Epilogue

CHARLOTTE:

My father’s coming!

ELLA:

Here?

CHARLOTTE:

Any minute. There’s too many people, the place looks too successful, he’ll never believe we did this!

ELLA:

CHAR, DON’T FREAK OUT,

THESE PEOPLE MAKE IT WORTH IT

AND THE CHAOS KEEPS YOU YOUNG,

EVERYTHING WE HAVE, WE’VE EARNED IT.

CHARLOTTE:

There he is!

ELLA:

Go!

CHARLOTTE:

Hello daddy.

ROBERT:

I thought you’d be more surprised that I was here.

CHARLOTTE:

Mother called.

ROBERT:

I should’ve known.

CHARLOTTE:

What do you think of the place?

ROBERT:

It’s not bad at all.

PHIL:

Rob!

ROBERT:

Phil!

PHIL:

So glad you came in.

ROBERT:

Charlotte, do you mind if we-

CHARLOTTE:

Go ahead, catch up. I’ll come by to take your order shortly.

ELLA:

So?

CHARLOTTE:

He loves the place!

ELLA:

He better have! Okay, new problem: there’s a gap in the set list.

CHARLOTTE:

Where?

ELLA:

Well, we open with the Van Patten sisters doing two numbers, then Mimi, then Anna, then Sophia, and Shelley was supposed to go next, but she’s a no-show. We have an empty five minute slot.

CHARLOTTE:

Our duet! We’re ready.

ELLA:

This is why I come to you. Show off. Save it for the performance. Charlotte, your father is about to hear you sing for the first time, really hear you sing in a place that you and I spent years reimagining and reopening.

CHARLOTTE:

It’s pretty surreal.

ELLA:

CAN YOU BELIEVE WE MADE THIS PLACE?

CHARLOTTE:

YES, I SEE IT EVERY DAY.

ELLA:

BREATHE A MOMENT, TAKE IT IN

CHARLOTTE and ELLA:

AND HEAR EVERY VOICE THAT’S FILLIN’

THE ROOM DAY OUT AND DAY IN

WE’VE MADE IT, CUZ TOGETHER WE HAVE

ALL:

GONE AND TURNED THIS PLACE INTO OUR DREAM.