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THE REVENGE OF CARMEN (OR, A NEW SPANISH CUSTOM)
Characters: Carmen, the bull rancher, the matador, the toreador, the picador, and Fred,
the bull.
Scene 1: The seamstress shop of Carmen, near the Bullfight arena.
Carmen: (this goes to "no business like showbusiness") listen at [Annie Get Your Gun] There's No Business Like Show Business MIDI - MP3 - Karaoke - Sheet Music - Video • HamieNET.com
There's no business like sew business
Like no business I know
Sewing skirts or shirts or bras or britches
With what we wear is where I want to be
Every stitch I stitch keeps me in stictches
Each seam's so seemly, it seems to me
There's no projects like sew projects
They're so much more than so-so
Each pleat as you complete and as you press each fold
Each shoulder padded and button holed
No needle be met better by a sack of gold
Let's go...on with the sew
OR
(Uncopyrighted option - to "Row, row, row your boat" I assume everyone knows this)
Carmen:
Sew sew sew your coat
Up and down the seam
Stitchery fitfully framed fully joyfully
Sewing up a dream
Fold fold fold a pleat
Press it out with steam
Hemmed fully perfectly soon to be wealthily
Giving us our dream
(Sewing, and counting stitches) He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me
not. There, I knew it. He loves me.
(Bullfighters enter)
M: Hail, fair senorita!
T: Most beautiful flower of the pampas.
P: Come away with me, my lovely. I am the greatest of all the picadors.
C: (Disgustedly) Yes, gentl...yes, fellow...guys....what do you want?
M: Only to feast on your beauty more each day.
T: Only to die in your arms.
P: Only that the bull I kill today shall be for your favor.
C: (Trying to ignore them) Oh, yes, I remember I had to sew your pants. From where
the bull got you last week.
M: The mark of courage.
T: The proof of manhood.
P: The glory of victory.
C: The charge of twenty pesos.
M: (Paying her) 'Tis little enough to pay for your attentions. Today I kill for your favor.
T: Today I face death for your love.
P: Today I go to glory that I may live in your heart forever.
C: Today you sacrifice another innocent animal and give me more torn pants to sew.
Someday, someday that bull's going to win. Then, you'll see.
M: Come, my comrades, glory awaits in the arena.
T: My courage swells. We go.
P: To the fight. Onward. The audience awaits.
(They exit)
R: (from offstage) Carmen...Carmen
C: (turning to him) Yes, my love.
R: Are they gone?
C: Yes, it is safe.
(Rancher and Fred enter)
R: Oh my love, I missed you so.
C: And I you.
(They embrace. Fred looks on wistfully)
F: Mooo?
R: Soon Fred, very soon. (to Carmen) Is it finished?
C: Yes. I tied the last stitch just as those three came in.
R: Let's try it on him.
(Carmen and Rancher get a bull sized coat, colored the same as the bull, and put it on
him. They step back to examine the work)
R: Perfect. No one will ever know.
C: Are you sure? It's loose on him. Just about three inches all the way around.
R: Exactly right. Just what it needs. Well, Carmen, my love. This is the day. This
afternoon we make history. And get rich.
C: And I marry you.
R: Yes. And Fred (looks at Fred) Poor Fred. You've been so patient. So cooperative.
Your waiting is over, my friend. Today we go from the point of foreclosure to being the
richest ranch in all Mexico.
C: I love you. (They embrace. Curtain falls)
Scene 2: The Bullfight arena (this goes to the overture from carmen listen at: Carmen - Ouverture | Publiweb slowed down about 10% for singing
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
All 3: Such is the bullfighter's glory.
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
All 3: Such is the bullfighter's glory.
M: Ours the splendor of the ancients
P: We the heros of the crowd
T: Ours the story of the glorious
Carnage that was one allowed
M: Charging bulls,
P: raging bulls,
T: challenging,
M threatening
All3: We are great we shall prevail
T: Let 'em come,
M: let 'em charge,
P: let 'em rage, we have knives
All3: Hey......yeah....
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
All 3: Such is the bullfighter's glory.
MP: (Hear our courage....)
T: We are the mighty, macho fighting men
I'll say it again
Anytime I can
By great deeds our lives are very full
We are men of bull
M: We're braving death right now
If fates allow
We're going to kill that cow
All3: We are the mighty, macho fighting men
Say it again
Loud as you can
Oh, we are so very very full
We are men of bull, great bull
We're braving death for you right now
We'll show you how
We're going to kill that...
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
and roar and roar, and roar and roar, and roar and roar
All3: and roar and ro----ar..........for us
(Bull enters, dressed in coat concealing aluminum foil armor underneath)
T: The bull, the bull, here he comes. Places, heroes.
M: I've got my cape.
P: My knives are ready.
T: And so is my sword.
(They take their places behind M's cape)
M: (Shaking his cape) Come on, my pretty. Come to papa.
(Fred charges, Matador moves his cape. P and T begin stabbing Fred, who stands there
and takes it. He is, of course unhurt.)
(Fred leaves and circles for another charge)
T: What happened?
P: He's still standing.
M: That's never happened before.
P: It's not possible.
T: Look at my sword. It's bent.
P: And my knives.
M: Oh, no, he's coming again.
T: We got to stop him.
P: Hit him with your sword.
(Fred charges. Once again is unhurt. Circles for a third run)
P: He's invincible.
T: We're doomed.
M: Run!!
(M turns and runs, the other two follow.)
T: Let me out of here.
P: Watch out! Your cape! Don't trip...
(M trip on cape, the other two trip on him, and stack up. Fred stops, comes up to the
stack and puts his foot on the top)
Fred: (Crowing out victory) MOOOOOOO
(Carmen and Rancher enter the arena)
C: Come on home Fred. We did good. (Carmen leads Fred away)
M: Oh, my head.
T: Oh, my back.
P: Oh, my neck.
M: Oh, my reputation.
T: Oh, my pride.
P: Oh, my love life.
Rancher (to crowd). Senors, senoras, senoritas. May I present Fred, the greatest,
strongest bull of all time.
Crowd: Hooray.
R: Would you like your cattle to be strong, like Fred? Just think how much they will
bring at market. Fred is available for stud service. When your cow is ready, mate her
with the finest strongest bull in all Mexico. Fred is expensive, but you deserve only the
best. And knowing as we do the great traditions of fine bulls, we feel a duty to the
people. So we WILL NEGOTIATE. Just dial 1-800 NOBULL or leave a message at
Fred's website, BULL dot com.
Scene 3 The ranch later that day
R: Carmen, I can't believe it. Six stud dates already. They'll pay anything I ask. Fred,
you can have any cow in the country.
(Fred slumps over, exhausted.)
R: What's the matter?
C: We never undressed him.
R: I'm sorry, Fred. You must be dying in that thing.
(They take off his coat, revealing the armor)
C: It worked so well, I can't believe it. My coat covered the suit of armor perfectly.
R: Those pompous bullfighters never knew what hit them. The harder they poked him
with their knives, the more Fred laughed at them.
C: Well, I think we've done it. We've changed peoples' expectations.
R: From now on, the bull will always have a fighting chance.
C: And for us, its happily ever after time.
R: I love you Carmen.
C: I love you, too.
Rancher: (goes to "Home on the range" http://www.kunstderfuge.com/-/midi.asp?file=tunes/american_18_(c)taylor.mid) http://www.kunstderfuge.com/-/midi.asp?file=tunes/american_18_(c)taylor.mid
Oh, give me land and a seamstress' hand
All my life that's what I'm dreaming of
With a bull who'll command maybe seventy grand
Every time the old boy falls in love
Home, home on the range
With plenty of free time for play
Where never is said "our account's in the red"
Though each year we work only one day
Carmen:
How often I've wished every seam that I stictched
That someday I'd be somebody's wife
But how could I know a strange coat I would sew
Used the thread that would weave my new life?
Home, home on the range
Where I always hoped I'd one day go
Now each day I'll explore ways of loving you more
And never again need to sew
Fred (the bull):
When we watch a bullfight we all know it's not right
That the bull has to die is a crime
But I never thought I'd expose all their pride
And make history all at one time
Home, home on the range
Where I am the king of the herd
Where, starting right now I can have any cow
And graze, all my days undisturbed
All3:
Home, home on the range
Living happ'ly e'er after for aye
C: Ne'er more will I stitch
R: we're gonna be rich
F: And no more will bulls have to die
MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
THE REVENGE OF CARMEN (OR, A NEW SPANISH CUSTOM)
Characters: Carmen, the bull rancher, the matador, the toreador, the picador, and Fred,
the bull.
Scene 1: The seamstress shop of Carmen, near the Bullfight arena.
Carmen: (this goes to "no business like showbusiness") listen at [Annie Get Your Gun] There's No Business Like Show Business MIDI - MP3 - Karaoke - Sheet Music - Video • HamieNET.com
There's no business like sew business
Like no business I know
Sewing skirts or shirts or bras or britches
With what we wear is where I want to be
Every stitch I stitch keeps me in stictches
Each seam's so seemly, it seems to me
There's no projects like sew projects
They're so much more than so-so
Each pleat as you complete and as you press each fold
Each shoulder padded and button holed
No needle be met better by a sack of gold
Let's go...on with the sew
OR
(Uncopyrighted option - to "Row, row, row your boat" I assume everyone knows this)
Carmen:
Sew sew sew your coat
Up and down the seam
Stitchery fitfully framed fully joyfully
Sewing up a dream
Fold fold fold a pleat
Press it out with steam
Hemmed fully perfectly soon to be wealthily
Giving us our dream
(Sewing, and counting stitches) He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me, he loves me
not. There, I knew it. He loves me.
(Bullfighters enter)
M: Hail, fair senorita!
T: Most beautiful flower of the pampas.
P: Come away with me, my lovely. I am the greatest of all the picadors.
C: (Disgustedly) Yes, gentl...yes, fellow...guys....what do you want?
M: Only to feast on your beauty more each day.
T: Only to die in your arms.
P: Only that the bull I kill today shall be for your favor.
C: (Trying to ignore them) Oh, yes, I remember I had to sew your pants. From where
the bull got you last week.
M: The mark of courage.
T: The proof of manhood.
P: The glory of victory.
C: The charge of twenty pesos.
M: (Paying her) 'Tis little enough to pay for your attentions. Today I kill for your favor.
T: Today I face death for your love.
P: Today I go to glory that I may live in your heart forever.
C: Today you sacrifice another innocent animal and give me more torn pants to sew.
Someday, someday that bull's going to win. Then, you'll see.
M: Come, my comrades, glory awaits in the arena.
T: My courage swells. We go.
P: To the fight. Onward. The audience awaits.
(They exit)
R: (from offstage) Carmen...Carmen
C: (turning to him) Yes, my love.
R: Are they gone?
C: Yes, it is safe.
(Rancher and Fred enter)
R: Oh my love, I missed you so.
C: And I you.
(They embrace. Fred looks on wistfully)
F: Mooo?
R: Soon Fred, very soon. (to Carmen) Is it finished?
C: Yes. I tied the last stitch just as those three came in.
R: Let's try it on him.
(Carmen and Rancher get a bull sized coat, colored the same as the bull, and put it on
him. They step back to examine the work)
R: Perfect. No one will ever know.
C: Are you sure? It's loose on him. Just about three inches all the way around.
R: Exactly right. Just what it needs. Well, Carmen, my love. This is the day. This
afternoon we make history. And get rich.
C: And I marry you.
R: Yes. And Fred (looks at Fred) Poor Fred. You've been so patient. So cooperative.
Your waiting is over, my friend. Today we go from the point of foreclosure to being the
richest ranch in all Mexico.
C: I love you. (They embrace. Curtain falls)
Scene 2: The Bullfight arena (this goes to the overture from carmen listen at: Carmen - Ouverture | Publiweb slowed down about 10% for singing
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
All 3: Such is the bullfighter's glory.
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
All 3: Such is the bullfighter's glory.
M: Ours the splendor of the ancients
P: We the heros of the crowd
T: Ours the story of the glorious
Carnage that was one allowed
M: Charging bulls,
P: raging bulls,
T: challenging,
M threatening
All3: We are great we shall prevail
T: Let 'em come,
M: let 'em charge,
P: let 'em rage, we have knives
All3: Hey......yeah....
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
All 3: Such is the bullfighter's glory.
MP: (Hear our courage....)
T: We are the mighty, macho fighting men
I'll say it again
Anytime I can
By great deeds our lives are very full
We are men of bull
M: We're braving death right now
If fates allow
We're going to kill that cow
All3: We are the mighty, macho fighting men
Say it again
Loud as you can
Oh, we are so very very full
We are men of bull, great bull
We're braving death for you right now
We'll show you how
We're going to kill that...
T: I am the toreador
M: and I am the matador
TM: And here comes the bull we're gonna gore
M: Watch how his blood will pour
T: and flow as it fills the floor
TM: 'Cause that's what a bull is for
P: (oh, and) I am the picador, the one that the girls adore
Each day how they love me more and more
I just step through the door and oh how the people roar
and roar and roar, and roar and roar, and roar and roar
All3: and roar and ro----ar..........for us
(Bull enters, dressed in coat concealing aluminum foil armor underneath)
T: The bull, the bull, here he comes. Places, heroes.
M: I've got my cape.
P: My knives are ready.
T: And so is my sword.
(They take their places behind M's cape)
M: (Shaking his cape) Come on, my pretty. Come to papa.
(Fred charges, Matador moves his cape. P and T begin stabbing Fred, who stands there
and takes it. He is, of course unhurt.)
(Fred leaves and circles for another charge)
T: What happened?
P: He's still standing.
M: That's never happened before.
P: It's not possible.
T: Look at my sword. It's bent.
P: And my knives.
M: Oh, no, he's coming again.
T: We got to stop him.
P: Hit him with your sword.
(Fred charges. Once again is unhurt. Circles for a third run)
P: He's invincible.
T: We're doomed.
M: Run!!
(M turns and runs, the other two follow.)
T: Let me out of here.
P: Watch out! Your cape! Don't trip...
(M trip on cape, the other two trip on him, and stack up. Fred stops, comes up to the
stack and puts his foot on the top)
Fred: (Crowing out victory) MOOOOOOO
(Carmen and Rancher enter the arena)
C: Come on home Fred. We did good. (Carmen leads Fred away)
M: Oh, my head.
T: Oh, my back.
P: Oh, my neck.
M: Oh, my reputation.
T: Oh, my pride.
P: Oh, my love life.
Rancher (to crowd). Senors, senoras, senoritas. May I present Fred, the greatest,
strongest bull of all time.
Crowd: Hooray.
R: Would you like your cattle to be strong, like Fred? Just think how much they will
bring at market. Fred is available for stud service. When your cow is ready, mate her
with the finest strongest bull in all Mexico. Fred is expensive, but you deserve only the
best. And knowing as we do the great traditions of fine bulls, we feel a duty to the
people. So we WILL NEGOTIATE. Just dial 1-800 NOBULL or leave a message at
Fred's website, BULL dot com.
Scene 3 The ranch later that day
R: Carmen, I can't believe it. Six stud dates already. They'll pay anything I ask. Fred,
you can have any cow in the country.
(Fred slumps over, exhausted.)
R: What's the matter?
C: We never undressed him.
R: I'm sorry, Fred. You must be dying in that thing.
(They take off his coat, revealing the armor)
C: It worked so well, I can't believe it. My coat covered the suit of armor perfectly.
R: Those pompous bullfighters never knew what hit them. The harder they poked him
with their knives, the more Fred laughed at them.
C: Well, I think we've done it. We've changed peoples' expectations.
R: From now on, the bull will always have a fighting chance.
C: And for us, its happily ever after time.
R: I love you Carmen.
C: I love you, too.
Rancher: (goes to "Home on the range" http://www.kunstderfuge.com/-/midi.asp?file=tunes/american_18_(c)taylor.mid) http://www.kunstderfuge.com/-/midi.asp?file=tunes/american_18_(c)taylor.mid
Oh, give me land and a seamstress' hand
All my life that's what I'm dreaming of
With a bull who'll command maybe seventy grand
Every time the old boy falls in love
Home, home on the range
With plenty of free time for play
Where never is said "our account's in the red"
Though each year we work only one day
Carmen:
How often I've wished every seam that I stictched
That someday I'd be somebody's wife
But how could I know a strange coat I would sew
Used the thread that would weave my new life?
Home, home on the range
Where I always hoped I'd one day go
Now each day I'll explore ways of loving you more
And never again need to sew
Fred (the bull):
When we watch a bullfight we all know it's not right
That the bull has to die is a crime
But I never thought I'd expose all their pride
And make history all at one time
Home, home on the range
Where I am the king of the herd
Where, starting right now I can have any cow
And graze, all my days undisturbed
All3:
Home, home on the range
Living happ'ly e'er after for aye
C: Ne'er more will I stitch
R: we're gonna be rich
F: And no more will bulls have to die
MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
