Rita's Confession is a song from Lucky Stiff. In Act-1, Rita, through this song, explains to her brother, Vinne, about an ad in the paper.
The Lyrics[]
Rita
- Vinnie, you're my brother. I'm in a little trouble, and I didn't know where else to go. Listen to this obituary I just found in the Atlantic City paper.
Vinnie
- You're holding it upside down. Put on your glasses!
Rita
- (Reading,) "British shoe salesman inherits six million dollars from casino manager uncle."
Vinnie
- I don't get it.
Rita
- Let me start at the beginning.
- (Singing,) I was having an affair.
Vinnie
- An affair.
Rita
- An affair,
- And my lover's name was Tony,
Vinnie
- Tony.
Rita
- Hendon,
- He managed my husband's casino.
- He wore a tux.
- I went crazy for the guy,
- Which is why,
Vinnie
- Which is why?
Rita
- I embezzled from my husband.
Vinnie
- Not your husband.
Rita
- We stole from my husband's casino,
- Six million bucks,
Vinnie
- No!
Rita
- And all in rocks.
- Six million bucks in diamonds,
- In a heart-shaped box!
- Now I've gotta go to Monte Carlo!
- I've gotta find this man:
- He inherited the money,
- I embezzled from my husband,
- For my lover, who I accidently shot!
Vinnie
- What?!
Rita
- Well, I went to Tony's place,
Vinnie
- Tony's place.
Rita
- It was dark,
- And I saw a woman leaving.
Vinnie
- Woman?
Rita
- Leaving.
- I knew that my Tony was in there.
- Well, I saw red,
- And the room was very dark,
Vinnie
- Very dark.
Rita
- Very dark,
- And I didn't have my glasses,
Vinnie
- What, no glasses?
Rita
- And there, in the dark, accidentally,
- I shot him dead.
- They found his will.
- He left this English nephew
- My entire six mil!
- Now I've gotta go to Monte Carlo!
- I've gotta find this man!
Vinnie
- He inherited the money,
Rita
- I embezzled from my husband ,
Vinnie
- For the guy you accidentally shot at dawn!
Rita
- Right!
- And you've gotta go to Monte Carlo!
Vinnie
- Me?
Rita
- Just as fast as you can!
Vinnie
- Why?
Rita
- 'Cause I accidentally mentioned
- It was you who took the money
- When my husband accidentally found it gone.
- What could I say?
Vinnie
- What'd you say? What'd you say?
Rita
- What could I do?
Vinnie
- What'd you do? What'd you do?
Rita
- They money was gone,
- And Nicky caught on
- So I blamed it...
Vinnie
- No!
Rita
- ...on you.
- I said you lost it gambling.
- I was desperate.
- It just came out of my mouth,
- You know, spontaneously.
- And now... well... I think...
- Nicky has a contract on your life
Vinnie
- (Frightened,) I've gotta go to Monte Carlo.
- I've gotta find this man.
- I could end up in the river,
- With a bullet in my liver,
- Or piano wire wrapped around my neck!
Rita
- Check!
Both
- We've gotta go to Monte Carlo!
- Just as fast as we can,
- And find this man!