Audition Scene

Question 1

Beginning of scene

Answer 1

Why do you walk away from me like this?

Question 2

Because what you are saying is total and complete nonsense!

Answer 2

It is not nonsense! There is something in your life now tat means more to you than I do.

Question 3

There is no other woman in my life!

Answer 3

I am not talking about another woman.

Question 4

Then explain yourself!

Answer 4

You have fallen in love with money. Everything else in your life, including me, is secondary to your driven pursuit of wealth.

Question 5

I am trying to build a good life for myself-for us. My feelings for you have not changed.

Answer 5

We have known each other for a long time now, dear Ebenezer. When we first began, we were poor-

Question 5

Exactly! we were poor!

Answer 5

And we were happy! You were patient, gentle, and sweet toward me. But you are changed. You were another man then.

Question 6

I was a boy.

Answer 6

Your own words tell you that you are not now what you once were

Question 7

So what do you propose

Answer 7

Oh! That is an unfortunate word choice… propose. I have thought long and hard about this, Ebenezer. I cannot be with you anymore.

Question 8

I never asked for this

Answer 8

In words? no, never.

Question 9

Do you think I would not?

Answer 9

I know you would not. May you be happy in the life you have chosen.

Question 10

In what then?

Answer 10

In a changed nature! In an altered spirit! In everything that made my love of any worth or value in your sight. Tell me, if we had met today for the first time, would you seek me out and try to win my hand?