Urinetown Penelope Pennywise lines

Ms. Pennywise? How did you find us?

I had a feeling you'd be here. No one knows the sewer system like you do, Bobby.

What about?

He wants to discuss the situation with you man-to-man. He says he now understands how unhappy the people of this community have become and he wants to work out a solution with you. Peacefully.

But can we trust him?

Mister Cladwell doesn't want a fight, Mrs. Strong. He just wants his amenities up and running, smooth and natural. That's all he's ever wanted.

We'll be careful.

Now, stay calm, Hope darling. We'll have you out of this in no time.

Seize him!

Don't do it, Caldwell! There's no telling what they'll do to the girl!

[Gasp?!]

And I am her mother.

[GASP?!!]

Yes, Hope it's true. I am your mother, the onetime lover of Caldwell B. Cladwell.

Lead you to the very nerve center of my father's empire.

I've got a key!

I'm not safe yet, Daddy, but I will be. Soon all the people of this land will be safe.

Most of us, anyway.

WHAA-?!

It's all over, Caldwell. We've come to take you away.

Just keep your head out of the clouds, that's all I'm saying. Good day.

All right, who's ready to pay?!

Sorry I'm late, Ms. Pennywise. I was up all night thinking, is all.

Up all night thinking, is it?! You work here now, Bobby, you don't need to go in the bushes anymore.

I wasn't -

Like father, like son, that's what I say. Now let's get to work.

But it was about my father that I was thinking, Ms. Pennywise. About what happened to him yesterday. About what's happening to all of us.

He broke the law yesterday, Bobby, and that's the end of it.

But what if the law is wrong?

What did you say?

I said, what if the law is wrong, Ms. Pennywise?! What if all this is wrong?!

Wrong?! You've got a sweet-looking' head, Bobby, a sweet-lookin' head! But you keep it up there in the clouds day after day after day, and it's gotta come down from there. You hear me?! Get that head out of the clouds, Bobby Strong! You get it out of the clouds!

OFF IN THE DISTANCE THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL HORIZON-

All right, folks, you know the drill.

GLEAMING AND RADIANT, IT'S WHAT I'LL KEEP MY EYES ON-

The same as it's always been.

Sorry to interrupt, Mister Cladwell. We've got a little problem.

Caldwell. Long time, no see.

Rioted?!

They're peeing for free, Caldwell. I tried to stop them.

Seize them!

No!

How about a real plan?

I've got a real plan.

You think just because I love my daughter I'll stop clinging to tomorrow?!

Caldwell, what are you saying?!

Old woman, you've been grasping and conniving all your days. Why so giving now?

Because. . . Hope is my daughter.

ON WITH THE SHOW!

All right, folks, you know the drill. Form a line and have yer money ready. We'll not be repeating yesterday's fiasco, and that means you, Old Man Strong.

I haven't go it!

Then go get it!

C'mon, Penny, I'm good for it.

That's what you said last week and I still haven't seen penny one. And it's Ms. Pennywise to you.

He's my pa, Ms. Pennywise. Can't he come in for free? Just this once?

Get your head out of the clouds, Bobby Strong. No one gets in for free.

And I! And I! And I! Yeah!

Quiet back there! No one's getting' anywhere for free! Don't you think I have bills of my own to pay?! Don't you think I have taxes and tariffs and payoffs to meet too?! Well, I do! And I don't pay them with promises, see. I pay them with cash! Cold hard cash. Every morning you all come here. And every morning some of you got reasons why ya ain't gonna pay. And I'm here to tell ya, ya is gonna pay!

But Ms. Penny-

No buts, Bobby.

In the name of God, Penny, what difference could it make?

What difference?!!

But Ms. Pennywise-

I said no buts, Bobby. You're a sweet-looking' boy and I likes to keep you around, but this man ain't coming' in without payin'. Not this time.

I did what I thought was necessary.

Grab a mop, Bobby. Never thought I'd live to see the day.

Oh, Pa! What's to become of you?

Back to work, then, Bobby! The morning rush is on!

You can't do this to us, Ms. Pennywise! It'll be off to Urinetown for the lot of us sooner or later if you do!

And it'll be off to Urinetown for me if I don't. Now get in line and have your money ready - the new fee-hike money that is!

Ms. Pennywise!

Bobby Strong! Where the hell have you been?!

... HOW I REEL WHEN I LOOK AT THE SKY

Now, who's first?

Ma!

We'll take your fee, now, Mrs. Strong. The improved fee, that is.

Really?

The fee is the law, Bobby Strong. She'll abide by it or she'll join her husband.

DON'T ASK WHY-- IT'S THE SKY!

Don't do this, Bobby. You'll regret it.

WE BEGIN WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY!

Oh, Bobby, what's to become of you? What's to become of us all?!

I did follow my heart, Hope. Thanks to you.

The amenity won't take much more of this uprising, Caldwell. Bobby's a sweet boy, but not sweet enough to sweeten that spillage, not by a long shot.

SING TODAY, SING TODAY, SING TODAY!

Uh, perhaps best to stay back with your father, Hope dear. The police will want to charge soon.

You're making a terrible mistake, Mister Strong.

Let the girl go, Bobby, she's done nothing wrong!

Help me!

Help her!

Or you.

Caldwell would like to talk to you, Bobby.

[Gasp!]

What about the girl?

She's stays here. Any funny business and she gets it. You tell that to Cladwell.

Sure, I'll tell him. Likewise with the girl. Give it to her and we give it to him. Get me?

But I'm afraid my conscience will cost more than a pile of cash, Mister Cladwell.

Bobby, it really is an awful lot of cash.

We'll not return to the Stink Years, Mister Strong. I'll not allow it.

Caldwell, what are you doing?!

I'll tell you what we do! We do to her what they did to him!

Or you could take me instead.

Seize her!

Yes, do whatever you feel you need to, but please, spare the child.

Slattern!

Call me what you will, but it was during the Stink Years, you see. No one thought they had much time then, so many of us did... questionable things. There was the looting, of course, and the hoarding. But there were also the fond farewells and the late night trysts. Life was an explosion filled with riots, cheap cabarets, dancing girls-

And love?

Oh yes, and love. There was love like no tomorrow, but there is always tomorrow of some kind or another. After you were born, Caldwell made me promise never to reveal my identity to you, for I was something of a strumpet in my day. But never in my wildest-