Q The pavilion. The cay has cooled to twilight and the townsfolx are enjoying the quiet that evening promises. A guitar solo concludes to polite acplause of townsfolk, N WITH GUITAR Thank you, Alright, everybody -- waltz promenade! Ladies, choose your partner! Gents, make yourself available! A "Bu = NG BEAUTE: iL HAPPENS AT NIGHT" TO} EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT, HAPPENS AT NICHT, EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS ASTER THE SUN GOES DOWN, S PEOPLE PPENS AT NIGHT EVERY HAPPENS AT NIGHT, HAPPENS AT NIGHT, EVERYTHING MAGICAL HAPPSNS DAY IS DONE, HERE IN THE DARXNESS I DON'T EXtOW wHY, SS AND BY AND BY, NGS OF A FIREFLY, 0 SPARKLE, AND a om bioTOWNSPEOPLE (Cont'a) ING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT, NIGHT, HAPPENS AT NIGHT, _ GB: UL BAPPENS FIER THE DAY IS THRCUGH, AFTER IT"S DARK IS WHEN ALL OF YOUR DAYDREAMS COME TRUE, (While the SINGERS sing in piace, the DANCERS start to dance) “EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENS AT NIGHT" (During the sonc, JIM, in a loss ané disconsolate mood, dances with SHOCKIE, joining the group. TOBY enters and does a tap dance, SNOOKIE is fascinated by TOBY!s neing and JIMMY, still raw with urt, interprets this as 2 di terest in hinself, He hurries away. — After TOBY finishes his dance and exits with a girl, SNOOKIE realizes JIM has left, ané’she runs off, calling his name, BOYS have re-entered during the “Gance -- the GIRES try to make up to them, and they do, By the end of the number, all of the couples have lanterns, The lights dim and they exit singing) END OF SC. ~ PAYORAs the DANCERS of the preceding Scene drift away, they leave behing them -- LIZZIE -* carrying the blanket JIM meant for STARBUCK, not quite sure where she finds herself, : is -- besise STARBUCK's wagon -- in the most romantic of moonlights. Sut now she hears a sound from inside his wagon and she hides Dehind it, STARBUCK Also hears a sound, He Comes Cut of his wagon, STARBUCK Who's that? ... Who's there? (LIZZIE comes 1 st nervously twists the blanket. tries to souné cain) She Li2ZIE It's me -- Lizzie, (STARBUCK starts to button his shirt, LIZZIE hands him the blanket) STARBUCK What's that for? LIZZIE Jimmy said -- for your wagon -- he at. STARBUCK Is that what you came over here for? LIZz1e No -- I came because I (Pained; it is dirricy gently helps her:) Go on, Lizzie,2-2-4 STARBUCK I meant every word of it, LIZZ1E _ what you said about Jim -- I'm sure you méant that, STARBUCK What I said about you. LIZZIE I don't believe you, STARBUCK Lizeiel What ere you scared of? LIZZIE trust yout STARBUCK Way? What don't you trust about me? LIZZIE Everything! The way you talx, the way vou brag -- why, even your namel STARBUCK What's wrong with my name? LIZZIE / it sounds fake! It sounés like you made it up! STARBUCK . Youtre carn right! I did make it up! LIZZIE There! Of course! STARBUCK Why not? You know what name I was born wish? Smith, for ghe love of Mike, Smith! Now what kind of a handle is that for a felia lize mel I needed a name that hed tne whole Sky in it! Ang che powér of a manl Star -- buck: Now there's 2 name for you -- and it's mine! Ko itts n STARBUCK 2 heme you choose for yourself is than the name you were born w e choose enother name You're more2-2-5 . ARBUCK on no you ain't! You ain't pleased with anything about yourself] And sure you ain't pleased with "Lizzie." LIZZIE * 5 don't asic you to be pleased with it, Starbuck, I aml STARBUCK pazsie? Why, it don't stand for anything! : LIZ2I8 = It stands for mel 1 I'm not the Queen of Sheba -- I'm not Lady Godiva -- I'm not Cinderella at the Ball! STARBUCK Would you like to be? LIZZIE Starbuck, you're ridiculous! STARBUCK What's ridiculous about 1t? Dream you're somebody -- be somebody! But Lizzie? -- that's nobody! So many millions of wonderful women with wonderful names! (in an orgy of delight) : Leonora, Desdemona, Carolina -- Lorraine! Annabella, Magdelena, Dardanelle -- Suzanne! (With a pathetic lift of his shoulders) Lizzie. IZZIE - Good night, Starbuck, . STARBUCK (With a sudden inspiration) “Just a minute, Lizzie -- just one little half of a minute! (music starts) I've got the greatest name for you, The greatest namel Just listen! MELIS Lizzie I dontt like That's because you don't when I teil you who she » she was!2-2-6 Lizzig Go on, Starbuck. Go on, TARBUCK 5 Well -- UPON A TIMS, SO THEY TELL us, SOME: ENEATH THE MOUNTAINS OF MEXICO, THERE DWELT & ROYAL FELLA, KING HAMLET, WHO HAD & TURTLEDOVE AND HE LOVED HER SO, HAS MELISANDE AND I TELL You, THAT LADY WAS AS PRETTY AS SHE COULD BE, BUT 3 so "I'VE GOT ME A DREAM TIVE ALMAYS WANTED A GOLDEN FLEECE, AND I THINK I WIRE DIE TIS MINE, IZE "GREAT GODAMIGHTY, YOU YOU DRY YOUR EYES I'M GONNA GET YOU WHATEVER YOU ASK OF MB, T'M GONNA GET YOU THE GOLDENEST FLEECE IN THE VORID]" so CH OF FELLAS TOGETHER, OCEAN, AWAY THEY GO, AND ASTER THEY RAVE TRAVELLED FOR acks, THEY COME UFON THE PLACE WHERE THE OGRES GROW, AND SUR ENOUGH THEY SPY '=M A GIANT, A-SITTIN' THERE A-GUARDIN' THIS GOLDEN FLEECE, AND HAMLET SAYS, "I WARN YOU -- You BEST(Centta) And when he cane back, all bleedin! and torn, ne went and laid that fleece of gold right down at her-pretty white feet, And she took that fur piece and wrapped i¢ around her pink. _ naked shoulders and she said: I HAD ME A DREAM, I ALWAYS WANTED A GOLDEN FLEECE, AND NOW THAT IT IS MINS, I'LL NEVER BE COLD NO MORE, NEVER BE GOD NO MORE -- MELISANDE! ° MELISANDE! @ nan @ wona: IZZIE (With a long, forlorn sigh) Starbuck, you silly jackass, You take a lot of stories that I've read in a hundred different places-- and you roll them up into one big fat ridiculous lie! STARBUCK (Angry, hurt) I wasn't lyin’ -- I was éreamin'! LIZZIE It's the same thing! - STARBUCK If you think it's the same thing then I take it back about your name, Lizziel -- it's just right for you!_ I'll tell you another name that would Suit you -- Noah! Because you and your brother -- you've got no dream! LIZZIE (With an outery) You think all dreams have to be your kind! (Music starts) and thunder on the mountain!2-2-8 LIZZIE (Cont'd) KENDA SCRATCH Betveat ey SHOULDER-BLADES , ARE THE N ALL IN BED? My sisSanD ALL I WANT ARE SIMPLE LITTLE THINGS ALL I NEED Is SOMSONE BESIDE Me TO HAVE AND TO HOID, STARBUCK LIZZIE ng her head) SIMPLE LIPTLS THINGS, ble to control her tears, un- ng for him to see them, she ts to flee, But he grads her, olds her close) STARBUCK Please ~~ 5 i i 12-2-9 STARBUCK I hope your dreams come true, Lizzie -- I hope they dot . LIZZIE = They won't -- they never will! STARBUCK Believe in yourself and they will! LIZZIE I've got nothing to believe in! STARBUCK You're a woman! Believe that! LIZZIE How can I when nobeéy else will? STARBUCK You gotta believe it first! Let me ask you, Lizzie -: are you pretty? LIZZIE No -- I'm ptaint STARBUCK There! You see? -- you don't kmow you're a woman! LIZZIE I ama woman! & plein one! STARBUCK . There's no such thing as a plain woman! Every reel woman is pretty! They're all pretty in a different way -- but they're all pretty! LIZZIE Not me! When I look in the looking glass -- STARBUCK Don't let Noah be your lcokin' glass! It's gotta be inside you! And then one day the lookin’ glass will be the m: loves you! It'll be his eyes maybe! And youtll look in t mirror ané you'll be more than pretty! -- you'll be beautiful! LIZZIE (Srying out) Isl never SPARBUCK » Why don't yeu th: "pretty"? AndTA RBUCK Please, Lizzie! (He is taking the pins out of hep hair) a > LIZZIE STARBUCK Please! Now close your eyes, Lizzie -- keep them closed! Now -- say: I'm pretty! LIZZIE I -- I'm -- I cantts STARBUCK Say it) Say it, Lizciel LIZZiz I'm -- pretty! STARBUCK . Say ib egaint LIZZIE - (With a little ery) Pretty! . STARBUCK Say iti -- mean it) LIZZIE . (2xalted) I'm pretty! I'm pretty! Im pretty! LW INCIDENTAL (KISS MUSIC) (He Kisses her. She clings to hin, the bonds of her spirsterhood break- ing away. She collapses, scbbinz. @hrough her sobs:) Ch, why @i¢ you do ¢! STARBUCK Because when you said you were pretty, it true! (Her sobs are louder, m heart- pending because for the first tine, she is happy)2-2-11 STARBUCK and lock at me! Look in my eyes! What do you LIZZIE (Gazing through her tears) I ‘t believe what I see! . . STARBUCK Tell me what you see! LIZZIg Oh, is it me? Is it really me? (Wow she goes to him with all her giving) Ley FNCTDENTAL #2 (Change of Scene) | | i j ' 1ACT TWO Scene 3 In the darimess, abcuptly, the shocking direct-front glare of a flasnligat, It switches its focus =- on another darimess, Another flashlight, then another which shines on @ face -- Toby's. He is annoyed. TOBY u . What ‘the hell) (The lights come up slowly and ~ ae we identify F the holder oe of the flast Oh -- Filel What's up? FILE Lf Sorry, Toby -- just lookin’ for somebody. poet TOBY a (Muttering) Holy ... pe (NOAH enters > ying @ lantern, As he enters, the lig! on the gance pavilion, on the Japanese lanterns, As they slowly come to a glow:) N Who wes that? reBy File, Lookin' for semebody. NOAH Yezh, So am I, Jimmy. You seen hin? TOBY 4 nt, George, oup of 2HANNAH Gtnight, George, Goin! home now, Belinda, (BELINDA is riding piecr-bacx on_ her mother's bag, The child is almost asleep) BELINDA (To her mother) why? HANNAH ‘Cause you need your sleep. 2 BELINDA Why? HANMAH Cause it's late, BELINDA why? HANNAH ‘Cause it ain't early. BELINDA Why? (GEORGE hes now come abreast of TOBY) TOBY . Helluva picnic. GEORGE Yeah .., just like last year. TOBY Yeah, Helluva picnic, (They are all gone except NOAH, H.C, enters, also carrying a lantern) H.C. Go cn home, Noah, éon't worry about him. @-3-13WALLY - Ginight, Mr. Curry H.C, = Gtnight, Wally. NOAH I ain't worryin! about him. Dammit, if you'd'a seen my side of this, it wouldn't have happened, H.C, I see your side, Noah, I just ain't on your sige, (JIM enters, cocky, self-satisfied, ten feet taller. “He smokes an enormous cigar with aloof grangeur) cI Good e've'ning! NOAH Where the hell you deen? oIM (Hapoy, expansive, lordly) Far away -- away! -- far away! NOAH What's wrong with you? Are you drunk? orm (Wath rosy superiority) - No, Big Erother, I ain't érunk, But if I cared to be drunk, I!d be google-eyed! H.C. Where'd you get the stogie, Jim? ont It ain't a stogie. It's a Havana Panatella, Eighty-five cents, And it's a present. NOAH Who the hell gave 1t to you? cm ve it to mel -- for bein’ a big doy! NoaH us where you been,2-3-15 taxes SNOOKIE'S little req out of his pockec, unfolds it Slaps it on his head) pon 5 i oe Bette JIM (Cont'd) -- Sncokte! NOAH You crazy, dumb little -- oI with an even smile) & say Gumb no more, Nogh, Or I shall take this eight ent Havane Panatella and'I shall squash it right in your mean old face! Hc, What happened, Jir NOAH Gantt you See what happened? He went ridin! with Snookte Upcesrazf and she got him all het up and then, by God, she trapped hint JIM Big Brother, you got it ell wrong! (Calling) Snockiel (SNOOKIE comes in, happy but Somewhat embarrasge3) SNOCKIE Did you tell them? sIM No -- not yet NOAH Tell us what? smM Boy, when I do tell you, Nozh -- ycu're gonna split your britches} SNOOKIZ That's whe Go, Nozh -- split your britches:(As Jimmy sings the story, SNOOKER pppeets each phrase right arter him, and they "Act it out.") JIM & SNOOKIE 2 GEP IN THE caR (WE GE? In THe CAR) I STEP ON THE Gas (#2 STEPS CN THE GAS) I OPEN '=R UP HE OPENS 'ER UP) A-TRAVELLIN' Fas? (A-TRAVELLIN® FAST) I FIND US A S>oP (3@ FINDS Us a spor) RE NO ONE IS ap __ JIM AND GRAB HER LITTLE RED HAT SNOOKIE ‘CAUSE I WON'T Go (4¥ LIGPLe Rep WITHOUT HER LITSLE FED Hap HAT) JIM & SNOCKIE ONG,nine siassnSionestindican 2-3-17 JIM & SHOOKIE (Cont'a) ME CLOSE) ME NICE) I'M KSSIN' HER ONCE (38'S KUSSIN' ME ONCE) I'M KISSIN" HER TYICE (HE!S KSSIN' NE TWICE) I'M TALKIN’ So SwES? g'S TALKIN’ SO HIGHEST HET OUT HER LITTLE RED HAT, TH and SNOOKIE ne Story they JIM & SNOCKIE TO SEE IF SOMEONE CAN HEAR US, BUT NOAH IS NOWHERE TO°BE SZEN, THERE'S NOBODY NEAR US. IN THE SKY STARS IN THE SKY) KERIN' LOW - SY'RE FLICKERIN' LOW) SHE'S STARTIN' TO CRY, (SNOOKIE cries) AND WHATTAYA KNOW, C "AYA KNOW) WITH NC_ONE TO HELP (IITH_NO ONE To HELP) I TELL MYSELF “WHOA " cIM AND BEFORE you i5 ALL ALCNE BY MYSELF WITH NOBODY TO GUIDE ME I DECIDED TO STOP WHEN I SAW HER BESIDE ME, AND I XNEW THAT I SURE SHOULDN'T GO ANY FURTHER THEN, AND SO: I SAD "wHoar" "WHOA" AT'S HOW I GOT ME A LITTLE RED HAT! oy JIM (Formally) Thank you, pop -- your yippeee is accepted. (They shake hands. JIM is touched, H.C, turns to SNOOKIE) HC, And .,, good luck, Snookie. SNOOKIE Thank you, Mr. Curry, JIM (Suddenly elated) I gotta tell Lizzie! Where's Lizzie? NOAH Where the Sam Hill éo you think she is? ‘She probably went home! She's asiea; rt Me JIM ~ Well, xe then, we'll go home and wake her up! H.C, Wait, Jimmy -- Lizzie's not at home, sim Where is she? (An instant. He turns toJIM Ginight, Snooics SNOOKIE > (Unable to tear herself arey) Well, cinight, Jimny, JIM G'night, honey, SNOOKIE, Gmight, Jim, (She goes) JIM Where is she, Pop? NOAH Pop! -- where ts Lizzie? D HL oc, She's ... of Starbuck's wagon, NOAH You mean with Starbuck? H.C, Yes, . Jim Boy, that's gre: (Pulling another cigar out of his pocket) I got another cigar for Lizcie! NORE Wait a minute! You mean you let her alone -- with that fella? You dign't try te stop her? H.C. No, I @idnit! You called her’an old maid! You too« away the last little hope she ever had! And when you left, T didn't ask where was coin' -- put I'm glad she went! Because if she lost her hone right here -- maybe shetlL fing it out there! NOAH That was in your mind the minute you laid eyes on that guy? H.C, dried, Noah,NOAH You won't have to swap him for anybody! He ain't the marryin' kind -- not that faker. JIM I bet he is the marryin' Kind -- I bet he is! Key, Pop -~ what do you figure a rainmaker makes? NOAH (angry) No, I mean -- 1 (Soberly) Don't let's be beforehand, Jimmy. L (Suddenly, FILE eppears) . FILE Hello, H. c. H, C,, NOAH & Jit Hello, File. Hey, File ... HC, Kinda late to be picnickin’, ain't it, File? FILE Well, I'm not exactly picnickin', H, GC.” I been gettin' a lotta calls from Peak's Junction and ail down the state -line. They been lookin! for a fella -- kind of a con man. Name of Tornado Jonnson, (Irrelevantly) Where's Lizzie? She go home? Hc, Yeah -- guess so, (NOAH hearing his father lie, loows at H, C, FILE catches it) FILE (Referring to the Wanted Circular) Alias Bill Harmony, alias Bill Smith. You get any wind of him?H.C, Who, Lizzie? Ch, she's a good FILE - @e a (Pointing off) c= — How'd she go? -- your truck is still there, Hc. Uh ... went home with the Hopkinsons. PILE She did, buh? (Then, ¢trectly) Lock, H. C., somebody said some fool thing about this fella comint in cn a wagon -- and you gave him 2 hundred dollars to make rain, Hundred bucks, huh? Sure go @ bargain, didn't 1? (Sudéent, Dammit, H. C., Criminal? What'd he 40? 1 somebody? -- rob 2 bank? He is a con men, ain't he? -- he took you for a hundred bucks! H.C, - I didn't put in a complaint, die I? . PILE ++, All right, A wagon shoulén't be too hard to find. (The instent he goes, NOAE pre whirls on his father} NOAH you do that? -- why?) Why didntt you tell nim Ae out: the fella you're lookin! Tor is with my er! ff in the opposite FILE took) a2-3-22 NOAH iim goin! out to that wagon and bring her in! And him too! H.C, ns Noah, wait NOAH (Anreged) You want Lizzie out there with him?! Hets a swindler and @ crook and I dentt imow what elsel HL oc, I'll tell you what else, Noah’ -- he's a man! JIM Pop's right! Gettin' married's gettin' married! Hc, Jinmy, you always sey the $mar © at a dumb timel JIM Well, I'm 212 for ner gettin! married -- I don't care who the fella is] NOAH Is that the way you think, Pop? H.C. You kmow it's not the way I think! NOAH ** - : Then I'm goin'! H.C, I said stay here! NOAH Zt ain't right, Pop -- it ain't right! H.C, (Exploding) Noah, you'ze So full of what's right you can't see whatis goog! It's good for a girl to cet married, sure —- bub pe you were right when you said she won't ever navethat! nat! “Weil, she's gotta have something! (With desperate resolution) Lizeiets got to have something] Even if it's only one minute -- with @ man teikin? quiet and his hand touchint her face! And if you go out there and shorten the time they have together -- i? you put one littl shadow the brightest tine of Lizziets life -- I swear I'11 out efter you with 2 horse w(As couples-in-love drift across the stage, going home, they leave behind them another area of picnic grounds and -- ) CHANGE OF SCENE2-4-2h ACT THO Scene 4 . BUCK's wagon, LIZZIE and CK are discovered seated the ground by the wagon, deep in en embrace. STARBUCK == And-I.elways walk so. fast end=rid) to stop and ask myself no questions, LIZZIE If you did_stop, what question would. you_ask? STARBUCK Well -- I guess I'd say: "Big man, where-are you goin'?" “brZ2ie Big man, where-are you going? STARBUCK E-don't kmow. I reckon I_better kiss you again, (He kisses ner again) - Digaté anyone ever kiss you before I di LIZZIE (With a wan smile) Yes, once ... I wes about twelve, I guess, There was a boy with frecites and red hair -~ and I thought he was the beginning of the world, But he never paid me any mind, Then one day -- suddenly! ~~ he shot over to me and kissed me hard,- right on the mou! Twas so stirred up -- 1 But then he ren back to the other kids and I heard him say, "Z'1l kiss anything on a dare even your old man's pig!” nd from that day on I imew I was plain. STARBUCK Are you plain, Lizzie?i * “y IS IP REALLY 2 WY I'M BEAUTIFUL, BEING HERE NITH YOU. DEEP INSIDE YOUR EY=S, SOMEONE'S FACE I SEE, SOMEONE WHO 15 BEAUTIFUL; Is 2 MOMENTS AGO, I WAS ALONE -- i@ THAT THIS COULD BE. NOW HERE I AM, SAFE IN YOUR ARMS: AND I'M NO LONGER LONELY, IS IT REALLY ME? IS If REALLY TRUE? SUDDENLY I'M BEAUTIFUL ALL BECAUSE OF YOU, SUDDENLY I'M BEAUTIFUL UPIFUL WITH YOU, (She touches his face, then walxs to his wagon and touches it) i@ THAT THIS COULD BS. STARBUCK - LIZZIE & STARBUCK AND WE'RE NO LONGER LONELY,2-426 STARBUCK a MY EYES AND SEE 213 & STARBUCK AUTIFUL -- STARBUCK (Holding her ‘close) You are beautiful -- and when I leave here, don't you ever forget it, LIZZIE (Sadly; unable yet to reconcile herself to his ultimate going) I'11 try to remember -- everything -- you ever said. BUCK (With a Littie outery) zzie, I want -- I want to live forever! LIZZiE (Full of compassion) I hope you do ~- wherever you are -- I hope you éo! STARBUCK o You don't say that as if you think I'll ever get what I'm aft LIZZIE (Gentry) I don't really know what you're efter. SPARBUCK . Itm after a clap of lightnin'! I want things to be pretty when I get them as they are when I’m thinkin! about them! Ith was in your the worldLIZZIE I Gon't mow, Maybe it's because you don't taxe time to see it, Always on the go -- here, ther where, Runnint away -+ keepin! your cun co: + Maybe’ 42 you'd keep company with the world -- 7 . TARSUCK I'd learn to love it? LIZZIE You might -- 1f you sew it reall Some nights I'm in the kitchen washing the dishes, And Pop's playine poker with the boys, Well, I'll watch him real close. End et first I11 just see an ordinary midcle-aged man ~~ not very interesting to look at. “And then, minute by minute, 111 see little things Inever saw in him before, Good things and bad things -- queer little habits I nevér noticed he had. And suddenly I imow who he is! -- and I love him so much I could ery! “And I want to thenk God I took the time to see him real! STARBUCK . (Breaking out) Wel, I ain't got the time! LI221E Then you ain't got no world -- except the one you make up in your head, STARBUCK (With painful difficulty) (. Lazede -- I got somethin! to tell you +- ' You were right -- Tama liar... and a con man and a fake! (A moment The worés tear out of him) I never made rain in my life! Not 2 single rainérop! -- nowhere! -- not anyshere at all! LIZZIE (In a compassionate whisper) I yew -- STA BUCK a miracle! Nothint! -- Ii wantin! to blowhard! t1g no good to live in i 4 i i L : ie-k-238 St, UCK Yes! -- Lizzie, would you like me to stick around for a while? LIZZIE ~ (Unable to stand the joy of 4s) Did I hear you right? STARSUCK Not for good, understané -- just for a few days! LIZzig You're -- you're not fooling me, are you, Starbuck? No -- I mean itt LIZZIE Viould you stay? Would you? STARBUCK A few days -- yes! LIZZ1e ier happiness bursting) Oh! Oh my goodness! Oh! LEE] END SCENE 4 STARBUCK . Lizzie -- LIZZIE Ican't stand it -- I just can't stand it) STARBUCK Lizzie -- LIZZIs, You look up at the sky and you cry fora star! You imow youtll never get it! And then one night you look down -- and there it is! -- shining in vour hand!by & 5 sa jG Scene 5 The bandstand area again. By the light of the two lanterns the CURRYS still await the return of taf LIZZIz, They are silent, moody, (JU alittle tense. Lizziz énters, floating in a paradisical dream. — NOAH Where's Starbuck? ? Liz2ziz Uh... near nis wagon, Jnable to speak in front of NOAH; nervously) You know -- I think I saw a wisp of a cloud -- | (Her happiness bursting forth) -- no bigger than a mare's tail! NOAH She's talkin' like him! LIZZIE . Yes -- I am -- yes! NOAH es Whyn't you comb your hair? OK Ee LIZZIE (With a joyous laugh) I like it this way! I'm going to wear it this way all my life! I threw away all my pins! I've cot no more (Phen. in a rush to her father) But I've got something else! H.C. (Qutetiy) What, Lizzie? |i i » 2-5-30 LIZZi= % an always beau -- but a beau for meanwni: Unt4r he goes! He says he'll go in a few days can happen in a few cays! Anytl it anything Tell me what? (With dirrieutcy) Lizzie, you were right about that fella, He's a liar and a con man, LIZZIE (With 2 cry) But there's nothing bad about him, Pop! He's so good -- ané so alone -- he's so terribly alone! H.C. Lizzie -- look! pe — (LIZZIE looks in the direction her FATHER is pointing, Flash- ghts shine crezily offstage. LIZZiz stiffens with fright LIZZIE : File?! Pop, you didn't tell him anything, did you? H.C, Lizzie! -- he's here to lock him up! Not starts in the opposite dir- nto warn STARBUCK, but star in her way) NOAHir tit niislba sin i coils a 2-5-31 (Painfully) Lizzie, quit it! There's in! we can do for hin: Not for him -- for me! Hc, xe For you, Lizzie? A man like Starbuck -- I Gon't think he knows whe you are! I think he dreamed you up in t S head! LIZZIE No! He sees me as real as youdol H.C, Do you believe that, Lizzie? “Do you think he sees you real? (As she hesitates) Answer me! LIZZIE (A painful moment -- then -- ) Yes, he does! H.C. All right then -- you better help him get away! Go ont (She starts off) NORE Youtre not gonna let her Go that, Pop! (LIZZIE, in a wild flignt, starts pe past°him, “But just as she dces, EILE enters, His flashlight catches “LIZZIE in the outer rim of darimess) FILE Wait! .., Well, Lizzie ... they said you went home. LIZZIE Did they? I -- they -- excuse me, (Again she starts to go) FILE S g a fe turns off the flashlight. now eressed in front of block her path) B L Where you go:245-32 All right, H 3 guess I gos what I cane for, _1im gonna ask you to take me to him and swe. @ complaint.. Where is ne? HC, Do yourown work, File. FILE H. C,, I don't want this family mixed up in trouble! Pleasel om He left about an hour aco! PILE Where'd he go? oIM Pedleyville! FILE I think you're lyint, (With sudden enraged exasperation) What the hell's goin! on here, anyway? I ask you questions and you tell me 2 pack ot lies! And for what! & stranger! -- @ man who don't mean anything to you! (Abruptly still as the thought assails him) Or does he? (He feels the tight silence, He turns to LIZZIE, Slowly, he places himself squarely facing her) Maybe you better answer that question, Lizzie, (Zt is too much for her. She es a quick step away, in flight, but FILE grabs her) said you went home! Why'd they Lie were you, Lizzie?betions Ra a snes YBN (Desperate to warn him) Starbuck, fo auay .., STARBUCK SO THEY TELL US MOUNTAINS OF MEXICO -- ONCE UPON A fT. WHERE BENEATH LIZzig Run} Starbucit, runt STARBUCK -- THERE DUELT A ROYAL FELLA, XING HAMLET, WHO HAD A TURTLE DOVE AND HE LOVED HER SO. (Enters and, instantly sensiny the tension, he stops singing What's goin’ on? PILE Sheriff ... you're under arrest. Lizzie I told you to run! If you hadn't been singing you'd have hearé me! STARBUCK (With a rueful smile) - I never regret singin', All right, Sheriff, let's go, LIZZIE (in an outery) File, wiat a minute -- let nim gol What? LIZZIE Let him get away! (iow, a few at a time, drawn by the hubbub, the PICNICKERS 5 come onto the per the scene)» wh J You've got us to go by, File! 'e ep. with this fella! nt the whole day : HL Cc, We gave hin a huncred collars -- and we'll never regret 4 nickel of itr _ — JIM He's not a criminal! PICNICKERS Don't look like a criminal! Didn't do nothin’ wrong, did he? Seems like a nice fella’... Didn't hurt anybody! H.C. (Feeling the susport of the CROW) He don't belong in jail! FILE (With a sense of desperation) Now wait a minute! ~ LIZZIE We took a chance with him, File! Now you take a chance with us! 7 STARBUCK Give up, Lizziel A sheriff's a sheriff and he can't see any further than his badge, - a (FILE flinches and LIZZIZ hurries a: to him, confroncing h LIZZIe Is that true, File? 4 FILE ; You tmow damn well it's not true! Then let n:2-5-35 Waits “aven's heard a word from you, Noah, There might Rigngee0cy APound here who'd think twas breaniny MES law, Right? NOAH (Struggling with himself) Nobody I know of, (FILE turns Quickly to STARBUCK) ~ PILE - ge All right -- cet cotaty t out of here! STARBUCK Well, I'ma son of a cunt (He rushes to depart and Suddenly stops) FILE Hurry up before I change my mindl (Che Antroduction to "WONDERFUL Music" bécins:) STARBUCK Lizzie -- come with mei LIZZIE x“ What dié you say? . STARBUCK T said it's as lonely as dyin! out there —- come with me! 5 PILE ate A (She takes a step toward him but sudéenly FILE calls out Lizzie -- dontt cot What -- did you say?itn iil nde th hme » ue Oo a AGON IS MUSICI a IN THE MORNIN' IS MUSIC! N! TOGETHER OUT UNDER THE SKY} TILL YOU DIE! COME ON AND COME WITH MEI COME WITH ME! LIZZIE IS IT REALLY ME? FILE STAY WITH ME, LIZZIE, STARBUCK COME WITH ME, LIZZIE, FILE WITH ME, LIZZIE, LL HAVE MUSIC. A HOUSE FULL OF PAMILY IS MUSIC! AND SIPPIN' TOGETHER IS MUSICI 2 HIN' THE CHILDREN COME RUNNIN! INSID! WITH ARMS OPEN WIDE, WONDERFUL MUSIC! FAMILY MUSIC! LIZZIE, WHY DON'T DON'T YOU STAY WITH ME? LIZZIE i0 LONGER ALCHTE! (0 LONGER ALONE! FILE A HOUSE FULL OF PAMILY 13 mesic IN' IS MUSIC ND SITTIN! TOGETHER IS MUSIC2-5-37 FILE (Contta) WONDERFUL MUSIC ELLEN? MUSIC FAMILY MUSIC LIZZIE, STAY WITH ME me Oh, Pop! Pop! whattai ra) HL Cc, Whatever you do, Lizzie, remember you've been asked} You cenit ever have to zo through life a woman who ain't beat asked! STARBUCK Lizzie, you ccne with me and you'll be so beautiful you'll light up the worlsi PARBUCK You cone with me ané you'll never be Lizeie no more -- you'll be Melisanée} LIZZI= (sith 2 cry thet is pert lament, part relief) Oh, Starbuck, you said the wrong thing! G PILE Melisande? Her name's Lizzie Curry! STARBUCK It's not good enough -- not for her! PILE STARBUCKL (Cont'd) - TO HAVE AND TO HOID, SOMEONE TO LOVE ME . AS WE GROW OLDER, “PLE LITTLE THINGS, ° SIMPLE LITTLE DREAMS i WILL Dot (Her decision has been made, : STARBUCK triss to hide the deep iS Sesperation, He tries to smile, = to be the traggart again. He addresses the CROWD witha bravura shout:) “ - STARBUCK Well, fols! Itm sorry about the rain -- but then, 1 Gien't stay my full time] So there's your hunered dollars] Uae’ tosses the bundle of money ss up in the air, JIM catches it) : Another Gay, maybe -- in a dry season! So long, folks! LIZZIg Thank you, Filel Thank you! FILE (Studying ner) Well! You've got your hair cownl JIM Yep! She sure has changed} (FILE taxes a step to her. They -lo0k at each other closely, He Smiles ~~ the first rediant smile 2 Weve seen on his face, The warmth of it shines on LIZZI= end she smiles, too, Suddenly, in the Gistance -- a quick, low Pumb NOAH, hearing ‘the sound, not 5 watching JIM:) : IpmatSehicsmaneteas caida q NOAH stop beatin! that drum! oIM‘sortie io Malai Sl iden 'S 4 BT {A streak of 1igs ponding) JIM Lightning! Laght -- nines THERE'S A BIG RA FILE Look at it, it's gonna paint JIM He said twenty-four hours] He said twenty-four hours|} more thunder) LIZZIE (in birhest_exultation) It's going to raini Rein! TOWNS PEOPLE HERE THE RAIN COMES) HERE THE RAIN COMES] EERE THE RAIN COMES) (Suddenly STARBUCK stands on . Ehe top of the tanistand acein, with a look of cicry on his face) Sth Lizzie, for the first tine in (Turning to JT) Ginme my hundred dollars! (As SIM joyously curows him the nonsy, STARBUCK turns to LIZZIE my life -- rainy)YONE “(Cont'd)” “IT'S GONNA RALY &-RONTH OF SUNDAYS ELS GONNA RAIN BOTH DAY AND NIGH? T@'S GONNA RAIN WITH ALL ITS MIGHT. - (GONNA RAIN Ip-YoU JUST LET HIM DO HIS “CUMELO - , CUMULO NIMBO, MULO a cul NIN GONNA RAIN ~~ GONNA RADY A-RADN INNA RATS ow TODAY a * CURTAIN OF ACT TWO LT custaln muste (Lovs DON'T TURN AWAY) LI EXIT MUSIC (1S IT REALLY ME?