(Song No. 20, Our little secret) Marilyn:(spoken) Mr. President...
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) Call me Jack. I’m a huge fan of your pictures.
Marilyn:(spoken) Ha, I’m a fan of yours as well.
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) Glad to finally meet you in the, ah, flesh.(He starts to take Marilyn’s jacket off.)
Marilyn:(spoken) Disappointed?
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) Shall we go somewhere to talk? Get to know each other better.
Somewhere where there’s
-No FBI getting nervous No CIA peeking through
I've got my own Secret Service to take care of you Marilyn:(spoken) We can get to know each other right here, can’t we?
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) Why don’t we go where
-No one from Time or from Newsweek, Can document our rendezvous
It’s our little secret Just us two Marilyn:(spoken) Everyone’s watching. Is your wife here?
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) Jackie doesn't approve of my parties or my friends.
Marilyn:(spoken) I hear you have a lot of "friends". Maybe that’s why?
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) Our host wants to see you.
Marilyn:(spoken) Bing? Now? Where is he?
She notices a large bed.
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) I had to get you alone.
Marilyn:(spoken) Do you always get what you want?
John F. Kennedy:(spoken) I haven’t told you what I wanted yet. How 'bout I never do? And you have to guess...(He pins Marilyn up against the wall and starts to seduce her more.)
Outside of this room there's a cold war, But you'd never know it in here There’s just no defense, the heat’s too intense
And oh, how it rises whenever you’re near
Marilyn:(spoken) You want the same thing everyone else wants. I thought you’d be different mr.
President..
John F. Kennedy: Give me a chance.
She smiles and turns her back to the President, and he begins to undress her.
John F. Kennedy:
So let’s do it now for our country, And raise the old red, white, and blue
It’s our little secret, just us two Just us two
Just us two The two go on to the bed and start to kiss.
Scene 10
SET: JFK’s hotel room. On the stage we see the bed. Marilyn is still sleeping, as Kennedy is putting his shirt on.
Marilyn wakes up and sees JFK buttoning his shirt.
Marilyn:(happy) Jack? Where are you going?
John F. Kennedy: I have to get on the plane.
Marilyn: When will I see you again?
John F. Kennedy: I don’t know.
Marilyn sits up and covers her body with a sheet and starts hugging him.
Marilyn: I could go with you.
John F. Kennedy: You can’t. Jackie’s waiting.
He stands up and Marilyn is confused,. JFK goes to her and takes her chin.
John F. Kennedy: Last night was fun.
And kisses her.
Marilyn: (confused) Is that all?!
John F. Kennedy: What else was there supposed to be?
He puts his jacket on.
Marilyn: You are going back to her, when you have this waiting for you right here?
John F. Kennedy: Well, let’s face it. You’re not exactly first lady material.
He smiles to her.
Marilyn: You’re wrong. I’ll call your wife.
John F. Kennedy: No you won’t.
Marilyn: (She stands up with a sheet covering her body) I will! I’ll call her and I promise she won’t like it one bit. Because I’m not like one of your other girls and she knows it... I’m Marilyn Monroe. If you leave now, you're going to regret it... But you can come back to bed.
Come back to bed Jack...
She drops the sheet she was covered in - she is nude under it.
John F. Kennedy is speechless and he is looking at her but then he leaves and Marilyn covers her body with a sheet and sits on the bed and then lies down.
Scene 11
SET: On the stage we see a big rounded bed and Marilyn is lying on it.
Marilyn: Now I understand! That’s all what they ever wanted! They wanted a sex object! And...
I’m not that.
When she said that, Shadow selves appear in the back.
Shadow self 1: Marilyn?
Shadow self 2: Marilyn?
Shadow self 3: Marilyn...
Marilyn: What?... Marilyn?
Shadow self 4: Now, Norma Jeane is gone! There is nothing left... but the empty Monroe...
Shadow self 1: Empty,...
Shadow self 2: Empty beauty,...
Shadow self 3: A thing,...
Shadow self 4: Men’s thing...used thing.
Shadow self 1: You know too much.
Shadow self 2: He...he told you too much.
Shadow self 3: Now, you’re just...
Shadow selves: A sex object!
Marilyn: No! Go away. Disappear! I don’t need you! I’ll make you disappear!
She is frightened and confused so she takes a hand full of pills and falls asleep.
Scene 12
SET: Marilyn is dreaming about the visit to her mother. The bed moves off stage. On the stage comes a hospital bed and around it we see three white panels. On bed is sitting Gladys in a purple dress and Marilyn is coming to her.
Fired from her latest film, used up by the Kennedys and deeply under the influence of pills and booze, Marilyn fantasizes about visiting her mother at the sanitarium, where - in the dream - Gladys says all the things to Marilyn that she always wanted to hear.
Marilyn: Oh, mamma. How...how are you?
Gladys: Hello baby, I’m good.
Marilyn: O mamma, I’ve missed you so, so much.
Gladys: Don’t worry darling, I’m here now, I hope that I’m not too late.
Marilyn: Where were you, when I really needed you?
Gladys: When I was a film cutter at RKO Pictures, after work, me and the girls would
sometimes drive all the way down to the Santa Monica’s pier and went dancing. I should have come to see you, but I knew you were better of where you were. Oh, Norma Jeane I’m so sorry.
Marilyn: Mamma, I’m Marilyn now. I haven’t been Norma Jeane in years.
Gladys: Baby, I wish I was back in the cutting room. I’d take all these pieces of our lives and I’d make something beautiful out of it.