AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.
How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?
There isn't a particle of you that I don't know, remember, and want.
Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.
A bloody good thing, but too late.
In the first act, you get the audience's attention - once you have it, they will repay you in the second. Play through the laughs if you have to. It will only make the audience believe there are so many of them that they missed a few.