STICKY AND LADY GOLDEN
2023/03/18
Angel, Pearce, and their friends are the first to arrive at school. When they step up to the school terrace from the street below, they see the fresh graffiti on the school wall.
Pearce and his friends walk over to examine it.
Pearce climbs several steps to the school entrance, and then turns to the growing number of students on the terrace.
PEARCE:
Ladies and gentlemen
I need your attention!
Your attention, please!
Thank-you!
Thank-you!
It would appear . . .
We got a new school name here!
The students hoot and cheer. Angel joins Pearce.
Ladies and gentlemen
Please welcome
My glittering
Glowing . . .
Lady Golden!
Pearce holds up one of Angel’s hands to show off her gold-adorned fingers.
When my sugar needs sweetenin’.
I like to give her things.
She makes me feel, good.
I make her feel, golden.
The students hoot and cheer. Angel snuggles up to Pearce.
ANGEL:
Baby
Baby
You got somethin’ for me?
PEARCE:
Could be.
Could be.
ANGEL:
Show me!
Show me!
Pearce pulls a gold bracelet from his jacket pocket and holds it up.
PEARCE:
Something new . . .
I hand-picked out
Just for you.
The students on the terrace cheer as Pearce attaches the gold bracelet to Angel’s wrist.
ANGEL:
It’s beautiful.
Beautiful!
Just what I wanted.
How did you know?
PEARCE:
You . . .
Pointed it out on
You know who.
ANGEL:
I can’t help it!
Can’t help it.
I love golden things.
You make me feel special
With your love offerings.
Queenie Queenie
Loves her King
When he gives her
Gives her things.
The students on the terrace cheer when Angel gives Pearce a hot kiss.
ANGEL’S FRIENDS:
Queenie Queenie
Loves her King
When he gives her
Gives her things.
ANGEL:
When you gimme
Gimme things
I know your love is
Genuine.
Like a flower blossoming
All my petals opening
When you gimme
Gimme things.
PEARCE:
Head to toe
Head to toe
You need love to show.
Need to know
It’s the real thing.
ANGEL:
I do!
I do!
Need you to show me
Your love is true.
Cleopatra!
Queen Nefertiti!
Never ever
Looked so pretty.
Over an’ over
I get told
I get told
Princess Diana
Never had that much gold!
ANGEL’S FRIENDS:
Over an’ over
She gets told
She gets told
Princess Diana
Never had that much gold!
The students cheer. Yu-Gwan and her friends have been watching Angel’s performance. When she can bear it no longer, Yu-Gwan shouts:
YU-GWAN:
It’s all stolen!
The students on the terrace boo.
PEARCE:
Stolen?
Stolen?
I don’t think so!
I work my fingers to the bone
Keeping the economy goin’.
I make sure assets stay liquid
Get circulated
Ownership-updated
Or as I like to state it . . .
Robin Hood, innated!
The students cheer.
Whatever
But never
Stolen!
I don’t steal.
I promote
Sharing!
Sharing!An’ for those
Who don’t get the concept
I’m here to fuckin’ help them!
The students cheer.
Now an’ then
Now an’ then
Some people need
A little help from their friends!
The students cheer.
I just want them to know
I’m here for them.
’Cause sharing!
Sharing!
Is a beautiful thing!
The students cheer.
ANGEL:
She’s jealous
’Cause I got a man
Likes to give me things.
She’s still wearin’ ’em
Dollar store rings
With the flaky gold
An’ plastic diamonds.
The students on the terrace laugh at Yu-Gwan.
YU-GWAN:
When Caesar is gone
Cleopatra will change her song.
ANGEL:
Gone?
He’s not goin’ nowhere.
YU-GWAN:
How do you know?
ANGEL:
What do you know?
Yu-Gwan pulls a crystal out from under her coat. When she speaks to it, it begins to glow.
YU-GWAN:
Genie
Genie
Speak to me.
Tell me the fate to befall
Queen Nefertiti.
Hide nothing at all.
Yu-Gwan’s face darkens. Her eyes begin to glow when the Genie in the crystal speaks through her.
THE GENIE:
This morning
This morning . . .
In English class
Queen Nefertiti . . .
Shall meet her ugly past.
Past
Past
Past . . .
The students on the terrace boo. As the light in the crystal fades, Yu-Gwan returns to her normal self.
ANGEL:
What the hell was that?
This morning in English class
Miss Circus Freak
Can kiss my golden ass!
The students on the terrace laugh at Yu-Gwan as she and her friends leave.