GALINDA & ELPHABA

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ELPHABA

He was so worried he made our mother chew milk flowers day and night. Only it made Nessa come too soon, with her little legs all tangled. And our mother never woke up. None of which would have ever happened if not for me.

GALINDA

But that was the milk flower’s fault, not yours. That may be your secret, Elphaba, but it doesn’t make it true. Look—it’s tomorrow! And Elphie—is it alright if I call you Elphie?

ELPHABA

Well, it’s a little perky.

GALINDA

And you can call me… Galinda. You see Elphie, now that we’re friends, I’ve decided to make you my new project.

ELPHABA

You really don’t have to do that.

GALINDA

I know. That’s what make me so nice!

(Sings)

WHENEVER I SEE SOMEONE

LESS FORTUNATE THAN I

AND LET’S FACE IT—WHO ISN’T

LESS FORTUNATE THAN I?

MY TENDER HEART

TENDS TO START TO BLEED

AND WHEN SOMEONE NEEDS A MAKEOVER

I SIMPLY HAVE TO TAKE OVER

I KNOW I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED

AND EVEN IN YOUR CASE

THO’ IT’S THE TOUGHEST CASE I’VE YET TO FACE

DON’T WORRY—I’M DETERMINED TO SUCCEED

FOLLOW MY LEAD

AND YES, INDEED

YOU WILL BE…

POPULAR!

YOU’RE GONNA BE POPULAR!

I’LL TEACH YOU THE PROPER PLOYS

WHEN YOU TALK TO BOYS

LITTLE WAYS TO FLIRT AND FLOUNCE

I’LL SHOW YOU WHAT SHOES TO WEAR

HOW TO FIX YOUR HAIR

EVERYTHING THAT REALLY COUNTS TO BE POPULAR!

I’LL HELP YOU BE POPULAR!

YOU’LL HANG WITH THE RIGHT COHORTS

YOU’LL BE GOOD AT SPORTS

KNOW THE SLANG YOU’VE GOT TO KNOW

SO LET’S START

‘CAUSE YOU’VE GOT AN AWF’LLY LONG WAY TO GO…

DON’T BE OFFENDED BY MY FRANK ANALYSIS

THINK OF IT AS PERSONALITY DIALYSIS

NOW THAT I’VE CHOSEN TO BECOME A PAL, A SIS—

TER AND ADVISER

THERE’S NOBODY WISER

NOT WHEN IT COMES TO POPULAR—

I KNOW ABOUT POPULAR

AND WITH AN ASSIST FROM ME

TO BE WHO YOU’LL BE

INSTEAD OF DREARY WHO-YOU-WERE… ARE…

THERE’S NOTHING THAT CAN STOP YOU

FROM BECOMING POPU—

LER… LAR…

LA LA LA LA

WE’RE GONNA MAKE

YOU POPULAR…

WHEN I SEE DEPRESSING CREATURES

WITH UNPREPOSSESSING FEATURES

I REMIND THEM ON THEIR OWN BEHALF

TO THINK OF

CELEBRATED HEADS OF STATE OR

‘SPECIALLY GREAT COMMUNICATORS

DID THEY HAVE BRAINS OR KNOWLEDGE?

DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!

THEY WERE POPULAR! PLEASE—

IT’S ALL ABOUT POPULAR!

IT’S NOT ABOUT APTITUDE

IT’S THE WAY YOU’RE VIEWED

SO IT’S VERY SHREWD TO BE

VERY VERY POPULAR

LIKE ME!

ELPHABA

This is never going to work…

GALINDA

Elphie! You mustn’t think that way anymore! Your whole life is going to change! And all because of me! First: hair. See? This is how you toss your hair: Toss. Toss.

(She demonstrates and ELPHABA tries.)

GALINDA

Well—you’ll practice! And now—

(She picks up her new magic wand—it’s quite small, a training wand.)

GALINDA

I shall transform your simple “frock” into a magnificent ball gown. Ball gown.

(She tries and fails, then examines the wand, puzzled.)

GALINDA

Is this thing on?

ELPHABA

You want me to try?

GALINDA

Oh, just wear the frock it’s pretty! Oh—and this!

(GALINDA takes a flower from her own hair, pins in into ELPHABA’S.)

GALINDA

Pink goes good with green. Why, Miss Elphaba—look at you. You’re beautiful.

(She guides her friend to a mirror. ELPHABA stares at herself: For a moment it seems possible. And then—she forces herself to turn away.)

ELPHABA

I—I have to go—

GALINDA

You’re welcome!

(Sings)

AND THO’ YOU PROTEST

YOUR DISINTEREST

I KNOW CLANDESTINEDLY

YOU’RE GONNA GRIN AND BEAR IT

YOUR NEW-FOUND POPULARITY—

LA LA LA LA

YOU’LL BE POPULAR

JUST NOT QUITE AS POPULAR

AS ME!

SCENE 8

(Lecture Hall)

ELPHABA

Toss. Toss. What?!

FIYERO

Nothing. It’s just you’ve been Galindafied. “Toss. Toss.” You don’t need to do that you know.

DILLAMOND

Take your seats, class. Take your seats, please. I have something to say and very little time. My dear students, this is my last day here at Shiz. Animals are no longer permitted to teach.

ELPHABA

What?!

DILLAMOND

Please Miss Elphaba. I’d like to thank you all for sharing with me your enthusiasm, your essays, however feebly structured, and even on occasion your lunch.

(DOCTOR DILLAMOND’S lecture is interrupted by MADAME MORRIBLE and several OZIAN OFFICIALS.)

MORRIBLE

Oh, Doctor, I am so terribly sorry.

ELPHABA

Madame, you can’t permit this!

DILLAMOND

Miss Elphaba, don’t worry about me. They can take away my job but I shall continue speaking out!

OZIAN OFFICIAL

Come on, goat.

DILLAMOND

You’re not being told the whole story! Remember that, class!

(DOCTOR DILLAMOND is taken away.)

ELPHABA

Doctor Dillamond! Well, are we all just going to sit here in silence?!

MORRIBLE

Miss Elphaba, I’m afraid there’s nothing we can do.

ELPHABA

But, Madame—

MORRIBLE

Please, my dear, take your seat.

(One OFFICIAL takes over the class.)

OZIAN OFFICIAL

Good afternoon, students!

MORRIBLE

Good afternoon!

STUDENTS

Good afternoon.

OZIAN OFFICIAL

More and more everyday with each tick of the Time Dragon Clock in every corner of our great Oz, one hears the silence of progress! For example, this is called a cage!

(He reveals this devise to the STUDENTS. There is a small Lion Cub trapped inside.)

OZIAN OFFICIAL

Yes, you’ll be seeing more and more of them in the future. This remarkable innovation is actually for the Animal’s own good!

ELPHABA

If it’s for his own good, than why is he trembling?

OZIAN OFFICIAL

He’s excited to be here, that’s all! As I was saying, one of the benefits of caging a Lion Cub this young is the he will never in fact learn how to speak!

ELPHABA

Oh no!

OZIAN OFFICIAL

That’s right! Gather around!

ELPHABA

Can you imagine a world where Animals are kept in cages and they never speak?!

OZIAN OFFICIAL

He does seem a bit agitated by that is easily remedied!

ELPHABA

What are we going to do?!

FIYERO

We?

ELPHABA

Well somebody as to do something!!!

(ELPHABA becomes so distraught that she involuntarily casts a spell over the entire CLASS—except FIYERO.)

FIYERO

What’s happening?

ELPHABA

I don’t know! I got mad and then—

FIYERO

Don’t move. And don’t get mad at me.

(FIYERO grabs the cage.)

FIYERO

Well? Are you coming?

(The two head out to the forest, where they can set the Lion Club free.)

SCENE 9

ELPHABA

Careful! Don’t shake him!

FIYERO

I’m not!

ELPHABA

We can’t just let him loose anywhere you know! We’ve got to find someplace safe!

FIYERO

I realize that too! You think I’m really stupid don’t you?

ELPHABA

No, not really stupid.

FIYERO

Why is it that every time I see you you’re causing some sort of commotion?

ELPHABA

I don’t cause commotions, I am one!

FIYERO

That’s for sure.

ELPHABA

So you think I should just keep my mouth shut, is that what you’re saying?!

FIYERO

No! What I’m saying—

ELPHABA

Do you think I want to be this way? Do you think I want to care this much?

FIYERO

Look, all I meant was—

ELPHABA

Do you think I don’t know how easier my life would be if I didn’t?

FIYERO

Do you ever let anybody else talk?

ELPHABA

Oh, sorry. But can I say one more thing? You could have walked away back there.

FIYERO

So?

ELPHABA

So no matter how shallow and self-absorbed you pretend to be—

FIYERO

Excuse me, there’s no pretense here: I happen to be genuinely self-absorbed and deeply shallow.

ELPHABA

No you’re not. Or you wouldn’t be so unhappy.

FIYERO

Fine if you don’t want my help—

ELPHABA

No, I do! His heart is pounding. I didn’t mean to frighten him.

FIYERO

What did you mean to do? And why was I the only one you didn’t do it to?

ELPHABA

You’re bleeding.

FIYERO

I am?

ELPHABA

It must have scratched you.

FIYERO

Yeah. Or maybe it scratched me or something. I better get to safety. I mean the cub!

ELPHABA

Of course!

FIYERO

Get the cub to safety.

(FIYERO leaves.)

ELPHABA

Fiyero!

(ELPHABA realizes that she could love FIYERO, yet she feels more alone than ever.)

ELPHABA

HANDS TOUCH, EYES MEET

SUDDEN SILENCE, SUDDEN HEAT

HEARTS LEAP IN A GIDDY WHIRL

HE COULD BE THAT BOY

I’M NOT THAT GIRL

DON’T DREAM TOO FAR

DON’T LOSE SIGHT OF WHO YOU ARE

DON’T REMEMBER THAT RUSH OF JOY

HE COULD BE THAT BOY

I’M NOT THAT GIRL

EV’RY SO OFTEN HE LONG TO STEAL

TO THE LAND OF WHAT-MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN

BUT THAT DOESN’T SOFTEN THE ACHE WE FEEL

WHEN REALITY SETS BACK IN

BLITHE SMILE, LITHE LIMB

SHE WHO’S WINSOME, SHE WINS HIM

GOLD HAIR WITH A GENTLE CURL

THAT’S THE GIRL HE CHOSE

AND HEAVEN KNOWS

I’M NOT THAT GIRL…

DON’T WISH, DON’T START

WISHING ONLY WOUNDS THE HEART

I WASN’T BORN FOR THE ROSE AND PEARL

THERE’S A GIRL I KNOW

HE LOVES HER SO

I’M NOT THAT GIRL…

(MADAME MORRIBLE comes upon ELPHABA, taking shelter from the rain, and approaches her excitedly.)

MORRIBLE

Miss Elphaba! There you are!

ELPHABA

Madame Morrible!

MORRIBLE

Oh, I have thrillifying news! I’ve finally heard back from the Wizard, and my dear—he wishes to meet you!

ELPHABA

He asked for me?! Personally?!

MORRIBLE

Yes! I know how devastrated you were the other day for our poor Doctor Dillamond but you see my dear, one door closes and another opens!

ELPHABA

I don’t know what to say! Madame, how can I ever thank you?

MORRIBLE

Careful my dear, you mustn’t get wet. Wait, I know.

(She makes a sudden dramatic gesture, and the rain instantly stops.)

MORRIBLE

Oh, didn’t I ever mention? Weather is my specialty. Oz speed, my dear.

(Sings)

NOW YOU’RE OFF TO MEET THE WIZARD

MAKE ME PROUD!

ELPHABA

I will—I’ll try…

(Sings)

AND THERE WE’LL FINALLY BE:

THE WIZARD AND I…

SCENE 10

(GALINDA has accompanied ELPHABA to the train station to bid her goodbye.)

CONDUCTOR

All aboard!

NESSAROSE

Elphaba, I am so proud of you! I know father will be too. We’re all proud aren’t we?

ELPHABA

Will you be alright without me?

GALINDA

She’ll be fine. Bick will keep her company. Won’t you, Bick?

BOQ

It’s Boq! I can’t do this anymore!

(BOQ runs out)

NESSAROSE

Boq!

GALINDA

Nessa, maybe he just isn’t the right one for you.

NESSAROSE

No! He’s the one. It’s me that’s not right. Don’t worry about me, Elphaba, I’ll be fine. Safe journey.

(NESSAROSE wheels after BOQ)

ELPHABA

Nessa! Wait!

GALINDA

Elphie, let her go. She’ll have to manage without you. We all will.

(All at once, GALINDA breaks into tears.)

ELPHABA

You’ll barely notice I’m gone. You have Fiyero. Where is he anyway? Not that I expected him to say goodbye to me. I mean, we barely know each other.

GALINDA

I don’t know him either. Not anymore. He’s distant and moodified. And he’s been thinking which really worries me. It all started the day Doctor Dillamond got fired. I never knew he cared so much about that old Goat. Oh, look there he is! He did come! Fiyero! Over here, dearest!

FIYERO

Elphaba, I’m happy for you.

GALINDA

Yes, we are both so happy for you!

FIYERO

I’ve been thinking—

ELPHABA

Yes, I’ve heard.

FIYERO

About the Lion Cub and everything. I think about that day a lot.

ELPHABA

So do I.

GALINDA

Me too! I think about it constantly! Poor Doctor Dillamond! It makes one want to take a stand! In fact, I’ve been thinking about… about… changing my name!

FIYERO

Your name?

GALINDA

Why yes! Since Doctor Dillamond had his own way of pronouncing my name, in solidarity and to express my…um… outrage I will henceforward no longer be known as Galinda but as simply Glinda!

FIYERO

That’s very admirable of you, Glinda.

GLINDA

Fiyero…

FIYERO

Elphaba, good luck.

SCENE 11

GLINDA

Well, there! You see?!

ELPHABA

Oh, don’t cry, Galinda!

GLINDA

It’s Glinda now! Stupid idea, I don’t even know what made me say it!

ELPHABA

It doesn’t matter what your name is, everyone loves you.

GLINDA

I don’t care! I want him! I don’t even think he’s perfect anymore and I still want him! This must be what other people feel like. How do they bear it?!

ELPHABA

Come with me.

GLINDA

Where?

ELPHABA

To the Emerald City.

GLINDA

Really?

TOURISTS

ONE SHORT DAY

IN THE EMERALD CITY

GLINDA

I’ve always wanted t see the Emerald City.

TOURISTS

ONE SHORT DAY

IN THE EMERALD CITY…

SCENE 12

(The Emerald City)

TOURISTS

ONE SHORT DAY

IN THE EMERALD CITY

ONE SHORT DAY

FULL OF SO MUCH TO DO

EV’RY WAY

THAT YOU LOOK IN THIS CITY

THERE’S SOMETHING EXQUISITE

YOU’LL WANT TO VISIT

BEFORE THE DAY’S THROUGH!

ELPHABA

THERE ARE BUILDINGS TALL AS QUOXWOOD TREES

GLINDA

DRESS SALONS

ELPHABA

AND LIBRARIES

GLINDA

PALACES!

ELPHABA

MUSEUMS!

BOTH

A HUNDRED STRONG…

THERE ARE WONDERS LIKE I’VE NEVER SEEN

GLINDA

IT’S ALL GRAND

ELPHABA

AND IT’S ALL GREEN

BOTH

I THINK WE’VE FOUND THE PLACE WHERE WE BELONG!

I WANNA BE

IN THIS HOI POLLOI

ELPHABA

SO I’LL BE BACK FOR GOOD SOMEDAY

GLINDA

TO MAKE MY LIFE AND MAKE MY WAY…

BOTH

BUT FOR TODAY, WE’LL WANDER AND ENJOY…

ALL

ONE SHORT DAY

IN THE EMERALD CITY

ONE SHORT DAY

TO HAVE A LIFETIME OF FUN

ONE SHORT DAY…

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 859