CHANGES & CUTS FOR REGIONALS

 CHANGES

Opening blue wash – guitar playing. Villagers look like birds at rest. Gutman is in a position with a cat of nine tails at his back – no shirt and slash marks on his back.  It is midnight. Quixote is already on stage. Evan comes through with hoop. No guards on stage at beginning. After he says lonely, everyone shifts as birds. G puts shirt and jacket back on. Old wanderer’s dream - Our old beginning.  

Prudence – bark more.

Casanova – what has happened – weariness and disgust.

A wind sings across the plaza, a dry gourd rattles.  The Survivor’s head sags forward.  He sits down slowly.  Jacque strikes the terrace again with his cane and starts toward the Survivor.  The Guard seizes his elbow.

Remain on the terrace, please, Signor Casanova.

 

Loan Shark: I don’t want no ……8.50. No Dice. Kilroy turns around and crosses DCS.

Casanova

(Complement) You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit, and (warning) that’s not to be tolerated. (MORE SECRETIVE) It has to be extinguished.

 

Casanova	Later, after the wine. He takes his cords, wraps them around her, and pulls the front of her dress up with his cane.
Marguerite	anxious old hawk!

 

Casanova	There’s a rumor of something called the Fugitvo….a non-scheduled flight.
Marguerite	how does one get on it?  …HE PULLS THE CORDS TIGHTER AROUND HER ARMS AND HANDS. (She looks at him and he avoids her glance).   The truth of the matter is that you’re terrified of the Terra Incognita
Casanova	I’m terrified of any place on earth without you with me!
Marguerite IMPORTANT	Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. SHE BREAKS FREE OF THE BONDS. CUT HONOR AND CAPE AND CANE LINES

THIS BONDAGE SCENE LEADS TO LADY MULLIGAN SAYING -  I DON’T UNDERSTAND……(GUARD GIVES HER A BOTTLE OF WATER  WHEN SHE ENTERS)

PEOPLE CROSSING OVER THE LADDER MUST SHOW A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEFORE/AFTER.

Marguerite	(Jacques returns with a bag of money)                   I have thousands of francs!
Pilot	Payment is only accepted in pounds.  Next, please.
	Marguerite pounds her forehead with her fists.   She thrusts bills at him.

 

CASANOVA IS DOWN ON HER LEVEL WHEN SHE IS ON THE GROUND. –BLOCK 10

Marguerite

We’re a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and we’ve grown used to each other.  That’s what passes for love in the Camino Real (REEL).   What is this feeling between us?  when I clasp your anxious old hawk’s head to my breast? The violets in the mountains can’t break the rocks!

 

Esmeralda	Champ!
Kilroy	I used to be Champ. SHOUT
Esmeralda	Be champ again!
Gypsy	Not eligible!
Esmeralda	You’re still the undefeated Champ of the golden gloves!
Kilroy	Nobody’s called me that in a long time!
Esmeralda	Champ!
Kilroy	My resistance is crumbling!
Esmeralda	Hero!
Kilroy	Geronimo!  (He takes a flying leap from the steps to the center of the plaza.  He turns to Esmeralda.

 

With the new lines we added about being in the dark – Esmeralda is empty – scared – lonely.

 

CUTS

Casanova

Excuse me, Madam.  (He tears himself from her and rushes into the Siete Mares.)

 

Prudence	You’ve got to be realistic on the Camino Real!(reel)
Gutman	(Gutman has come out on the terrace:  he announces quietly). Block one on the Camino Real.
	Block One
Jaques	Signora, all of these things…..
Prudence	What? (Gutman laughs.  A woman at a distance sings).
Casanova	Dreams! (Prudence continues with less assurance)
Prudence	You’re not so young as I thought when I saw you the terrace by candlelight.  Ho Ho!  I bet there is one old fountain in this plaza that hasn’t gone dry! (Casanova recoils when she pokes him. Gutman laughs).
Prudence	A dream is nothing to live in, why it’s gone like a….(Casanova moves, but she grabs his arm.)
Casanova	Excuse me, Madam.  (He tears himself from her and rushes into the Siete Mares.)
Prudence, dazed	What block is this?
Gutman	Block one.

Gutman	Questions are passed amongst them like something illicit and shameful. (He leans forward and whispers.)
Gutman	What is this place?   What is the meaning of …SHHHHH…. Ha Ha

 

 

Gutman: (Reworded) You will be after a night at the Ritz Men Only if the check doesn’t arrive tonight.

Gutman	Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams, and the love of the people belongs safely only to you… their Generalisimo! (The described action is being enacted. The Survivor is now blinded.)

Officer	What is it you want?
Kilroy	Where is Western Union?
Officer	No hay Western Union.
Kilroy	That is very peculiar. I had to retire from the prize ring because of my heart.  I was the light heavyweight champion of the West Coast, won these gloves!  --before my ticker went bad--- (Places the guard’s hand on his chest) I’ve got a heart in my chest as big as the head of a baby. Ha Ha!  The medics wouldn’t okay me for no more fights.  They said to give up liquor, smoking, and sex!  My real true woman would have stuck with me, but it was all spoiled with her being scared and me, too, that a real hard kiss would kill me!  He notices a lack of attention in the officer and he grins.)
Officer	What is it you want?
Kilroy	What is this country?  I was so glad to get off that rotten tub that I didn’t ask nothing of no one except my pay. (He jerks out his wallet.) Ha Ha!
Officer	Ha Ha!
Kilroy	Ha Ha!
Officer	(Making it sound like a death rattle)  Ha ha ha ha ha (He turns and starts into the cantina.  Kilroy grabs his arm)
Officer	What do you want?
Kilroy	What is the name of this country?  (Officer thrusts his elbow in Kilroy’s stomach and twists his arm loose with a Spanish curse. He kicks the swinging doors open and enters the hotel.  As soon as the Officer exits, the Street People come forward and crowd about Kilroy with their wheedling cries)

 

Kilroy

Thanks, but tonight I’m going to sleep under the stars.

 

Kilroy

Don’t try to hang no vagrancy rap on me!  I was robbed and I got plenty of witnesses to prove it. Check other people, but only ask nursie – You were a witness?

 

	CROWD LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY WHEN HE IS CALLED THE PATSY.
Gutman	The uniform of a Patsy.
Kilroy	I know what a Patsy is…  a clown in the circus who takes prat-falls ( a humiliating fall onto one’s buttocks) , but I’m no Patsy!
Gutman smoothly	You are now the Patsy.
	With a pathetic attempt, Kilroy tries to make friends with the Officer.

 CUT SHANGHAIED LINE

Kilroy to audience

What did he say?

 

Nursie	Where is my lady bird?
Gypsy	Idiot!  I told you to keep her door locked!

 

Lord and Lady Mulligan – enter from DLS as if you are exiting from hotel. Streetcleaners enter from URS.  They pause CS then follow Lord and Lady out. (may save some time). Lord OOOO after giggle at me. Lady M pushes Lord ahead of her as she tries to protect him.

Lady Mulligan	STOP!
Lord Mulligan	SHUT UP! (Gutman speaks to the audience)

 

 

Kilroy

My resistance is crumbling!

 

Kilroy

I don’t know what the hero is chosen for.

 

Gypsy	(She shuffles and deals.) Ask me a question.
Kilroy	Has my luck run out?
Gypsy	Baby, your luck ran out the day you were born.  How big is your heart?

 

Kilroy	I hope that you sail the dangerous night to the golden port of morning!
Casanova	Thanks, Brother!

 

	BLOCK FIFTEEN
	La Madrecita crosses to the fountain.   The gurney is wheeled to DSC covered with a white sheet. Besides the table stands a Medical Instructor addressing students and nurses fall in white surgical outfits. They lean the gurney and the streetcleaners move him toward the gurney where he leans against it.  The two assistants fasten bars across him. Kilroy awakens.
Instructor	This is the body of a vagrant.
La Madrecita	This was thy son, America…
Instructor	He was found along the Camino Real.
La Madrecita	Remember his time of greatness, when he was not frightened.
Instructor	His death due to natural causes.
	The students take notes and there are keening voices. He takes out knife & assistants hand instructor the heart.
La Madrecita	Blow wind! (whispering wind is heard offstage) (louder keening voices) Keen for him, all maimed creatures, his homeless ghost is your own.
Instructor	First, we will examine his heart.
La Madrecita	His heart was pure gold and as big as the head of a baby.   Humankind cannot bear much reality. HE STIRS She says – Rise Ghost, Go, bird!
	At the touch of her CROSS, Kilroy stirs and pushes himself AWAY FROM THE BONDS.  HE rubs his eyes and looks around him.  Voices offstage – Ole!  Ole!  Ole!
Kilroy	Where am I?  He notices the dissection room and approaches.  The instructor removes a glittering sphere from a dummy corpse.
Kilroy	My heart!  Yes, siree, that’s my heart!
Gutman	Block Sixteen!

Kilroy

(Kilroy rushes forward) That’s mine!

 

Kilroy, panting	It don’t belong to no State, not even the USA. help me get out of here!  I don’t understand what’s…… happening, it’s like a …..dream…just like a….dream.
	A clear shaft of light falls on him.  He looks up into it crying.
	Esmeralda appears in a childish nightgown on the Gypsy’s roof.
Kilroy, softly	It’s just… like a …..dream
	He leans holding his heart like a football, watching Esmeralda.
Esmeralda –SHE MUST STEP ON HIS DREAM LINE	I want to dream of the Chosen Hero, Mummy.

 

Kilroy

I had one true woman which I can’t go back to, but now I’ve found another.

 

Quixote

DON’T …PITY…… YOURSELF!  (Quixote takes out a pocket mirror and combs and grooms his beard and mustache)

 

Awkward scenes –

Kilroy’s entrance.

Guards

Officer

You just dreaming that you have money. (He spits between his teeth.  The officer crosses to the fountain.   Kilroy stares at him, then bawls out)

 

Kilroy	I can remember that I used to be ---- CHAMP!
Baron	Used to be is the past tense, meaning useless.
Kilroy	Not to me, Mister.  These gloves are gold. I never hit a low blow and the fixers never got to me. (Loan Shark and Baron clap hands slowly three times to show sarcasm)
Loan Shark	Congratulations!  My final offer Take it or leave it.
Kilroy	I’d hustle your heart on this street before I’d leave my golden gloves.
Loan Shark laughing
Baron	The name of the Camino is not unreal! ( bum sticks his head out a  window and shouts)
Kilroy	This place is confusing.  Nothing seems real.