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On screen – a video medley of all the exploits (Vaguely 'Monkees' style) that KATIE & KRISTINA get up to around town practising for their audition starts as Doris Day starts singing….'A Woman's Touch' from Calamity Jane.
Whilst the montage is playing, KATIE & KRISTINA RE-enter the stage about ¾ of the way through the song -
K & K are getting ready and preening themselves on stage, using a mono-printed hand mirror that is hanging from the ceiling to powder and re-apply lipstick, moving props around ready for the FINALE.
The footage starts to get grating, the song saccharine, so AFTER 1MIN 30 APPROX KRISTINA gets up and turns it off. The sound of the record being scraped off is jarring.
Video shows black screen. It then shows a record spinning round which merges into a MOON. The MOON remains on screen for the rest of this dialogue.
That song is just vile, isn’t it. I can’t bear to hear another second. Come on come on come on let’s just do one more rehearsal of the whole song that we choose, all the way through, with as much gusto as we can muster, no distractions.
KATIE
but we’ve still not decided which song we want to do…!
KRISTINA
I don’t bloody care any more… I am SO TIRED. The Black Hills of Dakota is WAY BEYOND our limited ranges, we know that…
KATIE
and so slow too…we’ll bore that nice showbiz agent guy to death you know…
and I know that we have got a really good routine worked out but I just can’t stand to hear that (sings…)
HUMP of the Deadwood stage – it’s just fucking irritating
KRISTINA
Katie they are all fucking irritating after you hear them a thousand times. But if you want to be a star…
We’ll do the Windy City.
KATIE
But the Deadwood Stage has that bit about nicking clothes off washing lines, it’s very good. But too long.
OK, OK, we’ll do it once more. We’ve still got the whole of tomorrow to rehearse. And Sunday if we want to go to the Monday evening audition.
(indicate small poster again)
Kristina gives Katie a
look that says ‘you’re having a bloody laugh intcha’
KRISTINA
Yes, that’s far too rich. This audition is taking over our lives!
KATIE
Yes, you are right! let’s do it once more….
But, I don’t know, I think we kind of need… a helping hand of some sort.
KRISTINA
Yeah you’re right
KATIE
Why don’t we ask these folks?
Come on, why don’t we ask these folks?
KRISTINA
Yeah, come on everyone, join in – it’s Friday Night! Sing along with us – help us get the part!
MUSIC STARTS – Intro to ‘Windy City’ – 2mins 13secs
VIDEO scrolls down words of Windy City
LIGHTS OFF
Ends.
I just blew in from the windy city
The windy city is mighty pretty
But they ain't got what we got, no sirree
They've got shacks up to seven stories
Never see any Morning Glory's
But a step from our doorway
We got 'em for free
They've got those minstrel shows
Pretty ladies in the big chapeaus
Private lawns, public parks
For the sake of civic virtue
They've got fountains there that squirt you
I just blew in from the windy city
The windy city is mighty pretty
But they ain't got what we got
I'm tellin' ya, boys
We got more life in Deadwood City
Than in all of Illinois
You should-a seen me a-windo' shoppin'
A-windo' shoppin' with eyes a-poppin'
At the sights that you see there, yes sirree
Press a bell and a moment later
Up you go in an elevator
Just as fast as a polecat a-climbin' a tree
I heard claim hundreds came
To a thing they call a baseball game
Cigar stores, revolving doors
They got new inventions coming
'Stead of outdoor, indoor plumbing
I just blew in from the windy city
The windy city is mighty pretty
But they ain't got what we got
I'm tellin' ya, boys
I ain't a-swappin' half of Deadwood
For the whole of Illinois
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