Let It Go

Let It Go

Cast:

Customer
Psychic
Wife of Psychic
Daugther of Psychic - Abby

Setting: Customer enters psychic’s business and pays for a future telling session.

Customer: Hi, I’d like to have my future told please.

Psychic: Velcome. Tank you for comink. $45 please and I tell future. Cash only pleez.

[customer hands over $45]

Psychic: Let us embark to future tellink room.

[psychic parts hanging bead curtain and enters darker room with two chairs on opposite sides of a purply lit gazing ball]

Psychic: Pleez seet. [points to chair]

[customer sits, psychic sits in opposing chair]

Psychic: Before vee get started pleez to tell me vhy you vish to have fortune seen.

Customer: well I met a woman and I want to see if she is the one.

Psychic: Ah, tank you. Let me look. I Stare into dees. I vill see future. Future not clouded. Future clear. Clear as bell. Comink, future comink clearer, I see…

Wife of psychic [blurting in from another set of bead curtains]: Hey Larry did you pick up the dry cleaning!?

Psychic: Excuze pleez. Honey, I am vit customer.

Wife of psychic: But did you pick up the dry cleaning?

Psychic: Honey, vit customer, running business here pleez.

Wife of psychic: It should have had the red blouse in there. I want to wear it to book club tonight. We all read The Notebook. Again but who cares. I think it is better than fifty shades –

Psychic: Honey, pleez. Fortune tellink here. Me and dis man need privacy.

Wife of Psychic: Is it on the back of the door.

Psychic: Yes.

Wife of psychic: Thanks, so you have Abby tonight and you promised to watch Frozen with her and then bake cupcakes and read Beauty And The Beast. Don’t forget.

Psychic: Yes honey. Pleeze to leave now. Thank you.

[customer shifts in chair and harrumphs]

Psychic: Apologies accept pleez. Back to future. Let me stare again into ball, let me see…yes, yes…I am seeink a voman, a voman of great beauty, she is in vedding dress, she is laughink, she is dancink vit man but dees man’s back to me…

[customer, eyes agape, fidgets…]

[child peeks head out from behind bead curtain]

Abby: Daddy, what kind of cupcakes are we making tonight?

Psychic: Abby, vee have spoken about daddy’s verk time. Pleez, dad verking now.

Abby: Can we make chocolate cupcakes with sprinkles?

Psyhic: Abby, dad verking. Pleez, later. [smiles at customer]

Abby: But I need to get things ready. The movie starts at 8 which means we have to mix the cupcakes by seven because they have to bake and then cool and then we have to do the icing and you promised we would rehearse the songs before the movie. We are going to sing during the movie right? You did learn the words right? Daddy?

[Pychic looks at customer]

Customer: Gonna Let It Go are ya?

Psychic: Abby, daddy has learned verds to sonks but vee vill not sink unless you pleez leave.

Abby: But what kind of cupcakes? You like chocolate right daddy? Do you want your favorite icing?

Psychic: Yes, cream cheeze frostink pleez. I do love zee cream cheez frosting.

[customer rolls eyes]

Abbie [screaming]: Mommy, we’re having the chocolate with cream cheese frosting and daddy said he learned the words!!!

[mom rushes in]

Wife of psychic [singing]: Don't let them in, [daughter joins in singing] don't let them see, Be the good girl you always have to be, Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know Well, now they know! Oh and can you do a load of towels tonight?

Psychic: Pleez! Verkink here! No more interruptions!

[Abby and mother leave]

Psychic: Ok, let us get back to future gazink…-

Customer: Never mind. No way in hell I’m getting married!

[customer leaves humming Let It Go]