Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain (124 page)

FEMALE CHICAGO DANCER

ALL

FOR ALL (send!) THAT (send!) CHAT!

[CHICAGO DANCERS repeat in counterpoint while
BEBE sings.]

BEBE

MALE CHICAGO DANCER

So, Checky, that's final, huh? You prefer Andrew Lippa's
Wild Party to Michael John LaChiusa's? Send!

FEMALE CHICAGO DANCER

Yeah. I'm afraid so, Bruce Memblatt. I hate Michael
John LaChiusa. Send!

MALE CHICAGO DANCER

Oh, Checky? Send!

FEMALE CHICAGO DANCER

Yeah? Send!

MALE CHICAGO DANCER

Nobody trashes Michael John LaChiusa's Wild Party on
my Facebook. Send! Control! Alt! Delete!

The FEMALE CHICAGO DANCER gets it and dies; both
DANCERS exit.]

BEBE

"Forbidden In the Heights"

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

[PIRAGUA GUY enters with cart selling ices and
souvenirs from In the Heights.]

PIRAGUA GUY

Ice-cold piragua! Or souvenirs from In the Heights!
CDs! Bodega mugs! Stuffed barrio rats!

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

Yo, piragero, como estas?

PIRAGUA GUY

Como siempre. But you better not speak Spanish
anymore. We just won the Tony, and now our audience
is 90 percent bridge-and-tunnel Jewish.

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

Si, senor mensch. I won't be a meshugena!

PIRAGUA GUY

Oy! What a goyim!

LIN-MANUEL

I AM MIRANDA

THE COMMUNITY

PIRAGUA GUY

THE COMMUNITY

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

ABUELA