SCENE 5
(At the site of the crashed house in Munchkinland.)
GLINDA
That’s right, you just take that one road the whole time! I hope they don’t get lost, I am so bad at giving directions. Oh, Nessa…
(ELPHABA and GLINDA confront each other. Both are equally devastated: ELPHABA for the loss of her sister, GLINDA for the loss of FIYERO.)
ELPHABA
What a touching display of grief.
GLINDA
I don’t believe we have anything further to say to one another.
ELPHABA
I wanted something to remember her by and all that was left of her were those shoes! And now that wretched little farm girl has walked off with them! So I would appreciate some time alone to say goodbye to my sister. Nessa… Nessa, please… Please forgive me…
GLINDA
Elphie, don’t blame yourself. It’s dreadful, it is to have a house fall on you, but accidents will happen.
ELPHABA
You call this an accident?
GLINDA
Yes! Well maybe not an accident…
ELPHABA
Then what would you call it?
GLINDA
A regime change. Caused by a bazaar and unexpected twister of fate.
ELPHABA
So you think cyclones just appear out of the blue?
GLINDA
Well I don’t know. I never—
ELPHABA
Of course you never! You’re too busy telling everyone hoe wonderful everything is!
GLINDA
Well I’m a public figure now and people expect me—
ELPHABA
To lie?
GLINDA
To be encouraging! And just what exactly have you been doing besides riding around on that filthy old thing?
ELPHABA
Well we can’t all come and go by bubble! Whose invention was that? The Wizard’s? Of course even if it wasn’t I’m sure he’d still take credit for it.
GLINDA
Yes well it seems a lot of us are taking things that don’t belong to us, aren’t we?
ELPHABA
Now wait just a clock tick! I know it’s difficult for that blissful blond brain of yours to comprehend that someone like him could actually choose someone like me! But it’s happened. It’s real. And you can wave that ridiculous wand all you want, you can’t change it! He never belonged to you! He doesn’t love you and he never did! He loves me!
(GLINDA slaps ELPHABA, ELPHABA laughs.)
ELPHABA
Feel better now?
GLINDA
Yes I do.
ELPHABA
Good!
(ELPHABA hits GLINDA.)
ELPHABA
So do I!
GUARD
Halt in the name of the Wizard!
ELPHABA
Let me go!
GLINDA
Let her go! I almost had her!
GUARD
Sorry it took us so long to get her, miss.
GLINDA
What? What do you mean?
ELPHABA
I can’t believe you would sink this low! To use my sister’s death as a trap to capture me!
GLINDA
Elphie, I didn’t mean for this to happen!
(FIYERO arrives to protect ELPHABA.)
FIYERO
Let the green girl go!
ELPHABA
Fiyero, how in Oz?!
FIYERO
Let her go! Or explain to all Oz how the Wizard’s guards watched while Glinda the Good was slain!
GLINDA
Fiyero, no…
FIYERO
I said let her go! Elphaba, go now!
ELPHABA
No! Not without you!
GLINDA
Fiyero—
FIYERO
Hush now! Go!
GLINDA
Do it!
(ELPHABA runs out)
GUARD
Seize him!
GLINDA
No wait! What are you doing? In the name of goodness stop! Don’t you see? He was never going to harm me, he just… he loves her.
FIYERO
Glinda, I am so sorry.
GUARD
Take him out to that field there! Put him on those polls until he tells us where the witch went!
GLINDA
Don’t you hurt him! Please! Don’t hurt him! Fiyero!
Ooh kill em
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