Get Down

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A sad piano melody starts playing in the background as Cleves removes her sunglasses and ruff. She sits down in front of the throne. 
Cleves: Well, I guess you already know what happened next. How I came to England, hopeful, summoned after the King saw my portrait. And how I, with my meagre looks the way they are, didn't live up to his expectations. 

"Your looks are not meagre!" Bert exclaims. "You are the most beautiful woman I know."
"Thanks, Bert," Anna grins. 

Cleves: I mean, it's the usual story, isn't it? The savvy, educated young princess was deemed repulsive by the wheezing, wrinkled ulcer-riddled man twenty-four years her senior!

Everyone starts laughing as Anna cuts into Henrat's looks. It's not as if Henrat was about to come barging in through the door. 

Cleves: Rejection! Rejection from a king! How can anyone overcome a fate as devastating as being forced to move into a resplendent palace in Richmond with more money than I could ever spend in a lifetime AND not a single man around to tell me what to do with it!

Everyone stops laughing. This version of Anna is not going to explain what married life was like. 

Cleves: I mean seriously, just... tragic. 

On-screen, the other queens return to the stage as Anna sits on the throne. 
Cleves: Sitting here all alone
On a throne
In a palace I happen to own
Bring me some pheasant
Keep it on the bone!
Fill my goblet up to the brim
Sipping on mead then I spill it
On the dress with the gold lace trim
Not very prim and proper
Can't make me stop! 

Jane raises an eyebrow. Sure, she understands Anna now she lived with her for a few hundred years, but Anna is often childish and doesn't think about her actions. 

Cleves: I wanna go hunting
Any takers?
I'm not fake 'cause I've got acres and acres
Paid for with my own riches
Where my hounds at? Release the bitches

The officers gasp. How could anyone say something like that in public?

All but Cleves: Woof

Everyone else laughs, but the officers don't see why that's so funny. 

Cleves: every day, head back for a round of croquet
Yeah
'Cause I'm a playa
And tomorrow, I'll hit replay

"That sounds boring if you do it every day," Charles says. 
"It does get boring pretty quickly," Anna agrees.

Cleves: You, you said that I tricked ya
'Cause I, I didn't look like my profile picture

"I am so glad I will never live in the twenty-first century," Captain Smith says. 

Cleves: Too, too bad I don't agree
So I'm gonna hang it up for everyone to see
And you can't stop me 

"You go, queen!" Bert says. 

Cleves: 'Cause
I'm the queen of the castle
Get down you dirty rascal
Get down!
Get down
Get down you dirty rascal
Get down
Get down
'Cause I'm the queen of the castle

"I sound almost as bad-ass as Emma with this song," Anna grins. 
"Speaking of Emma-" Jane begins. 
"Emma and William will turn up when they are ready," Captain Smith shoots back. 

Cleves: When I get bored
I go to Court
Pull up outside in my carriage
Don't got no marriage
So I have a little flirt with the footman
As he takes my fur

Seymour pulls the red coat off Cleves, and the officers yell in surprise. The queens guessed this would happen as Cleves was wearing a jacket. But oh boy, the officers' reactions were nothing like what they expected. 

Cleves: As you were

Those who were not scandalised by the removal of Cleves' jacket laughed. 

Cleves: Making my way to the dance floor
Some boys making advance
I ignore them
'Cause my jam comes on the lute
Howard, Smith-White: Looking cute
Cleves, Howard, Smith-White: Das ist gut
Cleves: All eyes on me
All but Cleves: No criticism
Cleves: I look more rad than
All: Lutheranism

Everyone in the room laughs. 

Cleves: Dance so hard that I'm causing a sensation
Okay ladies, let's get in reformation
All: You
Cleves: You said that I tricked ya
All: 'Cause I
Cleves: I didn't look like my profile picture
All: Too
Cleves: Too bad I don't agree
So I'm gonna hang it up for everyone to see
And you can't stop me 'cause
I'm the queen of the castle 
Get down you dirty rascal
Get down
Get down you dirty rascal

Everyone sits there in amazement as Cleves slows down her voice. How did she do that?

Cleves: Get down
Get down
'Cause I'm the queen of the castle! 
Now, I ain't saying I'm a gold digger
But check my prenup
And go figure!
All but Cleves: Got gold chains

The officers all stare at Anna, many of them looking impressed. 

Cleves: Symbolic of my faith to the higher power
All: In the fast lane
Cleves: My horses trot up to twelve miles an hour

"That is certainly me out of the race," Anna says. 

Cleves: Let me explain
I'm a wiener schnitzel
Not an English flower
No one tells me I need a rich man
Doing my thing in my palace in Richmond! 

The queens are enjoying the song so much that they get up and start dancing. Even Jane joins in the fun. When Charles sees that his wife is alright, he joins the other Titanic officers. 

All: You
You said that I tricked ya
'Cause I
I didn't look like my profile picture
Too
Too bad I don't agree
So I'm gonna hang it up for everyone to see
And you can't stop
You can't stop me
'Cause

Cleves: I'm the queen of the castle
Get down you dirty rascal
Get down!
All: Get down
Cleves: Get down you dirty rascal 
Get down 
All but Cleves: Get down

Cleves heads back towards the throne, and the other on-screen queens follow her.
Cleves: 'Cause I'm the queen of the castle!
Cleves sits down on the throne and puts her microphone in its holder. The other queens sit on the stairs. Cleves uses her hands to make a crown shape on her head. 

The officers look rather impressed at the screen. As the queens sit down, the talking starts again.

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