The next day, Cherie goes to the studio early. She jumps on the grand piano and starts playing. Soon after, The Runaways arrive, and Joan comes up to Cherie. Cherie plays Strawberry Fields on the piano.
Joan: Hey, Cherie. I'm gonna call Kim. We decided we're gonna call off the show tomorrow.
Cherie: [shakes head violently].
Joan: You can't talk to us! So you can't sing. Okay?
Cherie violently smashes her fingers onto the lowest minor chords on the piano, startling Joan from the loud boom. Cherie shakes her head.
Joan: What do you want?
Cherie unfolds a piece of paper from her pocket. It says:
We must play. Then I can talk and sing.
Stay True, Cherie Currie
Joan: Why can't you sing right now?
Cherie smashes her fingers on the lowest minor chords again, startling Joan.
Joan: Will you stop that?! It's driving me nuts. I'm calling Kim.
Joan walks to the other side of the room where the telephone is. As she does, Cherie smashes her fingers on the lowest chords of the piano again, but this time, she does it five times. Joan is startled again. Joan is so annoyed at the sound, she screams like Robert Plant at the beginning of Immigration Song. Then, she picks up the telephone and starts dialing. The girls are all by the telephone too. As Joan dials, Cherie starts playing Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. The cold devilish tune puts chills through Joan's bones. She talks to Kim after he picks up the phone, but she cannot stand the evil in Cherie's piano playing.
Joan (raised voice): Cherie, stop playing that!
Startled by Joan's raised voice, Cherie stops. She begins playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Finale, including the soft graceful melody towards the end of the song. At the same time, Cherie listens to Joan's conversation with Kim.
Joan: Use recordings of Cherie's voice? Uh huh. Uh huh. I guess we could do that. Uhh... I mean, I think she can still dance, yeah, it's just her voice.
Cherie stops playing Swan Lake Finale and she swipes her finger across the entire piano from the low notes to the high notes. Joan looks over at Cherie, and Cherie nods and smiles.
Joan: I don't know, Kim...
Cherie jumps off the piano and runs over to Joan and nags at her arm. She gives Joan a concerned begging look on her face and nods.
Joan: Oh, all right. We can use recordings of Cherie and just have her lip sing and dance. Okay, thanks Kim. Yeah, the rest of us are alright. Okay, bye [hangs up the telephone]. Okay, we're gonna perform tomorrow, Kim can get us recordings of Cherie's voice for each song in time. She'll just lip sing and dance.
Cherie smiles wide and nods. Part of the curse seems to have broken. Now, Cherie just needs the show to go on well and hopefully that will get her voice back as an act of true rock 'n' roll. Cherie jumps back on the piano and joyfully plays Vivaldi - Spring (The Four Seasons).
Lita: [walks to the piano] Wow, I did not know Cherie was this good at piano. Hey, What else can you play?
Cherie stops playing Spring (The Four Seasons) and reaches at the top of the piano for a stopwatch. Cherie starts the timer and begins playing the first movement of 4'33" as she smiles at Lita.
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The Little Red Cherry Bomb
Teen FictionThis fictional fairytale screenplay is centered around a fictional Cherie Currie of The Runaways. Cherie always wanted to be in a rock band since she was 14, but she never anticipated any of her current struggles, now 17, with The Runaways. She seek...
