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ACT ONE

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Good evening. Welcome to my humble home. I'm glad you could make it. What I'd like to do tonight is very simple. All I'm going to do is tell you a little bit about my life. I'm not planning to do anything more than that and I'm not planning to do anything less than that. I'm going to start at the very beginning and work my way up to the present, to today. I'll begin with a little visual poem I wrote which describes how it all began.

ELLEN/ANNIE
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I was born Ellen Steinberg. But I didn't like being Ellen Steinberg very much, so I simply invented Annie Sprinkle.

Ellen was excruciatingly shy. Annie was an exhibitionist.

Ellen was fat and ugly, and no one seemed to want her. Annie was voluptuous and sexy, and everyone seemed to want her.

Ellen desperately needed attention. Annie Sprinkle got it.

Ellen had to wear ugly flannel nightgowns like this one and horrible orthopedic shoes. Annie Sprinkle got to wear sexy lingerie and six inch high spiked heels.

Ellen was scared of boys and absolutely terrified of sex, but Annie was fearless. (You can close your eyes at any point during the evening.)

Ellen was dull and boring. Annie was exciting.

Ellen was a nobody from the suburbs of Los Angeles. But Annie Sprinkle got a little bit famous. She even got asked for autographs and she lived in Manhattan.

Ellen Steinberg wants to get married and have children, but Annie Sprinkle wants fame and fortune and a career.

After all these years I've come to realize, that as hard as it is for me to believe, Ellen Steinberg really must be Annie Sprinkle. And the truth is, Annie Sprinkle is still very much Ellen Steinberg.