:47:02
- I wasn't.
- Good you're here! Dotty and Garry...
:47:06
No one must know I'm in.
Hide this somewhere.
:47:09
Right... They've had a fight.
:47:12
There's a flower stall round the back.
Buy some expensive-looking flowers.
:47:18
- Right. Dotty's locked herself in.
- Don't let Poppy see.
:47:22
She won't speak to anyone.
:47:24
The matinée finishes by five.
:47:27
I want two hours alone with Brooke
in her dressing room,
:47:31
then I'm back to New York.
:47:33
- There may not be a show.
- She's walked out already?
:47:37
- She's locked in and won't speak.
- You've called places?
:47:41
- Yes.
- I can't do it in five minutes.
:47:44
- She's broken up with Garry before.
- Brooke?
:47:47
Not Brooke, Dotty. There was the one
the week before last in Pittsburgh.
:47:52
She went out with a reporter,
but Garry threatened to kill him.
:47:56
Don't worry.
Dotty's got money in the show.
:48:00
But last night, Garry wakes me
at 2 a.m. asking where Dotty is.
:48:05
Let me tell you about my life.
:48:07
Hamlet's ghost
complains every evening
:48:09
that Polonius is sucking sourballs
through his speeches.
:48:13
Claudius is off doing a soap and
Gertrude is off doing a commercial.
:48:18
Hamlet himself has come down
with a psychological problem.
:48:23
Then Brooke rings to say she's got
a doctor's certificate for exhaustion.
:48:28
I can't find a new Vicki.
:48:30
I have just one afternoon
while Hamlet sees his shrink
:48:35
to cure Brooke of her exhaustion
with some whisky,
:48:38
a few flowers - you've got the money -
and a certain fading bedside manner.
:48:44
I haven't come to hear
others' problems,
:48:47
but to be taken out of myself
and not put back.
:48:50
- But...
- Done the front-of-house calls?
:48:53
- Front-of-house calls.
- Don't let Poppy see those flowers!