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(ominous warbling electronic tones)

(up tempo electronic music)

(up tempo electronic music continues)

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[Spokesperson] Ladies and gentlemen,

the President of the United States.

(anxious electronic, piano music)

[President] At 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time,

the first spaceships began their attack

on the 200 most populated urban cities.

(anxious piano music)

As of now, by all accounts, four billion people,

half of the world's population

- (sirens blaring) - have been killed.

- (gunfire clacking) - Earth's combined

military defense has failed.

God created this world in six days,

then rested on the seventh.

I can only assume He is still sleeping.

(gunfire clacking)

I am honored to have been your President

during this most critical time.

(rattling electronic tones)

Be strong, my fellow Americans.

I love you all.

- (explosion booms) - (glass shatters)

(people screaming)

(anxious piano, electronic music)

You ask me why I do not stand by your side in this.

A gun clenched in your right hand and a knife in your left,

you ask me why I turn my back on my people and my country.

- "World." - What?

"World," not "country."

It says "country."

I don't give a fuck what it says.

I'm rewriting, it's "world."

You ask me why I turn my back on my people and my world.

"World" just doesn't sound right to me.

It's "world."

Is life not worth fighting for?

Is life not a thing that you must sweat

and scream and claw for and bite and scratch and bleed?

Good.

What is more precious to you?

Your blood or your freedom?

For if you're not prepared to lose one,

you will certainly lose the other.

(explosion booms)

Continue.

- But- - Continue.

You ask me why I do not fight.

I will tell why.

Because my life is worth fighting for.

It is a prize worth more

than every blue ribbon in the world.

It is worth more than every battle hymn,

every notch in your gun barrel,

every bomb dropped like dead birds from the sky.

You're worthless.

What?

You're worthless.

You are nothing.

Your life doesn't mean shit.

Not in front of Joaquin.

Why are you even making a case

for how precious your life is?

I don't believe it.

- You don't believe it. - No.

Do it again.

Again!

That is why I do not fight,

because my life is precious to me.

So go ahead and spill your blood on the battlefield.

Yes.

Go ahead and play toy soldiers with the other boy.

Hell yes.

These soldiers fight back.

That is why I do not wage war

because my life is mine and I choose to protect it.

End scene.

(Orson claps)

Take a bow.

(canned audience applauds)

(remote clicks)

You were wonderful.

I had a great director.

(Orson laughs)

You deserve a bouquet of roses.

Dinner's fine.

(soft piano music)

Mm, I love the smell of your cooking.

It's just soup.

You must have put some behind your ears.

Campbell's Creamy Chicken Mushroom by Chanel.

Thank God the water and power are still working.

They're working their way out to the industrial area.

We'll be lucky if it's working past next week.

Fucking invaders.

Stay positive.

That reminds me, did you take your pill?

(soft piano, violin music)

(pills rattling)

Come on.

You know how I like it.

(soft piano, violin music)

Water.

(Orson coughs)

(soft piano, violin music)

I was doing Shakespeare when I was diagnosed positive.

An all-gay production of "Julius Caesar."

Every night, I was murdered on stage by a dozen Senators

but it was this tiny virus that was going to kill me.

Modern medicine has kept me alive for 30 years and now

I'm gonna be killed by goddamn aliens from outer space.

Hey, be strong.

Be strong for me.

(soft piano, violin music)

(Orson sighs)

You're right.

Save the jello for dessert.

Soup's on.

(soft electronic tones)

(soft flute, electronic music)

(soft piano, violin music)

(spoons clinking softly)

I miss the internet.

Yeah, a lot of it was crap, mindless garbage

but there was so much information.

Stock prices,

music, videos, books, news.

Cat videos.

What do you miss most?

(soft piano, violin music)

- The Tonys. - Oh yeah.

The lights, the pageantry, the sets, the music.

Oh my god, Jojo, the stars.

Angela Lansbury,

Bernadette Peters,

Patty LuPone.

I wonder if she made it?

Patty LuPone, I wonder if she's still alive?

If there's a God.

I like to think that she and Angela and Bernadette

and all of the others are safe and sound

in a secret hidden bunker made just to keep

the dream of American musical theater alive

and they're all singing and dancing

and drinking cocktails and dishing

about Stephen Sondheim and the Golden Age of Broadway.

Don't you?

Well, of course I do.

♪ For I am a pirate king ♪

♪ Hurrah for the pirate king ♪

♪ And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a pirate king ♪

♪ Hip, hip, hurrah for the pirate king ♪

♪ Hurrah for the pirate king ♪

(Orson laughs)

Theater is my life.

Our life.

(clothes hangers clink)

I've written a new monologue for our next production.

Oh, what's it about?

Love.

Write what you know.

(lips smooch)

You want to read it?

Of course.

(lips smooch)

(paper rustles)

"I don't want to go out there.

"Our world is here.

"Our lives are here.

"I'm tired.

Let it end now, here with you."

- (knocking) - (tense violin music)

(knocking)

[Woman's Voice] Help, help me.

Is anyone in there?

- (knocking) - Let me in, please.

Please help me.

For God's sake, Orson, we have to let her in.

We don't have to do anything.

[Susan] Please, my name is Susan Collins.

I'm 42 years old.

I have three children and one grandchild.

They're depending on me for food, please let me in.

For God's sake, Orson.

[Susan] Please, please.

We don't have enough food.

We don't have enough water, we don't have enough room.

We have an entire theater.

[Susan] I hear you.

I know you're there.

Let me in, open this fucking door and let me inside, hurry.

(tense violin music)

Jojo, Jojo, we don't have enough food.

We don't have enough water.

What if it's a trick?

What if she's out there with a dozen others

just waiting for us to open the door so they can rush in

and steal all of our supplies and leave us for dead?

Maybe even kill us?

"What is more precious to you, her blood or your safety?"

- You're doing it wrong. - I'm rewriting.

"For if you are not prepared to lose one,

you will certainly lose the other."

[Susan] Oh god, oh my god, it's coming.

I can see it, it's coming for me.

For God's sake, let me in.

- (ship warbles) - (Susan screams)

(death ray shrieks)

(tense electronic tones)

(alien chittering)

- (loud thudding) - (tense electronic music)

(steady tempo drumbeat)

(wood clattering)

(door breaking)

(alien roaring)

(tense electronic music)

(tense electronic music continues)

(loud clattering)

(glass shatters)

(door creaks)

♪ For I am a pirate king ♪

♪ Hurrah for the pirate king ♪

♪ It is a glorious thing to be a pirate king ♪

- (relaxed electronic music) - (soft chanting)

(rhythmic shakers rattling)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (mid tempo drumbeat)

(soft flute tones)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (mid tempo drumbeat)

- Thank you, Joaquin. - Thanks, Joaquin.

(relaxed electronic, piano music)

(Jojo and Orson moaning)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (rhythmic shakers rattling)

(lips smooch)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (mid tempo drumbeat)

(soft chanting)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (Orson and Jojo moaning)

(soft chanting)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (mid tempo drumbeat)

(soft flute, piano tones)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (mid tempo drumbeat)

(bell chimes)

(rhythmic shakers rattling)

- (soft chanting) - (soft piano music)

- (relaxed electronic music) - (soft chanting)

(water drips)

(no audio)

(Orson and Jojo rustling)

It's dark, did the power go out?

They might have broken the spotlight

or a breaker flipped.

(no audio)

(trapdoor clacks softly)

(no audio)

I'm gonna go check the doors.

If anything happens, hide in the wardrobe room.

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(jeans clattering)

(low, tense electronic tones)

(view port creaks)

(jeans clattering)

(anxious warbling electronic music)

(steady tempo drumbeat)

(anxious mid tempo electronic music)

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(eerie whirring)

(view port creaks)

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Orson?

- (spotlight booms) - (eerie electronic tones)

Orson?

Thank God it's you, that light came on by itself.

Must have been a brown out.

We're lucky it even came back on.

- Someone's here. - No, no one's here.

Not now, they've left.

I hope you're right.

Listen to your director.

Oh shit, I'm performing tonight.

Do you really think you should still

be performing after all that's happened?

Of course.

They've searched and found nothing and think it's empty.

They won't be back.

Not the toga.

You're doing "Julius Caesar," again?

It's my own interpretation.

(Orson taps)

Two minutes to curtain, Mr. Daley.

It has been a long 24 hours.

The theater is my life.

Our life.

Besides,

Joaquin wants to see me do Shakespeare.

(soft flute, piano music)

(tense warbling tones)

(footsteps pattering)

What can be avoided whose end

is purposed by the mighty gods?

Yet Caesar shall go forth.

For these predictions are to the wor-

Sorry.

For these predictions

are to the world in general, as to Caesar.

Cowards die many times before their death.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

Of all the wonders that I yet-

(light rattles)

I tightened it.

(Orson sighs)

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

it seems to me most strange that men should fear,

seeing that death, a necessary end,

will come when it will come.

What the fucketh, Jojo?

Orson, I keep tightening.

Should I continue, or?

- (alien chitters) - Oh, I've lost my place.

Shh, Orson, do you see anything?

I can't see anything with the light in my face.

(alien chitters)

May I continue?

Let's do something else.

[Orson] Like "Hamlet" or "Othello?"

Something non-Shakespeare.

- (Orson gasps) - Non-Shakespeare?

Shakespeare's boring.

(Orson gasps incredulously)

(alien chitters)

(tense electronic tones)

- (Jojo screams) - (alien roars)

Jojo, up here.

(alien chitters, growls)

(tense electronic, flute music)

No!

(Joaquin rips)

- (ominous piano tones) - (alien roars)

(alien squelches)

- (tense electronic music) - (alien roars)

(canned audience applauds)

The stage is for performers only.

(alien roars)

(alien squelches, chitters)

(alien roars)

(tense electronic music)

(door thuds)

Help me.

- (tense electronic music) - (ominous chanting)

The best day of my life was the day I met you.

I'm sorry I said Shakespeare was boring.

- (tense electronic music) - (ominous chanting)

- (loud clattering) - (alien chitters)

(loud clattering continues)

- (tense electronic music) - (ominous chanting)

(tense electronic music continues)

- (Jojo screams) - (alien roars)

- (door thuds) - (tense electronic music)

(brass tacks clattering)

(door thuds)

- (tense electronic music) - (alien chitters)

What are you waiting for, Zontar? Come and get me.

(alien squeals, groans)

That's for Joaquin,

you mother fucking thing from another world.

(alien chitters)

Okay, we found this place, we'll find another.

The old world burns, the new one rises.

As long as we have each other,

we will live, we will thrive, we will love.

Is that how it goes?

I'm rewriting.

(loud thudding)

(alien roars)

Wait.

(soft piano music)

"I don't want to go out there.

"Our world is here.

"Our lives are here.

"I'm tired.

"Let it end.

"Here.

"Now.

With you."

(alien roars)

End scene.

- (tense electronic music) - (soft piano music)

Perfect.

Theater is my life.

Our life.

- (bell tolls) - (loud thudding)

- (tense electronic music) - (loud thudding increases)

We had a good run.

I can't wait to read the reviews.

(door breaks)

(alien roars)

(alien footsteps splatting)

(tense electronic music)

(soft electronic music)

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