THE SCRIPT/THE STORY - Part 5
Sammy gets some good news, Jubilee's revelation, Jack's death, through to the end.
| The suspects and Space Vixens return from the vibro-chamber. The suspects look truamatised by their experience. | |
| Bunny: | My god, she was thorough ! |
| Mitch: | I was impressed |
| Anna: | It was nothing really. I unearthed some rather sensitive material in Doctor Whackoff's chamber, but nothing more. |
| Whackoff: | It's research ! |
| Booby: | Oo my loving lord, I let him examine me ! |
| Anna: | Please Ma'am. You have no need to be afraid. It's Jubilee who may be in danger. |
| Bunny: | Yeh you're right. We should never have left her with that creep Jack. Here, you don't think they, er .... you know ? |
| Anna: | No, she couldn't ! Well, she wouldn't. Academy Code number 69 Bun - 'never put out for scum'. |
| Bunny: | She has needs Anna. |
| Anna: | No, but he's an oppressor ! He treats those with a talent far greater than his own like dirt. He makes promises he has no intention of keeping. He is rude, patronising, arrogant, probably a Scorpio, and what's more, (building to a crescendo and looking towards Sammy) he has no respect for the man I love. |
| Anna kisses Sammy, who promptly faints. | |
| The telephone rings and the musician answers | |
| Musician: | Hello Saucy Jacks, take it where it's easy ? Oh, yes, just a minute please. Sammy, Sammy it's for you. |
| Sammy: | For me ? |
| Musician: | Yes, it's Mr. Shankmeister. |
| Sammy: | Hello ? ....Mr. Shankmeister, um um (Sammy is excited) .... I'd love to yes, yes .... oh no, no baggage, just me and my sax .... what, yes, can I ask something please .... could I have my own dressing room please ? .... (Sammy is excited again) .... Thanks Mr. Shank .... er Irvine .... yes, sorry. Until tomorrow ....bye |
| Booby: | Irvine, Irvine Shankmeister ? |
| Anna: | The Irvine Shankmeister ? |
| Sammy: | Yes, he wants to sign me up to make a whole series of movies about me and my saxophone. |
| Anna: | Oh Sammy (handing him his sax), blow me away ! |
| Sammy plays (instrumental 'Sammy Hits The Big Time', and the bar applauds. At the end Jack enters, slow hand clapping. | |
| Jack: | I'm so happy for you Sammy. We all have to fly the nest at sometime or another. Let's just hope you're going to be alright ... out there ... on your own. |
| Sammy: | I'm a big boy Jack. |
| Jack: | I don't doubt that for a moment Sammy, just be careful. Hey, cabaret can be a killer ! |
| Anna's detector registers something | |
| Anna: | Oh gosh .... oh, I'm pulsing ! (checks her funk pack). Jubilee may be near. Yes, there's a message from Jubilee. |
| Bunny: | Thank god she's unharmed. |
| Anna: | She's on her way. I picked her up in the Spandex quadrant. |
| Bunny: | Oh, it's urgent news ! |
| Anna: | Of cosmic importance ! (with Bunny) She has something she's got to say |
| Mitch: | And I've got something I've been trying to say for years. Doctor .....? |
| Whackoff: | Wunderbar Mitch. Wunderbar ! |
| Mitch starts to undress, to reveal .... rather brief plastic underwear .... to be followed by Doctor Whackoff wearing very similar apparel | |
| Song: Fetish Number From Nowhere | |
| Sammy: | Oh Mitch. This is just the beginning. I mean just think what you could do with a little practise. I mean just look at me right, I'm off to a life I've been promised for years. I'd be something .... |
| Jack: | So, you're leaving me then ? |
| Sammy: | Yes definitely |
| Jack: | I want to talk with you, (to others) alone. Call it a few parting words of wisdom to send him on his way. |
| Jubilee sees what has been happening. | |
| Jubilee: | Jack, stay where you are ! I have something to say, and I want everyone to hear. Bunny, Anna, forgive me for my weakness, but I love this man. |
| All: | Yuck ! |
| Jubilee: | I can't run from my past any longer. I knew a girl once. Her
name was Honey - Honey Tipps. A sweet young thing who wanted nothing
more than the bright lights of the city and a change of clothes. She met
a man, a magician. A two-bit trickster who asked her to be his sequinned
lady. They fell in love, and he promised to share with her a magic that
would surpass her wildest dreams - and it did ... for a while. But it
was not enough for Honey. The allure of rhinestone cat-suits and cheap
tricks could not last. She longed to get away - to carve out an artistic
niche of her own, far beyond the twisted manipulations of a dead-end
showman. It was the end of the season at Clitvar Pier. Their last gig at the Tufted Shag. The crowd gathered - just as they had every other day of summer. But as Honey entered the Chamber of Disappearance for the last time, she knew nothing would ever be the same. And when the drum-roll came, she ran. She ran to some place so far away, she thought her past would never catch up. She ran to the Academy, leaving nothing behind her but the jeering shrieks of the crowd, and her shoes. Yes ladies and gentlemen, I am Honey Tipps ! |
| All: | Gasp ! |
| Jubilee: | And those shoes I left behind, so many years ago ... were slingbacks ! |
| All: | Gasp ! |
| Jubilee: | I have betrayed you all in my earthly weakness. My silence has become a breeding ground for senseless killing, and it has to stop. Jack has taken the lives of numerous innocent and obscure cabaret artistes with cruel abandon. thrusting his vile heels into their hearts, and leaving a single sequinned slingback behind him. |
| Booby: | Oh my god - he's the Slingback Killer ! |
| Jubilee: | He is evil, callous, and has no taste. Last night, Chesty, goddess rest her, bravely confronted him, and thinking nothing of his depravity, he made sure of her silence. Yes life is cheap when someone else is paying. And Sammy .... Sammy was next to foot the slingback bill. |
| Jack: | Jubilee, wait ! There's been a terrible misunderstanding. I love ya. |
| Song: Let's Make Magic (Again) | |
| Jubilee surrenders her boots to Booby who retreats from Jubilee mouthing "I've got the boots !" | |
| Jack: | Right friends. I'm ready. It doesn't matter, it's over. Mitch, the club's yours son. Sammy, keep blowing. Doctor ........ whatever. Oh Booby, I think I'm going to miss you most of all (slaps Booby's bum, but she turns and slaps him). I'm ready. |
| Jubilee: | Good-bye Jack. |
| The staff runs for cover. The Space Vixens train their disco beams on Jack. They fire, Jack laughs and dies atop the bar, disappearing in a cloud of smoke whilst the audience are dazzled by the strobe light. | |
| Spotlight on Whackoff, at the bar. | |
| Whackoff: | We were silent, and serene. She left us, her heart broken but her faith restored. Jack ...... Jack ...... we owe you nothing. Not even your life. But what next ? Without Jack, what were we ? We were free ! |
| Shirley Tri-Star enters via the air vent. | |
| Shirley: | Yee ha! Give me a Cosmic Screw, and I want it yesterday. (To Bunny) Hey doll, why so blue ? I'm Shirley Tri-star, interstellar space trucker. Built for sin, with a homely old heart |
| Bunny: | I'm Bunny Lingus, Space Vixen. Here, haven't I seen you somewhere before ? |
| Shirley: | Don't sweat it darlin'. Just lay back and enjoy the ride ! |
| Song: Space Trucking | |
| Sammy: | Here, can I see your Vibro Chamber ? |
| Anna: | You can see anything you want, Mister Space-Pup ! |
| Song: All I Need is Disco (Reprise) | |
| Sammy: | Hey, wait a minute, haven't we forgotten someone ? Where's Booby ? |
| The lights go out. Booby, dressed as a Space Vixen, makes her way to the stage, and joins Bunny and Anna in her rightful place. | |
| Song: Glitterboots Saved My Life (Booby's Version) | |
| Whackoff: | And so it was ... at Saucy Jacks. Although it could have been anywhere ! We all knew our lives would never be the same again. As for me, Mitch and I found ..... clammy plastic happiness together. With many others willing to follow. Whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your funk, let yourself go. Unlace those boots and groove on to a higher galaxy. Head high, heart free. Live, laugh ... love once and you can love again.... and again..... And that is a promise ! |
| Song: All I Need Is Disco (Finale) | |
| The End | |
| 'Dancing Queen' by Abba, followed by the rest of the disco. |
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