The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread — Page 399

So, I think I figured out the answer to our question on whether or not Bobby is bisexual or just afriad of commitment.

I bought the play and have been reading it all night. (AH! I can't wait for March!). I typed up the part so you all can read it and see what you think. I would have scanned it but my scanner is already packed! If you don't want to know part of the plot then, I guess, don't read it.

This is from Act Two, the very end of Scene Three.

PETER: Robert, Did you ever have a homosexual experience?
ROBERT: I beg your pardon?
PETER: Oh, I don't mean as a kid. I mean, since you've been adult. Have you ever?
ROBERT: Well, yes, actually, yes, I have.
PETER: You're not gay, are you?
ROBERT: No, no. Are you?
PETER: No, no, for crissake. But I've done it more than once though.
ROBERT: Is that a fact?
PETER: Oh, I think sometimes you meet somebody and you just love the crap out of them. Y'know?
ROBERT: Oh, absolutely, I'm sure that's true.
PETER: And sometimes you just want to manifest that love, that's all.
ROBERT: Yes, I understand. Absolutely.
PETER: I think that sometimes you can even know someone for, oh, a long, long time and then suddenly, out of nowhere, you just want to have them--I mean, even an old friend. You just, all of a sudden, desire that intimacy. That closeness.
ROBERT: Probably.
PETER: Oh, I'm convinced that two men really would, if it wasn't for society and all the conventions and all that crap, just go off and ball and be better off for it, closer, deeper, don't you think?
ROBERT: Well, I--I don't know.
PETER: I mean like us, for example. Do you think that you and I could ever have anything like that?
ROBERT: (Looks at him for a long and uncomfortable moment. Then a big smile): Oh, I get it. You're putting me on. Man, you really had me going there, you son of a gun.

(Laughing, Robert points at Peter and exits. Peter, alone, opens his mouth to call after him but doesn't. Peter exits. Blackout)

Okay, back to reading! But let me just tell you, seeing Raúl in the scene before "Barcelona" might do me in. It's very sexual.

Ahh. I NEED my scanner.

Okay, I'll just type the scene up for you. It might take me a second or two. But you NEED to read it!

It's scene two. Robert brings April back to his apartment (where he has a mirror over the bed! Ha!) and they begin talking and... I'll go type up the rest...

ahhhh!!!! i HAVE to go see this.

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Shesh. Sorry it took me so long. I got distracted!

Robert and April have just finished making love. April tells him a really random story about how her ex-boyfriend gave her a cocoon that turned into a butterfly, but then her cat ate it. I'm too lazy to type that all up, but that's basically all she says. So this is right after she finishes talking...

(Robert stands, staring, pause)

ROBERT: That reminds me of something I did to someone once... in Miami... I mean it's not really the same, but in a way. Well, you'll see. I met a girl, a lovely girl, at a party one night and, well, it was like you and me, April. We just--connected. You don't mind my telling this, do you?
APRIL: No.
ROBERT: It just... came to my mind. Anyway, we just connected, in such a beautiful way... exactly like tonight. Except we couldn't even contain ourselves. It was incredible. We were talking and suddenly we realized we just couldn't talk anymore. No sounds came. We stood looking at each other and we were both bathed in perspiration. Our breathing was so short and our legs were trembling and we just left. We drove to one of those strips there where they have all those motels, and we didn't even say anything. She just sat close to me. So close. We got inside that room and we started touching and kissing and laughing and holding and suddenly she said I should go get lots of champagne and some baby oil and we should get beautifully high and then rub... well, you know. She said she'd be in bed waiting for me.

(April is visibly being turned on by this story)

I rushed out of there and I drove around until I could find a liquor store and a drugstore open and I got all this Champagne and the oil and finally I started back to the motel and--I--could not--find--it.

(April reacts)

I looked for over three hours. I never found it. And I never saw her again either.
APRIL (Her breathing heavy): Oh. That is the most extraordinary story I have ever heard.

(Robert helps her out of her jacket)

That poor, poor girl. And you drove around for three hours?

(Robert unzips April's blouse and almost absentmindedly she takes off her skirt. He begins undressing her rapidly, then drops his own clothes and tosses them next to the bed. He pulls back the bedspread on both sides. April sits on the bed and unrolls her stockings)

ROBERT: More! All night I tried to find that motel. I mean all night. With the oil and all that Champagne and my hands trembling and sweat running down my face.

(April, close to tears, is under the covers now; Robert joins her under the covers, completing his undressing on the other side of the bed)

APRIL: Oh, that girl. She never knew. Oh. Well, I just don't know what to say or do. That is so sad!
ROBERT: I know. It is. Very.

(On the bed, they begin to make love; suddenly April stops and sits up)

APRIL: But Robert. Those stories don't really follow. I don't see the connection. Unless... oh... you must have thought of that poor girl as the wounded butterfly...

(Robert looks up to the sky with a "thank you" expression)

ROBERT: Yes! That's it!

(In a split second they are both under the covers again as lights go down on the bedroomand come up on Sarah and Jenny)

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 12:28 AM

If they just finished making love does that mean he's going to be naked?!? AHHHHHHHHHHH.

Wait but I'm confused. There's a cue for them to get undressed. How did they just have sex with their clothes on? AHHHHHHHH.

OH MY GOD IT IS A SEX SCENE AND I AM GOING TO DIE. YES.

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I was confused by that, too. I think they make love during the daytime. Then she dresses and then they make love again that night. And then "Barcelona" is the next morning.

I'm wondering if he will be naked! But either way, he's going to have to pretend to have sex and that is... well, that is fantastic!

I think... I think I might die. I'm not sure If I can survive seeing that in front of my eyes. Or I might run on stage and join him! Either way is totally uncalled for.

I'll be there on the 18th, as well! I'm doing rush on the 18th and have tickets for the 19th. I *might* be there on the 17th, too. We'll see.

March? Hello? HURRY!

Are they definitely having rush?

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YES! I'm going to rush my hiney off!

He better be in bed. Damn it, Raúl! Get in bed!

I read somewhere that he might not even play anything at all. And if he does, it might only be for one song.

I wish we could all go together. I mean, I'll be flying out from NYC and just getting a hotel in Cincinnati. My mom will be there, maybe. Unless she decides not to go. Oh well.

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 12:49 AM

I hope he plays something!

Definitely give it a shot! You could always say we met through a friend at school. I mean, Gretch does go to Columbia.

Updated On: 12/21/05 at 12:53 AM

I can see how it would sound crazy to an outsider. But, it makes sense to me and it makes sense to you. And I believe it will be more than worth it. Something I'll always remember. And it's spring break and Raúl. And who knows when he'll be back on the New York stage.

I'd like my mom to see him on stage again, soon. But, after reaing the whole love scene. That could get really awkward, really fast.

I'm exactly the same way. I don't party. I just don't. I never have and I probably never will. I'm a nerd and I'm proud. Ha.

Oh goodness! I can imagine!