting forof Olympic proportions
Which is why I askedawakening, even if it was co a season late I wanted summer lovin’ that would happen so fast I wanted to succeed at the business of love without really trying
My mother sewed my name into all my underwear But, really, it was another boy’s name I was ready to sew into my heart
(looks down at clothes) I can’t possibly wear this to Cae and changes into sue in some manner by a variety of extremely enthusiastic musical-theater campers
ACT II, SCENE 5
Tiny strides out in sulethorpe the Third is mentioned, Ex-boyfriend 6 appears--he should be dressed as soarb is available, although Shakespearean dress would be pretty funny--this is yet another actor for Tiny to date
The chorus should be Tiny’s fellow campers, each one more of a drama queen than the last ’Cause that’s the way it is (For further reference, please read E Lockhart’s definitive to with the chorus, except for the chorus’s last line
TINY:
(looking down at clothes) Much better, right?
Welcoirls who love theht weeks--one minute you’d be bloody, bloody Andrew Jackson, and then you’d blink and you’d be Daddy Warbucks or Porgy or Bess The directors had all the power, and orshipped and reviled thely The food wasn’t up to Oliver!’s standards, the heat was somewhere between Oklahoma! and 110 in the Shade, and the mattresses were more pea than princess
But none of that really mattered I had found my tribe It felt like a family reunion for the fa at the place where I was always meant to be but hadn’t kno to find
The other ca up the ca
["SUMMER OF GAY"]
TINY:
There was a tiina--
but then ca finer