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DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR MAIDEN AUNTS
AND SHE'LL MATCH EM UP
CALL ON... |
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Dolly Levi!
That's right, Mrs. Dolly Levi, born Gallagher, social introductions. Ladies and gentlemen of excellent family introduced under the most respectable conditions in an atmosphere of elegance and refinement... Object matrimony! Unfortunately, I won't be able to offer my usual lightning services as I have a previous appointment in Yonkers, NY, arranging the second marriage of Mr. Horace Vandergelder... the well known half-a-millionaire... as my late husband Ephraim Levi always said that means he's got at least 60,000 cash... but I'll do my best to have you carried across someone's threshold before the week is out! (Hand out cards) Now, I might also mention I'm available for financial consultation, instruction in the guitar and mandolin, Long Distance hauling... and varicose veins reduced! (Board horsecar) |
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AIS1
AND SHE'LL MATCH EM UP
CALL ON DOLLY...
Ambrose: Mrs. Levi! |
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| ...Mr. Kemper, the artist! You know, I'm something of an artist myself, I do those silhouettes with scissors and black paper, here's one of Ada Rehan looking the other way. I have to do them like that because I'm no good at noses. |
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AIS1
Ambrose: Mrs. Levi, the train for Yonkers leaves in five minutes and if we don't get there on time... |
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| But we will, Mr. Kemper! And not only will Horace Vandergelder give you permission to marry his niece, Ermengarde, but he will also dance at your wedding and not alone either because I happen to be engaged in finding him a suitable second wife himself...What he really wants is someone steady to clean the house. As my late husband Mr. Levi always said, marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder... |
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AIS1
Ambrose: I know all about it, Mrs. Levi! Half New York says he's going to propose to Mrs. Irene Molloy this very afternoon! |
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| Which is exactly why I'm on my way to Yonkers this morning, Mr. Kemper, and can take on your case and knock off four lovebirds with one stone or whatever I'll throw I'll see and well well well what do you think of that I have nothing here to pay my train fare with, only large bills fives and sevens... |
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AIS1
Ambrose: I have some change here somewhere! I only hope this isn't a wild goose chase, Mrs. Levi! |
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Definition
| And speaking of poultry I am also available for Fresh Jersey Eggs, Surgical Corsets re-boned, ears pierced, pierced ears replugged... |
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AIS1
Ambrose: Tell me, Mrs. Levi, what's in all this for you? |
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| A living, Mr. Kemper. Some people paint, some sew... I meddle! I PUT MY HAND IN. |
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AIS1
Right after I Put My Hand In
Ambrose: Mrs. Levi! |
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Definition
I know, Mr. Kemper, the Yonkers train is ready to leave! Now go buy our tickets... get a window seat... order lunch and I'll meet you on board...
Ephraim Levi, I'm going to get married again. I'm going to marry Horace Vandergelder for his money and send it out circulating among the people like rainwater the way you taught me... and I want a sign from you, sometime today, that you approve. Oh it won't be a marriage in the sense we had one but I shall certainly make him happy... And I'm tired, Ephraim! Tired of living from hand to mouth so I want that sign... |
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AIS1
(After long monologue)
Ambrose: Mrs. Levi! |
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Definition
Sometime today!
...Now don't you worry, Mr. Kemper, we'll make that train, we'll get to Yonkers, you'll marry Ermengarde... Just leave everything to me!
END OF I PUT MY HAND IN |
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AIS2
OH YES IT TAKES A WOMAN, A FRAGILE WOMAN,
TO BRING YOU THE SWEET THINGS IN LIFE.
Vandergelder: All right, all of you, out of here, all of you... |
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Definition
| ...Congratulations, congratulations, a thousand congratulations! |
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AIS2
Vandergelder: What? What? |
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| Congratulations, Mr. Vandergelder! All New York is buzzing with the news that you've practically proposed to Irene Molloy. The streets are lined with eligible young ladies prostrate with grief. All my congratulations and sympathy... |
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AIS2
Vandergelder: Sympathy? |
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Definition
| Did I say that? A slip of the tongue, that's all. No, I'm delighted with the happy news, after all she wasn't easy to unload... By that I mean you know what people said although I for one never believed the rumors, no I didn't... |
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AIS2
Vandergelder: Rumors? What rumors? |
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| Nothing to get upset about, Mr. Vandergelder. I mean according to all known facts her first husband passed on quite naturally. It's just that he went so sudden. A few spoons of chowder she made special for him and pffft! But, it could happen to anyone. No, there's no truth in it. Just one word of advice, Mr. Vandergelder. Eat out! |
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AIS2
Vandergelder: Now hold on Mrs. Levi, you mean to say that Mrs. Molloy... |
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Definition
I mean to say nothing, Mr. Vandergelder. Just friendly advice. Keep away from the chowder. By the way, she's ordered her wedding gown, beautiful, you should see it... Black!
Well as I said before Mr. Vandergelder, congratulations on your forthcoming nuptuals and may you rest in... I mean, may guardian angels watch over you both. Particularly at dinner. |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: Look here Mrs. Levi, you introduced me to Mrs. Molloy and rumors or not I intend calling on her this afternoon... as arranged! |
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Definition
| Very well, Mr. Vandergelder, then there's nothing more for me to do but go back to New York and tell the other girl, the heiress, not to wait... |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: What did you say? |
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Definition
| Nothing, a word. Heiress. |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: Particulars, Mrs. Levi. I demand particulars... her name! |
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Definition
| Her name? Er, um, blah... Money? Ernestina Money. |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: What a lovely, lovely name. |
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Definition
| Picture if you will hair as shiny as a newly minted dime... eyes as big round as silver dollars... skin as soft and mossy as an old greenback... |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: I can feel her now. |
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| Age 19; weight 102; waist 47... |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: Waist 47? |
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Definition
| That's with the money belt. Now I could arrange for you to meet this Ernestina this very afternoon... |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: I ain't got time, Mrs. Levi. I got to bring my niece Ermengarde to New York this afternoon until she forgets a certain Ambrose Kemper! |
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Definition
| I could do that for you, Mr. Vandergelder. I know just how to handle such things... |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: Then I'm marching in the 14th street parade! |
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Definition
What an amazing coincidence! Guess whose been chosen to ride on the main float... The Spirit of 14th Street... Miss Money!
(Aside) Her mother was a Cash, you know. |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: All right, Mrs. Levi, I'll meet Miss Money at the parade... But I still intend paying another call on Mrs. Molloy first! |
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Definition
| Oh, what races you make me run! Very well, Mr. Vandergelder, I'll meet you on that bench in front of Mrs. Molloy's hat shop at 2:30 as usual... |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: One more thing, Mrs. Levi! Suppose I decide against Mrs. Molloy, and I don't like Miss Money neither? |
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Definition
| Well then I happen to have one more name on my list, Mr. Vandergelder, a name I know as well as my own but let's not get into that now it'll come up by itself all in good time, don't you worry about that! Oh but wait'll you see Ernestina, Horace! A vision! A dream! |
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A1S2
Vandergelder: FOR DUMPING THE ASHES... |
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| (Humming) You know Ephraim, I think I'll have that room done over in blue wallpaper. Yes, in blue. Ermengarde, Ambrose, come on out here! We've got plans to make! |
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A1S2
Barnaby: Yes Cornelius! Yes! (Lights come up) |
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Definition
| Now the first thing to do is make you financially independent. I know! I'll find you a job. Can you dance? |
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A1S2
Ambrose: I'm an artist, Mrs. Levi. I paint! |
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Definition
| Well, then, my card. (Hand him card) |
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A1S2
Ambrose: Mrs. Dolly Levi, painters taught how to dance! |
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Definition
| Now there's a man, Rudolph Reisenweber, at the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant on 14th street, I'll give you a note for him and we'll see if he can't have you both entered in the polka contest tonight. The prize is a week's engagement and a gold cup. Oh, the cups we won, Ephraim and me! (write on counter) |
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A1S2
Ambrose: Hold on, Mrs. Levi! No fiance of mine is going to set foot in a cafe... And I don't mind saying I'm surprised you have aqcuiantances in a place like that. |
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Definition
| Not acquiantances, Mr. Kemper, friends. Dear friends from days gone by. My late husband Ephraim Levi believed in life and anyplace you could find it... cafes, ballrooms, yes even theatres! Why even when itmes were bad, every Saturday night like clockwork down those stairs at the Harmonia Gardens we came, Ephraim and me... |
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A1S2
Ambrose: It's all very well to come down like clockwork, Mrs. Levi, but you're asking Ermengarde to work there! |
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Definition
| It's the only way to show Horace Vandergelder that we mean business! Now you go to the Harmonia Gardens this afternoon and say Mrs. Levi sent you and incidentally tell Rudolph that Dolly's coming back and I want a table for two and chicken for 8:00 tonight! |
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A1S3
Vandergelder: Did you say Hackl?
Mrs. Molly: Why yes...
Vandergelder: He happens to be my head clerk, that's all! Mrs. Molloy, I demand an explanation! |
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Definition
| And I'm going to give it to you! Why shouldn't she know Cornelius Hackl? Everybody in NY knows Cornelius Hackl! He's here at the opera, in all the fashionable homes, why he's at the Harmonia Gardens restaurant 3x a week! |
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A1S3
Vandergelder: Impossible! He's only got $146.35 and I keep it in my own safe! |
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Definition
| Oh Mr. Vandergelder, you're killing me! He's one of THE Hackls! They built the canal. |
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A1S3
Vandergelder: What canal? |
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Definition
The Erie!
The Panama!
Both. |
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Term
A1S3
Vandergelder: It ain't the same man! |
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| Who took the horses out of Jenny Lind;s carriage and pulled her through the streets? Cornelius Hackl. And who dressed up as a waiter at the 5th ave hotel and dropped an oyster dowon Mrs. Astor's... oh I can't say it, but it was Cornelius. He's the playboy of NY! Now Irene, don't deny it, you were taken with him just like everybody else. |
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A1S3
Vandergelder: Now look here, if there's a man in that closet... |
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| No Mr. Vandergelder, you can't! It's too dangerous! |
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Term
A1S3
Vandergelder: No man that hides in ladies closets can frighten me, Mrs. Levi! Stand aside! |
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Definition
| No man indeed, I'm sure you'd make short work of any man, those muscles.I can see them now rippling back and forth under you coat, ripple ripple ripple back and forth! Ripple ripple ripple! |
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A1S3
Vandergelder: For the last time, Mrs. Levi! Will you stand aside! |
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Definition
| Stand indeed, Mr. Vandergelder! That's exactly what the court will want to know when you're accused of entering that closet without a search wattant. I mean what do you stand for if you don't stand for the law of this great land? I know what I stand for! MOTHERHOOD MARCH |
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Term
A1S3
Minnie: (During song) To form a more perfect union |
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Definition
| Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! |
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Term
A1S3
At conclusion of MOTHERHOOD MARCH |
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Definition
| So you see, Mr. Vandergelder, there couldn't possibly be a man in that closet! (Cornelius sneezes) God bless you. |
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A1S3
Molloy: I do not wish to hear any explanations, Mr. Hackl. Just you and Mr. Tucker do me the pleasure of leaving my shop at at once or I send for Officer Gogarty. |
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Definition
| Well if you ask me, Irene, calling an officer's letting them off too easy. The law courts, that's where they belong. I've been adding up the legal offenses these two have committed and believe you me you've got grounds for at least two writs, a non compus mentis, and a garnishee. Now, the main thing is to show that you tried to settle it amicably first. Have dinner with them. |
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Term
A1S3
Molloy: Is that absolutely necessary, Mrs. Levi? |
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Definition
| It's the way things are done in the law, Irene. Dinner first, garnishee afterwards. |
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Term
A1S3
Cornelius: Mrs. Dolly Levi, 33 year old chief clerks taught how to dance. |
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Definition
| Now it's very simple, you put one arm here... and one arm here... |
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Term
A1S3
Cornelius: It's no use! I have abolutely no sense of rhythm! |
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Definition
| Absolutely no sense of rhythm is one of the primary requirements for learning by the Gallagher-Levi method. Just give me five minutes of your time, Mr. Hackl, and I'll have you dancing in the streets. We'll start with Lesson 7, the Waltz Kick Turn. Now it's simple, right foot, touch, left foot, touch, under, back, around, touch. Back, through, around, behind. Out, over... Release... unfurl!... That's wonderful, when I think of the lucky women who'll find heaven in your arms, let's go back to lesson 1. |
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A1S3
Cornelius: Look at me, everybody! , Cornelius Hackl, sport, am dancing! |
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Definition
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A1S3
Mrs. Rose: Well well look who's here! Mrs. Levi. How are you, Mrs. Levi? |
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Definition
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Term
A1S3
Mrs. Rose: The same. Pains in my back, aches in my side, stabs in my liver... I'm fine. My daughter Fanny got married, you know. |
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Definition
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A1S3
Mrs. Rose: A year ago last Semptember. It's been a long time since you lived here, Mrs. Levi! Such a long long time! |
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Definition
| Ephraim, let me go! It's been long enough, Ephraim! Every evening for all these years I've put out the cat, I've locked the door, I've made myself a little rum toddy and before I went to bed I said a prayer thanking God that I was independent, that no--one else's life was mixed up with mine. Then one night an oak leaf fell out of my Bible. I placed it there when you asked me to marry you, Ephraim. A perfectly good oak leaf but without color and without life. And I suddenly realized that I was like that lead. For years I had not shed one tear nor had I been filled with the wonderful hope that something or other would turn out well. And so I've decided to rejoin the human race, and Ephraim, I want you to give me away! BEFORE THE PARADE |
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A1S3
Molloy: Mrs. Levi, come along. Cornelius is taking us down to see the 14th street parade. Everybody will be marching! |
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Definition
| Why Irene, you're crying. |
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Term
| Oh Dolly! The world is full of wonderful things. Come with us, Dolly. |
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Definition
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A1S3
Vandergelder: Miss Money, what have they done to you? Mrs. Levi! What is the meaning of this? |
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Definition
| Nothing to get upset about, Horace. A last minute substitution. Miss Money had a sudden urgent business appointment at the Mint. They ran a little short and she's helping out. But she'll meet you at the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant at 8:00 tonight! |
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A1S3
Vandergelder: That's the most expensive restaurant in the city! |
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Definition
| And well it should be! What food! And the fastest waiters in NY! By the way, I might be alittle late so Miss Money will meet you in front of the restaurant. Wait til you see her Horace, all in buttercup yellow with baby pink shoes and himming an old fashioned tune, yes, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, you couldn't miss her if you tried. |
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Term
A1S3
Vandergelder: That's the most expensive restaurant in the city! |
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Definition
| And well it should be! What food! And the fastest waiters in New York! By the way, I might be a little late so Miss Money will meet you in front of the restaurant. Wait til you see her, Horace, all in buttercup yellow with baby pink shoes and humming an old fashioned tune, yes, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, you couldn't miss her if you tried. |
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Term
A1S3
Vandergelder: That's the most expensive restaurant in the city! |
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Definition
| And well it should be! What food! And the fastest waiters in NY! By the way, I might be a little late so Miss Money will meet you in front of the restaurant. Wait til you see her, Horace, all in buttercup yellow with abby pink shoes and humming an old fashioned tune, yes, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, you couldn't miss her if you tried. |
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Term
A1S3
Vandergelder: .....But from this point on you are hereby disharged as my marriage broker. Is that clear? From now on, Dolly Gallagher, you're just a woman like anyone else! Where you are taking me? What's happening? |
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Definition
Ephraim... he's as good as mine.
I'M GONNA RAISE THE ROOG |
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Term
A2S1
Vandergelder: Excuse me girly... Dolly! Dolly Gallagher! What are you doing in that get-up? And you're a half hour late! And I demand an explanation of - |
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A2S1
VG: She wanted to do the hootchy kootchy! |
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| Well, she always was artistic! Horace, I'm going to have our table moved down front. There's someone in the dance competition I particularly want you to see. (After waiters enter) Now don't let's say another word about it I'm as shocked as you are I-can't-eat-a-thing-what-have-you-ordered? |
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A2S1
VG: What you wanted... a chicken! Now see here, Mrs. Levi, about that hootchy kootchy girl - |
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Definition
| Did you say a chicken (rise)? Oh I don't think I could face a chicken, not a chicken, not today, not after what's happened. |
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A2S1
VG: Then cancel the chicken! |
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A2S1
VG: What are you doing now? |
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Definition
| Nothing. Just looking the place over. Getting acquainted with the surroundings. |
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A2S1
VG: That's the trouble with you, Dolly. Always wanting to know everything! Always putting your nose into other people's affairs. Anybody who married you would get as nervous as a cat. |
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Definition
| What? What's that you're saying? |
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A2S1
VG: I said anybody who married you would - |
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Definition
| Horace Vandergelder, get that idea right out of your head this minute. I'm surprised that you even mentioned such a thing. Understand once and for all that I have no intention of marrying you! |
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A2S1
VG: I didn't mean that! |
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Definition
| Well I certainly do hope not! Horace Vandergelder, you go your way, and I'll go mine. I'm not some Irene Molloy whose head can be turned by a few chocolate covered peanuts... unshelled! Why, the idea of you even suggesting such a thing! |
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A2S1
VG: Mrs. Levi, you misunderstood me! |
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Definition
| Well I certainly do hope not! But if I had any intention of marrying again it would be to a far more pleasure loving man than you. (Waiters enter) However we won't discuss it any more. Here's the waiter with our food. I'll serve Mr. Vandergelder, Rudolph. Here's some white meat for you... and dumplings, lighter than air they are... and some giblets, very tender and very good for you. No, as I said before, you go your way, and I'll go mine. (Rudolph pours wine) Start right in on the wine. I think you'll feel better at once... However, since you brought the matter up, there's one more thing I think I ought to say. |
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A2S1
VG: I didn't bring the matter up at all. |
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| (Eating) One more thing I ought to say before we gorget all about it. It's true I'm a woman who likes to know everything that's going on; who likes to manage things; but I wouldn't like to manage anything as out of control as your household. You'll have to do that yourself, God helping you. |
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A2S1
VG: It's not out of control. |
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Definition
| Very well, let's not say another word about it. Have some beets, Horace. They're good. |
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A2S1
VG: I don't like beets! |
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| That's good! No, Horace, a complaining, quarrelsome, friendless soul like you is no sort of companion for me. You salt your beets, and I'll salt mine! |
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A2S1
VG: Will you stop saying that! |
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Definition
| I won't say another word. |
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Definition
| Except this. At your age, Horace, you should enjoy hearing the honest truth. |
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A2S1
VG: My age, my age! You're always talking about my age! |
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| Well, I don't know what your age is, but I do know that up in Yonkers with bad food and bad temper, you'll double it in six months! Have some more beets! They're good! |
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A2S1
VG: I don't like beets! I hate beets! |
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Definition
| That's nice. Now dig right in. Yes, the pity of it is you could be a perfectly charming, witty, amiable man if you wanted to. |
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A2S1
VG: I don't want to be charming! |
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| But you are. Look at you now. You can't hide it. Now sit down, Horace, and let's talk of something else. But before we change the subject there's oe more thing I am going to say. |
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A2S1
VG: I don't want to hear it! And you're wasting your time, Dolly Levi! I won't ask you to marry me! |
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| I suppose that means you want me to ask you? Well I'm sorry, Horace, I'm turning you down. |
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A2S1
VG: How can you turn me down when I haven't asked you anything? |
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| It's no use arguing. I've made up your mind. Here, let me cut your wings - |
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A2S1
VG: I've got a headache, I'm going back to the hotel. |
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Definition
| You can't go now. The competition is about to begin. |
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A2S1
Co: Barnaby, that purse you found... |
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Definition
| Impossible! I can't imagine you without your purse! |
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A2S1
VG: What am I going to do? I've never been here before, they don't know me! Stop eating that turkey! I can't pay for it! |
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Definition
| Horace, it's the latest thing - a polka! And there's one dancer I particular want you to see. Rudolph, move our table right down front so Mr. Vandergelder can better observe his graceful movements. |
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A2S1
VG: Wait a minute! That man! That dancer! |
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| Isn't he wonderful! With talent like that he's sure to win the solid gold cup! |
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A2S3
Judge: Mrs. Dolly Levi, counselor at law! |
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| Your honor - the defense rests! (Buzz) No, there is no need to call witnesses, ladies and gentlemen, when I see upon that bench a brow that gleams with honor. A pair of snow white shiskers that bristle with fair play. And a nose, I ask you to look at that nose, ladies and gentlemen. A nose that shines in the night like a flaming beacon of justice! Would you turn this way a bit, Your Honor, so we can get a better look at your beacon. A living symbol of the motto of this great land. E Proboscus Unum! Your Honor, I ask for freedom for my clients and a verdict of guilty for the only real culprit - Horace Vandergelder of Yonkers, NY! |
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A2S3
Vandergelder: (After my monologue) Dolly! |
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Definition
| That one man responsible for these grievous charges of willful destruction of private property - |
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A2S3
Rudolph: A curtain torn, a waiter bruised and a solid gold cup bent. |
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Definition
| Cruelty to a poor unfortunate minor (Ermengarde cries) Would you mind repeating that, dear? |
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A2S3
Co: Begging your pardon, Mrs. Levi, but if it please the court, I have something to say! |
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Definition
| I was just about to call you, Mr. Hackl. Go right ahead. |
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A2S3
Policeman: You can see the prisoner now, Mrs. Levi! |
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Definition
| Well, Horace, there's your life. Without niece, without clerks, without bride and without your puse. It looks like there's only one more thing to say... |
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A2S3
VG: If it's to ask me to marry you, Dolly Gallagher, never! Not in a million years! Under no circumstances will I ever marry you! |
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Definition
Oh that wasn't it at all, Horace, all I wanted to say was
GOODBYE! |
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A2S3
GOODBYE!
VG: Now hold on, Dolly... |
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Definition
| It's too late, Horace. I've failed. And when a woman fails, there's nothing else she can say! |
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A2S4
VG: You can't do this to me, any of you! I'll go to the courts! I'll get lawyers! I'll, I'll - |
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Definition
| Why Horace Vandergelder, as I live and breathe, if you aren't handsome in that outfit! So few men nowadays have the courage to wear faun yellow and taupe. |
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| I know just what you're going to say, Horace, you're not satisfied with Ernestina. Well, I have another girl for you, the ideal wife - but don't let me interrupt you, you wree doing something, what were you doing? |
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A2S4
VG: All right, all right! If it's the money you want, the safe is upstairs... |
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| Money, money, money, money, money. Mr. Vandergelder's money. It's like the sun we walk under - it can kill or cure. VG's never tired of saying that most people in the world are fools, and in a way he's right, isn't he? Himself, Irene, cornelius, myself! Yes, we're all fools and we're in danger of destroying the world in our folly, but the surest way to keep us out of harm is to give us the four or five human pleasures that are right in the world... and that takes a little money. THe difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous, and can shatter the world! And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight, and that can shatter the world too. It's all in how you use it. As my late husband, Ephraim Levi, used to say, money... pardon the expression... is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow! Anyhow, that's the opinion of the 2nd Mrs. Vandergelder! Which reminds me. Ephraim, I'm ready for that sign! |
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VG: Well don't just stand there! That goes upstairs! |
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| Well, Horace, as I was saying, I've found you the ideal wife. |
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VG: Dolly Gallagher, I don't want you to find me no ideal wives! If I want an ideal wife, I'll find one of my own, and I've found her! And it's you, damnit! |
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VG: I know I've been a fool about Mrs. Molloy and that other woman, but Dolly - forgive me and marry me! |
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| Horace, stop right there! |
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VG: What do you mean? |
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| You know as well as I do, Horace, that you're the first citizen of Yonkers. And your wife would have to be somebody. Answer me, am I somebody? |
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VG: You are, wonderful woman! |
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| Oh, you're partial. No, Horace, it won't be enough for you to load your wife with money and jewels, to insist that she be a benefactress to half the town... By the way it's bad business letting Cornelius open a store right across the street from you. Better take him back and let him be your partner. |
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| And Barnaby can have Cornelius' old job! |
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VG: Now see here, Dolly... |
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| That way we'll all be together so we can dance at Ermengarde's wedding! |
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VG: That does it! You've gone too far, Dolly! I'll dance at no weddings! Besides, I don't know how and it would take me weeks, months, years to learn (extend card) All right, I'll dance... |
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| Horace! I never thought I'd hear you say a thing like that! |
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VG: The front room, idiot! Well, go on! What are you waiting for? |
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| Horace Vandergelder, what is going on up there? |
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VG: Oh, nothing, I just thought I'd have that front room done over in blue wallpaper... |
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VG: I know the old paper ain't worn out, yet, but that fell's just set up in business and he needs a good start. You see, Dolly, I've always felt that money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless... |
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