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Script
Audition Central: Guys and Dolls JR.
Script: Hot Box Girls
NICELY
Maybe you can borrow the thousand from Sky. NATHAN
Not Sky. With him that kind of money ain t lending money. It s betting money. So why don t I bet him? Why don t I bet him a thousand on something?NICELY
You would bet with Sky Masterson?NATHAN
I ain't scared. I am perfectly willing to take the risk, providing I can figure out a bet on which there is no chance of losing. He likes crazy bets... Ooh! Look - run into Mindy's Restaurant and ask Mindy how many pieces of cheesecake he sold yesterday and also how many pieces of strudel.BENNY
How much cheesecake, how much strudel -NICELY
What do you want to know for?NATHAN
Just find out! Now beat it - here comes Adelaide. If she hears I am running the crap game she will never set foot on me again.(BENNY and NICELY run off as ADELAIDE ENTERS, carrying a small box which contains a man's belt and a small card. She is followed by THREE GIRLS from the Hot Box.)
ADELAIDE
Hello, Nathan dear.NATHAN
Adelaide! Pigeon! (Embrace)
ADELAIDE
(To Three Girls) You go ahead, girls. Order me a tuna fish on rye and a chocolate sundae with tomato ketchup and mayonnaise.
GIRLS
Okay, Adelaide. (THEY EXIT)
ADELAIDE
We gotta get back to the Hot Box.NATHAN
You still rehearsing?ADELAIDE
Yeah. That slave driver Charlie - he's been working us all day. Finally I says, "Look, Charlie, I'm starving! I gotta get outa here and get something to eat." And he says, "You don't want to eat. You just want to sneak out and meet that cheap bum, Nathan Detroit!"NATHAN
(Outraged)So what did you say to him?
ADELAIDE
(Proudly) I told him. I says, "I'll meet whoever I want!" Nathan! Happy Anniversary!
(SHE hands him the box)
NATHAN
A present? For me? (HE begins to open it)
ADELAIDE
I hope you like it. NATHAN
(He looks inside)A belt!
ADELAIDE
Read the card!NATHAN
"Sugar is sweet, and so is jelly, so put this belt around your belly." That's so sweet. Look, honey - about your present. I didn't get one. I'm sorry.(ADELAIDE gets in front of him - he puts his arms around her)
ADELAIDE
No, I kinda like it when you forget to give me presents. It makes me feel like we're married.NATHAN
Don't worry, honey - one of these days I'll be in the money, and you'll have more mink than a mink.ADELAIDE
Nathan darling, I can do without anything just so long as you don't start running the crap game again.NATHAN
The crap game! What an absurd thought!(BENNY and NICELY ENTER)
BENNY
Psst!(NATHAN turns to him)
NICELY
Yesterday Mindy sold twelve hundred cheesecake and fifteen hundred strudel.NATHAN
More strudel than cheesecake. That's great!ADELAIDE
Nathan! What is this?NATHAN
Nothing, honey. Look, Adelaide, I'm expecting a fellow, and I know you're hungry...ADELAIDE
Nathan, are you trying to get rid of me?