Sonny's First Scene
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Karen walks into the Paradise Lounge and passes
Sonny. His eyes follow her and he walks up to her.
S: "What time do you go on?"
K: "What?"
S: "I was asking… I made a mistake. I assumed since it was amateur night,
you were performing."
K: "Oh no! No I couldn't do that!"
S: "How come?"
K: "Well, because I would feel self conscious."
S: "You don't look like the self conscious type. You look sure of yourself
like you don't do anything you don't wanna do."
K: (turns to fully face him) "Really?"
S: "Yeah. A pretty girl like you must like to dance right?"
K: "Right. Thank you for the compliment."
S: (smiling) "You're welcome. Stripping… is dancing."
K: (laughs) "No I don't think so. It's a little different than
that."
S: "No, it's a form of self expression. Same thing. Take a look around, if
you saw these women on the street, would you automatically think
stripping?" (Points to a woman) "Take a look at that one over
there in the three piece suit. I'd say she's a lawyer, what about you?"
K: "Yeah. Definitely. A prosecutor. What's your point?"
S: "I'm just trying to sell the product. My point is there is no type and
it's not fair to assume otherwise. That's like making a generalization about
someone because of the way they wear their hair."
K: "That's... that's a very good point, I never thought about it that way.
Um, do they get a chance to rehearse before they go up?"
S: "Not here. The amateurs anyway. But the regular staff dancers get to use
the club is closed."
K: "Did anyone ever bomb?"
S: "Sure. It's intimidating to get on stage in front of people. But there
are others I've seen a million times, their eyes adjust to the light, they hear
that roar of approval from the crowd and they know they're home!"
(A stripper gets on the stage. Karen and Sonny watch for a little bit.)
S: "How about a drink?"
K: "Sure."
(Stone walks up to them.)
St: "You two already met?"
S: "We've already been acquainted." (He smiles)
K: "Yeah, except we really don't know each other's names."
St: "Carrie, this is Sonny!"
S: "Very nice to meet you." (He holds his hand out to her. A
surprised look crosses her face, but she takes it and shakes it. Sonny then
walks up to Stone and hugs him) "Get over here. Where the hell you
been? I've missed you!"
Stone and Sonny hug while Sonny looks at Karen "seductively.