Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain (39 page)

And now, a scene from the Broadway play Speed-thePlow, which starred Madonna.

[MAID exits; DAVID MAMET and RON SILVER enter.
MADONNA follows, script in hand.]

MADONNA

Okay, how's this? [Reads from script.] "I know what it's
like to be bad. I've been bad."

DAVID

Try again.

RON

Try again.

MADONNA

"I know what it's like to be bad. I-'ve been bad."

[She throws the script offstage, crosses to mike and
vogues with her hands.]

DAVID

I strain in vain to train Madonna's brain.

MADONNA

I strain in vain to train Madonna's brain.

DAVID

Again.

MADONNA

[Music begins.]

DAVID

MADONNA

DAVID

MADONNA

DAVID

MADONNA

ALL THREE

DAVID

ALL THREE

RON

MADONNA

PRACTICING TO BE A [sic] ACTRESS
[RON plunks out a tune on the piano.]

MADONNA

ALL