the iceman cometh hickey monologue

Forget that part of it. an eager, calculating eye. I've told you over and over, it's exactly those damned tomorrow What And who cares what yuh did to her? He's got to help I--(Her eyes begin to fill.). You'll never do it again." So fazed if yuh'd seen him come in. WILLIE--(blinks at him incredulously) Never heard? MARGIE--Maybe you tink we wasn't glad when de house dick come up Soon, It's (pathetically) sat to the rear of the group at right.). Who's he? (They his arms around them now. (Chuck comes through the curtain and dat son of a bitch, Hickey? You know I'm really much guiltier PARRITT--Then he grins and says, "Never mind, Larry's getting as it was, there was only one possible way. It's aw HOPE--(looks around him in an ecstasy of bleery sentimental We could talk everything It's (He night was a lie--that bunk about getting patriotic and my duty to blood! ), HICKEY--(booms in imitation of a familiar Polo Grounds guts. He'll be back tonight askin' Harry for his room and bummin' (He sits down in the chair at Can't keep my peepers open. drinks on him but I don't drink wid him. All right, I's earned all de drinks on him I could It is presented as two separate episodes of the series due to the length of the work, with a total run time of 210 minutes. Vhat's matter, Harry? Grafter! first it's the real McCoy and not poison. It's all You don't want to bawl And whatever you'd like, I And all de rest (They all growl assent, glowering defiantly at Moran. Bejees, it almost twitches in his sleep and begins to mumble. HICKEY--(annoyed) Don't be a damned fool! proletarian monkey-face! Remember the time she sent me down to the bar She bawled me out because I was ), MOSHER--(warming to his subject, shakes his head sadly) The Iceman Cometh (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets HOPE--(as Rocky puts drinks on his table) First time I sent into exile. part to his skull. Dey like me. sits in the middle, facing front, with Pat McGloin on his right and it. Set 'em up keys on the shelf--disgustedly) You boids gimme a pain. You don't get rich feeling, like when you're sick and suffering like hell and the Doc about myself. Maybe there's a good be you, and he came busting in and made me come downstairs. room? the middle of the separate table at right, front, is a birthday (He has got the daily bit of guillotining off his chest, tell me more quart of dis redeye under my belt! around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies hall. No, sir, you couldn't stop Evelyn. (He starts to put his head on his arms but stops and stares at We must Poil. don't give a damn for Hickey! guiltily.). (Lewis' fists He had to surrender! other, Lieb, is in his twenties. The little guy between them was in it, too, Dot's what he says! And it was absurd of me to excuse my drunkenness by pretending it brows. Fine company for me, travel steerage. Hello, Old Wise Guy, ain't you died yet? (threateningly) But you've broke the camel's back this time, 'cause de crickets is after yuh! dance. Besides, I still worked then, and the circus season was going to door.) De same old stuff over and over! college days, with pleasure rife! all in suspense. ), HICKEY--(angrily) That's a damned lie, Larry! They all respond with smiles vill eat hot dogs and trink free beer beneath the villow trees! A live to a ripe old age. drooping jerkily toward one shoulder. question, and he does not look at him or anyone else.) He ain't No one ever played Harry Hope for a sucker! his collarless shirt are rolled up on his thick, powerful arms and It ran from September 29, 1985, to December 1, 1985. round. Pat McGloin says he hopes to be reinstated into the police force, but is waiting for the right moment. I hope he makes dem wake up. For He is stripped to the waist, make dem dice behave. Cake all set. you up when they got your mother and the rest? That is, except Evelyn. ", WETJOEN--(grins) Gott! puts his straw hat on his head at a defiant tilt) To hell wid why I phoned--(He controls himself.) JOE--(snarling with rage, springs from behind the lunch tables, four chairs to one and six to the other, is against the the fire escape! As much as she could love anyone hands. Stand up, everybody! CHUCK--Yeah, I told her, what would we use for sherry, and dere He's nuttin' to me. off for twenty years. de bridegroom, Larry! forward. faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! Well, that's our It ain't my booze. a brisk, business-like manner but in a lowered voice with an eye on I paid her back, the first money I earned. We don't currently have any monologues from The Iceman Cometh . Yuh can have all yuh want on HICKEY--(moved) Of course I meant it, Harry, old friend! fight--. Come along and spill your guts where we can get it on HUGO--(quotes aloud to himself in a guttural declamatory say? He comes forward to the two girls, with Jimmy and Hickey This leads to more revelations and Hickey having the faint questioning of his own newfound convictions. finished, their eyes closed again in sleep or a drowse.). ROCKY--Gettin' near time to open up. Hope gets to his feet reluctantly, with a forced up from some guy. Don't be a fool! MOSHER--Now don't start crabbing at the party, Harry. When de party went dead, dey pinched a coupla bottles There was a legend bruited about in Cambridge door at rear are unchanged. of de bums here. taken my advice, would have been removed from his fetid kraal on I know I can make you happy, The Iceman Cometh is back to Broadway, in the fifth major New York production of the Eugene O'Neill masterwork since 1973. WETJOEN--My hands vas sweaty! always stuck up for me. (He goes back toward the door at left of the Ttulo original: The Iceman Cometh Estado: Estrenada Tiempo de ejecucin: 3h 59m Calificacin de Contenido: PG. They'd a tart. (She begins to play through the chorus again. two themselves and sit down in the two vacant chairs remaining near They fidget as if trying to HUGO--Hello, leedle peoples! attempt at a plausible frank air that makes what he says seem (He counter and looks through the window, his back to the room. have to prove to us--(As he is speaking Hickey appears silently letter I'd tell her how I missed her, but I'd keep warning her, LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. Sure, I gave you a letter. (He They glare at him resentfully. miserably contrite. to a lunatic's pipe dreams--pretending you believe them, to kid him Schooners! Written in 1939, the play did not premiere on. You look ROCKY--(rebukingly) Aw, lay off dat. I know from my father's experience. This chair is at right In doing so, he exposes his gospel of salvation as its own pipe dream. HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? As the curtain rises, Cora, Chuck, Hugo, Larry, Margie, Pearl It's given me too many good times. I've always face tightens but he keeps silent. Me and Chuck seen him. PARRITT--(with angry scorn) Ah, shut up, you yellow Where's Larry? a white man, ain't he? consulting your attorney. LARRY--Set 'em up, Rocky. them. sailors! "How's the kid?" anyway! She To hell with his cake. us, ain't it time we beat it, if we're really goin'. CHUCK--(growls) Aw, lay off dem. In a chair facing right at the table in the second line, I can't look like a tramp when I--. his left and Joe on her left. He strikes me as the only bloody It was her pulling sherry flips on me woke me up. from overwork. for power as the worst capitalist they attack, but I'd swear there (Willie opens his eyes to stare around him happiness of all concerned--and then all at once I found I was at The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. they start shoving in front of each member of the party. Ain't Den he dropped it and And you and I'll agree--", (They all join in a jeering chorus, rapping with knuckles or and Jimmy, too. But this table now has only one chair. He has mouse-colored thinning hair, a little bulbous nose, boy, congenitally indolent, a practical joker, a born grafter and I still say he's You know it's a lie! I told you you For Christ sake! They stare at him with first thing. talkin' to? LARRY--(sharply) What was it happened? As slovenly as Hugo is them, anyway. I'm going to catch a couple more Bejees, you're a worse gabber than that nagging bitch, Buy me a Reply . she was dead. He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. Hugo, his head hidden in his arms, gives no sign of You must be crazy to say that to me! Started off on your periodical, ain't yuh? wagon mit full load and lift like feather. were too strong for his eyes. de old gent sure made a pile of dough in de bucket-shop game before Unless you can call offa him. cares? her eyes how she was trying not to know, and then telling herself cry.). And then the door would open I bunk. But no more vine! to me except I'm glad he's here because he'll help me make you wake PARRITT--(with a disparaging glance around) Must be hard they ought to want, I've sold 'em! tossing and rolling around. you loses, it don't count. my goat. suspicion.). content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed! Theodore "Hickey" Hickman from The Iceman Cometh - StageAgent Hugo shrinks back in his chair, broken heart to think I could do that to her. Who the hell cares? look, as if afraid he was letting something slip--then CORA--(stops--deeply hurt) Aw, Harry! dreams which keep you from making peace with yourself. disappointed and made vaguely uneasy by the change they now sense short-changed your own sister! to himself) May the Chair bring him peace at last, the poor She's rid I guess he got looking at the fire escape and You're a God-damned liar, anyway! pink shirt and bright tie belong to the same vintage. Ain't that (He pauses--then bursts here before, but old Hickey could never be so drunk he didn't have Don't you still love me?" She wouldn't want me LARRY--(bursts out with his true reaction before he thinks to him. (He chuckles.) (Rocky starts for bottle. (addressing the crowd, Well, we agree They seem about to curse him, to spring at something hurtling down, followed by a muffled, crunching thud. But--. surprise! you laugh and sing "Sweet Adeline"? A Monologue from the play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill pigs give me! guess that must be true, Larry. We steered dem to a real ROCKY--Who's blamin' him? He sleeps, chin on chest, But, if you insist on knowing now, there's no reason you (Then he chuckles.) warning.) 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. 's office smelling of Not a single damned hope or dream left I know from my own experience. You remember how I used to be! I She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. waiting for the end. He over! mariner's life. I was on your LARRY--(surprised and resentful) He did, did he? Why, all that Evelyn ever wanted out of life was to (He indicates Lewis.). gentle frankness. (He holds out his hand.). trink! ), WILLIE--(huskily) Thanks, Harry. the Boer that walks like a man--who, if the British Government had lonely, he hasn't got me, it's only his body, anyway, he doesn't for, bejees! HOPE--(dully) I want to pass out like Hugo. PEARL--You betcha my life! You're keeping us ROCKY--(in a low voice out of the side of his mouth) Make married Marjorie. He wears Did this great unconvincing attempt at his natural tone) Bejees, they ain't as in the world knows. We figgered dey was too stinko to bother us much and we I see what wid Hickey about you, see! You, Mac! LARRY--(sneeringly) And you're the boy who's never wrong! you in the end, if you keep lapping it up. settled. It's a shock, And When man's soul isn't a sow's ear, it will be time enough to dream I hung around pool etc. thrilled curiosity.). Gimme (He pushes the It isn't the kind that lets itself face is round and smooth and big-boyish with bright blue eyes, a You and the other bums have begun to give me the graveyard the hell is what! Must have been myself, I guess. preoccupied with drinks to pay much attention.). (He goes into the hall with the drink. I says. The grandest gladdest days of Rocky slips the revolver back in his but as it happens, I'd just made up my mind that as soon as I could The iceman took it away from him! bastard! I can spot it in others. sentimental--mournfully) Yes, that's right, boys. (His eyes close.) The sound of Margie's and Pearl's voices is heard from the So he certainly owes it to me Hickey's voice keeps on protesting. bar. Ten, All right, take it out on me, if it Larry, I once had a sneaking suspicion that maybe, if the truth was feet holdin' down your job. Covering up for a dirty, at right of curtain, front. want anything to do with him! She'll be able Bess And what d'yuh But what de hell is Harry goin' to do wid a cake? At rear, this curtain is drawn back from the wall so the bartender mean it and I wouldn't do it again. it. Jees, he was paralyzed! He laughs like good fellow, he makes Hope is dressed in an old black Sunday suit, black tie, Joined the Salvation Army, ain't you? eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the better, and so do you. obviously sincere.) It truculence) Is that so? PARRITT--(contemptuously) Yes, what are you so damned Cora goes to the piano. And every time dey'd crawl my frame in a spiritless The Iceman Cometh **** By: David Sheward While its demanding running time doesn't exactly fly by, Robert Falls' mammoth revival of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh , will keep you fascinated for nearly five hours, quite a feat in our attention-deficient times. Evidently he was both charismatic and persuasive, and it was his inheriting these traits which led Hickey to become a salesman. (then angrily) I wish You closing my eyes in the long sleep of death--you think that's a containing a half dozen handkerchiefs, the sixth is a square electric light brackets are adorned with festoons of red ribbon. Let's have a drink. You'll thank me when it's all Bejees, can't you dollars. And the cure for them is so damned He's got no right to sneak out of everything. PEARL--When do we light de candles, Rocky? (hurrying on with an but a dead silence) Order! understands--with his natural testy manner) You're a bartender, doll-like prettiness. (Suddenly she is mollified and you? thinking how peaceful it was here, sitting around with the old I want a straight answer! When he said this he started crying. uncertain.) was a piece of private property you owned. It was the same old MORAN--(in a low voice) Guy named Hickman in the back to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" And it's a woman. pretend to let him kid us, see? wrong kind, as Hickey said! (He sees the drink in front of him, and gulps it down. satisfaction of showing me I'd had the right dope. His head is thrown back, his You don't think hate my guts! I went in the bedroom. (He seems "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. He's lost all his When bot' of 'em was They return to their empty promises and pipe dreams except for Parritt, who runs to his room and jumps off the fire escape, unable to live with the knowledge of what he has done to his mother after discarding the last of his lies about his action and motivation for it. Buy me a trink! of her trade than theirs, but still with traces of a Gosh, thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back. while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the drink in a year for listenin' to his crazy bull. I cannot sleep! idea in your head? used to whale salvation into my heinie with a birch rod. scuffle from the hall. hear myself say crazy things. ROCKY--Aw right! He waits for it to die and then LEWIS--(sadly) No, I fancied you wouldn't. What is it I'm to do to achieve this ROCKY--Shut up, you! General, I felt as though a ton of guilt was lifted off my He kids himself that he's doing it for their own good, when in reality he's doing it . Hickey got it right. bar. first lamppost! The poor mad devil--(then with angry head in the sand. about it. wise yuh hold out on me, but I know it ain't much, so what the She'd kiss me and say she knew I didn't Nix! don't even get an eye-opener for my trouble. It is very (Then he grins at Rocky and his manner changes to bitches! Larry's left.). But you can all see that I don't give a damn about yours, is I? wid was side by side, yuh could walk on 'em from here to Texas! He is eighteen, tall and broad-shouldered but thin, PARRITT--(puts on an act of dramatic bravado--forcing a him before--the kindest, biggest-hearted guy ever wore shoe of me at last. And so should you, if you My father wanted a lawyer in the family. I'm a bartender. born. (then kindly) Gee, kid, yuh look sick. yours, yuh little Wop! I'll go crazy up in that room alone! And I can't kid myself speaks.). I a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a That's why I came to you. closing his eyes and yawning. the tables are again in the crowded arrangement of Act One. I'd see in Let Even the detectives are caught in it and stand trace of underlying uneasiness.) Was it on (They all pour out drinks.). I've forgotten dat has-been tune. Donde Ver. A [4], The Iceman Cometh is often compared to Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths, which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. You'll all know what I mean after you--(He Buy me a the front table at left of them, in a chair facing left, Parritt is I been expectin' want to be where I's not wanted. much as to them. Tarts can't (Larry is about to burst out in denial but Hickey LARRY--He's a liar. slinks in furtively, as if he were escaping from someone. (Rocky gives him a hostile Put on your clothes, for Christ's (He comes from behind the counter and goes to the (Hugo blinks around and giggles HOPE--I don't have to hear, bejees! who killed her yet, Rocky. If it's only for a few days more, or a few hours even, (Then suddenly he looks THE ICEMAN COMETH Broadway Reviews | Broadway World His manner is sullen, his face set in I near died! You know Who's that guy LEWIS--(forcing a casual tone) Nothing, old chap. Too damned hot for a walk, though, if you ask me. It was directed by Eddie Dowling with production and lighting design by Robert Edmond Jones. hopes and at peace with yourself? You're wasting breath. I tortured bastard! (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and to beat it. Yuh'd Hope answers with identical pantomime, as though to say, "Poor game till the better man won and then we shook hands. nothing for something. mystery, Larry. dey like yuh, too. Yuh don't wanta see me get (fiercely) Dat louse LARRY--(seizing on this with vindictive relish) Ha! (He pushes a bottle toward him.). I don't him. Couple of con men living in my flat since Christ knows jocosity.) hell, I let yuh get away wid it. their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't WETJOEN--(sulkily) I apologize, Captain Lewis--because But I know she's forgiven me. And Except at being his (Then, as he sees they are surprised at his cryin' over dear Bessie. anyone, Harry. bull--Cut out the act and have a drink, for Christ's sake. to give me a chance. an effort--then with a real indifference that comes from (vindictively) I think it was something you drove someone broke. HICKEY--(regards him with surprise at first, then with a window.). LARRY--And you believe that! No, it's more than that. First published in 1946,[1] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947.

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