毕业舞会

One thing's universal

Life's no dress rehearsal

When people find A scapegoat to condemn

We went big, yet we've blown it

Well, I guess I should have known it

All along tonight

Belonged

To them

Alyssa? - I swear I had no idea.

How could you not know? You were on the prom committee.

It was Shelby and Kaylee.

They figured out we were together and they made sure I didn't find out.

They didn't want me to tell you. - Then come meet me.

I can't.

Look, my mother's here.

Well, leave her. Tell her you're gay!

Tell her we're in love. That was the plan, wasn't it?

I'm really sorry.

Have fun at the normal person's prom.

Wait. Emma.

Emma!

Okay. Here's what we're gonna do. We are going to that prom, okay?

They can't stop us. We will march into that room...

No! No, enough.

This is already the worst night of my life.

Please, just stop helping me.

Emma! Emma!

This is a complete disaster.

This is a PR problem.

No, Sheldon. We had a PR problem back in New York.

This was supposed to solve that.

But this…

This is heartbreaking.

This is why you came here? For publicity?

I have been asked to read a statement.

"What happened here was not the result of some elaborate plan

to humiliate this girl, as has been reported in the press."

"The James Madison High School Parent-Teacher Association

felt Emma would not be safe

if we allowed her to attend prom with the other students

because the uncomfortable truth

is there are people in our community who are offended by her life choices."

I can't even wrap my head around this. It's a nightmare. Oh, my God!

I wanna be the cockeyed optimist here

'cause I played Nellie Forbush in South Pacific.

It was a dinner theater production, but…

Ugh.

This is horrible. It really is.

Thanks for hanging out with me these past couple of days.

You've been a good friend.

I have? - You have. You seem surprised.

No, I just…

I'm a chorus girl. You know, I just…

No one ever thanks me. They don't even see me.

Spend my whole life trying to stay in the game,

and keep my day-drinking under control.

That's really nice. Thanks, kid.

Hey, you're going to get through this. I know it.

I thought that when my parents rejected me and stopped loving me

that I would never feel any worse, you know?

Mmm-hmm.

And now this…

And I feel worse.

Honey… - I've never felt so alone in my life.

But you're not alone. You're not.

You got me. Hmm?

And we are ride-or-die, and you do have friends.

Where are they?

This is it.

Yes.

No. - Well, okay.

Emma, can we come in? - Yes.

We brought Häagen-Dazs.

That's fancy ice cream.

I know what Häagen-Dazs is. Hand it over.

Emma, I know you said you didn't want us to help anymore,

but we cannot let them get away with this. We have got to fight back.

Okay, I know everybody's really angry.

But I think we have to admit that we have made things worse.

I think the best thing we can do is disinfect our things and go back home.

No, we are not leaving. - No!

Dee Dee, we are gonna stay here, and we're going to turn this thing around.

We gotta take back the press.

Yes, how?

Emma, you've got to step up and be the face of this thing.

And that's going to get her a prom?

This is not about a prom anymore. This is about right and wrong.

We need a national audience, prime time.

You want a big audience fast? We gotta use our ace in the hole.

One call to Eddie Sharpe is all we need. - No. No.

Dee Dee!

He's right.

If I ask him for something, he will want something in return,

and what he will want is the Hamptons house.

He's been trying to get it for years.

Okay. Okay, fine. Look, Sheldon, you got to get that girl on TV.

Okay. - Great.

No, not great.

I'm sorry, but there is no way I'm getting in front of a camera

and telling my story to millions of people. I can't do that.

See? - Please. Please, just go.

Emma, if you do nothing... Okay. - Barry. Go.

Okay, I get it. Okay. Okay.

Go. Go, go, go. Go, go.

I got this. I know what I'm doing.

Let me do my thing.

There must be a way to rid this community, and by extension, the nation,

of this cancer of intolerance.

What are you even doing here? What happened to Godspell?

Indianapolis was canceled, as was the naval base at Guantánamo Bay.

What I'm thinking I'm going to do is this.

Venture forth and seek out the young people and rap,

in a non-musical sense.

Mmm.

Let's go get some more, huh?

Two spoons this time.

Come on.

Gotta stop.

Before you lecture me or kick me to death with those crazy antelope legs of yours,

or whatever you're gonna do, I know I should do something.

I just can't.

You gotta do this.

You gotta do it for all of us people

that are standing in the wings, waiting to go on.

I'm too scared. - Hmm.

Let me tell you a story.

It's 1975

and the original company of Chicago is in previews,

and the worst flu in history hits the cast.

They're down to the third cover for the role of Roxie Hart

and she's scared, just like you are.

And Fosse, who is a real ballbuster, is putting her through her paces

and she's petrified.

Worst of all, she's doing the routine like she's a robot.

So the Foss, he says, "Hey, kid. Snap out of it."

"You got the steps."

"You've got the notes."

"Where's the zazz, baby?"

And even though she'd never heard that word before,

she knew immediately what it meant.

And she went out there and she found that spotlight,

and she crushed that performance so hard,

she had that whole audience standing on their feet screaming bloody murder!

And that girl was you!

What?

How old do you think I am?

It was 1975! No.

The point is every Fosse girl knows that story.