 When the show begins, Miriam finds the Squandering Sisters very strange, and when she calls them, they ask her never to call them Squandering Sisters again. She starts talking about the great musical numbers there are going to be in the show, and they get angry and say that they are expending too much money. Then they say that with the economical crisis in Spain, they have changed their mind, and they claim that the Squandering Sisters are dead, and the New Miserly Ladies have arrived.