Mardi Gras
2007
 
     
 
Returning to her Master, in her true form without a mask,
she sings of her Master's face, "I knew first look I took at it,
this was the face that the world adores......
I will find in no book, what I find when I look at that face."
But....the clown, disheartened by her absence,
still has her mask, her "security", so she returns to him.
 
     
 
  With one last ray of hope, the clown bekons the Lady.
But, the Master isn't finished!
 
     
 
  The Master wails now of HIS loss, singing, "I guess I'll have to play Pagliacci
(the clown) and learn to laugh like Pagliacci with tears in my eyes."
Upon the utterance of his name, the clown, unable to contain his pain any longer,
let's loose with his pent up emotion,
and shows us the "tears of a clown", or, the real face behind HIS mask!

 
 

 
The clown, spent of his emotion, returns to his place
as the Master resumes with, "I guess the masquerade is over,
and so is our love, and so is our love."
 

 
The Lady of the Mask, torn between the two, vents her own pain,
"Always taking a bow, always working the crowd.
always breaking new ground, always playing the clown.
Who'll be sticking it out?
Who'll be staying around when the lights go down?"
 

 
That said, the love triangle freezes. As the toys repeat their chant,
"Oh fate, like the moon, you are changeable," the Master breaks from the freeze. Waving his staff, the toys return to stasis, leaving him the only one "alive".
Chuckling, having the last laugh, he returns to his Lady.
 
 
 
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