Out Takes Part Three: The Doctors

Here’s another scene that Adam cut from the play – this one during Joe’s trip to the Hospital for The Mentally Deranged. If kept, it would give a more comic entry into the nightmare world of the hospital – but it had to go.

And so will the show itself, so if you haven’t already, go get your tickets!

(JOE sits in a chair in a straight jacket. Two DOCTORS in white coats circle him. The lights are dreamlike.)

DOCTOR 1
I am concerned he’s not getting enough drugs.

DOCTOR 2
I have the same concern, doctor.

DOCTOR 1
Nurse, see that he gets three hundred and thirty three more cc’s of centa-rama-thol.

DOCTOR 2
And twenty seven more cc’s of orga-rata-thol.

DOCTOR 1
And eighty-five more cc’s of prozacoril.

DOCTOR 2
And give him a bath.

DOCTOR 1
Give the poor fucker a thrill.

(The DOCTORS laugh.)

DOCTOR 2
And don’t scrimp on the soap.

DOCTOR 1
And while he’s taking a bath, dose him with fifty five thousand more cc’s of cortapentathol.

DOCTOR 2
And ninety thousand more cc’s of gor-vidal-a-cal.

DOCTOR 1
I should give Gore Vidal a call.

(The DOCTORS laugh.)

DOCTOR 2
That joke never gets old.