20 - Talent (Reprise #2)

Okay, so a lot has happened.
Basically, after the song, Tina gets the idea to go out to Sardis. Ginger shoots her down quickly by saying she has a show to do.

Eve comes out looking like a carbon copy of Ginger with an exact same outfit & etc. and mentions she can do the show.

And Ginger says, "Over my dead body"
And Eve says "Suit yourself" and whips out a pistol.
In a shocking turn of events, we find out that Eve is not truly Eve, but "Lerman.. Betty Lerman."

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"Louise's mother... Act one."

Tina distracts Betty, and Ginger and Betty fight for the gun. Three shots ring out, and Betty dies.

Then Ginger says "Oh, Tina, you saved my life" and then Tina points the gun at Ginger and asks "Can I be in your show now?!"
Sylvia objects, "No Tina! Not this way!"
Tina reminds her saying, "Back off, Granny ... I've killed before!"

Lita bursts in asking where her grandmother is, and Tina and Sylvia fight for the gun.

It goes off three times, and Sylvia "dies"

Lita laments saying, "Oh, she never could sing."

Sylvia rises and plugs her, and both fall over dead.

Ginger wanders around in a fox.

GINGER. What's happened? Where am I? Who am I?
TINA. You're Ginger.
GINGER. Ginger?
TINA. Ginger DelMarco
GINGER. Ginger DelMarco?
TINA. Sorry, the ~fabulous~ Ginger DelMarco.

Ginger spots the apron, picks it up, and mechanically puts it around her waist.

JUDY. No. My name is ... Judy. Judy ... Denmark. Judy Denmark! That's my name! Judy! Judy Denmark!
TINA. Judy?
JUDY. Please ... call me Mommy...
TINA. Mommy?
JUDY. (Coming out of her fog.) Tina?
TINA. Mommy!

They run into each other's arms and embrace. JUDY looks around the room and sees the dead bodies.

JUDY. I hope you've learned a lesson here, Tina. Now, together we can break the chain and once and for all give up show business and live a normal, ordinary life. Get your suitcase sweetheart. IT's time to go home! (Tina gets her suitcase) Because, as God as my witness, netiehr I nor my child will ever set foot on a stage again. Who needs the theatre?
TINA. You're right, Mother. There's no money..in theatre.
JUDY. What?
TINA. We're moving to L.A.
JUDY. What are you saying?
TINA. We'll do a sitcom!
JUDY. No, TINA! NO! (She backs away from TINA in horror) NO!

TINA watches as Judy, hopelessly defeated, crosses to the floor lamp, removes the bulb, licks her finger, and plunges it into the socket. We hear a loud electric crackling and all the lights flicker as JUDY electrocutes heself. TINA watches as JUDY's lifeless body slumps over the big chair, then turns to the audience and sings the song in this video)

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Music

Tags:

• Ruthless!
• Musical
• Broadway
• Off-broadway