Giacomo Casanova: Magic Masque, I want to know,
Oh, show me please, oh, tell me so,
Like sands of grain and skies of star
The many ladies I have loved thus far!
Oho! I see Elisabetta, Greta, Yvette, Angelica, Gertrude, Dominique, Chiara, Fiametta, Sophia, Heloise, Leonie, Rosamund, Mia the milkmaid (that was very refreshing, grazie!), Giulia from Venice, Teresa, Anna, Carlota, Giulia from Turin, Magda, Celeste, Linda, Roxane, Inez, Beatrice, Lily, Josefina, Paula, Clemence, Vittoria, Margot, Francesca, Lola, Giulia from Calabria (three scattered blood sisters named Giulia (if you can believe that), and I reunited them! - rewarded me handsomely with a menage a quatre! Grazie grazie grazie!), Amelie, Hannelore, Barbara, Maria, Aurora, Irene, Alessandra, Salome, Rebecca, Bianca, Isabella, Bertha, Greta, Zoe, Giada, Melissa, Sigrund, Emma, Felicia, Katherine (sighs)...need I really go on?
DB (aka you-know-who): How's about, umm, five more?
GC (sarcastically): Five? Really? Gosh, I'll try! So...Leonie, Helena, Marta, Luisa aaannnd Belinda! How's that?
DB: Very good!
GC: Well, you try. I mean, I try.
Marie Antoinette (off): Oh, Giaceeeeee, I'm waiiitingg!!
GC: Ah, I hear the (current) Queen of my Heart now!
Benjamin Franklin (off): But she isn't going to wait for very looong, Giaceeeeee!!
GC: HEY, YOU BLOATED, STRINGY-HAIRED OLD COOT, KEEP YOUR STUBBY PIZZLE AWAY FROM HER!!!!!
BF (dryly): Oh. Ouch.
MA: Better get a move on, then, mon amour!!
BF: And fast, which is pretty much your speed anyway.
Pope (Not-so) Innocent III (off): Fie! A pox on you fornicators!
All: SHUT UP, INNOCENT!!!
Charles Dickens (off): Really, can't you do that somewhere, anywhere else?!
All: SHUT UP, CHARLES!!!
GC (muttering): Ahh, that damned Franklin! Peste! Listen, Dan, are we about through here?
DB: Yeah, pretty much.
GC: Good, good. Ladies and gentlemen, that is, as your American comedians say, my time, so I bid you a fond adieu and earnestly hope to be here again whenever I'm not, shall we say,"working" and also off the Spanish Fly. Until then! (starts to go, pauses) Oh, in case you all were wondering Dan has decided for a while to forego composing the third 'Dolls' dialogue with some of the lovely ladies in the Box over there in order to keep playing at 'lyricist' and also commit to other projects. I do hope you (and they) understand.
DB: Uh, yeahh...
Anne Bonney (off): Scalliwag!
Marie Antoinette (off): Cochon!
Cleopatra (off): Snake!
'Cleopatra' Bettie Page (off): I don't like that, Daniel, but Jesus and I both love and forgive you. Don't we, Lord?
Jesus Christ (off): Don't see what he needs forgiveness for, but sure, love ya, Dan!
DB: Aww, thanks, Jay! Sorry, ladies.
GC: Now are we done? Then sing me off, Lou Bega! Ciao! (exits)
Music: 'Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)' by Lou Bega
DB/6.2018
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