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An excerpt from "La Frontera"CARL I told you about performing in the street, young lady, wasting your talent on folks that don't appreciate it! SONIA Daddy; I was trying to make friends! CARL We didn't bring you up to be running around the streets with just any old body. (SONIA exits as DORIS and LOLA enter) DORIS & LOLA What's the matter ? CARL Your daughter's been carrying on in the street like some wild woman. HECT ¡Tu hija se estaba portando como una mujer de la calle!
LOLA Oh, young girls sometimes have more energy than they know what to do with. DORIS It's a hormonal thing! CARL What's gotten in to you? HECT Whose side are you on? DORIS & LOLA I remember when you didn't mind hormones so much... HECT But that was different... CARL We were more mature at their age. DORIS We were married at eighteen. HECT We knew what we were doing. LOLA My mother thought she wanted to kill you. Till she got to know you. Then she was sure. HECT & CARL I'll never forget our first date... HECT I drove my Dad's old ’58 Ford Fairlane 500 up to the limestone cliffs above Sunken Garden and pulled over along the road near the top to a spot known as Inspiration Point. You and your novia could look up at the moon and stars and look down on whatever was on the stage below, and beyond to the spreading lights of the city. It was my senior year at old Brackenridge High, and my future spread out before me like those city lights, I felt like the king of the world, because sitting next to me on the front seat was the prettiest, sweetest girl in the whole school. I almost had a heart attack as she reached out and took my hand... LOLA I was a transfer student from Sidney Lanier; it's hard to change schools anytime, but in your senior year when you have to leave all your old friends, and try to make new ones among people who have known each other for years– But Hector was so sweet to me. He made me feel like I really belonged. Some of the girls thought I shouldn't go out with him; said he was too short for me. But I knew he was tall inside.... CARL When me and Doris met, I knew from the first time I looked at her that she would be mine forever. I knew, ’cause it was one of those nights. DORIS What do you mean, Carl? CARL One of those San Antonio nights that only happen in the early spring, when the honeysuckle fills the air with a perfume so sweet and thick that it would shame an Arabian garden. One of those lingering barbecue-smelling, winter-banishing, lightning-bug bespangled evenings, when a young man’s thoughts turn naturally to things tender and of the flesh. DORIS Speak on, baby. CARL My cousin Ray was in town from Houston to get together with this chick he'd met up there, see, who was visiting her aunt, and she had given him her number, he called and we went over. She lived over on Potomac street across the street from the graveyard. DORIS I was never afraid of dead folks. Just living ones. CARL Not a dog barked, not a cricket cricked as we stared into each other’s eyes under a full moon which shone like a bare blue light bulb in our basement of love! DORIS Carl, you're a poet. CARL In my heart's ear, I can still hear the sweet music that got us dancing oh so close that magical night. A song so pure and clear, it cut through all my doubts and teenage fear about who I was and if I was man enough for such a fine woman. (Song begins at Ybarra house and continues as ensemble ) Tu Y Yo LOLA Las canciones son mi vida– DORIS I hear my life in every song-- ALL In the still of the night Volver volver! CARL One summer night when we were young HECT & LOLA Yo te quiero por mi alma DORIS I fell in love with all my soul. ALL When that deep purple falls Sabor a Mi! HECT Oldies but goodies turned gold. ALL Tu Y Yo! I'll love you longer than the rivers flow– Till there're no heroes at the Alamo Tu Y Yo! LOLA Las canciones son me vida! etc. (Repeat till "Tu Y Yo" chorus.) : |
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