ACT 1 SCENE 1: Benny Southstreet CUES

NICE: “Poor Miss Sarah! I wonder why refined doll like her is mess up in the mission dodge.”

B(me): “She is a beautiful doll, all right, with 100% eyes”

NICE: “ it is too bad that such a dull wastes all her time being good. How can she make any money from that?“

B(me): “Maybe she owns a piece of the mission.”

H; “Hey! Benny Southstreet!”

B(me): “Harry the Horse! How are you! You know Nicely-Nicely Johnson.”

NICE: “Nicely, Nicely, Thank you.”

B(me): “Rusty Charlie.”

H: “Tell me, what about Nathan Detroit? Is he got a place for his crap game?“

B(me): “We don’t know yet”

NICE: “The heat is on.”

B(me): “He’s still looking for a place.”

H: “Well, tell him I’m loaded and looking for action. I just acquired Five Thousand potatoes.”

B(me): “Five Thousand bucks?!”

H: “ I collected the reward on my father.”

B(me): “Everybody’s looking for action. I wish Nathan finds a-“

NICE: “Why Lieutenant Brannigan! Mr. South Street it is Lieutenant Brannigan of the New York police department.”

B(me): “A pleasure.”

BRAN: “Any of you guys see Nathan Detroit?”

B(me): “Which Nathan Detroit is that?”

NATH: “ well, the heat is on as you must know from the fact you now have to live on your salary.”

BRAN. EXITS

B(me): “Nathan! Did you find a place?”

NATH: “Is that a crime! Yeah!”

R: “Where’s the game?”

B(me): “Nathan! Did you find a place?” (2)

NATH: “Did I find a place! Did I find a—, yes I found a place. We’re holding the crap game tomorrow night in the Radio City Music Hall.”

B(me): “How are you gonna fix the ushers?”

NATH: “—spoke to Joey Biltmore himself. He says he might take a chance and let me use the place if I give him a Thousand bucks.”

B(me): “A thousand bucks?!”

NATH: “In cash. He won’t take my marker.”

B(me): “Your markers no good, huh?”

NATH: “What do you mean?… me without a livelihood. Why. I’ve been running the crap game ever since I was a juvenile delinquent.”

B(me): “Nathan, can’t you do something?”

NATH: “What can I do?… It is mine and Adelaide’s fourteenth anniversary.”

B(me): “Yeah?”

NATH: “Yeah, we’ve been engaged fourteen years.”

B(me): “Nathan concentrate on the game. The town’s up to here with high players. The Greek’s in town!”

NICE: “Brandy Bottle Bates!”

B(me): “Scranton Slim!”

NATH: “Sky Masterson! There is the highest player of them all!”

B(me): “Higher than the Greek?”

NATH: “Look— run to Mindy’s restaurant and ask Mindy, how many pieces of cheesecake he sold yesterday and also how many pieces of strudel.”

B(me): “How much cheesecake, how much strudel— What do you wanna know that for?”

(EXIT, COME BACK)

AD: “…so long as you don’t start running the crap game again.”

NATH: “The crap game! What an absurd thought!”

B(me): “PSST! Twelve hundred cheesecake and fifteen hundred strudel”

(EXIT, REENTER)

NATH: “No bet. Blue. What a crazy color.”

B(me): “Nathan, we took Adelaide to the drugstore—“

S: “Good. How’s it with you fellows?”

B(me): “Not bad.”