The director of Richard III has decided to go wildly out on a limb. "Glenda Jackson played Hamlet. Judith Anderson played Hamlet. To me that's superficial. Let's go one step deeper." Elliot, I want you to play Richard as a man, playing a woman. playing a man." When Elliot invites Paula and Lucy to opening night, Lucy asks, "Don't you get the girl in the end?" Elliot answers, ''I am the girl in the end!" The opening night is a total disaster, but Paula can't help admiring Elliot's dedication to his work. And in so doing she begins to realise that she's falling for another actor ACT II The had news is -the opening night reviews are in. The New York Times writes : "In Elliot Garfield's His and Her performance, one wishes the hump were in his throat." The Daily News states: this Richard III makes La Cage aux Folles seem like the John Wayne Story". And according to another critic, "playing Richard as a man, playing a woman, playing a man emerged as Bugs Bunny, playing Miss Piggy, playing a French poodle." The show closes after one performance. The good news is, Elliot and Paula are actually beginning to like one another. Cover to the Original Broadway Cast Recording Meanwhile, Paula has obtained a job dancing on a television nutrition show with her two friends Jenna and Donna. They will represent all the wrong foods (sweets, fats and fries). But beware, they're sooo tempting. Mrs. Crosby and Lucy are watching Paula on TV - Mrs. Crosby pokes fun at what they have seen. Elliot and Paula realise that they are beginning to like each other more and more. Elliot gushes, "I love dating girls who live in my apartment. I get home so early!" He invites Paula to meet him on the roof for a romantic dinner for two. Dressed in a white dinner jacket (à la Bogart), Elliot has created an electric moon, Christmas light stars, and of course, a sumptuous dinner - pizza When Paula arrives, he turns on his cassette player. "What now, a Gershwin tune?" She wonders. "No", he replies, "a Garfield melody. I love improvisation." Suddenly there is a bolt of lightning and a crack of thunder. "Now we'll have to have our pizza in the kitchen." Elliot says. But Paula has an altogether different room in mind. The next morning, Lucy, aware of what has taken place. is scared. She knows that this has happened before with other actors and she cannot help but be worried that the Goodbye Girl Syndrome is about to resurface. And Paula can't and won't hurt Lucy again. Elliot asks: "What would it take to show you that I am serious, major league, world's heavyweight champion contenders?" Get Lucy to say it's all right," Paula replies. Elliot takes Lucy for a rowboat ride on Central Park Lake. Paula has been promoted to the position of choreographer for a PBS show. She's in the middle of putting the dancers through their paces when Elliot calls and tells her of the good news. Lucy said yes. Paula returns home elated, knowing that she has found a man that his been true to his word But has he? Lucy tells her that Elliot's in the bedroom packing. When Paula sees him, he's flushed with excitement and explains that he's been offered a job in a movie. "It's a love story. An adventure love story. A mystery comedy adventure love story." Elliot has jumped the gun, Without conferring with Paula he his decided that they be married in British Columbia and that she and Lucy spend the next six weeks with him on location. But Paula can't go. Lucy is in the middle of her school year and Paula has her own commitments. But she reassures Elliot that she'll wait. For the first time in my life, a man is leaving me and I'm not scared. Elliot storms out of the apartment. "Don't tell me you blew it Lucy asks. ''I don't know." Paula answers. That's up to him." Lucy responds. "I hate it when we leave it up to the guy." But, Paula realises that this isn't any ordinary guy. On the way to the airport Elliot decides to see Paula at her apartment. When he gets there, he thinks better of it and decides to telephone her from the corner. From her second storey fire escape, and using her portable phone, it becomes obvious that these two are very much in love They both admit that they can weather a six
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