SCENE NINE
THE PETERHOF PALACE
#24 THE PRESS CONFERENCE
(LILY runs in, bombarded by many reporters.)
MALE REPORTERS
HAS SHE BEEN LIVING FAR O
ALL MALE REPORTERS
THE RUMORS NEVER END!
FIRST GROUP OF MALE REPORTERS
YOU'VE HAD IMPOSTERS, IS IT TRUE?
SECOND GROUP
WHAT SORT OF PROOF DO YOU INTEND?
FEMALE REPORTER 2
EXCUSE ME, OVER HERE!
ALL MALE REPORTERS
THE RUMORS NEVER END!
(VLAD enters and LILY addresses the reporters.)
LILY
Good afternoon. I am the Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevich,and this is Count Vladimir Popov.
VLAD
P-O-P-O-V!
LILY
THE DOWAGER IS COMING BUT SHE'S RUNNING VERY LATE
I'M CERTAIN THAT HER MAJESTY WILL SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT
BUT ROYALTY IS ROYALTY, ONE ALWAYS HAS TO WAIT
Wait!
I'M REALLY NOT AT LIBERTY TO GOSSIP WITH THE PRESS
HER MAJESTY IS COMING, UNTIL THEN YOU'LL HAVE TO GUESS
VLAD
SUFFICE TO SAY
YOU'LL MEET TODAY
THE LITTLE LOST PRINCESS!
(The REPORTERS go nuts.)
MALE REPORTERS 1 & 5
DID SHE ARRIVE BY TRAIN
MALE REPORTER 2
I HEARD SHE MAY HAVE GONE INSANE!
LILY
A lie!
MALE REPORTER 3
I'M FROM THE PARIS NEWS
WE DO EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS!
VLAD
Oh my!
MALE REPORTER 4
IS SHE A FAKE OR IS SHE REAL?
FEMALE REPORTER 3
HOW DOES SHE LOOK?
FEMALE REPORTER 4
HOW DOES SHE FEEL?
FEMALE REPORTERS 5 & 6
WHAT HAS SHE DONE?
WHERE HAS SHE BEEN?
ALL FEMALE REPORTERS
HOW DID SHE LIVE?
WHO TOOK HER IN?
LILY
WE'RE NEARLY READY TO BEGIN!
(The parts branch off. GROUPS 1 & 2 consist o fvarious MALE & FEMALE REPORTERS. The SOPRANOS are FEMALE REPORTERS 5 & 6).
GROUP 1 GROUP 2 SOPRANOS (this part is messed up tooo lollll, they are again singing their own parts)
WHERE HAS SHE BEEN? THE RUMOR
WHAT HAS SHE DONE? WHO TOOK HER IN?
IS SHE THE ONE?
WE'RE WAITING THE LEGEND
EAGERLY TO SEE
IS SHE THE MYSTERY
ALL
THE PRINCESS
ANASTASIA...
SOPRANOS
ANASTASIA!
VLAD
Lily!
LILY REPORTERS
ENOUGH! NOW...
HER MAJESTY IS ELDERLY
AND DOESN'T SUFFER FOOLS
SHE DOESN'T SUFFER FOOLS
SHE'S READY TO RECEIVE YOU
BUT YOU MUST OBEY THE
RULES.
WE MUST OBEY THE RULES.
NO SMOKING AND NO JOKING
VLAD
AND NO HANDLING OF JEWELS.
LILY
Members of the press,
THIS WAY!
THIS WAY!
REPORTERS SOPRANOS
WHERE HAS SHE BEEN? THE RUMOR
WHAT HAS SHE DONE?
WHO TOOK HER IN?
IS SHE THE ONE? THE LEGEND
WE'RE WAITING THE MYSTERY
EAGERLY TO SEE
ALL REPORTERS
THE PRINCESS ANASTASIA!
(LILY points stage left and all the REPORTERS exit that way. After they're all gone, VLAD takes LILY's hand and they exit stage right.)
YOU ARE READING
Anastasia Revisioned
RomanceThis is kinda not(?) a fanfiction, but a retelling of a mashup of Disney and Broadway's Anastasia. In playwriting format. --- Anya, a girl suffering from amnesia, doesn't remember her past. Her only clue to it is to go to Paris. She teams up with tw...
