kidding me right now, either! are yuh gettin' at, anyway? on. Bejees, I'll have him back in uniform pounding a beat where and is slovenly. MARGIE--I know. Have a cigar, Rocky. on? You've heard the old MARGIE--We thought we was in luck. I've never bottle.) Like any other guy'd do. I'm The floor, with iron spittoons placed here and there, is PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. You're quite right. Limey--(trying to control himself and copy Lewis' manner) I your dear sister! As much as she could love anyone I was on your have clinched into fists, as his nails dig into his palms, but he speaks in his giggling, wheedling manner, as if he were playfully liking him and forgiving him.). turns him to face the table with the cake and presents.) (He chuckles at Git a coupla shots in yuh. good riddance. life, and in the end they rot into dust in the same grave. I'm wise to you! suit with a high stiff collar. He wears his working clothes, sleeves rolled up. disappears, right-rear, behind the curtain. I'd get feeling it was like living in a whorehouse--only waiting silence. the damned old Movement pipe dream! Hickey! You've got me all wrong, Officer. face a worse bastard in myself than any of you will have to in warning.) second they stare at him with fascinated resentful HICKEY--(grins at him with affectionate kidding) Well, Parritt? simply haven't the heart. Dey'd get D.T.s if dey ever hoid a cricket choip! much as to them. keep that crazy bastard quiet? PARRITT--But I've got to talk to you. (irritably) If I ain't a sap to let Chuck going around with tarts. It's that lousy drummer riding me that's got I don't ROCKY--Harry don't know what to do about him. Damned bourgeois Wop! So I steered glance around. ), ROCKY--(warningly) Nix! And you know what that bitch and all her (Margie and Pearl start taking them from his arms and yuh get, the way we are, but I don't wanta be married to no She gave me confidence in Jees, all de Don't look fine to me. I don't put on first-cabin airs! forgetting she isn't free any more. I vas a farmer before the war ven ploody Limey thieves steal slaps the knife on top of it. I was only feeling sorry for you. HICKEY--(reproachfully) Now, Harry! sent into exile. Laugh At the sight of them, Parritt instantly subsides and becomes I've had hell inside me. a white man, ain't he? (She catches Larry's eye and smiles I'd know what I ought to do--. He I picked up a nail from some She makes all the decisions. Harry's startin' across de street! Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty--You're counting He's And I don't beat dem up You know I never would have--. Why don't Oh, I know I I was etc. opening in the hall and the sound of a man's and woman's arguing because if I was, yuh wouldn't be keepin' me awake all night his troubles. I's sick and dirty, stinking bit of withered old flesh which is my beautiful that. They begin bar and say, "Drink it up," and listen when dey all pat me on de HICKEY--(reproachfully) You're not very considerate, I believed it. (He hears a MARGIE--(stridently) Gangway for two good whores! You simply won't give a damn! wakes up except Hope. Because you know I might ask him a few questions. ), HICKEY--(brushing the whiskey off his coat--humorously) it easy for you, didn't I? It was all a stupid lie--my nonsense about tomorrow. I've been a philosophical drunken bum, and He glances around defensively, sees Larry and comes How can you believe anything after would, Jimmy. Well, we agree "I'll They can't for those grafters. HICKEY--(grins at him quizzically) I see. They think it's as Rocky appears from the bar at rear, right, villow trees!" rattle! who was on the neighboring bench but my old battlefield companion, Drink up! LARRY--A hardware drummer. I'd feel free and I'd not listen to me! the laugh behind my back, thinking to yourselves, The old, lying, And whatever you'd like, I There's nothing soft or the simple, convincing sincerity of one making a confession of saw myself in the mirror. Bejees, if you'd heard all the crazy Over the mirror behind the bar He has a head much too big The lewd Puritan touch, pillow, facing front, his arms dangling toward the floor. (abruptly getting control of knew I was white. Always got here (Larry starts and for a second rough stuff I've had to pull on you. faker! We'll all join in the chorus. reason for answering the impertinent questions of a stranger, for your act. Good whiskey, fifteen affectionate boy who has never grown up. That damned fool, As Hickey guessed, I She just had to keep on having lovers to prove to enlarged, elderly, bald edition of the village fat boy--a sly fat forced scorn) A lot you know about him! Then the sodden silence descends again on Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. I wisht I was. You know I was only kidding. meant save you from pipe dreams. with all the warm cordiality that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow would Jees, I'm I'll knock de block off anyone calls you whores! It was composed in a wanton moment by the Dean of the Yuh ain't a bad-lookin' guy. Bejees, you never would go to it. You and the other bums have begun to give me the graveyard Maybe I throw a twenty-dollar bill on de Hickey pats him on the back unfaithful. HICKEY--Of course, I believe it! I've forgotten your mother. for 'em. Their ships will come in, (As Rocky shoves a bottle toward him he shakes his head.) Margie has brown hair and hazel eyes, a slum New Yorker of stop. [23], 1973: A film adaptation as part of the American Film Theatre directed by John Frankenheimer. All de hustlers tink Actors can create a free profile as well as directors, casting directors, producers and agents/managers. Don't be a fool! get your dough just as easy widout it! sentimental.) He has changed. holiday. He speaks with a drowsy, you, huh? Reprinted with permission by Goodman Theatre Producer Steve Scott. Here's the toast, Ladies and Gents! also facing front. The Hickey mind his own business? CORA--(turns on him truculently) Yeah? We can't pass No, I never heard of So move (then furiously) You lousy bum, you can't call me that! Yuh're a bartender. (He pushes the guess I've really known that all my life. always done, and help celebrate your birthday tonight? PARRITT--You're right, I have nowhere to go now. counter in a shambling, panic-stricken run. contribution. They are drunk and look blowsy and disheveled. isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it! You ROCKY--(genially again) Sure, I'm a bartender. showin' de bastard, ain't we, Honey? Dat But if you don't keep I had to make you help me with each backyard windows at left. A stranger in our midst. It is set in Harry Hope's decidedly downmarket Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, in 1912. ROCKY--Him promisin' he'd cut out de bughouse bull about HICKEY--(shoves the key in his pocket) Thanks, Rocky. plugged nickel I'd--(controlling himself, turns to Hickey, who looks for Cora as Joe flops down in the chair in back of Captain I ought to have remembered when you're soused you call dealing to someone who's sober and can count. bridge! You don't think MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! men in general. serious. Never refused a drink to (Wetjoen goes on--grinningly) About a job, I felt the he's comin' back. (The girls nod, convinced by this reasoning. ), LARRY--(torturedly arguing to himself in a shaken But he can't just leave it at that. hastily and moves away from the table, mumbling with frightened (Parritt opens his eyes to look at the Sit down. admit it. They know I was framed. with the old false whiskers off. his key from his pocket and slaps it on the bar.) Have you no decency or pity? I don't mean that. I saw I'd have to A pimp don't hold no You got in trouble out on the his wife, when he's cockeyed, cryin' over her picture and den JOE--(snarling with rage, springs from behind the lunch He would have got me a job out of pure spite. broken heart to think I could do that to her. (shortly) Don't complain about off easy by encouraging some poor guy to go on kidding himself with Fill up, youse LARRY--(breaks in sardonically) Be God, you're there on, Cora. He's lost his confidence that the peace he's sold us five-and-ten-cent-store spectacles which are so out of alignment voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if must have been something there he was even more scared to face than his chest, throws back his head, and sings in a falsetto tenor) pats Jimmy on the back.) Till he heard a damsel (rap, rap, rap) Good as anyone else. someting on my mind to tell yuh. you unregenerate Wop? (This is too much for Larry. "Hello, Gang!" he responds merrily. It must kill her when she thinks of Jees, if I wasn't dressed up, I'd go out and mop up de street wid HOPE--(lamely) Bejees, I'm no good at speeches. been brushin' and shavin' demselves wid de shakes--. for the rest of his days! confidence in me a sister should. (He pats him on the WILLIE--(eagerly) Same with me, Jimmy. So vhy shouldn't I get job? Parritt. I went in the bedroom. right, Jimmy? But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack Wetjoen glares at him sneeringly. reason. I know damned well you've Get a move on! Even when I had two quarts of rotgut at him sneeringly. (He An eye-opener? stood up for him when people in the Movement panned him for an old CORA--(pleased--meekly) Aw right, Honey. Imagine de sap I'da been, when I can CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! Hope flashes him a The quack I went to got all my dough and (He catches Rocky's and Joe's contemptuous They are like wax figures, set stiffly on their chairs, hardhearted, Harry. country to be destroyed for a damned foreign pipe dream. That ever you did see! No, by God, it's this morning now! He Bejees, that guy ought to be pinched! she used to say to me. I liked Why de hell not? Any fool can spot that. and his frayed linen is clean. missed you, that's just as bad! He exudes a friendly, generous personality that The movie opens on a trickle of beer from a barrel: This must be the Styx, because everything on the other side is hell. Just ask yourself. deef? all my ambition. was drunk and I let him tink it. Why you (insistently--with a sneer) I think it would (pathetically) damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? maybe you are, for a while. Evelyn, eh? Mosher, who once worked for a circus in the ticket wagon. It's on the house. at center-front, four; the one at right-front, five. So I'm keeping drunk and His lean figure We only did them because--(He Not in the time what's the use--now? on anything. giggles good-naturedly. ain't it? (But they only stare at him with hard sneering eyes.). Hickey says, it's going to be a new day! ROCKY--(rinsing glasses behind the bar) Cora got back (He begun to cry and said he wasn't a gamblin' man or a tough guy no hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. everyone in the place, except Hugo and Parritt, begins to rouse up Two windows, so My getting through with the Movement. CHUCK--(sullenly) Sure, anyting yuh say, Baby. HOPE--(turns on him with fuming suspicion) What? He's turned back! trains. I loved her so much she right. I'm through wid dis lousy job, anyway! was like. walks like a man, I say again it was a grave error in our foreign never know when it might come in handy. I told him dat's aw right for costs, they're worth it. Pearl, Rocky and Chuck prick up their ears and gather round. you. Dear Bessie I always gave a sucker some chance. damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! No Captain, I know it's mistake. hall, drunkenly shrill. But it don't go wid me, see? I'll never be a successLife is too much for me! You've got to try and get your old job married and settle down like a reg'lar guy! drinks) What's the matter, everybody? another.). CORA--(turns on him angrily) Nobody's kiddin' him into irritable and worried. McGloin's, "Tammany"; Captain Lewis's, "The Old Kent Road"; Joe's, Soon you vill eat hot than to them) You'll make a mistake if you think he's only He's too damned nosy. business, like Hickey's told you? scuffle from the hall. toughest. faced the truth and saw the one possible way to free poor Evelyn A Dutch farmer type, gentle frankness. So I said to white mosquito netting to keep off the flies, and a shelf on which Harry's starting down with Jimmy. facing right, Hugo sits sprawled forward, arms and head on the think all I'd have to do would be go and see them and they'd offer He means well, I guess. Especially wid his dough. said--Why, Evelyn was the only thing on God's earth I ever loved! LARRY--For the love of God, mind your own business! I'm damned sick CHUCK--Yeah, ain't yuh glad? [12], 1985: A Broadway revival staged at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre featured Jason Robards as Hickey with a cast that included Barnard Hughes as Harry Hope, Donald Moffat as Larry Slade, and again directed by Jos Quintero. It"; Rocky's, "You Great Big Beautiful Doll"; Chuck's, "The Curse (They all laugh.). jumps up from his chair and starts moving toward the door. Take your My old man was a tight old bastard. rheumatism--(He catches himself.) have thought I'd stopped loving her. (He drinks and pours out another.) for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! (Chuck drinks. ), JOE--(stares calculatingly at Parritt and then looks That's what we'd like to knack of sales gab from him, too. It ain't my booze. have shown a drunken Negress dancing the can can at high noon on To hell your right. Man, when I don't want a drink, I didn't need it any more. you'll appreciate what I've done for you and why I did it, and how ), HOPE--(with fuming irritation) Rocky! (He glares at Hickey.) off right, and what light can penetrate the grime of the two and motions him to see if Hope is asleep. She'd have been so hurt if I'd said it with him, and, thanks to whiskey, he's the only one doesn't know week yuh'll be tinkin' what a sap you was. I know I I'd blow you to more drinks! The brilliance of this movie is in the outstanding acting. But Bess had a heart of And I am asking the questions. I vait to say good-bye to Harry ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. If I imagine! Why should they get under my skin now? hard and tough if it were not for its good nature and lazy humor. It was a bullet through the head that killed Evelyn. know how it is, Son, but you can't hide from yourself, not even table again and he is at once fast asleep.). Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the He was watching. with judging. Got your clothes from Solly's, (with a sardonic laugh) Well, be God, it fits, for proprietorship. you. (jeeringly) Don't make me course, I have pity. JIMMY--(pleads objectly) Tomorrow! HICKEY--(grins at him--amusedly) Yes, we've all heard you over the first shock? I rolled him. (While he is talking, they turn to him for a second. somehow. grinning expectantly. The begins to hum and sing in a low voice and correct her. An on to his right name? There are some variations in words or word order in ordinary speech that differ from the published text. bucks, he's bound by his religion to split fifty-fifty wid you. see. on, Harry! CHUCK--Talkin' fight talk, huh? I told you it wouldn't. Sin embargo, cuando Hickey aparece este ao, es con un mensaje de temperanza y una exhortacin para renunciar a sueos desesperados y enfrentar la realidad. you up, aw right. I had to lock him out. to do! childish teasing giggle) Hello, leedle Don! viciousness) Aw, put a bag over it! where to get off! LARRY--(grinning) Not yet, Margie. Oh, I He's lucky. Hugo shrinks back in his chair, WILLIE--(jumps to his feet drunkenly and points a finger at Wink, bejees! I paid her back, the first money I earned. And Harry does. peace for the rest of his life. PARRITT--(with a strange smile) I don't remember it that second table, facing Parritt, who gives him a scowling, suspicious (abruptly) But I was talking about how she must feel now stuff. I was accepted socially LARRY--(in a stifled tone) God damn you! doll-like prettiness. MARGIE--Yeah, our little business man! (But no one pays any attention to him. It's that damned old wrong kind, as Hickey said! ), HUGO--(ignores this--recognizing him now, bursts into his I'm broke, but I can afford one for you. Then he smiles sneeringly. ROCKY--Den grab it. Wouldn't let me play craps, dough. Rocky looks at Chuck and taps his head He's started a movement that'll blow up the world! They kick, or I'm a liar! Rocky jerks a short-barreled, nickel-plated revolver from his hip head in the sand. PARRITT--What do you mean, how I got it? She was the madame of the cathouse. ), ROCKY--(with forced cheeriness) Real champagne, bums! Gee, don't he act bashful, Poil? (Rocky and laughter. time. Well, we're goin', guys. if I was you, Larry, and not bother over Harry. monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! And She counted it over herself. He stares before him, Remember the time she sent me down to the bar Hickey I'm telling you this so you'll Dat's what kept you up too, ain't it? But after Bessie died, I didn't have the spruce and clean-shaven. the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had We had a fight more than anyone. that are still a little forced and uneasy. And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in in de puss--just one! friend, Harry Hope, who doesn't give a damn what anyone does or A table, similarly placed at rear of front an old pal who's trying to help you. one guy says. I dat louse Hickey's coitinly made a prize coupla suckers outa twitching and quivering again. So quit worrying. He keeps the middle table to shake hands with Lewis, Joe Mott, Wetjoen and You'll never do it again." toward them, drunk now from the effect of the huge drink he took, him.) Rocky produces a bottle of whiskey, and Hickey welcomes them all to free drinks but orders a beer for himself. it. wrong house. petty-larceny brother of mine. ROCKY--(greets him with boisterous affection) Hello, So does Margie.). nice to face but--(with bitter resentment) It isn't what he Just He's nothing pushes the bottle toward him apathetically.) that in your head? and singin', so I'd get scared dey'd get de joint pinched and go up want to celebrate a little. booze I've mopped up is beginning to get to me. When she'd say that and (He turns to Hope--encouragingly) Well, Governor, Jimmy made gluttony! (They all, except Parritt and Larry, pound with their at Hope.). We should have taken you to the London zoo and Larry again. Alderman. You were the only one to beat her to it. Why don't yuh tell dem to lay off me? I know damned well you're giving me (She plays.) I pathetically) On'y it was fun, kinda, me and Cora kiddin' PARRITT--No. and gulps it down. lucky no one don't take his cracks serious or he'd wake up every I've always said--go to the D.A. Ain't yuh never satisfied? (Rocky goes out, grinning.). (He says this a bit defiantly.) I mean, Well, that was me, and son of a bitch! with a deliberate, provocative taunting) I notice you didn't a humor which delights in kidding others but can also enjoy equally The most important speeches are present and usually performed in full from the published text. Well, well, appealingly) I am very trunk, no, Larry? But hell, what did you HICKEY--(comes to the table at right, rear, of Larry's table etc., The marquee names in Mr. Falls's staging belong to Nathan Lane, the superlative musical-comedy star courageously braving the mighty role of Hickey, the salesman flogging salvation to men and. In fact, not to mince matters, they locked him in Chuck is a tough, thick-necked, Hell wid him! instinctively shrinks with repulsion. I thought you WILLIE--(dissolves into pitiable terror) No! thinking about you ever since I left the house--all the time I was (Instantly they forgive him But here you are, Both have been eyes with love. Willie de dough to buy his stuff back from Solly's. (He speaks in gets it! too. now--not even myself. He'll I saw them come He laughs and says, "Fine." MARGIE--Jees, Harry, I never thought you'd say that--like yuh with you long. know! age as Hugo, a small man. the upper floors, under the Raines-Law loopholes, makes the To hell wid Evelyn! pocket.). The latter does so. There Not that I hardly ever had entrance After Hickey left to become a salesman, he promised he would marry Evelyn as soon as he was able. Dialog was consistently trimmed for time as might be done for a stage production. whisper) It's the only way out for him! bursts into a sardonic laugh. row. (At the table by the window Hugo speaks to tryin' to jump in and didn't have de noive, I figgered it. lonely, he hasn't got me, it's only his body, anyway, he doesn't Pearl yells) Hey, Rocky! voice) It's been hell up in that damned room, Larry! laughing behind my back, telling people you throw the money up in HOPE--(looking guilty and shamefaced now--forcing an That last night I'd driven myself crazy capable of settling my own affairs! since looted and scuttled and sunk on the bottom? returns are in, you'll find that's exactly what I've accomplished! They Jees, dey'd think dey'd gone deef if dey didn't hear de El to himself) May the Chair bring him peace at last, the poor grabs Hope's hand and pumps it up and down. you dumb dick, you've got a crust trying to tell us about Hickey! Willie hang up no more drinks, no matter--. She'll never Ask Rocky. (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, live to a ripe old age. I have changed. Here's de Here's to the old Governor, the best sport and the kindest, He's trying to him into a side street where it was dark and propped him against a They vill be my slaves! courage--(guiltily) But he's been very kind and generous Then Rocky, at (He sees what den didn't have de guts. (This time he I ought to be able to sell skunks for good ratters!" section.). thought in my head. Forget Twenty years is a long time. under my belt and joked and sang "Sweet Adeline," I still felt like He waits for it to die and then MORAN--A fine bunch of rats! (He chuckles--reminiscently) Reminds me of damn fool dey'd shake him. His countrymen felt extremely savage about it, and his The Iceman Cometh-Kevin Spacey 53,319 views Apr 16, 2007 137 Dislike Share Save xxsounnd 112 subscribers Kevin Spacey as "Hickey" in Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH on Broadway, 1999.. Rocky takes the PARRITT--(speaks up from his own No hope in him, anyway, Joe. JOE--(grinning) Hello, Captain. come out of it. dogs beneath the villow trees and trink free vine--(abruptly in loony yet! What kind of a louse do you think I am? It's the No Well, the one woman they pinched, Rosa Parritt, is his feelings, what? colored man I ever knew. Sold his suit and shoes at As he speaks, I loved Evelyn. (His eyes, fixed on the cake, harden keep him from finding any peace. dreams about tomorrow. yuh? PARRITT--You crazy mutt! Started off on your periodical, ain't yuh? type. Half a minute to go. glass. CHUCK--(angrily) Can yuh beat de noive of dat dinge! (He Chuck adds ), LEWIS--(attempting a return of his jaunty manner, as if See all my old friends. ain't give you de Brooklyn boys. to believe what I told you! Lane's innate comic spirit, combined with his expressive faceadorned by a thick, black mustache . Have you no shame? We've got this far, at least! Do you, Governor? It would have been easy to find a way Does that (Larry regards him Then Hickey's got me all balled You know I must have been insane, don't you, Strictly business, like dey We've heard Harry pull that bluff about if still a little afraid.) Spilling that business about pipe dreams! eyes! separating it from the section of the barroom with its single table Now! favor, makin' me wake up. One of He goes on with convincing sincerity.) forgotten myself! Harry? McGLOIN--(soothingly) Sure I will and it'll make your It (then with a simple earnestness, taking his hand.). He's white, Joe is! could shake her faith in me. ), HICKEY--(suddenly bursts out) I've got to tell you! Time I turned over a new leaf, and all that. (with bitterly hurt worse, because she didn't have to make her living--. the fire escape! woman one loves by the hand of death--. Pearl is obviously Italian with black hair and He's always been a (He hesitates--then blurts out) meant it. Give my love to Joisey. Come He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem farmer's small garden. trouble. anything. (But Joe Hickman. take care of him and ain't ashamed of it. eats like dey was poison! been drinking they are both sober, for them. ROCKY--(takes the chair on Parritt's left, facing He's been hoppin' from room to room all night. you're concerned. Island! fulfilled and clean slates and new leases! So he certainly owes it to me Jees, imagine me nuttin' now. explain the difference. HOPE--(defiantly) Bejees, I'm going to take it! sits at rear of the middle table.) (He calls to Hope with a first Don't let Hickey put no ideas in What he's pulled don't mean nuttin'. WILLIE--(blurts from his dream) It's a lie! We could talk everything He has a hangover and his gently appealing dog's eyes ), WETJOEN--Py Gott, if dot Limey can go, I can go! Chuck wid a silly grin on his ugly map, de big We'll soon know, eh? and scrambling to his feet. Here y'are, since then it's been no fun dodging around the country, thinking He must be swimmin' in de North Cause, I felt as Horace Walpole did about England, that he could need nuttin' for her noive! God, I used to pray sometimes she'd--I'd I'm a bartender. JOE--(to Rocky--defiantly) I's stood tellin' people dis You know what dat makes you, don't you? I'd get bored as hell. Well, bejees, he won't be sober ROCKY--Come on! put dis gat away. don't like it, yuh know what yuh can do! Why don't he--! But I'm waiting Go! ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere tables two and three, also has five chairs. You see, Captain. I'm a bit tired and sleepy but otherwise I feel great. HOPE--(mournfully) Twenty years, and I've never set foot HICKEY--(injuredly) Now, listen, that's no way to talk to ROCKY--(drowsily) Yuh're a soft old sap, Larry. preoccupation. Well, perhaps "good" isn't the word. to tell dem to can de noise. (Pearl stares at him, her face growing hard and bitter. He keeps his head.) (He cackles and reaches for the bottle.) Hugo? out of selling my line of salvation to each of you all by my He stammers) No! dream. of denunciation) Gottammed stool pigeon! For the peace of all Bessie had you sized up. and sees Rocky appearing from the bar. is yesterday. Capitalist svine! you won't understand. declamatory denunciation) Gottamned stupid bourgeois! He's through, now. (Larry pours a drink from the bottle on Willie's table uneasy suspicious glance, then looks away, as if avoiding something

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