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THE UNDERSTUDY - Act Three · Table Read

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Miss Natalie Primavera is still stuck on the body of
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Miss Ava Ross, turning the poor girl's life upside down
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: with five AM runs and Instagram obsession. She breaks up
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: with a Trevor boy who serenades her dressed as naked
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: And starts flirting with Grayson.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: God help us all when I give Jasmine the sugar
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: plump Ferry roll and pull Natalie, I mean Ava from
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: the show entirely. To put a stop to this madness,
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: she has a Prima Donna meldown in my office and
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: smashes the magic snow globe, releasing dark forces into the world.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Cares ensues.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the real Ava wakes up trapped in Natalie's broken body.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: The girls finally meet at the hospital, each wanting what
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: the other has. Tragic Eh.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Miss Kenzie, smart Girl, figures out the swap and hatches
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: a plant. Natalie must learn to be Ava to become
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: Natalie again. The natural order must be restored or we're
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: all doomed. Out of my office and listen to the finale.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: I FOI will probably be the end for all of us.
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: Interior stage, Auditorium Day. Miss Miaco sitting in the center
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: of the audience. Dancers scattered throughout the seats while Jasmine
• 1:13
  Speaker 3: and Grayson dance the pare do on stage. As they
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: strike the final pose, Jasmine looks to the audience.
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: Has anyone seen Mister Constantine?
• 1:24
  Speaker 3: Interior stage wings continuous, Miss Lana clipboard in hand waves
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: Natalie over missus Primavera wants to make some adjustment Sonia
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: costum interior dressing room day. Zoe is seated on her
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: phone waiting for her turn as missus Primavera fits Natalie
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: with various costume pieces. Natalie notices her mother's touch, moving
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: away wisps of her hair to measure her.
• 1:48
  Speaker 5: Have I told you that you dance just like Natalie?
• 1:52
  Speaker 6: All ballet looks the same when it's done right now.
• 1:56
  Speaker 5: Ballet's personal. You and her. You have the same something
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: it's hard to explain.
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: Natalie stays silent. Life's so unfair.
• 2:06
  Speaker 7: Natalie can't play the sugar plum fairy and I'm spending
• 2:08
  Speaker 7: my senior year in core.
• 2:10
  Speaker 8: How aim is that Kensey worked her ass off for
• 2:12
  Speaker 8: that role on top of taking AP classes and college applications.
• 2:16
  Speaker 7: Some of us don't want to settle for college, do
• 2:19
  Speaker 7: you know how much work it is to become an influencer.
• 2:22
  Speaker 7: I just want one hundred thousand followers, Mary, Timothy Shallmy
• 2:24
  Speaker 7: and I is that really so much to ask for?
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: A smoky dancer wishes by the mirror behind Natalie. She turns.
• 2:31
  Speaker 3: There's nothing there. Lights flicker on and off. Zoe's phone
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: buzzes and she looks at it.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: WHOA.
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: Zoe hurries off.
• 2:41
  Speaker 6: Timothy Sellon is following my Instagram.
• 2:43
  Speaker 7: I'm seriously figuring out right now.
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Natalie checks her phone
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: and Zoe's page is at one hundred thousand followers. Zoe
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: pops into the room. Ave's all done and he talks
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: someone right now. Zoe bear hugs Natalie. Missus Primavera starts
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: taking Zoe's measurements. Zoe let's go of the hug, and Natalie, dazed,
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: exits the room.
• 3:07
  Speaker 7: Samothy Salomy just gave my last pig heart.
• 3:10
  Speaker 9: He's looking at my feet right now. I'm gonna post
• 3:12
  Speaker 9: keep your sht onside.
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: Interior stage, auditorium, Day Brock and Theo performed the Russian
• 3:20
  Speaker 3: Dance as a duet. Miss Miaco claps along to the
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: Russian music. Natalie approaches Miss Miaco lifts her fingers, still
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: watching the dance.
• 3:29
  Speaker 9: That looks great as a duet. It was their idea,
• 3:32
  Speaker 9: so neither would miss out on the roll.
• 3:34
  Speaker 3: Oh THEO and Brock finish, breathing heavily love it. Can
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: I help you?
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 3:40
  Speaker 6: I need to talk to mister Constantine.
• 3:42
  Speaker 9: Have you seen him?
• 3:43
  Speaker 4: He's been out on a family emergency. Completely unprofessional if
• 3:46
  Speaker 4: you ask me, But you didn't ask me, Just like
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: I wasn't asked to be interim artistic director. I wasn't
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: asked to do mister Constantine's job when he disappeared right
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: before opening, just like completely not okay, this is like
• 3:59
  Speaker 4: just I'm so stumped.
• 4:00
  Speaker 3: Just so. Natalie walks away regretfully, as Miss Miako continues
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: to ran to herself. Interior Ava's apartment night, Natalie walks in.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Ross is waiting, arms crossed.
• 4:13
  Speaker 10: I just got off the phone with mister Hall. You're
• 4:16
  Speaker 10: failing chemistry. How is that possible?
• 4:18
  Speaker 9: I gotta be on the last test.
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: One test. Miss Ross pulls out the Royal Ballet audition packet.
• 4:24
  Speaker 10: And what the hell is this?
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  Speaker 6: You don't think I can get in what am I
• 4:28
  Speaker 6: supposed to think?
• 4:29
  Speaker 10: Huh? You convince me to let you go to this school,
• 4:32
  Speaker 10: that it'll be so easy to graduate valedictorian and get
• 4:35
  Speaker 10: into Harvard, and today you want to skip college to
• 4:38
  Speaker 10: be a ballerina. It's out of nowhere.
• 4:40
  Speaker 8: Missus Primavera is at every rehearsal, ask her how good
• 4:43
  Speaker 8: I am?
• 4:44
  Speaker 6: And who is she there for?
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  Speaker 10: Hau Her daughter is rodding away in a hospital bed
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  Speaker 10: while she spends her days with other people's kids.
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: Natalie is gutted.
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  Speaker 8: I'm auditioning for the Royal Ballet and I'll be out
• 4:55
  Speaker 8: of your life, just like your husband or dad whatever.
• 4:58
  Speaker 9: I won't be your problem anymore.
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Who are you? Natalie Waivers? Should she tell her? Natalie
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: prima Vera, Bean's face peeks into the room, Go to.
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  Speaker 7: Your room, Beans, Will you stop blowing her off if
• 5:13
  Speaker 7: you can't tell, she's dying for your attention and put.
• 5:16
  Speaker 3: A lock on your phone. She knows about dad and
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: the twenty four year old mis ross sits defeated.
• 5:21
  Speaker 10: When your dance career ends at what thirty thirty five,
• 5:25
  Speaker 10: that's thirty or forty more years of a career you'll.
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: Need after that?
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  Speaker 10: You need to think about those years too, Ava.
• 5:32
  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, every little doubt you have, I have tenfold.
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  Speaker 9: It's constant.
• 5:38
  Speaker 8: At every audition and every day I'm killing myself to
• 5:41
  Speaker 8: get my grades up, work study, to get ready for
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  Speaker 8: the show. I'm seventeen, and you want me to think
• 5:45
  Speaker 8: about when I'm forty. You want as you want a
• 5:48
  Speaker 8: social life. You want me to never make a single mistake.
• 5:51
  Speaker 8: I have the whole world to tell me I'm not
• 5:53
  Speaker 8: good enough, and my own mom is done with me
• 5:55
  Speaker 8: because I can't be what she wants.
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: Ms Ross envelops Natalie and a hug. Natalie struggles to
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: get out of it, but Miss Ross holds.
• 6:03
  Speaker 6: On, I am never done with you.
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  Speaker 10: Never, Harvard Ballerina, Alaskan crab fishermen, whatever it is, I
• 6:13
  Speaker 10: just want you to be happy, and I am on
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  Speaker 10: board one hundred percent.
• 6:18
  Speaker 9: Are you happy?
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: Natalie surrenders into Miss Ross's hug. Exterior Mister Constantine's House, Night,
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: Natalie rings the doorbell. A set of triplets, age five,
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: dressed in armor, answer the door is your dad? Home?
• 6:34
  Speaker 11: Five?
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: Interior Mister Constantine's House, living room, night. Natalie is sitting
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: there with Fritz across from her, holding his wooden sword,
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: staring solemnly. The triplets are playing with her hair. A
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: pair of twins age eleven are playing the piano. A
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: toddler colors a whole piece of paper. Black moving boxes
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: are everywhere. Missus Constantine walks in, very pregnant and with
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: a baby in her arms. She's carrying a tray with
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: drinks in her other arm.
• 7:12
  Speaker 6: You are really cute, kids.
• 7:13
  Speaker 5: Only Fritz is the.
• 7:14
  Speaker 9: Beauty, aren't you Fritz?
• 7:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, Mamma, Natalie looks at the other children who don't flinch.
• 7:25
  Speaker 5: Are you the best child?
• 7:27
  Speaker 12: Uh?
• 7:28
  Speaker 6: My sister is definitely the best right now? Wait, no,
• 7:31
  Speaker 6: I don't have a sister. It's complicated.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine walks in.
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here?
• 7:38
  Speaker 6: I need your help.
• 7:39
  Speaker 8: Weird stuff is happening, and I'm seeing those shadowy things.
• 7:41
  Speaker 6: From the globe and they're like everywhere.
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: Raise did you say?
• 7:45
  Speaker 9: Raids?
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  Speaker 3: The twin song on the piano changes tone right on cue.
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: We're granting spirits from the old world. They only grant
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: the deepest wish there to be spoken out loud. My
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: ancestors captured them on the globe. It kept them on
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: the all one wish at a time.
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine snaps his fingers. Fritz retrieves a shoebox and
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: hands it to his father. Natalie looks around at the
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: moving boxes everywhere.
• 8:11
  Speaker 9: What's going on? Are you moving?
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: We'll be returned into Romagna after this last nutcracker?
• 8:17
  Speaker 6: You mean the last of the school year. Uh sure,
• 8:23
  Speaker 6: mister Constantine. How can I fix this?
• 8:26
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine pulls out a curved piece of the broken
• 8:29
  Speaker 3: glass from the shoe box.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: In order for the race to be recaptured, the natural
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: order must be restored.
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: You need to return.
• 8:38
  Speaker 3: Natalie takes a deep breath, sad and nods.
• 8:43
  Speaker 6: I know I missed a babist life. I need to
• 8:46
  Speaker 6: make things right and then I have to go back.
• 8:50
  Speaker 8: What if we can't recapture them?
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  Speaker 3: Hm?
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  Speaker 1: In all my years as a keeper, no one has
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: ever been as careless as you. So this is uncharted territory.
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine looks at the large mural behind him, a
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: scene from the Rapture of Wraiths disemboweling screaming people.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: But I've heard it's very, very bad.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: Interior mister Hall's house, living room night. Mister Hall watches
• 9:24
  Speaker 3: I Love Lucy, laughing with the laugh track. Although he
• 9:32
  Speaker 3: is surrounded by cats, he hears a distant meal that
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: catches his attention.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it sounds like someone is hungry for some food
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: and friendship.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: Come on, friends, let's gonna say hi.
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall makes his way down the narrow corridor. His
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: house is designed to be a cat paradise. He passes
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: cat condos and nooks built for his friends. Interior ext
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall's house, kitchen, back door night. Mister Hall opens
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  Speaker 3: the door, looks down, eyes widen interior stage stage Wings Day.
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: On stage, Kenzie and the mouse King perform the battle
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: scene in full costume. Bean runs on stage for her cue.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, dancers, dress rehearsal, do it like the real thing?
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: Leave it all on the stage.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine watches the performance from the wings while Natalie
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: paces behind him. Miss Lana spots mister Constantine. Mister Constantine,
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: we weren't sure you are coming back? Are you in
• 10:37
  Speaker 3: the missus and trial separation?
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: No, you're a mouse.
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: I don't see a mouse.
• 10:43
  Speaker 11: I see a little girl pressing like a Bullsit princess.
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: I want to see a star.
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: Miss Lana jumps, scared and turns off mister Constantine glances
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: over to Fritz, who is huddled by the shelf next
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: to the wing back turned.
• 11:02
  Speaker 6: Is it almost ready?
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  Speaker 12: Quite?
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  Speaker 3: Divil? Natalie exits with a toss of her hands in
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: the air.
• 11:08
  Speaker 13: Okay, ah, what are you doing, freak?
• 11:10
  Speaker 9: I'm saving the vault? What are you doing? Basicing?
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: Got tiles of making fox sounds? The party boy farts
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: on Fritz and the party children went off laughing. Fritz
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: watches them and sighs, I wish I had the friend.
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: The lights flicker, A smoky dancer passes behind Fritz, and
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: the nutcracker doll on the prop table seems to blink.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: Kenzie, you're killing me, killing me? He has seven heads.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: When was the last time you saw a mouse with
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: seven heads?
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: Eh?
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: You were yourself?
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Interior stage, Auditorium Day. Natalie takes a seat in the
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: audience next to Bean, Jasmine and Grayson in costume are
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: performing the partida. Mister Constantine watches from the foot of
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: the stage as the how did it finishes? Mister Constantine
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: jumps on the stage.
• 12:03
  Speaker 11: Dancers, I'm obligated to make a quick announcement that's relevant
• 12:08
  Speaker 11: if we manage to prevent their bucalypse. Missus Jasmine Kern
• 12:11
  Speaker 11: has been accepted as an apprentice for the next season's
• 12:15
  Speaker 11: Royal Ballet.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: Natalie sits up. Dancers cheer and give Jasmine a hug.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: She smiles like a beauty queen. Natalie watches stiff, heart
• 12:28
  Speaker 3: pounding and longing. Jasmine seems to move in slow motion.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: Natalie's eyes well up, unblinking.
• 12:36
  Speaker 8: Okay, her eyes are leaking, watching all my dreams come
• 12:40
  Speaker 8: true for someone else.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: Jasmine is wiping away happy tears. Fritz pops his head
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: from the wings, waving Natalie over father difficult.
• 12:50
  Speaker 11: Yes, okay, everyone keep congratulating Jasmine.
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: Natalie and mister Constantine walk toward the stage wings, where
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: Fritz is waiting for them. Interior stage wings continuous.
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: Is it ready?
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: Fritz reveals the snow globe with jagged pieces glued together,
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: the forest inside wilted. Natalie takes it.
• 13:10
  Speaker 8: That's it, you glued it is this thing gonna work.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: Fritz cranks the knob and it plays the haunting Pottadieu
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  Speaker 3: lex puffectly. Kenzie spots the commotion and rushes over, Oh.
• 13:22
  Speaker 6: My god, is this it?
• 13:23
  Speaker 7: The mcguffin is a perfect gruff prison though I'm sorry
• 13:27
  Speaker 7: did you say wreaths?
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: Are you ready? You need to one this more than
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: anything I know.
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: I'm ready.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: Natalie hears squeals coming from the stage and glances over
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: to see missus Primavera giving Jasmine a long hug.
• 13:44
  Speaker 9: Thanks, miss Pee.
• 13:45
  Speaker 12: This is my happy place being here with all you
• 13:47
  Speaker 12: talented girls.
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera points to Jasmine and her heart, mouthing you
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: are my heart. Jasmine reciprocates. Natalie nearly drops the snow
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: globe from her hands. Mister Constantine eyes her, concerned.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: Miss Primavera.
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Now Natalie swallows and shakes the snow globe, her eyes
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: well up. The globe plays its tiny padad.
• 14:12
  Speaker 6: I wish I was Natalie Primavera.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: The lights flicker on and off. The music abroughly stops
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: playing from the globe. Silence, everyone frozen, anticipating. Did it work? Ava?
• 14:25
  Speaker 9: What's something only Ava would know is a hotdog?
• 14:28
  Speaker 5: A sandwich?
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: Natalie rushes to the dressing room. Interior dressing room continuous.
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Natalie looks at the mirror, sees Ava's reflection. Mister Constantine, Bean,
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Kenzie and Fritz follow her in. It didn't work.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: What did you do wrong?
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: Nothing?
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: Look at it.
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: It's better than ever.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: It's hot.
• 14:46
  Speaker 7: She must not.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: The sad glued together snow globe springs a leak, unnoticed
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: by the bickering group. Jasmine stops at the edge of
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: the dressing room, listening.
• 14:58
  Speaker 6: What does this mean?
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: I want my sister back.
• 15:02
  Speaker 14: I've been telling you everyone something is wrong, and nobody
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  Speaker 14: listens to me. I wish I was grown up so
• 15:08
  Speaker 14: people would hear me already.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: The lights flicker and a smoky dancer rushes by. Natalie
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: slumps down by herself as the group argues. Mister Constantine
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: puts his hand on Natalie's shoulder.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: It was worth a try.
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: Yes, what do we do now?
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Everybody upstairs? This is a sinking ship, and we go
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: down doing what we'll love. Let's make it a great
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: last nutcracker before our demise.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: What do they say?
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Did you say demise?
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: My apologies? I meant to say that part in Romanian.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: The group solemnly filters out, leaving Natalie alone. Interior stage,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Auditorium night. Everyone is gone. The stage is lit with
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: a ghost light. Natalie steps out onto the stage and
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: hums the body into a noise. Natalie pauses and looks
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: into the dark audience. Jasmine steps towards the stage.
• 16:06
  Speaker 15: You know, Natalie and I used to do this dance
• 16:09
  Speaker 15: the whole show the night before opening night. We'd sneak
• 16:12
  Speaker 15: out and dance until like two am.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Jasmine starts stepping through the dance with her.
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: We've always been that connect.
• 16:20
  Speaker 15: I landed my double pirouette and she landed a clean tripple.
• 16:24
  Speaker 15: She did twelve a tays in a row, and then
• 16:26
  Speaker 15: I did sixteen like the next day. I've oh, we've
• 16:31
  Speaker 15: always wanted to be the sugar plump Ferry.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Jasmine begins doing wet day turns and Natalie joins her.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: They watch one another, turning and turning until Jasmine finally stops.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Natalie stops.
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't you audition for the role if you wanted
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: it so badly?
• 16:51
  Speaker 15: Because I was scared it might have gone to me
• 16:54
  Speaker 15: and I didn't want to break my best friend's heart.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: She's your best friend? Then why do you call her
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  Speaker 6: Natalie Primadonna.
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  Speaker 3: Jasmine raises her eyebrows, surprised, then shrugs.
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: We all talk too much shit sometimes.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Why aren't you going to visit her?
• 17:12
  Speaker 12: I have?
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: I've just always waited for her dad to be gone.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: She's different.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Now you know.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Natalie is quiet?
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Does she know you dance this roll perfectly?
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm glad you got to see it, because I
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: think I hurt my toe. Your toe, Yeah, it hurts.
• 17:33
  Speaker 15: I can't handle two rolls, so I'm just gonna dance
• 17:37
  Speaker 15: the snow Queen. I already talked to mister Constantine.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Jasmine begins walking off.
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: Wait, why is your bun today? Because you're the understudy.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Natalie watches Jasmine disappear, and she smiles. Interior, Mister Hall's
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: bedroom night. Mister Hall attempts to give Catastrophe a zombie
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: cat a saucer of milk. Catastrophe growls, one eye missing,
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: and soars, oozing from its skin. All the other cats
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: are huddled away, backs arched, hissing.
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: Now, now, friends get along, We're all friends.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: We are all friends.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Catastrophe bites a bit of mister Hall's fingertips.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Ow eh, is that what you need? Little friend here?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Just a little okay?
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Interior Avea's bedroom morning. Natalie wakes up. The wall calendar
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: reads opening Night. Natalie sighs and exits the room. Bean
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: stirs and uncovers herself. She's a grown teenager. She gets
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: out of bed, her kid pj's barely fitting her. Teenage
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Bean looks down and Noice says, ample breasts in her
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: pjshirt that now fits like a crop top. Interior Ava's
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Kitchen Day. Natalie eats root loops while Miss Ross drinks coffee.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: A squeal comes from the other room. Natalie stands up,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I'll go check on her. Interior Ava's Bedroom Day. Natalie
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: rushes into the room. Teenage Beans stands there.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: This is bad.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I wis kids too.
• 19:24
  Speaker 14: It looks so hot.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: A knock on the door.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: You girls, okay, everything's fine.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: This is really really bad.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Exterior theater's sunset. The blue moon is high in the
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: sky as people of all ages file into the theater.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: A marquee sign reads Wilburn Arts High School The Nutcracker
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Opening Night, with a poster of the Nutcracker with Ava
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: as the sugar plum faery. By the door, a lima
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: pulls up and we see fancy black shoes walk back
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: to open the rear door. White converse sneakers step bap out.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Interior Stage Wings Night. Natalie and teenage Bean rushed to
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: mister Constantine.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: This has Bean?
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: She made us wish to be a teenager, and we.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is bad, very very very bad.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: What does this mean?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: It means that full worldly cares is just around the corner.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: The wraiths are loose, granting every twisted desire of the heart,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: every whim for lost love, lottery tickets and revenge. The
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: heart is selfish. You of all people should know this, Fritz.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: You'll be dancing with your iron short tonight. We might
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: have to kill something.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Party boy Holtz and looks at mister Constantine.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Did you mean to say that?
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: In a Romanian mister Constantine?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Interior stage auditorium night, The orchestra warms up as the
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: audience trickle to take their seats. Trevor looks a mess,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: tie on sloppy and hair unbrushed. Mister Hall shows up
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: day with part of his cheek nibbled off. Principal Waters
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: takes notice, not mister.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Hall, or are you all right? He's gone?
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: I open the door and he let me My friend
• 21:14
  Speaker 12: is gone again, Walter, looker, he is a little man.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall, still muttering, walks to his seat, climbing past
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Miss Ross, seated with grocery store flowers in hand. Mister
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: and missus Primavera enter pushing Ava in a wheelchair down
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: the aisle. She is given a standing ovation as they
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: make their way to park. Ava upfront, Ava cranes to
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: see Miss Ross in her seat and Trevor in the pit,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: neither notice her. Interior backstage Hallway night. Backstage is a
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: chaos of dancers in costume, most of them warming up, children,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: laughing and chasing each other. Fritz swinging his sword. This
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: is interior dressing room night. Jasmine is in her snow
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Queen costume and wearing warm up booties. Zoe as a Snowflake,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: is on her phone. Natalie walks in with teenage Bean
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: and catches Jasmine's eye. Jasmine smiles. Missus Primavera scurries in
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: to approach teenage Bean.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: Baby Mouse huh. Teenage Bean nods, what happened to Bean?
• 22:23
  Speaker 14: I'm not allowed to talk about that, okay.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera starts ripping fabric. Interior stage Auditorium night. Mister
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Constantine walks out on stage. The full house collaps.
• 22:44
  Speaker 16: Reading Sparren's family friends of Wilborne Arts High Schools Christmas,
• 22:50
  Speaker 16: but they're not crack her. I won't make a lengthy speech,
• 22:55
  Speaker 16: But I want you all to think about this past
• 22:58
  Speaker 16: year and all you have lost and what you may
• 23:01
  Speaker 16: lose soon.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Christmas is the saddest season of them all.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I have never felt more heartbroken than I do now.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Trevor's chin trembles and he claps enthusiastically. The rest of
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: the audience is silent. The lights flicker.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Without further ado.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine motions to the orchestra. As he exits, they begin,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: the curtains open, the street scene begins. Interiors stage Wings night,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Miss Miaco half jogging, hand on her earpiece. Do we
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: have any idea where the doll is? We need it now?
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: At Miss Miako's feet is catastrophe crawling unnoticed. Interior dressing
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: room night. Teenage Bean is in a makeshift mouse costume.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera puts on finishing touches.
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: There to do it?
• 24:00
  Speaker 14: Is it hard to dance with big boobs?
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: No talking?
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Remember Ava, that's rude.
• 24:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah, Ava, people want to listen to what I have
• 24:11
  Speaker 14: to say. Now, maybe I'll never go back to being
• 24:14
  Speaker 14: a kid Bean.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: I mean Bean's replacement. Of course you're going back.
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: There's nothing good about being a kid or a teenager.
• 24:23
  Speaker 14: Whatever I am.
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: Funny, how he's been our whole childhood looking ahead, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 12: our entire adulthood looking back.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: An usher enters with a large bouquet of flowers.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Is Zoe here?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Zoe at her makeup station, waves her hand and the
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: usher puts Zoe's flowers down. Zoe looks at the card.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It reads Mayred Zoe, I can't wait to meet you,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Love Timothy. Interior stage, Auditorium night. The party scene March
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: is happening. Zoe's distant shriek echoes through the auditorium. The
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: dancers all look off stage, but continue. Interior backstage night.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Miss Lana sees the Nutcracker doll standing in a walking
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: pose near the exit door and snatches it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Found it must have been some kid.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Miss Miaco meets Miss Lana with a box and they
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: stick the nutcracker inside. It blinks once before the lid
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: covers it. Mister Constantine, with an eyepatch dressed as Drosselmeier,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: rushes by and grabs the box. Interior stage, Auditorium night.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Party scene is on stage. Mister Constantine pulls the Nutcracker
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: out of the box and hands it to Kenzie for
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: her solo Kenzie begins to dance. She nails her jumps perfectly.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Aba is watching the dance from her wheelchair. She catches
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Kenzie's eye and flashes her a thumbs up. Kenzie smiles.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Kenzie is looking longingly at the Nutcracker doll. It blinks.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Kenzi does a double take. The nutcracker is alive. It
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: spots Fritz on the stage.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I don't think we cast a nutcracker.
• 25:57
  Speaker 12: My bad.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: No, I didn't notice it either.
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Who would be a fun nutcracker?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Brandon? Did you give us a demented nutcracker doll? Please? Yeah?
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: The audience gasps. Fritz grabs the doll, smashes it into
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: the stage, and takes his sword, striking it over and
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: over and over again. The Nutcracker's face off, looking at Fritz.
• 26:32
  Speaker 15: Yeh.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Fritz takes his sword and smashes its face. The audience
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: silently watches, horrified. Mister Constantine pulls Fritz off by the
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: collar of his Victorian shirt. Mister Constantine wrestles with the Nutcracker.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine wrestles with a Nutcracker doll until it looks
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: like a mummy and hands it to Kenzie, who's breathing heavily.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: The show must go on.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Kenzie grabs it gingerly. She timidly continues to dance. Interior
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Backstage Night. Mister Constantine, Fritz and Kenzie are rushing down
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: the backstage hall together. Kenzie is shaken up.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: What's going on?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You made it wish if even needs a fen Papa.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Teenage Bean and the other mice run past costume James
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Kenzie quickly. Kenzi is pulled into the dressing room by
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Miss Lana. Is it dead?
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: Please tell me it's dead.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Interior Stage Auditorium Night. Teenage Bean trips over herself a
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: terrible dancer in her new body. Her leaves are sloppy
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: and barely make it off the ground. She trips, and
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: the other mice fumble behind her. Like Domino's, these boobs suck.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Miss Ross frantically flips through the program. On the stage.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: The Grandfather clock shatters and Kenzie has red ribbon fake
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: blood coming from her arms. She falls asleep on the couch.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: The audience murmurs and shock. Interior Stage Wings Night. Jasmine
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: enters the wings in her snow queen costume. Catastrophe is
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: at her ankles and wanders onto the stage. Interior on
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: stage Auditorium Night. Battle scene with toy soldiers and the
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: mouse King is on stage. Kenzie sees catastrophe and screams.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine is in the wings, gives her a thumbs up.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Kenzie throws her shoe, hitting Catastrophe in the face and
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: its other eyeball pops out. Kensie faints and hits the
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: stage floor. Hard Ava and the audience gasp.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It's catastrophe.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Interior stage stage Wings Night, the curtain closes, Mister Constantine
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: rushes on stage and grabs the zombie cat Interior stage,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Auditorium Night. The curtain opens to the snow scene. Jasmine
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: is on stage along with Zoe as one of the snowflakes.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Zoe spots Timothy challow May in the audience and gasps.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Timothy shallow May blows a kiss to Zoe and she
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: catches the kiss. Jasmine in midlift looks down at looks
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: oh fuck. Jasmine is in midlift looking down at Zoe
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: cutting out. Zoe excitedly jumps up and down as the
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: other snowflakes continue dancing around her. Interior backstage night.
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: Enter Misson Custom changes get Ready Done saves.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine has the zombie cat in his hand. Natalie,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: heron makeup done but not yet in costume, sees the
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: cat and gasps.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Oh what is that?
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: Oh God, Catastrophe.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Catastrophe growls and chops the air toward the dancers. Comes
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: out of his dressing room and pauses.
• 30:02
  Speaker 13: Whoa, whoa, mister constantin, I think your cat is like
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: dying or something.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall wanders backstage. Mister Constantine covers the cat up
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: with his cape. Have you seen catastrophe? Fritz points to
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: mister Hall with his sword.
• 30:20
  Speaker 14: Infiltrator, mister Hall, let's get you a drink.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Natalie grabs mister Hall by the arm. Interior lobby night
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: A bar is set up with a long line. Natalie
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: tows mister Hall straight to the bartender, cutting off Timothy Shaloman.
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: Excuse me, can you give him some alcohol?
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Bartender pours a glass of white wine.
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: Do you have anything stronger?
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: We're at a high school production. What do you expect?
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall takes the glass of wine.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I doesn't really want Catastrophe back. I really miss.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Him, mister Hall, still have him? Adams never die, remember,
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: they just change.
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: Into something new.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Catastrophe is here now in your heart.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: That's quite right. You've always been a great student, neighbor
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I have.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: Oh I'm gonna follow you on Instagram.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Up for gratuation.
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: Oh no, no, no, I'm not on Instagram.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: Come on, hashtag cats of Instagram. You take to Instagram
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: like a free radical takes to an electrode.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall laughs. Interior backstage night, Mister Constantine wrestles with
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: catastrophe in his hands. He's surrounded by scared dancers cheering
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: him on. Finally, mister Constantine tosses the cat in a
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: supply closet and turns to the dancers, adjusting his cape.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: The show must go on.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Interior dressing room night. Natalie costume on applies makeup at
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: her station. Timothy enters and gives Zoe a romantic kiss.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: No audience members allowed here.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: I can't be stopped.
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: I'm in love. This is exhilarating. It's like I'm on
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: her spell. Will you marry me?
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: Ah much children moved to France.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: Yes, yes, yes, fifty thousand followers marry Timothy and die.
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: That's what you said. Zoe stuck her much. She's totally
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: obsessed with me.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: You can't have her.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Timothy gives Zoe another romantic kiss. Zoe pulls away.
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: Is it really me?
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: Or am I really making up with Timothy Shalloway?
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: Is this real?
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Literally, all my jams are coming true.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: A tiny sword missus Zoe's head. The Nutcracker doll charges
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: into the dressing room. Mister Constantine enters, snatches the doll
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: through the open door. Children are running and crying. Five
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: minutes Natalie looks up and nods. Missus Primavera enters, swiftly,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: pulling Natalie up to stand. Let's give you one last
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: look over. Natalie watches Missus Primavera as she inspects the
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: cost doom, noticing her mother's hands trembling in dark circles
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: under her bloodshot eyes. Is your mother here? Natalie nods tensely.
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry about Natalie.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera is silent.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: You must be sad for you that she can't dance again,
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: that you can't share your happy.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: Place anymore, or like my hiding place, hiding place.
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: You're a five year old say they want to be
• 33:30
  Speaker 12: a ballerina, and you expect it to be a phase.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: But not Natalie.
• 33:34
  Speaker 12: She had a dream and nothing could stop her. She
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: makes the impossible, possible, It's my fault.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: After a first show, I called her a star, got
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: her a dog, yeah, cliche, and the rest is history.
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: She left a dance and I kept feeding it, moving
• 33:50
  Speaker 12: to the next level, getting her points.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: She's the next roll of Royal Ballet.
• 33:54
  Speaker 12: I should have fed her other things, signed her up
• 33:57
  Speaker 12: for soccer and painting.
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: I had no idea that it would hold her prisoner,
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: all these goals, the social media. I didn't know it
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: would get cut short for her.
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Nobody's a ballerina forever.
• 34:13
  Speaker 12: How can I tell my daughter the only thing that
• 34:15
  Speaker 12: she loves in life she can't do anymore.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: I think you say to her that nothing is impossible,
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: even finding something new to love.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Natalie smiles as Missus Primavera pins a Tierra around her bun.
• 34:36
  Speaker 17: I got Natalie a Nutcracker doll for Christmas this year.
• 34:40
  Speaker 17: Do you think that's a stupid gift? No, she has
• 34:42
  Speaker 17: a million of those.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: No, it's the perfect gift.
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: Clara's love brought the Nutcracker to life after he was broken.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Natalie's not broken, right, No, I mean her body.
• 34:54
  Speaker 17: No, She's perfect exactly how she is. There are a
• 35:00
  Speaker 17: million reasons to love Natalie, and not one of them
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: has to do with ballet.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Natalie stands still as Missus Primavera finishes up, both women
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: subtly wiping away tears. Natalie wraps her arms around her mother.
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Interior stage, Auditorium night. Natalie sneaks over and grabs Ava's wheelchair,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: wheeling her around the side. Hey, what are you doing?
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Interior stage stage wings night. Russian duet is finishing up
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: on stage, with mister Constantine watching from the wings. Natalie
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: rolls Ava up to mister Constantine.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: Mister Constantine, where's the globe?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Fritz? Good love you?
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: I know why the magic didn't work, like in chemistry,
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: and antioxidant can't shed an electron just because it needs
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: a willing participant like a free radical.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ladies, you lost med chemistry.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I made a wish on top of the bridge silence.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: You wished you were me?
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: No, I wished I wasn't me.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: It's not enough for me to not want to be
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: Ava anymore. I have to want to be Natalie, broken
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: body and all. And I want to be Natalie Primavera
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: more than anything.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Fritz appears with the sad snow globe and Natalie takes it.
• 36:24
  Speaker 9: I wish I was. Naturally put your dance.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: You're up next.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Rock and Theo finish on stage. Audience clap.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: It's not my role.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Natalie shakes the snow globe. Ava touches the globe.
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: I wish I was.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: The orchestra starts the music for the patre du and
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: the two girls wait anticipating. Then the walls rumble. The
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: snow machine over the stage rattles to a start. Lights flicker.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine smile as the faintly falling snowflakes dost the stage.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: A faint green globe begins to illuminate the globe.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: The globe is weak, but it's working. Looks like you
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: have time for one more dons.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Natalie looks to Ava and she nods in agreement. Natalie
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: turns to the stage and sees Grayson on the other side.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: He throws his hands out as if to say, what
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: the fuck are we doing this? Natalie takes a deep
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: breath and nods. Mister Constantine takes the glinting snow globe
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: from Natalie.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: God, I'm gonna miss this, I know, mister Primavera.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: This song is so beautiful, heartbreaking, the music swells, Natalie
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: takes a step onto the stage. Interior stage, Auditorium Night.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Natalie and Grayson meet center stage and begin the Patti
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: de as the orchestra swells. Trevor plays viola with the
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: pit orchestra. His lip trembles as he watches Natalie and
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Grayson on stage. The dancer's eyes are locked on each
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: other like there's no one else as they dance skillful
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: and emotional. Miss Ross's eyes glisten wide with wonder watching
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Natalie for the first time, and leans forward in her seat.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Interior dressing room, continuous. Zoe and Timothy are lost in
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: a messy makeout session. The Nutcracker doll Army crawls toward them.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: A light is hanging precariously over Zoe's head, and a
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: curling iron is causing a rack of tutus to smoke rumble.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: The room blacks out for a moment. The hanging light
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: crashes into a rack of teutuos to fall away from
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: the iron. The Nutcracker doll goes limp. Interior stage, Auditorium continuous.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: The two smoky dancers enter from the back of the
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: auditorium and dance their way down the aisle towards the stage.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: They are invisible to all but Natalie and mister Constantine.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Interior stage hallway continuous. Teenage, Bean, Fritz and the children
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: are huddled as Catastrophe breaks through the closet door. Little
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  Speaker 3: by little, all of the shining. Fritz clenches his sword.
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  Speaker 3: Catastrophe finally breaks through the door and charges toward the children.
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  Speaker 3: Fritz raises his sword just as Flicker the cat goes
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  Speaker 3: limp dead. Fritz nudges the cat.
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  Speaker 9: Zi Kats is dead.
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  Speaker 3: The children cheer. Fritz turns to high five Bean, who
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  Speaker 3: is now swimming in her costume.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a kid again, No more boobs.
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  Speaker 3: Bean hugs Fritz. Fritz beams Interior stage stage wings continuous.
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  Speaker 3: The Smoky Dancers join Natalie and Grayson on stage, shadowing
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  Speaker 3: their dance. Drawing ever closer, Miss Lana and Miss Miako
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  Speaker 3: watch the duet, eyes fixed and in awe, clutching each
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  Speaker 3: other other's hands. Grayson smiles at Natalie, and the two
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  Speaker 3: kiss as though there were no audience. Trevor let's out
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  Speaker 3: an audible sob no with the final lift. As the
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: song's crescendo peaks, the Smoky Dancers enter Natalie and exit
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  Speaker 3: right before Ava's body drops into the final partner pose,
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  Speaker 3: leaving behind Natalie's spirit with a puff. Interior stage stage
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  Speaker 3: Wings Continuous. Natalie spirit quickly absorbs into her own body.
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  Speaker 3: Eyes bulge as she sits up in her wheelchair with
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: a gasp. Interior stage Auditorium Continuous. The audience erupts in applause.
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  Speaker 3: Interior stage Stage Wings Night. Mister Constantine has the snow
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  Speaker 3: globe glow fizzles out, and both dark dancers are back
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  Speaker 3: inside frozen. Ava runs off stage and gives Natalie a
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  Speaker 3: huge hug.
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  Speaker 9: Natalie, Yes, and you're you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Enough solo?
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  Speaker 8: Now what no, no, no, no, no, no, I can't Ava,
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  Speaker 8: You're the understudy.
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  Speaker 6: This is how it was always supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: You can do this m Interior stage Auditorium Night. Ava
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  Speaker 3: steps out begins her solo, her lips tight with concentration.
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  Speaker 3: She begins with her fetes. She's nailing them. Her smile
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  Speaker 3: spreads slowly and then wide with glee as the audience claps.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: Ava breezes as she spots Trevor in the orchestra pit Trevor.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor turns away from Ava angry nostrils flaring I.
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  Speaker 8: Love you here you do I love you Ava.
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  Speaker 3: Ava leaps off the stage into the orchestra pit, the
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: audience and Miss Ross gas oh. Ava and Trevor kiss
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  Speaker 3: interior stage stage wings night. Grayson watches the scene, confused.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Miaco and Miss Lana shake their heads. Worst nutcracker ever.
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  Speaker 10: Next tear will be better when mister too sexy to
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: teach his hair anymore, I mean all semester.
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, hush, shut up and kiss me already.
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  Speaker 3: What No, Mister Constantine walks up, throwing his arms around
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  Speaker 3: Miss Miaco and Miss Lana's shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: How beautiful, How erotic and devastating.
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  Speaker 3: A few feet away, Natalie tugs on Grayson's shirt.
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  Speaker 13: Oh hey, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry? Wait that stupid ask. You look good?
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  Speaker 6: I thanks, I'm good.
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  Speaker 8: So I was wondering if you wanted to grab coffee,
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: your food or.
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  Speaker 6: Whatever or whatever. Whenever I'll get you to.
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  Speaker 8: Hang out with me, let me congratulate you on Houston Ballet.
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  Speaker 3: Grayson gives her a curious look. He glances back at
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Ava one more time before turning back to Natalie and.
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  Speaker 13: Smiles, Yeah, definitely, but I said no to Houston going
• 43:25
  Speaker 13: to Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: You do you know that you can double major in
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: like ballet?
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  Speaker 3: Interior Stage, Auditorium Night the finale, The whole cast dips
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  Speaker 3: into a final bow and Pensi poses with a broken
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: nutcracker doll with a large smile. Mister Constantine steps out
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  Speaker 3: and plunges into a dramatic fowl. No claps a call.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor sets down his viola and claps enthusiastically.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Timothy is walking away down the center aisle. A moment
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: later we see Zoe tears streaks chasing him.
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  Speaker 9: I love you to Missy Sealome, don't phollow me.
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  Speaker 3: Interior Physical Therapy room. Morning. Natalie is looking at Ava's
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  Speaker 3: Instagram page a picture of Ava, Miss Ross, Bean, and
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Trevor around a Christmas tree captioned Christmas is the Season
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  Speaker 3: of Magic. Natalie hearts the post. Natalie pops in earbuds,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: her eyes closed, and her head sways slightly with the music.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: Grayson Enters knocks on the door with a Christmas present.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera smiles and waves Grayson in as mister Primavera
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  Speaker 3: SIPs his coffee, reading a paper.
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  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Natalie lifts up onto the parallel bars from her wheelchair.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: She takes a step. Fada Hello