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Le cinema today is in a crisis.

Directors are so existentialistes.

The movies are not worth their entrance prices

If no one sings a love song when he’s kissed.

Contini! I want a musical!

Love cannot be love without «le singing»,

A string, a clarinet, a saxophone.

Take a lesson from this old Parisian

And the finest entertainment she/he has known.

Folies Bergères

What a showing of color, costume, and dancing!

Not a moment in life could be more entrancing

Than an evening you spend aux Folies Bergères.

Folies Bergères,

Not a soul in the world could be in despair when he

is glancing

At the fabulous stage des Folies Bergères.

Think of the footlights bright and gleaming,

Le strip-tease, le can-can we all adore.

Life is too short without dreaming,

And dreams are what le cinema is for.

Folies Bergères

La musique et la danse, le son, la lumière!

Les petits jolis seins des belles bouquetières

Sur la belle passerelle des Folies Bergères.

Pas de mystère

Le spectacle est tout a fait découvert.

(Necrophorus steps forward.)

The trouble with Contini, he’s the king of

mediocrities,

A second-rate director who believes that he is

Socrates.

He never makes a «movie» or a «picture» or a «flick»

He makes a «film"-get it? -a «film».

A typical Italian with his auto and biography,

A mixture of Catholicism, pasta, and pornography,

A superficial, womanizing, moderately charming Latin

fraud.

Guido Grazie!

Necrophorus Prego!

And what are his movies about?

Just beauty, truth, death, youth, love, life,

anguish, angst.

Thanks to him we have boredom at the movies.

Guido Grazie!

Necrophorus Prego!

La Fleur (reclaiming spotlight) Darlings!

La Fleur

Folies Bergères

La musique et la danse,

le son, la lumière!

Les petits jolis seins

des belles bouquetières

Sur la belle passerelle

des Folies Bergères.

Pas de mystère

Le spectacle est tout a

fait découvert.

Et pas trop cher

Viens ce soir avec moi

aux Follies Bergères!

Necrophorus

The trouble with

Contini, he’s the king

of mediocrities,

A second-rate director

who believes that he is

Socrates.

He never makes a «movie»

or a «picture» or a

«flick»

He makes a «film"-get

it? -a «film».

A typical Italian with

his auto and biography,

A mixture of

Catholicism, pasta, and

pornography,

A superficial,

womanizing, moderately

charming Latin fraud.

And what are his movies

about?

Just beauty, truth,

death, youth, love,

life, anguish, angst.

Thanks to him we have

boredom at the movies.

Viens ce soir avec moi aux Follies Bergères!

(NOTE. The following instrument music may be used to

accompany a boa dance, as in the original Broadway program she dances with the

boa!)

La Fleur

I love it! (she dances with the boa, rapping

herself in it. A waltz, then all join in a can-can.)

All

Follies Bergères

The music, the lights, and the laughter,

The answer to what you are after

Each night at the Follies Bergères.

Follies Bergères —

La Fleur (to Guido) To your modern ideas I simply

compare one derriere

All At the Follies Bergères!

The answer to what you are after,

The music, the lights, and the laughter

Of the Follies Bergères!

La Fleur So! There you are! This is what I want!

Guido You’re joking.

La Fleur No, I’m not joking! When you signed the

contract, you signed to do a musical! I want le

singing! I want le dansing! I want a musical! Do it!

Blackout

SCENE: IN THE CATACOMBS OF THE SPA

Our Lady of the Spa Signor Contini, His Eminence has

granted your request for an interview … It’s the

oldest part of the spa. Rumor has it that several

saints are buried in these catacombs. It offers the

Cardinal the kind of privacy he needs when he comes for

the baths … Don’t stay too long; he isn’t well. Your

Eminence, Signor Contini is here. (Guido reads both his

own lines and the Cardinal’s.)

Guido I am very grateful for you granting me this visit.

Cardinal What can I do for you, my son?

Guido Do you believe in God?

Cardinal (taken aback) Excuse me, are you a Catholic?

Guido Oh yes. Very much so. Not as much as I would like to

be, or as much as you would like me to be, I’m sure.

But I’m certainly trying.

Cardinal Try harder.

Guido Well, I don’t know how! Father, look, I’m confused.

I’ve reached a point in my life where I don’t know

which way to turn anymore. And it’s affecting me in

peculiar ways. (A church bell rings.) Father, I have

been seeing things of late-people, visions. Sometimes

they remind me of my early days in school, and I think

that what I’m seeing must be the work of the Devil. (A

Nun and Four Boys pass in the background.)

Cardinal My son. If you can believe in a world in

which you can see the Devil, surely you must also

believe in a world in which you can see an angel. (The

Nun and Boys exit. Guido’s Mother rises.)

Guido Mama

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