Ghostlight 1.3

Natalie and others move gathering further center. Alicia rejoins group, not contributing.

Natalie: OKAY QUIET. Look, we have the main assignments. If you have any spare time once you finish your designated task, feel free to take on extra. There is no reason for anyone to be standing around, there is always SOMETHING to do. And please, please remember to keep it funny. We're here for comedy. Any questions? Good. Get to work!

Natalie and Rhetta discuss, Belasco follows Olive quickly, stopping her. Alicia notices.

Belasco: Olive baby, where are you off to? We have our own work to attend to...

Olive: I gotta chase some fellas around the dressing rooms. I love watching the dancers squirm when they think someone is watching them.

Belasco: But I love watching you squirm..

Olive: Not now. I've got a job to do...

Belsco: Olive-

Olive: I said not now. You go off tot-hunting all you want, I've got important work. (storms out)

Belasco: Tot-hunting? Oh baby, don't be like that. (chases her off)

Alicia: What was that about?

Leo: She heard about the actresses.

Clyde: Belasco likes to give them a good luck pinch before they go on stage.

Leo: He gets a kick out of them turning to slap someone, and nobody is there.

Alicia: Hey, can I ask you a question?

Clyde: Do you want to know why Olive and Belasco keep at it?

Leo: Or why we let the Scotsman run things?

Clyde: Or how it's possible that the company below doesn't see us?

Leo: Or where the bathroom is?

Clyde: Or why the chicken crossed the road?

Leo: Or how we all got here-

Alicia: -THAT ONE. I want to know that one.

(Clyde hits Leo, Rhetta interrupts)

Rhetta: Alicia, right? Hello. Welcome to our company. We're glad you're here.

Alicia: Well thank you, but actually I'm a little fuzzy on that. I don't exactly understand why I'm here.

Rhetta: (delicately) Well, dear, this is hard to explain, but you see, you... well you-

Alicia: No, I know that I died. I mean, I remember- well, I don't remember exactly- but I can feel the- and my body was-

Rhetta: Don't fret on it too much. It can be easy to lose your grasp.

Leo: The important thing is to keep on.

Alicia: Keep on what?

Clyde: That's up to you.

Leo: Look, Alicia-Jo, I know it can be rather jarring at first. But remember, we're here. The fates liked our performance, so we get an encore.

Clyde: An extended engagement, really. Doesn't happen often, most folks take their bow and that's it. Some, though, a select few-

Leo: The cream of the crop-

Clyde: Those that cut the mustard-

Leo: The people who put their best foot forward-

Clyde: The pick of the litter-

Rhetta: You gentlemen are-

Leo: The top of the heap-

Rhetta:-getting a little carried away-

Clyde: The Tour de Force

Rhetta: -with the idioms.

Leo: Let sleeping dogs lie-

Clyde: Don't count your chickens before they're hatched-

Rhetta: Alright. Those idioms don't even make sense in this context. (to Alicia) Do you understand a little more now?

Alicia: I think I understand a little less now.

Rhetta: All in good time, dear. For now, we have tasks at hand. Come along.

(all exit)

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