OPENING CHRISTMAS DAY AT LOCAL THEATERS:


4 WOMEN & A BABY

Scene 1 exterior WBAI  10th floor 120 Wall St. Christmas Eve.

AMY:    Hey, the door's locked. That's funny.

BERNARD:    Hey, what's going on? let us in!

They bang on the door.

BERNARD:     I don't see anyone... wait!.... except 4 women and a baby!

Scene 2  interior WBAI office

UTRICE:    It's good of you to join us, Bessie. We have WORK to do!

BESSIE:    Oh, it's nothing. It's the kind of thing that happens everyday.

They hear banging on the door.

VOICES:    Let us in!

BARBIE:     Who's that?

UTRICE:    Ignore them. It's just a couple of drunks. We don't want those irresponsible types in here. We're a happy family.

VOICES:    You changed the locks!

UTRICE:    Not I. Did you change the locks, Bessie?

BESSIE:    Shucks no, not a little 'ol girl from Brooklyn. Did you, Barbie?

BARBIE:    No. I swear to Gore I didn't. Good golly, look! It's that baby.

BESSIE:    The baby is changing all the locks!

BARBIE:    But whose baby is it? Is it yours, Utrice?

UTRICE:    No, you're not quite there. Try again, Barbie.

BARBIE:    Is it yours, Bessie?

BESSIE:    No. I've been here 4 weeks and no one has told me I have a baby.

BARBIE:    So whose baby is it?!!

UTRICE, BESSIE:    IT'S ROSEMARY'S BABY!

Sheila Hamanaka