"I like to take long walks, a mile or two at a time," the chesty chanteuse intones.  "So, a couple of months ago, I was on one of these walks from overfrom  the room for my red boots to the guest villa where I keep all my black stiletto heels and I thought, 'I've had a lot of hits, and these songs tell a story, my story. Mariah, you could be an inspiration to poor starving waitresses and failed crossover film starlets everywhere.' and so, 'Butterflies.'"
 
The big-voiced diva, who was recently paid $28 million not to record another album for Virgin Records, has yet to decide whether or not to take on the role of the show's lead character Maria Jeter-Mathers
 
"When I was writing 'Butterflies,' Carey says, "At first I wanted to stay as far away from the story of Mariah as possible, because people will see I wrote it and will always be looking for the autogeogrophical parts, because people like to get in my bushiness.  So I wrote the story about a church girl who dreams of leading the choir and then changes with the help of her rapper boyfriend."
 
Carey bristles at reports of criticism of the script's original heroine.  "People liked to say she was skanky and slutty and all that, but she was not.  She had a good heart.  She helps this little bulimic girl save up for liposuction before her trip to Africa so she could fit in and everything. It was heartwarming, but in the end, we decided to talk about me more and who can write the story of Mariah Carey better than Mariah Carey."
 
"Butterflies is a tragic story about the horrors of jealousy," says a 50-something Asian man who co-wrote the play and legally changed his name to Mariah Carey to be allowed to participate in the project.
 
"It's like a fairy tale," says Carey.  "The heroine, Maria, is the most beautiful girl in all the land, with a beautiful voice, but it makes the other girls jealous, and the most evil girl Britannia Bayonet, tries to do anything to be better than Maria, but we all know what happens to jealous girls.  Let's just say Britannia got bad fake titties and her voice, which wasn't as good as Maria's to begin with, was horribly mangled by a sorceress, Protoolia, all in a sad effort to be better than the beautiful and talented Maria.
 
Before heading to Broadway in November 2004, "Butterflies" will play off-Broadway at Bellevue Mental Hospital and at the Bryant Park Subway Station in midtown Manhattan.  As a special gift to her fans, for whom she downsized a planned arena tour this summer to theater dates, ticket prices for these early performances will be set at "however much change is in your pocket."

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