"Some Enchanted Evening" Script No. 5
February 14, 2003

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Some enchanted evening
You will see a stranger
You will see a stranger
Across a crowded room ...

Dale Connelly: Some enchanted evening ... sharing stories from our listeners of unlikely romance arising from unexpected circumstances.

This note comes from our listener Glenn, who says:

Jim Ed Poole: I fell in love with a picture.

When I was in the choir at East High School in Duluth, there were portraits on the wall of previous choirs. I found myself captivated by a girl in one of the portraits ... a girl with long blonde hair standing in the center of the front row. For three years in high school I daydreamed about her.

Some Enchanted evening
You will see a picture
What a lovely picture
In such a crowded room ...

JEP: Years after graduating, I continued to sing. I met and fell in love with a wonderful woman while rehearsing for the opera The Elixir of Love. Much to my surprise, I discovered that she had also attended Duluth East.

BG: I sang in the choir there, too.

JEP: You did!

BG: I really did.

JEP: Let's get engaged ... and because we have nothing better to do ... let's go back there for a visit. There's someone ... very special to me ... that I'd like you to meet.

Beth Gilleland: You know someone who's still there?

JEP: (sigh) The special someone I'm thinking of ... will be there ... forever.

You probably have guessed
Before this is through
The chances are good that
His dream will come true

JEP: As we entered the room, she went right to the portraits and said ...

BG: This girl with the long blonde hair in the front row? It's ME!

JEP: That's YOU? I fell in love with you when I was in high school!

BG: Really?

JEP: Really! You were my imaginary girlfriend!

BG: How sweet! How wonderful!

JEP: No, actually, we broke up, my senior year.

BG: (pause) Well ... we're back together.

JEP: (weepy) I've really missed you!

Some Enchanted Evening
You will meet that photo
Your beloved photo
Will walk into the room.

A face you can see
Now real as can be
Even better looking
Now she's in 3D.

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