ACT II

Rose lives on Park Avenue but like everyone in New York is scraping to get by. Her family owned oil leases in Louisiana that were cancelled, and she makes her living as a social media Influencer. When she finds out that Andy is the inventor of Roxy, she introduces him to a venture capitalist, and the venture capitalist agrees to invest $30 million for 50% of the company. Andy is the CEO, Arthur is the Chief Marketing Officer, and Christopher is the Chief Technology Officer. The company designs a logo and hires staff. Rose hosts a backer’s audition for Roxy in her living room, and Andy turns it into a virtual concert hall for investment bankers and their wives. The IPO is contingent on Andy getting a government license, however; and Rose conspires with Andy’s cousin, Brett Somerset, to deny it. Rose wants her oil leases back, and Brett knows Larry, a “fixer” in Washington who can help on both counts. The launch concert of Roxy is wildly successful. The crowd is ecstatic. But Andy falls into the trap that Rose and Brett have set, and Roxy’s value craters when the license is denied. Brett buys control of Roxy, gives Andy’s equity to Rose, and re-names the company "Fiesta.” Adding insult to injury, Rose seduces Andy and inserts a sensor into his neck while he sleeps. Andy discovers the conspiracy, and the fact that Rose is secretly in love with her Chambermaid, while hiding behind a curtain in Rose’s bedroom. He tumbles out of the window, and wakes up the next day penniless and suicidal. He walks the streets and contemplates throwing himself into the Hudson River. Instead, a horse-drawn carriage takes him to the Curiosity Shop, and he meets the Dealer and the Skin. The inscription describes the bargain: Andy can have anything he wants, but the Skin will grow smaller as each wish or desire is fulfilled; and when there is nothing left, he will die. Andy has nothing left to lose. He takes the bargain. The Dealer annoys him, so his first wish is for the Dealer to fall in love with a young woman who does not love him, and to sell everything he owns in his shop to please her. His second wish is for a banquet, because he is hungry. Andy is revived. He leaves the shop, bumps into Arthur and Christopher on the sidewalk, and is whisked off by them to the IPO closing dinner for Fiesta, a stag event in Brett's new penthouse in Steinway Tower. The dinner is festive and animated. There are toasts. A counter-tenor sings an ode. Andy confronts Brett and asks him why he betrayed him. “Rose is the person who betrayed you, “Brett replies. “For me, it was just family business.” He offers Andy a job. Courtesans light cigars for the men and serve coffee and liqueurs in the drawing room after dinner, and the night evolves into an orgy. While everyone else is sleeping, Andy confides to Christopher that he has put a Trojan Horse in the code that will cause Fiesta to crash, traces the Skin's outline on a napkin, and makes another wish: “I want to be wealthy!” As the Guests assemble for breakfast, a lawyer informs Andy that a distant relative has died and left him a fortune. Andy doubles over in pain as his wish comes true. He places the Skin on the napkin and sees that it has shrunk. "Can I get you something?" a Guest asks. "I want nothing!" Andy thunders in reply.