BETH
STARS, HIDE YOUR FIRES
Act 1
Scene 5
[ INTERIOR very posh private jet, NIGHT. Near the audience, DOWN STAGE, HOUSE LEFT: BETH is inside the restroom looking at herself in the mirror, putting on makeup.
The mirror is like a two way mirror through which BETH also speaks directly to the audience while she is speaking to herself. The restroom has a window with a view of the night sky.
DOWN STAGE, HOUSE RIGHT: Beautiful FLIGHT ATTENDANTS are mixing cocktails.
In the rear, UP STAGE, on fine leather seats are WINCHELL, his son youngest son MAX, his eldest son DONALD, LENNY, BANCROFT, BILLY, ROSELINDE, ANGELO and a bevy of beautiful GROUPIES.
LENNY slides legal documents across for WINCHELL to sign, then slides them over to BILLY, shows him where to sign and then to BANCROFT for her signature.
BETH
(looking in the mirror, talking to herself)
I have one foot in the world that I have always longed to live in. This plane alone is more beautiful than any place I have been before. I'm going forward no matter what I have to do next.
[ BETH closes the window shade.]
BETH
Go away, Milky Way,
Be gone, Vegas neon.
Make this night as dark as the deed I must do so I cannot see my hands pour this into Winchell's inhaler. Fate and supernatural forces are at work. Winchell's doctor has suggested he wait out the storm away from the mold of the beach cities, in the dry desert. The fortune tellers led me to this pendant of holy water from Italy and now I see it has in it the mold he flys away from. Here, in this very private place sits Winchell's inhaler, waiting for me. It is not his fate to escape the mold tonight.
Winchell has given to Billy what I wish he had given to me. Billy says I am his girl. All this is a nightmare I must calmly walk though if I am to wake up the queen the fortune tellers said I could be.
[ BETH carefully unscrews the top off the pendant, opens the inhaler, pours out the medicine and pours in the moldy water from the pendant. There is a KNOCK on the door.]
BILLY
Beth, are you all right in there?
BANCROFT
She is in a daze. She's had too much excitement for one evening. She lost it when Winchell gave you the beach house. Did you see the color leave her face?
BILLY
We're just getting started. I'm going to marry her as soon as this plane lands.
~ TO BE CONTINUED ~
[ INTERIOR very posh private jet, NIGHT. Near the audience, DOWN STAGE, HOUSE LEFT: BETH is inside the restroom looking at herself in the mirror, putting on makeup.
The mirror is like a two way mirror through which BETH also speaks directly to the audience while she is speaking to herself. The restroom has a window with a view of the night sky.
DOWN STAGE, HOUSE RIGHT: Beautiful FLIGHT ATTENDANTS are mixing cocktails.
In the rear, UP STAGE, on fine leather seats are WINCHELL, his son youngest son MAX, his eldest son DONALD, LENNY, BANCROFT, BILLY, ROSELINDE, ANGELO and a bevy of beautiful GROUPIES.
LENNY slides legal documents across for WINCHELL to sign, then slides them over to BILLY, shows him where to sign and then to BANCROFT for her signature.
BETH
(looking in the mirror, talking to herself)
I have one foot in the world that I have always longed to live in. This plane alone is more beautiful than any place I have been before. I'm going forward no matter what I have to do next.
[ BETH closes the window shade.]
BETH
Go away, Milky Way,
Be gone, Vegas neon.
Make this night as dark as the deed I must do so I cannot see my hands pour this into Winchell's inhaler. Fate and supernatural forces are at work. Winchell's doctor has suggested he wait out the storm away from the mold of the beach cities, in the dry desert. The fortune tellers led me to this pendant of holy water from Italy and now I see it has in it the mold he flys away from. Here, in this very private place sits Winchell's inhaler, waiting for me. It is not his fate to escape the mold tonight.
Winchell has given to Billy what I wish he had given to me. Billy says I am his girl. All this is a nightmare I must calmly walk though if I am to wake up the queen the fortune tellers said I could be.
[ BETH carefully unscrews the top off the pendant, opens the inhaler, pours out the medicine and pours in the moldy water from the pendant. There is a KNOCK on the door.]
BILLY
Beth, are you all right in there?
BANCROFT
She is in a daze. She's had too much excitement for one evening. She lost it when Winchell gave you the beach house. Did you see the color leave her face?
BILLY
We're just getting started. I'm going to marry her as soon as this plane lands.
~ TO BE CONTINUED ~
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