"Carrying the Banner" (Newsies) - Kelsey Theatre

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I saw this live :)

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Racetrack: Hey Elmer, Albert, Specs, you heard Jack! Get a move on. Albert: I was having the most beautiful dream. My lips are still tingling. Race: Oooh, a pretty girl? Albert: Her leg of lamb. (Takes Race’s cigar) Race: Hey, that's my cigar! Albert. You'll steal another Specs: Hey, look, it's bath time at the zoo Henry: I thought that I'd suprise my mother Albert: If you could find her Newsies: Who asked you!?! Albert: Papes ain’t movin’ like they used to. I think I need a new selling spot. Got any ideas? Race: From Bottle Alley to the harbor, there's easy pickings guaranteed Finch: Try any banker, bum, or barber... They almost all knows how to read! Jack: It's a crooked game we're playin'. One we'll never lose Long as suckers don't mind payin' just to get bad news Newsies: Ain't it a fine life carryin' the banner through it all A mighty fine life carryin' the banner tough and tall When the bell rings, we goes where we wishes. We's as free as fishes, sure beats washing dishes What a fine life carryin' the banner home-free all! Romeo: Well, hello, hello, hello beautiful. Jack: Whoa, step aside Romeo. Nothing that concerns you here. Morning, miss. May I interest you in the latest news? Katherine: The paper isn’t out yet. Jack: Oh, I would be delighted to deliver it to you personally. Katherine: I’ve got a headline for you. “Cheeky boy gets nothing for his troubles.” NEWSIES: (roast him) Romeo: Go back to the bench slugger. You struck out. Jack: I’m crushed. Finch: Hey Crutchie, what’s your leg say, gonna rain? Crutchie: No rain... Ha, partly cloudy clear by evenin'! Finch: They oughtta bottle this guy! Race: Yeah and the limp sells 50 papes a week all by itself! Crutchie: I don't need the limp to sell papes. I've got personality. It takes a smile that spreads like butter The kind that turns a lady's head Race: It takes an orphan with a stutter Finch: Who's also blind Albert: And mute Elmer: And dead! Newsies: Summer stinks and winter's freezing when you works outdoors Start out sweating end up sneezing, in between it pours! Still, it's a fine life carryin' the banner with me chums (Still, it's a fine life carryin' the banner with me chums) A bunch of big shots tossin' out a freebie to the bums (A bunch of big shots tossin' out a freebie) Finch: Hey! What's the hold up? Waitin' makes me antsy I likes living chancey Newsies: Harlem to Delancey What a fine life carryin' the banner through the Three Nuns: Blessed children Though you wander lost and depraved. Jesus loves you. You shall be saved! Elmer: Thanks for the grub sister. Nun: Elmer, when are we going to see you inside the church? Elmer: I don’t know sister but it’s bound to rain sooner or later. Race with Newsies: Curdled (Elmer: just give me half a cup) coffee (Henry: something to wake me up) Concrete donuts (Romeo: I gotta find an angle) sprinkled with mold (Tommy Boy: it's gettin' bad out here) Homemade (Mush: papers is all I got) biscuits (Specs: it's 88°) (Jo-Jo: Jack says to change my spot) (Sniper: wish I could catch a breeze) Just two (Finch: maybe it's worth a shot) years old (Buttons: all I can catch is fleas) Jack. If I hate the headlines, I'll make up a headline Jack and Crutchie: And I'll say anything I hafta 'Cause at two for a penny Jack, Crutchie, Race and Romeo: If I take too many Weasel just makes me eat 'em afta Two groups of Newsies: Got a feelin' bout the headline (I do too! So it must be true) I smells me a headline Papes is gonna sell like we was givin' em' away (What a switch! Soon we'll all be rich) Betcha dinner it's a doozy 'bout a pistol-packing floozey (Don't know a better way to make a newsie's day) Who knows how to make a newsie's day All Newsies: You wanna move the next edition Give us an earthquake or a war Elmer: How 'bout a crooked politician All Newsies: Ya nitwit, that ain't news no more Uptown to Grand Central Station. Down to City Hall We improves our circulation. Walking till we fall Two groups of Newsies: But we'll be out there carrying the banner man to man! (Got a feeling about the headline. I smells me a headline. Papes are gonna sell like we was giving them away.) We're always out there soakin' every sucker that we can! (I betcha dinner it’s a doozy ‘bout a pistol packing floozy. Don’t know any better way to make a Newsie’s day) Here's the headline: Newsies on a mission Kill the competition. Sell the next edition (I was staking our the circus and then someone said that Coney’s really hot but when I got there, there was Spot with all his cronies) We'll be out there, carryin' the banner (Heck, I’m gonna take what little dough I got and play with the ponies) See us out there, carryin' the banner (We at least deserve a headline for the hours that they work us) Always out there, carryin' the banner (Geez, I bet if I just stayed a little longer at the circus) Jack and Delancey’s: (yelling) Newsie: Go Jack! All Newsies: We'll all be out there, carryin' the banner man to man We're always out there, soakin' evey sucker that we can Here's the headline: Newsies on a mission Kill the competition. Sell the next edition We'll be out there, carryin' the banner See us out there, carryin' the banner Always out there, carryin' the banner Ah, ah, ah, go!

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