Outside the restaurant.

GEORGE
God

JULIANNE
Give me your ring!

GEORGE
No.

JULIANNE
Give it to me!

GEORGE
No.

JULIANNE
George, when you ask a girl to marry you, you have to give an engagement ring.

GEORGE
Julianne, I can’t believe you’re doing this to me. I’ve come all this way to help you for this! You’re insane.

JULIANNE
Please, for one day find me irresistible

Inside restaurant

JULIANNE
Is something wrong?

MICHAEL
I guess it’s just the way you’ve always talked about George. It always seemed… seemed like—It sounded like George was—

GEORGE
Gay?

MICHAEL
Actually, yes.

GEORGE
Common misconception.

JULIANNE
It is. George likes to pretend that he’s gay.

MICHAEL
And why would you do that?

GEORGE
I find it attracts women.

JULIANNE
Indeed. Worked for me. Big time.

MICHAEL
Right. (There is a silence)

KIMMY
I can tell you this now, but I was very worried about you.

JULIANNE
About me?

KIMMY
Yeah, I mean all those stories that Michael told me were hilarious but all those broken relationships, all those men. It must have hurt going through so many guys and never finding the right one.

GEORGE
Yes, she couldn’t sit down for seven years until she met teensy- weensy little me.

KIMMY
And all the while, the man of your dreams was right in front of you.

GEORGE
(Julianne looks at Michael). She’s talking about me.

KIMMY
George.

GEORGE
Yes, darling?

KIMMY
How did you and Julianne meet?

JULIANNE
George is my editor.

GEORGE
But, poopy, we met a long time before that. Actually, it’s a very romantic story. Would you like to tell it, sweet pea?

JULIANNE
No. It’s private.

GEORGE
Well, not anymore. I first met Julianne in a mental institution. Julianne was there visiting some French chef she’d sent insane with a bad review and I was there visiting Dionne Warwick.

KIMMY
Dionne Warwick!?

GEORGE
Well yes, he thought he was Dionne Warwick.

MICHAEL
Who is Dionne Warwick?

GEORGE
Sacrilege, darling.

KIMMY
She’s Whitney Houston’s aunt. She’s very good on the Psychic Friends Network. (Singing) “Do you know the way to san Jose Lala lala lala lala”.

GEORGE
So there I was with Dionne. His real name, by the way, is Jerry. We were having one hell of a sing-along, when suddenly breezing through the doors from the shock therapy room. I saw her. A vision in pink.

MICHAEL
Pink? You don’t wear pink.

GEORGE
She does Michael. Sometimes she does wear pink.

JULIANNE
George!

GEORGE
You do.

JULIANNE
I do.

GEORGE
I said to Dionne, “Dionne, who is this vision? Quest que ce se vision? Surely she most be the understudy to some fabulous Broadway star. I mean, look at her skin!”

JULIANNE
George.

GEORGE
“Who does her hair?” And in that moment, I knew.

JULIANNE
We don’t all need to know what you knew.

KIMMY
Yes we do!

MICHAEL
I’m very curious.

GEORGE
They do. I knew that someday we’d end up like this: like some glittering Doris Day-Rock Hudson extravaganza. I said to Dionne: “Dionne, I’m in love. Could this siren love me? Are the gods that kind? And Dionne turn to me, open her lovely eyes and said… (long pause).

KIMMY
What did she say?

GEORGE
(Singing)
The moment I wake up
Before I put on my makeup
I say a little prayer for you
While combing my hair now
While wandering what dress to wear now
(Kimmy starts singing with him)
I say a little prayer for you
Forever and ever
you’ll stay in my heart
And I will love you
For ever and ever
We never will part
Oh, how I love you
Together forever
That’s how it must be
To live with out you
Would only mean
Heartbreak for me
(The rest of the restaurant start singing as well)
I run for the bus, dear
While riding I think of us, dear
At work I just take time
And all through my coffee break time
I say a little prayer for you
Forever and ever
you’ll stay in my heart
And I will love you
For ever and ever
We never will part
Oh, how I love you
Together forever
That’s how it must be
To live with out you
Would only mean
Heartbreak for me
My darling believe me
For me there is no one but you
Please love me too
(Kimmy) Answer his prayer
And I’m in love with you
(Kimmy) Answer his prayer now baby
Answer my prayer, baby
(Kimmy) Answer his prayer
Say you love me too
Forever and ever
you’ll stay in my heart
And I will love you
For ever and ever
We never will part
Oh, how I love you
Together forever
That’s how it must be
To live with out you
Would only mean
Heartbreak for me