Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain (108 page)

JAPANESE TOURIST

Why you all so sad?

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

Because our lives suck.

JAPANESE TOURIST

Ha! Did I hear you correctly? Your life sucks? How would
you like to be a tourist like me, watching all your shows!

[Pointing at audience.]

OTHERS

JAPANESE TOURIST

I The JAPANESE TOURIST and the others sing in a
round, "It sucks to be him! It sucks to be her! It sucks to
be them! It sucks to be us!"Then. ]

ALL

"Can't-Can't"

PATTI LUPONE

OFFSTAGE CHORUS

PATTI

OFFSTAGE CHORUS

PATTI