Urinetown Flashcards
(134 cards)
1
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Penny: You hear the news? They carted Old So-and-So off to Urinetown the other day.
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Is that so? What he do?
2
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Penny: oh, such-and-such, I hear.
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Well, what do you know. Old So-and-So.
3
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Hope: Excuse me, sir, but can you tell me the way to the private company that controls these public bathrooms?
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You mean Urine Good Company?
4
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Lockstock: You’ll meet the guy who runs Urine Good Company later. That there’s his daughter.
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It’s quite a ways from here, ma’am. This here is the bad part of town.
5
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Hope: So it is
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But if you squint, you can just make out their headquarters rising above the skyline.
6
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Hope: The gleaming tower on the hill?
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That’s the one.
7
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Hope: Gosh, it’s beautiful.
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You most certainly are.
8
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Hope: Pardon?
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It most certainly is.
9
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Hope: Oh dear, i’m late already. Thanks ever so much for the directions and such. Bye!
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Anytime.
10
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Tiny Tom: No shorter than yesterday. Unless I’ve grown. (1)
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He’s my pa, Mrs. Pennywise. Can’t he come in for free? Just this once?
11
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Penny: And I don’t pay them with promises, see… And I’m to tell ya, ya is gonna pay!
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But Ms. Penny-
12
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Pennywise: [sung] For the privilege to pee.
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But Ms. Pennywise-
13
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The Poor: Lowly me!
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But, Ms. Pennywise-
14
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Penny & the poor: Wah!
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Pa! Hey Pa, what are you doing!? Have you lost your mind?!
15
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Old Man Strong: Bobby!
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Pa!
16
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Old Man Strong: Don’t forget me, Bobby!
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I won’t, Pa!
17
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Old Man Strong: and tell yer mother… Tell yer mother that I love her!
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I will, Pa! I will!
18
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Lockstock: [Sung] Off to the dockery! Don’t be like him.
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“What became of him?” What do you mean by that?
19
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Soupy Sue: We’ll all pay, Bobby Strong! Always and forever, just so long as you keep letting us pay!
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Oh, Pa! What’s to become of you?
20
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Hope: Even criminals.
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Even policeman?
21
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Barrel: Out a bit late, don’t you think?
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Out late taking care of another late-night rush is all. There’s talk of more fee hikes, people are getting edgy.
22
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Lockstock: Are they? Well, I’m glad to hear you were otherwise engaged. Wouldn’t want to put you under suspicion for taking a late-night-behind-the-bushes-
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I don’t need to do that anymore, officers. Not while I work for Penny, I don’t.
23
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Barrel: But you still need to keep your head out of the clouds now, don’t you?
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What do you mean by that?
24
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Lockstock: What he means is, you’re a good boy, Bobby Strong. See that you don’t end up like your father.
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And how did my father end up?
25
Hope: You were rather brave with them.
I don’t care for policeman. Not those two, anyway.
26
Hope: Policeman protect the peace.
Do they?
27
Hope: Usually.
Didn’t I see you down by the amenity this morning?
28
Hope: That was me. I was rushing off to work, first day.
Find your way all right?
29
Hope: The gleaming tower on the hill? Couldn’t miss it.
Beautiful.
30
Hope: It’s rather shiny, that’s true enough.
Did you mean what you said to those policeman? About everyone having a heart?
31
Hope: Well, sure I did.
Because… Well, because mine feels awful cold just now.
32
Hope: Cold?
Or empty. One of the two.
33
Hope: Not because of me, I hope?
Oh no. Because of something I did.
34
Tiny Tom: No shorter than yesterday. Unless I’ve grown. (2)
Or, rather, some thing I didn’t do.
35
Hope: If it feels cold, then it must still be there, don’t you think?
Unless there’s a vacuum where it used to be.
36
Hope: A vacuum? In your chest? It sounds so implausible.
I did something wrong this morning is all I’m trying to say. I can’t seem to get it out of my head.
37
Hope: The vacuum?
My action. I let someone down that I love dearly. I feel really bad about it.
38
Hope: Well, maybe that’s nature’s way of telling you that now is the time to lift someone up?
Really?
39
Hope: Sure. Do you think you’d be feeling as bad as you do if you didn’t have a heart?
I don’t know. I suppose not.
40
Hope: [Sung] Follow your heart.
Follow my heart? But to where?
41
Hope: To wherever your heart tells you to go.
Even… there?
42
Hope: Even to the clouds, if thats what your heart commands. What’s it saying now?
I don’t know. I don’t know how to listen to my heart.
43
Hope: You have to listen carefully. Here, let me try.
Do you-
44
Hope: You see there? Even your heart knows you should follow your heart.
“Peace and joy.” “Plenty of water.” I guess I do want those things.
45
Hope: There’s something else your heart was saying. Maybe something I shouldn’t have heart.
There was?
46
Hope: I think so. It was barely audible, but I definitely heard something.
Well? What was it?
47
Hope: “Someone is waiting there?” Why, my heart was saying those exact words just the other day.
It was?
48
Hope: Sure it was. “Squalor and noise,” “hopes and joys.” It was telling me all those things.
I didn’t know two hearts could speak as one.
49
Hope: Well, good night…
Bobby. Bobby Strong.
50
Hope: Good night, Bobby Strong.
And good night…
51
Hope: Hope
Good night, Hope. I won’t forget what you said, about the clouds and my heart.
52
Hope: Wait a minute, when can I see you again?
In this darkness I’m afraid you can’t see me at all. But a bright, shining world is waiting to start, I can feel it. Come to Amenity Number Nine tomorrow. I’ll show it to you.
53
Pennywise: 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!
54
Pennywise: Bobby Strong! Where the hell have you been?!
Sorry I’m late, Ms. Pennywise. I was up all night thinking, is all.
55
Pennywise: Up all night thinking, is it?! You work here now, Bobby, you don’t need to go in the bushes anymore.
I wasn’t–
56
Pennywise: Like father, like son, that’s what i say. Now 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.
57
Pennywise: He broke the law yesterday, Bobby, and that’s the end of it.
But what is the law is wrong?
58
Pennywise: What did you say?
I said, what if the law is wrong, Ms. Pennywise?! What if all this is wrong?!
59
Josephine: I am
Ma!
60
Josephine: Here’s all I have, Bobby. Is it enough?
You hold on to that money, Ma.
61
Pennywise: The fee is the law, Bobby Strong. She’ll abide by it or she’ll join her husband.
And what if there was a new law in town, Ms. Pennywise? A new law that didn’t come from any voting process or elected body or process of judicial review, but a brand-new law that came from an organ. That’s right, a muscular, blood pumping organ. Like this one. Right here
62
Pennywise: A muscular organ?
Can’t you see it, Ms. Penny wise? Well, if this one’s too small for you, why not try this one on for size?!
63
Pennywise: Don’t do this, Bobby. You’ll regret it.
I don’t think so. C’mon, Ma. This one’s on the house. For everyone! Forever!
64
Act 1, Scene 6
One at a time! One at a time! Everyone will get a turn!
65
Soupy Sue: Here’s some cash, Bobby. Just for you.
Keep your cash, friend. And relieve yourself in happiness.
66
Josephine: A busy day so far. Busiest on record, if your books are right. How’s the urinal holding out?
A little spillage, nothing to be concerned about. The people are happy, that’s the main thing.
67
Robby the Stockfish: Run!
Wait! Wait! Please, everyone, remain calm!
68
Lockstock: It’ll take a lot of explaining to keep us calm, Bobby Strong
We’ve taken control of this amenity, officers. The people here pee for free
69
Hope: Bobby?!
Hope?!
70
Hope: What are you doing, Bobby?! I told you to follow your heart, not season amenity!
I did follow my heart, Hope. Thanks to you.
71
Penny: The amenity won’t take much more of this uprising, Cladwell. Bobby’s a sweet boy, but not sweet enough to sweeten the spillage, not by a long shot.
The amenity will take as much as it has to, Ms. Pennywise. The days of deprivation are over for these people.
72
The Poor: Ooooo!
Sure, Mr. Cladwell, that’s what you’ve been saying for 20 years. And for 20 years we’ve waited for the long-term solutions that never came. Well, we’re done waiting, you see, for a new day has dawn today. A day of hope and happiness when the idea of human dignity is more than a forgotten notion but a living, breathing reality. A day – this day – when the people pee for free, because the people are free!
73
Penny: Uh, perhaps best to stay back here with your father, Hope dear. The police will want to charge soon.
Your father?
74
Cladwell: Officer Lockstock! Prepare your…man
Everybody into the amenity! We’ll be… relatively safer in there!
75
Hope: Oh, Bobby, why didn’t you tell me you were going to start a revolution?
Maybe for the same reason you didn’t tell me you were a Cladwell.
76
Hope: I’m the same girl I was last night.
The girl last night would’ve joined us by now, Hope.
77
Hope: I can’t fight against my father, Bobby
And I can’t not fight against him. So you can join us or you can stand aside.
78
Hope: Stand aside?
You heard me.
79
Cladwell: Now release the girl. It’s time you faced your punishment like a man.
Release?! No one‘s holding–
80
Hope: So what will it be, Bobby?
Looks like we are in a real tight spot, doesn’t it?
81
Hope: Your fellow revolutionaries seem to think so.
I suppose we should leave.
82
Old Man Strong: Remember me, boys! Oh God, what have I done?! Remember me!!! (2)
Not without you, they won’t. Which is why you’re coming with us.
83
Hope: Coming with you? I told you, Bobby, I won’t fight against my father.
And I told you I won’t not fight against him.
84
Bobby: [sung] Sing of today! (Second time)
Keep your men back, Cladwell! We’ve got your daughter and we are not letting her go!
85
Josephine: In the name of the sky, you’re coming with us!
We’re walking out of here, Mr. Cladwell, and you’re going to let us! That is, if you care about your daughter.
86
Penny: Let the girl go, Bobby, she’s done nothing wrong!
Don’t let go of the girl. And follow me!
87
Penny: Help her!
Now run, everybody! Run for your lives! RUN!!
88
Josephine: That was a close one, Bobby. I thought Barrel saw us there for sure.
We’ll have to keep on our toes, Ma. At least until we’ve distributed the rest of these memos to the other assistant custodians around the city.
89
Josephine: Do you think they’ll join us?
Hard to say. They’re scared like we used to be scared , but if it’s true what they say about everyone having a heart, they’ll have to join us.
90
Josephine: Your heart is like a stallion?
I’ll explain along the way, Ma. C’mon, let’s go.
91
Becky Two-Shows: Kill her!
Enough!
92
Little Sally: Bobby Strong.
No one’s going to be a killing anyone around here.
93
Soupy Sue: But we’re so afraid, Bobby. Killing her might make us feel powerful for a moment.
Friends, I know you’re afraid. But this has got to be about more than just revenge and the vicarious thrill of stringing someone up who can’t defend herself.
94
Little Sally: I think he’s just in love with her, that’s what I think.
Maybe I am.
95
All: Whaa-?
And maybe I made a promise up there. A promise that from this day forward, no man would be denied his essential humanity due to the condition of his pocketbook. That no man in need would be ignored by another with the means to help him. Here and now, from this day forward, because of you, and you, and you, we will look into the faces of our fellow men and see not only a brother, but a sister as well.
96
Becky two shoes: all I remember him saying was “Run! Run for your lives! Run!”
Well, that was in the heat of the battle. And in the heat – the actual hotness of battle – the cry of freedom sounds something like
97
Tiny Tom: im frightened!
As well you should be. Freedom is scary; it’s a blast of cool wind that burns your face to wake you up.
98
Tiny Tom: Literally?!
Yes.
99
Josephine: The police will be on the lookout for us, that’s for sure.
When the time comes, we fight the police!
100
Soupy Sue: But how?!
With blood! Guts! Brains, if we have to! It may take years! And some of us will almost certainly not make it through the revolution alive! Maybe all of us! But fight on we will, for all the decades necessary, to claim freedom for the people of this land!!
101
Penny: I’ve got a real plan.
Whaa-?! Ms. Pennywise? How did you find us?
102
Penny: I had a feeling you’d be here. No one knows the sewer system like you do, Bobby.
Or you.
103
Penny: Cladwell would like to talk to you, Bobby.
What about?
104
Mr. Cladwell doesn’t wanna fight, Ms. Strong. He just wants his amenities up and running, smooth and natural. That’s all he’s ever wanted.
What do you think, Little Sally?
105
Little Sally: I think it might be difficult for your love to grow with Hope tied to that chair for the rest of her life.
All right, I’ll go.
106
Josephine: Bobby, no! What if it’s a trick?!
That’s just a chance I’ll have to take.
107
Penny: Sure, I’ll tell him. Likewise with the girl. Give it to her and we give it to him. Get me?
We’ll be careful.
108
Hope: Hello, Bobby.
Hello, Hope.
109
Hope: So this is a bright, new day you were telling me about.
I don’t blame you for being angry with me, Hope. But your father gave us no choice.
110
Hope: They may not have taught me much at the Most Expensive University in the World, but they taught me this much: kidnapping people is wrong.
Really? They taught you that there?
111
Hope: I thought we had something special together, Bobby.
We do have something special together, Hope. But until freedom rules the people of this land instead of fear, love has about as much chance as a baby bunny drowning in about a boiling water.
112
Hope: Maybe less.
I didn’t mean to drag you into all this, Hope.
113
Hope: And I didn’t mean to… Oh, I guess I don’t know what I meant to do.
Look to your heart, Hope. I think the answer to what you want is waiting for you there, deep down, somewhere among the tissues.
114
Cladwell: You’ve caused a lot of excitement over the past few days, Mister Strong. Got an a lot of people riled up
This is just the beginning, Mr. Cladwell. The people have only just begun to fight.
115
Cladwell: Keeping my daughter confined against your will – is that how the people fight?
They fight by any means necessary.
116
Milleneum: The streets are still ours, Mister Strong. Your people are just holed up in some underground sewer.
They’ll be up.
117
Cladwell: But the truth is, I am no more evil than you or Ms. Pennywise or any of those poor people you insist on trying to lead. I am only a simple man trying to cling to tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary.
And what happens when the drought is over?
118
Cladwell: Well, we can always hope, I suppose. But until then or regimen of controlling consumption through the regulating mechanism of cash must continue.
Ah yes, the regulating mechanism of cash.
119
Cladwell: Bobby, I want you to have his cash… Don’t let it happen again, and have a good time in Rio.
So many tomorrows.
120
Cladwell: Yes.
But I’m afraid my conscious will cost more than a pile of cash, Mister Cladwell.
121
Penny: Bobby, it really is an awful lot of cash.
Free access is the only “cash” I’m interested in.
122
Cladwell: I thought we had an understanding, Bobby.
Then understand this: if there truly is a way to that bright, new day, we’ll find it together. All of us, not just the wealthy few. And that means free access.
123
Cladwell: Free access is impossible.
Then that’s what I’ll tell the people.
124
Cladwell: To Urinetown with him, then! With all haste, Officer Lockstock! With all haste!
You lied to us Cladwell! CLADWELL!
125
Fipp: [Sung] Why did I listen to that crook?
You lie to us, Cladwell! You told us one thing, then you did another! That’s what you did, Cladwell! That’s what you did!
126
Lockstock: Come on then, Young Bobby. You can’t keep screaming all the way down to Urinetown.
But Hope, she still with the others. What happens to me happens to her.
127
Barrel: Rather later than sooner, I’d say.
But not to Hope! Oh, please, not to Hope!
128
Hope: [sung] Why did I listen to that boy?
So what’s it like, this Urinetown I’ve heard so much about?
129
Barrel: Perhaps better for us to “shows” you.
What’s this? Where are we?
130
Lockstock: The door is in front of you. Step through and Urinetown awaits.
Door? More like… A railing. And pigeons. A rooftop?
131
Lockstock: A decisive drop.
I guess I still don’t understand.
132
All: [Sung] Urinetown!
Look, there’s Public Amenity Number 47! And the Legislature! And… and my boyhood home! Why, we’re just standing on top of the UGC headquarters building. And this… This is our town!
133
Lockstock: Yes. Yes, it is.
How could it be that we are in our town and in Urinetown at the same time… Unless… Unless… dear God, no! You couldn’t have!
134
Barrell: Over you go, then.
Wait a minute, you’re just going to throw me off this roof and that’s supposed to be Urinetown?! Death is Urinetown?!
