Fosse/Verdon

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Son of a bitch!

- It didn't mean anything. - Liar!

Oh, listen to me. I... I...

It's never gonna happen again. Oh, shut up!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

I... listen, I was drinking too much.

- I was... I was working. - A chorus girl in my show?

Hey, are you out of your mind?

I... it's over.

Oh, that's not what she told the rest of the cast!

- Okay, okay, I... - You...

- Hey, hey! - Are humiliating me!

You know I'm crazy about you?

I was thinking, let's get married.

Oh, stop it.

- I'm serious. - Oh, stop.

Stop it. Stop.

- I think we should get married. - Bobby.

I want to have a baby.

- Bobby, sto... you don't... - Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon.

Will you marry me?

Bobby, look at us.

Look at us.

You're about to witness a story of greed...

I can't live without you. I need you.

Exploitation...

I want to have a baby with you.

Adultery...

I want to be with you forever.

And treachery.

And I want to have a family with you.

You don't know what you're talking about.

But I do.

All the things we hold near and dear to our hearts.

I want to build a family. I want to make a baby with you.

I want to... I want to marry you. I love you.

Will you marry me?

Let's... let's make a family together.

Let's have a baby.

Stop, stop, stop.

Yeah, um, st... uh, do it again.

Take out the smiles.

How long have you been in this business?

You know every production

takes out an insurance policy on the director, right?

- It's standard procedure. - A million bucks?

That's not an insurance policy. That's a bet.

Do you know what you sound like?

They could have gotten rich off of me.

I'll tell you what you sound like.

You sound like a paranoid schizophrenic.

Now I gotta walk back in the rehearsal room

and pretend everybody there doesn't wish I was dead.

Everybody put their life on hold for four months

to accommodate your sorry ass.

I heard Gwen gave loans to half that cast for you.

She knew no other director would sign up to do a musical

with Gwen Verdon as an ingénue.

Stop. Stop, Danny.

Um...

Eat your sandwich. Why don't you eat?

I don't have an appetite.

I wish I could give you some of mine.

Those doctors, they fucked me up.

They took away all my... all my prescriptions.

Yeah? I say God bless them.

They didn't give me enough time to adjust.

I'm... I'm trying to stay calm.

I'm kind of... I'm getting a little, uh...

My... my doctor told me I'm not supposed to get upset.

I'm getting a little upset 'cause if I have to hear you

sing this like it's a goddamn musical comedy again,

I'm gonna jump out a window.

I'm fucked up, do you understand?

I'm having a hard time. I can't eat.

I can't think. I can't focus.

How am I supposed to direct a musical like that?

This is a... a show about killers.

It's about people who use people to get what they want.

And then they leave them for dead

and they pretend to the whole world like they're

Christian martyrs... like they're saints.

But guess what, folks? That's all smoke and mirrors.

You're murderers and you're liars.

That's who you are.

Dance like that.

Let's take it again from the amoeba, Danny.

Take out the swing.

A-five, six, seven, eight.

Darker, darker. Yeah, yeah.

Make it darker.

A-five, six, seven, eight.

A convent girl, a runaway marriage!

It's too terrible, you poor, poor dear.

Okay, hold.

Let's take it back from the beginning.

We'll just clean up everything.

We need to review that whole section.

Let's go all the way back, okay?

I need a minute.

We're gonna have to slow the number down.

That's an up-tempo song, Bob.

Well, the actress can't keep up,

so you're gonna have to slow it down.

Hey, I need you to do me a favor.

What's that?

Can you get me some Dexedrine?

- You know what Dexedrine is? - Yeah.

I just, uh... I can show you where to go,

- who to talk to. - You know I can't do that.

Sure you can. It's easy.

I won't do it.

What do you mean, you won't do it?

Why are you being so sanctimonious?

It doesn't suit you.

- Is that a no? - That's a no.

All right, I'll remember that.

And don't tell anybody we talked about this, all right?

The drugs or the song?

Wise guy.

Okay?

Ready?

Let's cut this whole thing. Let's cut it.

- Let's cut the whole thing. - Why?

'Cause it's not working.

I can do this.

I-I don't want you to do it.

I want to.

Sandy, where... help me work this out.

Uh, uh, it's terrific.

It's gonna be perfect. Keep going.

Can I bum this?

Oh, this is heavy.

You're gonna be here.

Jerry, can I borrow you for a second?

Can you sit down?

Uh, you're gonna be a hand puppet.

Yeah? And your mouth...

just your mouth moves. All right?

Um, put your hand here.

- When do I sing? - The whole number.

Then you can move your mouth, um, like a ventriloquist dummy.

Great.

Beautiful. That's beautiful.

I need you to do me a favor.

I can't work without the Dexedrine.

Go to your doctor. Tell him you're fatigued.

You want to lose some weight, you know.

Paddy, it's like... it's coffee for me.

It's not a... it's not a big deal.

I'm not gonna score drugs for you, Bob.

It's not scoring drugs. It's... my cardiologist doesn't...

Shut up. Now you listen to me.

You want to kill yourself, there's not a damn thing

I can do about it, but I'm not gonna be the one

who put the bullets in the chamber.

That's a little dramatic.

Well, I'm a dramatist, all right?

- Is that so? - And you're a lunatic.

- Bravo. - Yeah, what are you doing?

- You're not supposed to smoke! - Hey, it's got...

It's got a filter. What are you...

What's the matter with you?

- Are you kidding me? - I swear to God...

Yeah, I swear it, if you die,

I'm gonna show up at your funeral and I'm gonna deliver

the worst fucking eulogy in the history of eulogies.

On my mother, it's not funny.

Not one witty remark.