Opening Night Page #3

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What?

Yes, sweetheart. Okay.

What's wrong with being slapped?

Cut it out. Cut it out.

Just a second, darling.

Cut it out, will you, please?

There's nothing

humiliating about it.

You're on the stage,

for Christ's sake.

He's not slapping you for real.

Myrtle.

Ugh! Myrtle!

Myrtle, it has nothing to do

with being a woman.

You're not a woman anyway.

[Chuckles]

No, no. You're a beautiful woman.

You are. I was kidding.

Now, you see? You have no

sense of humor. I told you that.

I don't want to argue with it,

darling. We'll rehearse it.

Well, how -

If we don't rehearse it...

we -we won't get it.

But it's not humiliating.

There's nothing humiliating about it.

Uh, you know, it's a tradition.

Actresses get slapped.

It's a tradition.

Do you want to be a, uh, uh...

a star or do you want to be

unsympathetic?

It's mandatory you get hit.

That's it.

Now go to sleep. Right.

A young girl got killed

by the theater tonight.

Let's forget it.

Let's not phony it up anymore.

Myrtle, honest to God,

he's not gonna hurt you.

Now, look. You do it to me.

Come on. Do it to me.

Here, loosen the hand. Ready?

You hear that?

One more time.

Okay, now hit Maurice.

Good! Good!

All right, we could do it, but...

you know, he could

swing at you and miss...

but then we wouldn't

hear the slap.

So, try it one more time.

Hit her in the face.

With the fingers, not the palm.

- Go ahead.

- No!

Myrtle, Myrtle, Myrtle.

- Hit me -

- Myrtle, Myrtle, Myrtle.

Take it easy, will ya?

What's the matter with you?

- [Manny] Look, do I love you?

- [Myrtle] Yes.

- Do I want you to be good?

- Yes.

- Would I hurt you?

- No.

Then you're gonna

have to let me slap you.

- Okay.

- It won't work if you don't.

All right?

Okay.

Let's go. From, uh...

where, Sarah?

Uh, start with

"You don't get to me."

- Okay.

- Places, please.

[Maurice]

You don't get to me.

You want to get to me?

You don't get to me.

There's no way for you to get to me.

You want to go out

and get drunk?

You want to take dope?

You want to go out with some guy

at 4:
00 in the afternoon...

and be with him?

Go ahead.

That's you're problem.

What a mess I am.

I'm begging again.

What are we fighting about?

You want to be young again,

is that it?

Oh, Marty.

Ahh!

Oh, that was -

Oh, wow.

Uh, that was good.

That was good.

[Manny]

A few lines back.

No! No more!

No!

Bravo!

[Myrtle]

No! No! No more!

No! No!

- You all right?

- No!

- I didn't hit her.

- Walk away.

I didn't hit her, David, really.

- You all right, Myrtle?

- [Leo] Do we need a doctor?

Yeah, you'd better get a doctor

and get me a cold compress...

and maybe you'll have

a little brandy back there.

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