(Heidi Holland, who has just adopted a baby girl, Judy, is talking to Scoop Rosenbaum, an ex-boyfriend, in the last scene of the play.)
SCOOP:
All people deserve to fulfill their potential. Judy, that’s what your mother told me in 1968 on the first snowy night in Manchester, New Hampshire. America needs heroes. HEIDI:
Scoop, you are many things, but …
(Scoop takes Heidi’s hand.)
SCOOP:
What do you think, Judy? A mother for the nineties and a hero for the nineties. ’Bye, Heidella.
(He kisses her on the cheek. He exits … Heidi takes Judy out of the stroller and lifts her up.)
HEIDI:
A heroine for the twenty-first!
(She sits in the rocker and begins to sing softly, adding her own spirited high and low harmonies.)
HEIDI:
“Darling, you send me.You send me. Honest you do, honest you do, honest you do.”
(Lights fade as Heidi rocks.)
CURTAIN
By Wendy Wasserstein
(1950–2006) Next: James Frey’s Enabler