No. 15 FINISHING THE HAT (GEORGE) (George is alone. He moves Downstage, near Fifi the pug who rises, and sits) Poco con moto (4 = 132) GEORGE: (Leafing back through Mis sketches) mp (Flips a page) 4 (lips) You and me, pal... 7 Ah, she looks for me... a (Flips) (Flips) (Flips) (Licks tp) 8 (Flips) Bon-net flap-ping... Yap-ping... Ruff! Chick-en...95 — she looks for . Let her look for me to 1s 35 3 A354 ——— tell me why she left me—As I al- ways Knew she would, espress. e poco crese. — thought she tn-der-stood, ney-er un-der-stood, And no ak az SS SZ A * poco rit, A tempo ea-son that they should, is an -y - bo-dy could... —___ 2» greco nt + pp molto legatohat, How you have to How you watch the rest of the world From a win-dow While you fin-ish the hat._ Map-ping out a ten, sky,7 What you feel like, plan-ning a sky, — What you feel when rall, A tempo voi-ces that come-Through the win - dow . go Un-til they dis-tance and die, Fo Lota voce Un- til there's noth- ing but sky. — And how you're the stick — Or the dog —8 — or the light, — of kkind that you want_ Diz-zy from the height, ‘Com-ing from the Stud-y -ing the hat,world of the hat, — Reach ing through the world of the hat__ Like Back to this one from that. — Leaves a lit- tle space in the way like a100 It’s the on-ly way to see. win-dow, But to n ——— = man that you want-ed goes, You can And when the wo say to yourself, "I give all» I ean give."__ But the wo = man— who won't of you al-ways stand-ing wait for you knows_ That, how - ev- er youlive,— There's a part___86 9s POCO crese, — np Map-ping out the sky, (Showing sketch to Fif) 101102 crese, Where there nev-er wa No. 16 BUSTLE Note: At measure 3, cast enters one at a time, each singing an excerpt from songs sung earlier in the show, Out of rhythm and in any key, gradually getting louder and faster. Ques MR: (Spotting Louis, who has entered in search of Dot) Isn't that the baker? MRS: Why, yes It It(They cross to Louls, George brings on he Homplayer cut-out. Old Lady enters) OLD LADY: Where is (Dot enters, and suddenly she and George are stl staring Maestoso Nurse! Nurse! ‘Nurse! Siow ( J= 88) >103 at one another. Everyone Onstage turns slowly to them, People begin to sing fragments of songs. Dot and George move accelerando poco _a poco al fine sempre stacc, closer to one another, circling each other like gun duellers. The rest of the cast close in around them until Dot and George (accel) ; ——— (wen) gy TT — Tf Y wy stop, opposite each other. Silence. Dot takes her bustle and defiantly turns it around, creating a pregnant stance. There isan audible gasp from the onlookers, Lights fade to black) u nS