The Swan Chapter 2

Beauty - The Swan
Chapter Two

A Musical Interlude

for Dorothy Colleen
 

 
by Andrea Lena DiMaggio
...little life


Andy:
Little life
It's a drab existence
Ev'ry day
I just want to cry
Little life
broken dreams and wishes
Waking up to say:

Mirror:
Lie!
Lie!
Lie! Lie! Lie!

Andy:
Awakened now again the same old feeling
The same old story left to tell
Ev'ry morning without fail
waking up the same old male
to the same old sad existence
My own Hell!

Aunt Marie:
Honey, Andy
What's up for today?

Andy:
The Library. I just finished the most wonderful story
about a girl and a wolf and a....

Aunt Marie:
That's nice. Andy! Crosstown Bus! Hurry up!

Neighbors:
Look there he goes that boy is strange, peculiar
Confused and dizzy, almost wild?
Never part of any clique
'Cause he's looking awfully thick
There's no doubt that he is someone's faggy child.

Man:
Hello
Good day
How is your mother?

Woman:
Hello
Good Show!
How goes your day!

Woman:
(He's not so bad?)

Man:
(Oh yes he is!)

Andy:
There has to be; there must be some other better way!

Librarian:
Ah, Andy.

Andy:
Good Morning. I've come to return the book I borrowed.

Librarian:
Finished already?

Andy:
Oh, I couldn't put it down. Have you got anything new?

Librarian:
Ha Ha! Not since yesterday.

Andy:
That's all right. I'll borrow . . . . . this one!

Librarian:
That one? But you've read it twice!

Andy:
Well, it's my favorite! Boy meets girl...boy becomes girl!
Girl weds girl?

Librarian:
If you like it all that much, it's yours!

Andy:
But ma'am!

Librarian:
I insist.

Andy:
Well, thank you. Thank you very much!

Library
Patrons:
Look there he goes, that boy is so eccentric
I wonder if he's feeling quite okay
With a look that just seems fey
acting girlish every day.
And his destinations is hell, he's on his way

Andy:
Oh, isn't this a comfort
It's my fav'rite part in the whole tale
Here's where he sees the doctor
And it won't be long before she isn't male!

Now it's no wonder that my name means war'ior
I feel like I'm in for a fight
But behind my stalwart face
I'm fear I'm just a disgrace
Since everyone thinks I'm wrong and they are right

Patrons:
She's nothing like the rest of us
Yes, diff'rent from us! She's absolutely wrong and we are right! (She?)

Buffone:
Wow! You didn't miss a point, Pastor!
You're the greatest preacher in the whole world!

Pastor:
I know.

Buffone:
No freak alive stands a chance against you. Ha ha ha!
And no t-girl, for that matter.

Pastor:
It's true, Buffone. And I've got my sights set on that one.

Buffone:
Oh yeah...from that family down the block.

Pastor:
He's the one - the twisted boy I'm going to bother.

Buffone:
But he's -

Pastor:
The queerest boy in town.

Buffone:
I know, but -

Pastor:
That makes him a sinner. And doesn't he deserve condemnation?

Buffone:
Well, of course! I mean yes, but -

Pastor:
Right from the moment when I met him, saw him
I said he's evil I can tell
Here in town there's only me
Who will stand against him you see
So I'm preaching that his kind will go to hell


Choir:
Look there he goes
Isn't he learned?
Reverend Pastore
Oh he's so strong
Be still my heart
I'm hardly breathing
He preaches oh so well
of right and wrong

Man:
Amen

Pastor:
Excuse me!

Another Man:
Good Word!

Yet Another Man:
Yes!

Prophet:
You call this orthodox?

Woman:
What lovely dogma!

Man:
We need rules!

Woman:
More than ten!

Another Man:
and a pound of flesh

Pastor:
Listen!

Theologian:
Enforce the doctrine!

Pastor:
His life's a lie!

Little boy:
This bread -

Little girl:
Those fish -

Both:
It's like a story!

Man:
Not so! No grace!

Sad Man:
This makes me cry.

Andy:
There must be more for me than hellish strife

Pastor:
Just watch me now, I'm going to destroy his life!

Congregation:
Look there he goes a boy who's strange, peculiar
A boyish girl if looks might tell
It's outrageous and a sin
Cause he'll never quite fit in
'Cause he really is a oddity
a really queer commodity
a freakish trannie girl
Who’s bound for HELL................

"Andy...Andy..wake up. Jack, Tommy...Andy isn't waking up. Oh God my painkillers...Dina! call 911!

Next - The Dead Kid!


Belle
from Beauty and the Beast
Words and Music by
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVovQfq7U0w



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