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BENNY
        Maddie, I‘m about to put my studio on the map.


                                                         MADALYN
        Oh! Like a big blank space where it used to be?


                                                           BENNY
        They‘re not tearin‘ it down.


                                                         MADALYN
        Benny, I told you, you‘re not gonna-


                                                           BENNY
        No. I mean they decided not to.


                                                         MADALYN
        They did? (He nods) Pity.


                                                           BENNY
        I know. But it‘s okay—got a better idea.


                                                         MADALYN
        Oy.


                                                           BENNY
        Just imagine it‘s 1928. We open on a large Vaudeville stage. Close up on 12-year-old Benny Rosen,
        Junior and his dad, singin‘, dancin‘, headlinin' at the Palace.


                                                         MADALYN
        You wrote a musical?


                                                           BENNY
        It'll write itself.


                                                         MADALYN
        I see. Is it gonna fund itself?

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