RAGTIME -
Little Boy - a change is coming, warn the duke!
Emma Goldman - we MUST bring on the change!
Houdini and Evelyn Nesbit - Quick, we'll provide distraction while the change happens. You'll disappear and I'll be the cause for the crime of the century.
Emma - it's only 1906, crazy biatch. 94 years to go!
Younger Brother - I love that crazy biatch! Wow! She kissed me, I'm a changed man. Sudden urge to change others! What cause should I fight for?
Grandfather - here's my list, I'm thoroughly irrited by everything.
Coalhouse - oh crap, she's pregnant. Too much change for me, I'm out of here!
Sarah - You're too much like your daddy, I must bury you.
Mother - wait! Don't do that dear little Negro lady. Golly, what to do? Where is Father? I can't make a decision on my own.
Police - Make a choice, woman.
Mother - Ok, Sarah and her son can stay with us.
Coalhouse - I was an ass, must find Sarah. Yeah, I found her!
Little Boy - and her little Negro child lives in our attick.
Sarah - marry me, Coalhouse.
Coalhouse - Sorry, I'm bailing on you again because some waspy asses ruined my car
Henry Ford - Doesn't he know my factory can make him another one?
JP Morgan - only cream of the crop like me can afford to buy them.
Emma Goldman - Asses! Let me at them! Can't stand men like them. I'm going to stage a protest.
Tateh - She's fighting for us poor immigrants while I make little sillouettes to keep my daughter from crying.
Little Girl - sell it.
Tateh - No, you are nuts to think I'd sell...
American - I'll buy it!
Tateh - oh little one, your father is a smart man to sell these! Tomorrow I'll make more and sell them for twice the amount!
Little Boy - why is that girl wearing a leash?
Mother - don't stare
Little Boy - but I have to look, she's going to be my step sister.
Mother - silly boy, who put such thoughts in your head?
Houdini - tah dah!
Little Boy - warn the duke, already!
Younger Brother - Bring on the protest, Emma! FINALLY, a cause I can fight for! And I know how to blow things up!
Emma - you masterbate to a vaudville whore, you may want to be more specific.
Younger Brother - fireworks, I know about fireworks!
Coalhouse - I don't know how this got so out of hand, it was just a car. I'm not good with words. Must have JUSTICE
Sarah - I'll speak for you if you promise to marry me.
(she speaks, she dies)
Father - I'm back from exploring after not being in most of the first ACT 1. Ummm, why is a Negro baby living with us?
Mother - these are changing times, dear.
Father - I don't want changes. I'm happy being a privledged WASP. Let me distract my son by taking my son to a baseball game.
Mother - it's still changing.
Father - Then let's escape to Altantic City.
Tateh - Look at me now, I'm making movies and doing well.
Little Girl - and I still have no name, but I'm dressing better.
Little Boy - hey she's looking better.
Mother - yeah, and his dad's not so bad either.
Tateh and Mother - it's nice our Children get along. Say isn't your husband away again, this time getting killed in a war?
Coalhouse - Now it's more than my car, they killed my Sarah.
Younger Brother - YO! Still here dude. Does someone want my help blowing things up or what?
Coalhouse - I know, let's hide out in JP Morgan's library, that will really piss him off.
Emma - nice!
Coalhouse - oh, maybe not such a good idea afterall, we're surrounded. If I should die LET THEM HEAR YOU! Things need to change!! (he dies)
Tateh - How about a Jew like me marrying this Christian widow? Is that enough change for you?
Mother - to really make our point, adopt this Negro boy as your son and we'll call it a day.
Tateh- Hmmm, our gang would make a great story!
Updated On: 2/4/05 at 02:49 AM