Schenectady High School - Shucis Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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Leonardo Marianna Leonardo: Bernardo Dwyer : Chorus : Uhr Shuriz Aint nature grand? CLong Pauscj A The hour of parting is at hand! Oh what sorrow! Shall I see you towmorrow? By my troth, tomorrow. A QExit at a Sprlntj. Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! fMarianna sees them and screamsj Bernardo: Aha! Dwyer: Aha! Chorus: Aha! Aha! Aha! Bernardo: At last! At last! You must he willin'! Clinter Franciscoj Francisco: Uinhand the girl, You wretched villain! They iight. Francisco is killed. Bernardo bears Marianna, screaming, off. QCurtainj ACT II The scene opens in Physics lah, room 311. Enter Bernardo with Marianna. Sets her down with a thud. Bernardo Chorus: Bernardo Chorus : Marianna Bernardo Chorus: Marianna 2 Bernardo Chorus: Marianwna Chorus: I have you now, Safe in a casitle of Spaine! A Castle oi Spaine, alia, A castle, a castle of Spaine. And I do vow, You shall not leave again.. She cannot go again, poor thing, She cannot go again. Wlretchl Wlre tch ? Vtlretch ! F !! Do not you fear the King? I fear not anything. Nor Lord nor King, not anything. And what can these around ine be? Prentices to your yrillainy? livery person in the town Tra-la, from the wealthy Bucrger down. All are subject to his sway From Dewey eye to hark of Day! Oh, we are jolly villains, Here in a castle strange. Our work is light throughout the night And so we'll sing a song to you Enhancing all our range. 11

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Uhr Shania Chorus! Yes by golly! Here comes Holly! Hollietta: Bernardo : Holietta : Aha! Aha! I have you now! A low and plotting villain, thou! I saw you with a dozen girls! Yes, with a dozen-with twelve girls- So many that my poor head whiirlsa And so -does mine! Oh, dearie me, VVith sta-tis-tics you weary mel What matter if 'twas girls or men? Besides, I only coun-ted ten. Don't waste your breath, I beg of you, You're weloorme to your silliness But I am thru' with you, 'til you Are thru with Lady killiness! QExit haughtilyj QBernardo beckons to Dwyer and they oonferj Bernardo : Dwyer : Chorus : Bernardo : She's -a dear little skirt, a sweet little skirtg Her sin-gle fault is she never will flint. Never will flirt? Never, no never, will flirt! When we bind her and gag her and take her to Spaine Perhaps she will learn to be civil again. Hist! Hush! Mayhap 'tis she! A step! A silen-t footprint on the wall! QThey conceal themselves behind opposite corners of the locker E ter Leonardo and Marianna fro-m left and right. They meet and embrate Enter cake eaters, chorus, cakewalking, left to right.j Leonardo: I don't know how to tell my love- I don't know what to say! Chorus: just leave it to hirmg the chan-ces are slim He'll very long be that way! Leonardo: My words are going from me now Now when I need them most- How shall I tell my love to you Chorus: Simply! Send it by Poste! By Poste, by Poste, by Poiste, Sirg Simply! Send it by Poste. Leonardo: Whither have you gone today? Whither gone at noon? VVhiither gone at Dewey morn, VVhere, by the Silver Moon? Marianna: Today I wandered to the Hill VVhere our Neuhaus will stand And heard the Finches sing, dear, Upon the Dales and Strand! The Carpenter carped on the house, dearest The Slater slated 'the roof, The Painter painted the porch, dearest: While the dickey-Birds chattereid aloof. 10

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Uhr Sharm QFran cisco is brought in and tossed resisting to a corner.j This man is 'most exasperating. I thought him dead, but while awaiting Your prompt comwmand, I found him 'live Dwyer: A most u-ncourtly way to thievel Bernardo: W'e'll kvill hifm entirely later: just now I must see my waiter. QTO Marinnaj I leave you now. You are my guest. My servants come at your behest. CF,xit all but Marianna and Francisco Marianna: I am the victim of my fate- I shall be dead soon, at this rate. List to my pitiful tale of woes! I have no powder for my nose. Chorus: No powder has she for her nose, ha-ha! No powder has she for her nose! Francisco: May I be dead, if I speak lies: Your nose is perfect, in my eyes! Mariianna: You are so Frank, you are so VVise, That I am forced sir, to surmise That you are Frank, because you're NVise! Francisco: I am her faithful guardsman bold, My respect for her cannot be told. I guard her night and day, you see: NVherever she is, there I be. I save her from dangers, full fifty a Day And I think it is nothing out of the way! Tra-la, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la, Nothing out of the wa-ay! Qlinter Taylor Taylori Excuse my intrusion. I was bid- NYhy who is this in the corner hid? Francisco: What do you here, good friend? How did you come to this bad end? Marianna: Save him, if you can, He is a valiant man! Taylor: Though of low birth, I must admit, fFor the son of a Taylor am lj The power I have his bonds ta slit And give him a chance to fly, to fly, And give him a chance to fly. QHe does soj Marianna: VVhat is that sound which now I hear? Oh joy! It's horses Cantore ing near. Taylor: ,Tis a rescuer coming! Oh, what a sell! My duty is plain--I must guard you welll And I will your doughty fell! Chorus: He will knock him quite dead: He will knock him quite cold: He will give him a knockout, This Taylor's son bold! Francisco: Ah me! 12