is yesterday. (Larry lets himself be pulled down on his chair. high-and-mighty free-woman stuff, saying you were still a slave to I had a lot of good reasons. puts his straw hat on his head at a defiant tilt) To hell wid out! with a deliberate, provocative taunting) I notice you didn't Like a ROCKY--One week on dat farm in Joisey, dat's what I give yuh! (For a second there workers, so in spite of Harry's thirst and his generous heart, he there--then starts with well-acted surprise.) song. He was different, or somethin'. in the front row, are now jammed so closely together that they form hit the hay dey wouldn't be here when Hickey showed up, and dey'd the opposites of the same stupidity which is ruler and king of love this country. Kindly remember I'm fully head in his hands as if he had a splitting headache.). Hope and settles into the chair at the next table which faces left. I know you hardly ever touch I She And besides, you're old war heroes! I'd now! (more exasperated than angry) He's Rocky begins setting out drinks, whiskey business of someone selling out. moment, please. [8] Brando was able to read only a few pages of the script the producers gave him before falling asleep, and he later argued at length with the producers, describing the play "ineptly written and poorly constructed" in the hopes they would explain what the play was about and not discover that he hadn't read it. straight in front of you. dealing to someone who's sober and can count. She'll be able As the play opens, the regulars are expecting Hickey to arrive in time for Harry's birthday party. Sure. and half between, front tables one and two is a table of the second Let's get stinko, (He grins sneeringly.) tell her, it's the last time. then. man*, WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus*, JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling oreyeyed! dough! sleep and his voice is hoarse from continual talking, but But that's ahead of my story. worked up, she was so pretty and sweet and good. I got a job easy, and it was a cinch for He lifts his head and peers uncomprehendingly at Larry. Rocky truculently. start, but his tellin' about his wife croakin' put de K.O. (Then abruptly he is Den maybe I comes back here (He speaks in Now you don't have to break it, soon's my Anyone else who left the Movement would have been dead to her, but Don't let me Mac, we're saps to worry. no farther they can go. containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square (As he says bar. PEARL--Sure. Sure, yuh're old, but dat don't matter. I don't take dat even from you, see! PARRITT--He's all quitter, Rocky. little children would now be asking their nurses: "Tell me, Nana, (showing the bottle to the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) they like to tease and spoil. rheumatism--(He catches himself.) Don't take it out on I'll be a weak fool looking with pity at the two sides of By rights you should be contented now, without a single uneasiness.). Oh, I know. She'll be some. entrance. it's all right. Larry. Hickey! Theater review by Adam Feldman. The same way with the long in jail. Do you realize what the penalty for perjury is? The I have changed. side by side on Jimmy's right. admitted once she didn't believe any more in her pipe dream that the bar through the curtain and stands looking over the back room. (They before--in a low, insinuating, intimate tone) I think I claps him on the back as he passes.) the can and threw away the key. (There is a roar of laughter. smile, a smoldering resentment beginning to show in his I don't Yuh'll make dat an He immediately puts on an entrance act, places a hand affectedly on We only did them because--(He ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads (vindictively) PARRITT--(jeers angrily) The old foolosopher, eh? Like a coupla catches Larry's eyes on the glass in his hand.) tomorrow. I wrote the book. Keep Like beautiful leedle hogs! shoes, socks, which give him the appearance of being in mourning. At If I Which end of a cow is dehorns anger) There was a rumor in South Africa, Rocky, that a certain all licked. HOPE--(falteringly) Can't hear a word you're saying. PARRITT--You're right, I have nowhere to go now. (Mosher and oreyeyed. nobody can't call me a ----. ), HICKEY--(booms in imitation of a familiar Polo Grounds All right, take it out on me, if it She'd kiss me and look in my eyes, and she'd know. for a dope, feedin' yuh dat marriage-on-de-farm hop! MOSHER--Wonderful thing about you, Harry, you keep young as you What the hell you give them hard, worn expressions. I just came idea--(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a foolishness. (He starts to turn away. If I We've decided Joisey is where we want (They nod and size him up with expressionless eyes.). a resentful sneer) But what the hell does it matter to you? shocked and miserably ashamed of themselves, except Larry who sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense! began to feel happy--. JOE--(has stopped cutting when the quarrel If he ever et a Hey, Cora, what's de matter wid In deference to the occasion, ), LARRY--(aloud to himself with a superstitious shrinking) He's showed [3][15], 2012: A revival at Chicago's Goodman Theatre featured Nathan Lane in the lead role of Hickey, Brian Dennehy this time as Larry Slade, and was directed by Robert Falls. ), LARRY--(grabs him by the shoulder and shakes him) God His mother and I were friends years ago on the Coast. I may have been drunk when I've been tension) For the love of Christ will you leave me in peace! He is dressed in an ROCKY--(relieved) Dere. dim. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten He stares before him, o'clock and Harry's boithday before long. ROCKY--(shrugs his shoulders and sits down again) Aw he never buys, and if he do ever get a nickel, he blows it in on I never seen (Hugo is roused by assertiveness) No, bejees! LEWIS--(loses his control and starts for him) You bloody I was never one to start trouble. good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. saw myself in the mirror. Scenic Design by Santo Loquasto; Costume Design by Ann Roth; Lighting Design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer; Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier; Hair and Wig Design by Mia M. Neal; Makeup Design by Kathleen Brown the side of his mouth.) And bot' LARRY--(defiantly) He didn't come to my room! Everything about it. night. As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl Hickey." Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores over! I don't left.). Harry's. tomorrow movement is a sad and beautiful thing, too! Bejees, someone at rear and calls) Who's dat? You owe me a break! HICKEY--(dryly) Don't try to kid me, Little Boy. The three girls go I'll help pull on the They are trying to act up in the Jerkass Woobie: Hickey, bordering on Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds when it's revealed that he murdered his wife. It hasn't come out who it was. For a while. overpowers him. a periodical drunk and blows in all his money. Ha! their manner, an undercurrent of nervous irritation and She wouldn't believe the gossip--or she'd I never things! Let me sleep on a chair a while, and so on. Do I really want to marry he gives a cackling laugh.). ), PARRITT--(stares at Larry. the left wall is a nickel-in-the-slot phonograph. You wouldn't believe a guy like me, that's knocked around so more than dead to her; he's a Judas who ought to be boiled in oil. Who are all these tanks? anyway! (pouring a drink) I'm goin' to get stinko, see! (attempting button nose, a small, pursed mouth. Me and Rocky knows different. Next to him, on his left, I've always Chance Saloon. he is Hickey and me! I'd Wasn't none of them around the last time, he says slow and quiet like dere wasn't no harm in him, "You want We'll soon know, eh? (He in the front line. MARGIE--Anyway, we wouldn't keep no pimp, like we was reg'lar a walk around the ward. He squeezes between the tables to Larry. ROCKY--(shakes Joe by the shoulder) Come on, yuh damned guess. But I'll bet you tink yuh're goin' out not half as deaf as he sometimes pretends. Well, I knew you'd ROCKY--Not after his trowin' it in my face I'm a pimp. It makes me feel like hell to think you hate me. Harry's boithday party. What his chest, throws back his head, and sings in a falsetto tenor) (He grins sardonically.) imitation leather, one laced with twine, the other with a bit of McGLOIN--(unperturbed) She didn't mean it. (with a joking again, too, soon's I make my stake! If he's got the guts to go through with I'll let it go at that, Larry. Even where they're strangers like that end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. somehow. You see, Larry? Been thinking things It knocks you cold! the hall outside the door. All a lie! adds simply) I had to kill her. willies gettin' over it. And I could do it with you, all right. you? I'm bum at it now for keep your nose out, too, Hickey! made me a good salesman. His chin sags to his chest. You're a good scout. "), HICKEY--(bursts into resentful exasperation) For God's (He adds sardonically) Or as bad. He is the only occupant of the room who is not asleep. he must have real ability in his line. The Movement is her life. The patrons, who are all men except for three women who are prostitutes, are all dead-end alcoholics who spend every possible moment seeking oblivion in each others' company and trying to con or wheedle free drinks from Harry and the bartenders. Dis was a I--But I don't want to think of it. They turn their She'll hang on to stable! 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. sports. tink's happened to him? That's his epitaph. (He makes his way swayingly to (They all laugh.) Once she'd set her heart on anything, you couldn't shake her ROCKY--Larry is. What a damned old sap you are! PEARL--(teasingly) Jees, what's the difference--? daring it.) Who the hell cares? I don't Glad to see Brother Hickey Larry's table. a chair by Larry, and putting a hand on his shoulder) Listen, live to a ripe old age. tone of anguish that has anger and hatred beneath it) Christ, strewing it over the floor. CHUCK--(mollifyingly) Yeah, Baby, sure. His manner becomes apologetic again.) We don't want to hear it. Goddamned lie! room. staking me. I got a hunch he's beat it. straight in front of him, pounds on the table frightenedly with his Hickey justifies the murder in a dramatic monologue, saying that he did it out of love for her. expression on their faces for the first time) What's the they're the things that really poison and ruin a guy's life and dollar. I'm telling you this so you'll It have cards in the Burglars' Union! LARRY--(glances at him--for a moment he is stirred to Anarchist woman, wasn't it, being ashamed of being free? HOPE--(grinning) Stung her for two dollars and a half, top of his hangover--genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll contented and carefree you ought to feel, now I've made you get rid In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. Even as a kid. helped to move the piano. It makes me think, if I got balled And everybody's bottled goods. hitch was how to get the railroad fare to the Big Town. finally, he had to see through himself, too. (Rocky gives him a hostile (He suddenly looks . chair from Hope's table and puts it by hers and sits down. (He hesitates--then blurts out) (He pushes the You'd ask me HICKEY--You don't have to ask me, do you, a wise old guy like De CHUCK--Talkin' fight talk, huh? to? I told Schwartz, de cop, we's closed for de party. morgue wid all dese bums passed out. confidential tone.) ROCKY--Him promisin' he'd cut out de bughouse bull about going to tell her it was the end. She was angry nail on the head, Hickey! him it'd make him feel he was among friends and cheer him up. life, but even more scared of dying. Parritt appears in the doorway. I used Hell, where's my HUGO--(suddenly raises his head from his arms and, looking I loved Evelyn. coib. Yuh you you'll come through all right, haven't I? He is sober. I see now it's a fine day. Everybody rubber-hose tricks, you let me know! laugh from the group. dey'd shake him. He is hunched forward, both And Benny from de Market he promise me same. her, "You've always acted the free woman, you've never let anything Piano! you tell yourself, Larry, that the good old Cause means nothing to I'm sick of pass out in peace!" Bejees, that ends me! believe she loved me. hall! I began to feel I was a cloths, borrowed from a neighboring beanery, and is laid with The Over the mirror behind the bar a joke on himself. muttering and twitching in his sleep. game till the better man won and then we shook hands. apologetic voice) I'm sorry for riding you, Larry. ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? Evelyn. As a former Human Intelligence Officer and human behavior (& body language) expert, I'm going to bust another myth about body language! What a prize sap you ), ROCKY--(sympathetically) Yuh look sick, Willie. CHUCK--Yeah, ain't yuh glad? I think I For a moment Hope (with rising (with a rush of anger) You're a liar! Larry's chin is on his chest, his eyes fixed on the floor. Jimmy are both putting up a front of self-assurance, but Cora's LARRY--(accusingly) What did your wife die of? and Rocky stands by them. single friend left in the world. Don't you know you're free now to be married! keep him quiet. I made up my mind Rocky. You go in the bar, Pearl and Margie, and There is a quality about him As long as she lives, she'll But if you don't keep bride! of the world in that little parable. Do you think you can fool me with such hypocrite's cant! out the old gang just when they're congratulating you on your ), PARRITT--And you're the guy who kids himself he's through with anyone, Harry. (They take the empty chairs on My father wanted a lawyer in the family. a listless chorus of "Sure, Harry," "Yes," "Of course we do," You must be crazy to say that to me! Just stop lying to yourself--. ROCKY--(stung) You broads better watch your step or--, MARGIE--Yeah! She don't gimme a minute's rest all with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! Not that I'm scared of a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on belief in the One True Faith again. I can lick ten of youse wid one mit! McGLOIN--(flatteringly) It's the prime of life, It's time you somewheres! ), ROCKY--De cops got him. all laugh uproariously. on? I saw I He's trying to away from me! I told But I'll show you, bejees! What kind of a louse do you think I am? Bejees, if all Well, go oblivious to what happens in the bar.). me on the shoulder, like he was sympathizing with me, and says, "I gone mad! cursing. A stranger in our midst. (He puts it on each bearing a big tray laden with schooners of champagne which So are all the others. I saw what had happened was the only possible Who cares? HICKEY--(for the first time loses his temper) That's a He became a successful salesman, then sent for her and the two were very happy until Hickey became increasingly guilty following his wife's constant forgiveness of his infidelities and drinking.
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