www.JoeFrank.com "The Queen of Puerto Rico" Monologue :: Thirty Minutes Series: NPR Playhouse, 1983 #14 Aired A teenage boy visits a Caribbean island with his parents. He watches the pink lady in a bar. He meets her on the beach. He meets a man in a bar who invites him to a beach house. He gets stoned and drunk and winds up in bed with the man. A man in a hospital imagines he is in a resort. The man follows the boy to the airport, later calls him and sends him letters, invites him to visit and becomes the Queen of Puerto Rico. He wears his grandmother's necklace, thinks of the pink lady. He writes the man and asks for money. The man goes to the hospital. Later he drops out of school and returns to the island. The boy gets a job on the island, begins wearing makeup, becomes the pink lady.
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"Sales" Monologue :: Thirty Minutes Series: NPR Playhouse, 1983 #15 Aired "I'm waiting" monologue. A sheet-music salesman dates one of his customers. Music: Steve Tibbetts, "Walking" from "Northern Song" More info at: www.joefrank.com
