코리나 코리나(Corrina, Corrina) 대본
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Corrina, Corrina
SCENE 1
SHIRL: Oh, I know I shouldn
DORIS: Annie looked so gorgeous laid out with all those flowers around her. You know, it just looked like she was taking a nap. We bought that dress together. She said she didn
SHIRL: Where
MANNY: Shen her room. We better go. I
SHIRL: Doris! I can
DORIS: Where
EVA: What
SHIRL: Eva! I was just eating one of your famous cookies. They
EVA: Well, two cups sugar for a wedding, one cup for a funeral. And today, I used a half cup. It seemed right. Easy on the strudel, Harry!
HARRY: Mollinchka!
SHIRL: Did you try that apricot bundt cake?
DORIS: Are you kidding? The only thing I haven
SHIRL: Poor kid. Thank goodness she
DORIS: Well, if she
EVA: Don
SHIRL: Oh, Molly.
MANNY: Come here.
SCENE 2
MANNY: See you, Dad.
SID: Okay, bus is leaving!
SHIRL: All right. Here we go. Here. All right. Okay. Give me the duck. Give me the duck.
SID: Shirl.
SHIRL: I
SID: Shirl, please, huh?
SHIRL: Okay. Okay. I love you Sweetie. Okay? Bye Princess. You
SID: Shirl, please. Take care, old man.
SHIRL: You
EVA: Bye-bye Mollinchka. Bye-bye.
MANNY: Say good-bye to Grandma and Grandpa.
EVA: Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
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MANNY: Donee that they give you, they say it
SCENE 4
TV: ad to see your smiling face. Here I haven
MANNY: Salisbury steak. And then, veal parmesan for me. There you go. Look Molly, Tater Tots. Your fav that? I didn
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O I start at 8:00. I will have had my breakfast and I assume the child will have had hers. At noon, a brisk walk, followed by two hours of Bible study. Where is the child?
RITA: I feel like Sophia Loren in (Speaks Italian) Did you see it?
WANDA: I know what it
DOLL:
WANDA: And I
DORIS: Oh, I love kids. I have a real way with children.
WANG: (Speaks Chinese)
TOMMY: And no windows!
DORIS: I get a little nervous. If I put my head down between my knees, I
RITA: I realize itings) Kids love that!
MAN: Kids love me, Mr. Singer. I walk into a room full of kids, they drift to me. Like a ... goddamn kid magnet!
JONES: Uh, letd believe me, I would treat your little Molly with all the love and tenderness I
SCENE 6
JONES: Okay, Sweet Pea, lets blueberry pancakes will loosen you up! Just making sure we got all the makings. Oh boy! Aren
SCENE 7
JONES: Hi. It
MANNY: Oh, thanks.
JONES: Shed talk to her about that.
MANNY: Her mother was teaching her that.
JONES: Hide and Seek Noodle Casserole! Peek-a-boo! This is just the first course.
MANNY: It looks fabulous.
JONES: They
MANNY: It looks fabulous, doesn
JONES: I bet your wife wasn
MANNY: Molly!
JONES: No, it
MANNY: No. No. I
SCENE 8
MANNY: What are you doing here?
JONES: Iverything a wife does. Shouldn
SCENE 9
CORRINA: Hello, kid. My namemuch easier. Oh, nice wheels.
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CORRINA: When would you like me to start?
MANNY: Uh, why don
CORRINA: Talk? All right. Uh, how long have you lived in the house?
MANNY: Uh, three years. Do you have any references?
CORRINA: Have you had maids before?
MANNY: My wife used to take care of everything.
CORRINA: Oh, so you
MANNY: Yes, let
CORRINA: Salary does not include supplies. I don
MANNY: Excuse me, Mrs. Washington, but did the agency explain that this was just an interview?
CORRINA: Look, Mr. Singer. What shall we discuss?
MANNY: I was wondering if you had any children ... any experience with children.
CORRINA: You know, I met your little girl out there. She
MANNY: Do you have any references? A rrsity. How long were you with her?
CORRINA: Four years.
MANNY: What happened then?
CORRINA: I graduated. Oh! I
MANNY: It
CORRINA: Uh, well, if you some glue, Im really good at gluing. I could just glue it. I mean, I could just snap this back together.
MANNY: No, uh, I
CORRINA: Look, Mr. Singer. Ineed this job.
MANNY: Thanks for coming by. I
SCENE 11
MANNY: I lost my keys.
CORRINA: Well, they
MANNY: I forgot, you.
CORRINA: There
MANNY: Uh, yeah. It
CORRINA: Well, I
MANNY: Okay, thanks. Molly, you and Corrina are going to go shopping for some breakfast and pick up some other things. Okay? Um, uh, the keys to my wife
CORRINA: I
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CORRINA: I was just testing the brakes, Molly. It
WILMA: A hip-hop happy good morning to you both. Welcome to Del
CORRINA: I need a cup of your strongest coffee. (To Molly): Would you like a hot cocoa? Pecan waffles? How do you feel about the slim-starter?
WILMA: Look ladies, I ain
CORRINA: Wilma, where
WILMA: He
CORRINA: Tell you what. Why dontta talk to my friend here for a second. Take a load off. I know what you
WILMA: Okay. Just a minute.
CORRINA: She
WILMA: Oh yeah.
CORRINA: All right. Now Molly, I understand you donn Iheese, the hard-boiled egg, and the tomatoes?
WILMA: Honey, if it
CORRINA: Good try, Wilma. Hah! She did it! She did it! Okay.
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MANNY: to Head. Mr. Potato Head ... was always dead.
SID: I love it! I love it. Mr. Potato Head, the untold story.
MANNY: Sid! I have a great opening here ... I tried to ...
SID: Manny. Manny. Uh, IAnd we
MANNY: I really appreciate that. Thanks.
SID: Imagine how hard things would be if the job got shaky.
MANNY: What d
SID: What?
MANNY: Did someone say something?
SID: Absolutely not.
MANNY: Sid, tell me! Did somebody ...
SID: Absolutely not. Once! Maybe a couple of times. Itreat. Because it
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CORRINA: look good.
SCENE 15
CORRINA: Anybody want some more? Anybody want any?
MANNY: No. No. No. It
CORRINA: Oh. Well, that was just to bring out the flavor.
MANNY: Oh, it
CORRINA: Spicy.
MANNY: ato surprise!
CORRINA: Maybe it
MANNY:
CORRINA: Now, you thought that was kind of clunky, didn
SCENE 16
MAN: Where do you want it?
MANNY: Uh, I
MAN: Why don
MANNY: She
SCENE 17 Molly sits in the empty bathtub. Then Molly puts a doll in her doll house bathtub.
SCENE 18
CORRINA: I bet if you were inside of a morroca, that
SCENE 19
CORRINA: Oh, wait. (BLOWS) I hate to impose, but could you give me a little help? (BLOWS) I mean, I just donk you
SCENE 20
CORRINA: Hey Molly. It
TV:
CORRINA: Molly, what are you listening to this garbage for? Why are you watching this? Be queen for a day. I know a guy in my neighborhood who wanted to be queen for a day. And you know what happened to him, donesn
TV:
CORRINA: I want to thank everyone out there. I want to thank everyone who made this possible. Phggh!
SCENE 21 Molly lies in bed unable to sleep.
SCENE 22
CORRINA: You know what, Molly? I think your Mom is lookin
MANNY: Corrina, um, I appreciate everything youan atheist and so am I. And I don
CORRINA: Yes, Mr. Singer. I
SCENE 23
TV:
MANNY: Hey. Whats the matter, Sweetie? Can
TV: m the Surgeon General links cigarette smoking to lung cancer. Statistics show that one out of every ten male smokers will die from lung cancer. Meanwhile, in Washington today, President Eisenhower announced ...
MANNY: Molly, what are you doing? Molly, look. Cigarettes are for adults. If you want, I
SCENE 24 Molly takes her father
SCENE 25
MANNY: I really feel like I should stay.
CORRINA: Well, it
MANNY: I just really can
CORRINA: Then go.
MANNY: Bye Molly! (RETURNS) You know what it is, is that Mr. Potato Head is in from Trenton, so I really can
CORRINA: Really/
MANNY: Yeah. Yeah. The one and only.
CORRINA: Well, you better get your heiny goin
MANNY: Yeah, I
SCENE 26
CORRINA: You know what Ies in bed. Will you get that corner for me? Just pull it down. Right there, the white one. Malomars, or whatever they call those things. They look like little humps.
MOLLY: Corrina? This is where my Mommy sleeps.
CORRINA: Youused to sleep here.
MOLLY: When
CORRINA: You know Molly, I ... She
MOLLY: Well, then I want to die, too.
CORRINA: Oh, no, no, no, no. You dont want to die. You don
MOLLY: Was I bad?
CORRINA: No. People donll the people who are here now who love you. They
MOLLY: But my Dad doesn
CORRINA: Well, maybe deep down inside he does. And heso jealous of those angels who get to play with Mommy everyday that he just canways miss your Mommy and that
MOLLY: Chocolate and vanilla.
CORRINA: Well, thated mint on the rocks and cherry
SCENE 27
MANNY: Molly! Moll! I
MOLLY: Look, Daddy. I made you some pig knuckles.
MANNY: Oh Molly! Oh, that
SCENE 28
MANNY: I think someone
CORRINA: Well, thank you very much, but maybe another time.
MANNY: No. No. No. I
CORRINA: Well, I guess I don
MANNY: Oh. Here. Here. Have one of mine.
CORRINA: Thank you.
MANNY: I think I
CORRINA: That
MANNY: Yeah, that
CORRINA: Yes, I know. He was 22 when he wrote this. Can you imagine being so poised and having such boldness in a composition when you
MOLLY: Can Corrina sleep over tonight?
CORRINA: No.
MANNY: No. She
MOLLY: No she doesn
CORRINA: I
MANNY: No. No. I
MOLLY: What happened to Mr. Potato Head
MANNY: Um, Oh, she
CORRINA: No, thank you.
MANNY: Sure?
CORRINA: Go ahead.
MOLLY: Is Tater Tot Mr. Potato Head
MANNY: That
MOLLY: Corrina, did your husband die like Mommy did?
CORRINA: No, Baby. Though it is hard to tell with Ol
MANNY: Oh! Oh!
CORRINA: I
MANNY: It
CORRINA: I
MANNY: No. No. No. Ill get it. You just sit and eat. I
CORRINA: Mr. Singer, thank you for inviting me to dinner. Thank you very much. But I really just made enough for two and I have to go. Goodnight ... Goodnight.
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MANNY: can make him funny, or you can make him sunny, his name is Mr. Potato Head!
SID: Well, we all love kids! I mean ...
MANNY: ... She asked me, is ... is, Tater Tots Mr. Potato Head
SID: Ha! Ha! Illegitimate ...!
MANNY: My wife would have loved that. The way kidor hours, laughing. She had this great laugh.
SCENE 30
SID: Hey!
MANNY: Sid, I
SID: Stop it. Stop it. There
MANNY: You did!
SID: Stop it. C
MANNY: Sid, I can
SID: Shell understand. Get a sitter! Get a sitter! Whatever it is, get a sitter! Okay? Sunday, get a sitter. Sunday, get a sitter. Sunday, get a sitter.
SCENE 31
SHIRL: Work, work, work. Talk, talk, talk. That
MANNY: Thank you.
SHIRL: Oh, don
SCENE 32
WOMAN: (Singing): e the clouds are far ... behind me ... where troubles fall like lemon drops ... way above the chimney tops ... That
KID:
LIZZIE: Mama, Percy threw his baloney on the floor.
PERCY: I didn
JEVINA: Percy, how many times I gotta tell you to hold on to your sandwich with two hands? That dog gets more baloney than we do.
MAVIS: In choir practice today Carl Johnson laughed at me when I was singing. Said I had a double chin. Said I looked fat.
FRANK: You ain
PERCY: Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring!
CORRINA: Wait! Wait! Hello? Uh, I don
PERCY: He
CORRINA: It
PERCY: Oh yes, my lovely!
CORRINA: Sit down. Sit down.
PERCY: I
CORRINA: I know you
JEVINA: So, uh, did you talk to Charlie today?
FRANK: Yeah. Ten more paid off, laid off.
JEVINA: Oh, that
CORRINA: I
FRANK: Hey. Hey. Hey. That
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SHIRL: Eat! Enjoy! It
JENNY: How do you do?
SHIRL: Oh, well, there
SCENE 34
JEVINA: Corrina. Look who
FRANK: Hey!
ANTHONY: Hi-ho everybody! Hey Frank, how ya doin
FRANK: Good. Good.
ANTHONY: Good! Good! Good! Corrina, I was thinkin
CORRINA: No.
ANTHONY: I knew it! I knew it! And it looks absolutely beautiful!
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MANNY: I don
JENNY: Really? Well, you haven
SCENE 36
PERCY: Baba-loo! Baba-loo!
CORRINA: Half-time. Nap time. That means no more noise from you, Percy.
PERCY: You ain
CORRINA: Goodnight.
SCENE 37
MAVIS: Come on up, Percy. Ain
PERCY: Yuk! I don
SCENE 38
CORRINA: What? Now look. This is nice, huh?
JEVINA: Oh no. Now that
CORRINA: You can
JEVINA: I can still fit in somethin
CORRINA: You cannot. Have you seen what
JEVINA: Listen. I think I
CORRINA: Yeah, because this is about where you are. You done had three kids!
JEVINA: That
CORRINA: If you
JEVINA: You know, you talk more stuff!
CORRINA: I know I do.
JEVINA: Listen, Corrina.
CORRINA: What?
JEVINA: More importantly, why are you giving Anthony such a hard time?
CORRINA: Oh, please! Anthony, Anthony ...
JEVINA: Yeah. That
CORRINA: Because, in the words of Gertrude Stein, girl, there ain
JEVINA: Oh.
CORRINA: Yeah.
JEVINA: And you think
CORRINA: What?
JEVINA: Now, I don over there with Anthony than there
SCENE 39 The children are taking a nap together.
SCENE 40
SID: Relax, Manny. C
MANNY: Sid! It
SID: To talk to a woman? Look, she needs a ride home and Shirl and I thought ... that, you know ...
MANNY: What is this, high school? Sid, please!
SID: Look old man, I know how you feel. I
MANNY: No you don
SID: Huh?
MANNY: You don
SID: I don So the bottom line is, Manny, you need someone to talk to. You have me, but frankly, I
SCENE 41
MANNY: And, and then, then all of a sudden, out of the blue, my Molly says, um,
JENNY: Ha! Ha! Oh, that is what is called adorable! Oh, kids, huh?
MANNY: Yeah. Just the way they work!
HOWARD: Where were you on the night of April 31st? How much money do you make? Are you just interested in you know what?
JENNY: Lewis!
MANNY: Kids.
JENNY: Well, as Voltaire says:
MANNY: Hi, Lewis.
JENNY: And this is Howard.
MANNY: Hi, Howard.
HOWARD: Hi, Manny.
MANNY: How are you fellas?
HOWARD: Good.
JENNY: If Molly is looking for some playmates, why don
MANNY: Okay.
JENNY: C
SCENE 42
MOLLY: m music ... Over the rainbow ... Over my rainbow ...
MANNY: You look just like Molly when you smile.
MOLLY: Can we play like we did with Mommy and fly to Kalamazoo? Daddy? Youthree, not two.
MANNY: Uh, Daddy can
SCENE 43
MOLLY: Hey, Daddy-Oh! Every cat talks to God in his own way and God understands Chinese. So Corrina says, donls. Bo-Daddy-Bo!
MANNY: What did Corrina say?
MOLLY: Well, Corrina said that you
MANNY: Why?
MOLLY: Because they get to spend all that time with Mommy.
MANNY: Molly, listen to me, okay? The heaven, the angels, and all that, it
MOLLY: Well, what
MANNY: Let
MOLLY: No, now!
MANNY: C
MOLLY: What did she smell like?
MANNY: Molly, I said we
MOLLY: Liar! You don
MANNY: Molly, of course I do.
MOLLY: No you don
SCENE 44
MOLLY: No!
CORRINA: C
MOLLY: I don
CORRINA: What
MOLLY: You
CORRINA: What are you sayin
MOLLY: You
CORRINA: Of course I
MOLLY: You promise?
CORRINA: Oh, yeah. I promise. Now come on.
MOLLY: Maybe they won
CORRINA: Maybe they wont
MOLLY: I am Molly Singer and there is nobody in the world better than me.
CORRINA: Yeah! Now, walk right in there, say that as you
MOLLY/:
CORRINA
MOLLY: I am Molly Singer and there is no one in the world better than me.
CORRINA: Chin up! Up! You
SCENE 45
CORRINA: Good morning. I
MRS.
WARNER: Oh, It it be the day I need my windows washed? All of them!
CORRINA: All of them? What do you mean, all of them? Mrs. Warner, you want all of the windows done?
MRS.
WARNER: All of them. This is the day I expect them to be done.
SCENE 46
CORRINA: Iy! I
FRANK: It
CORRINA: That crazy woman! All those windows ... standing there watching me! I
SCENE 47
BOY: Whos hogging the black crayon? You used it all up! That
MOLLY: I did so!
BOY: She drew her maid, not her Mommy! What a dodo head!
MOLLY: I am Molly Singer and therehe world better than me.
BOY: Nobody
SCENE 48
MAVIS: good with Russian acrobats.
SCENE 49 Molly waits for Corrina at school.
SCENE 50
JEVINA: Corrina?
CORRINA: Yes!
JEVINA: Honey, I
MAVIS: But I
CORRINA: Iit after dinner, Mavis.
JEVINA: Okay.
SCENE 51
CORRINA: Molly! I
MOLLY: Oh!
CORRINA: I will never be late again, but you dont know what happened to me! As I was coming up the street, a band of elephants, stuck in the middle of the street to have a drink of water and I didnrry you. I can
SCENE 52
CORRINA: Hi.
MANNY: What a day I
CORRINA: I just put a carton in there this week.
MANNY: That
CORRINA: Well, I can
MANNY: And what is that supposed to mean?
CORRINA: It means, if you
MANNY: Fine. And if youe my cigarettes, I
CORRINA: All right.
MANNY: Great.
SCENE 53
MOLLY: Mommy! Mommy!
MANNY: Molly? Molly, wake up!
MOLLY: Mommy! She didn
MANNY: Who?
MOLLY: Mommy! She was on the hill! I saw her! She didn
MANNY: Oh, Molly. If I
MOLLY: You were there! You couldn gone! You never talked about her! You made her disappear!
MANNY: Molly! Molly!
MOLLY: It
MANNY: Molly! Molly!
CORRINA: Molly! Molly! It
MOLLY: I
CORRINA: ... just so mad! You
MANNY: Molly, listen to me. II can
MOLLY: I
MANNY: I
CORRINA: Me, too. Im ... just ... so ... mad! C
MANNY: Hit him!
CORRINA: Yeah! Hit him again, Molly! Hit him! Hit him! Hit him!
MOLLY: Stupid head!
CORRINA: Sock him again!
MOLLY: It
CORRINA: I
MANNY: I
SCENE 54
CORRINA: Isn
MANNY: Mm hm.
MOLLY: My Dad always listens to it.
CORRINA: I love it. You know, when you listen to Bill Evans, it
MANNY: That
CORRINA: I did.
MANNY: You the music. The way you phrase things, you could write poetry.
CORRINA: I do. You know, In. Not that it would, you know, take away my joy and love of scrubbing wax build-up from linoleum floors.
MANNY: Did you ever try?
CORRINA: What? Scrubbing wax build-up?
MANNY: No, no. no. Liner notes and poetry.
CORRINA: Uh, basically they just let us play the music. They don
MANNY: Well, I wouldn
CORRINA: I would.
SCENE 55
TV: ext week, you
CORRINA: You know how much money I
MANNY: I
CORRINA: Half a billion dollars?
MANNY: Yeah. I
CORRINA: Well, we
TV:
CORRINA/
MANNY:
TV:
CORRINA: I think I beat you by just a hair.
MANNY: No!
MOLLY: Tie! Tie!
MANNY: Tie?
MOLLY: One-to-one.
CORRINA: Fine, side with your Dad.
MANNY: Molly
CORRINA:
MOLLY: Two-to-two.
MANNY: Listen. ...What
TV:
MANNY: Ha!
CORRINA:
MANNY: I wonder what happened to that guy
CORRINA: She probably slapped him for giving the wrong answers.
SCENE 56
JEVINA: Why you tippin
CORRINA: Why you lurkinon the couch?
JEVINA: You
CORRINA: The little girl had a nightmare, that
JEVINA: They payin
CORRINA: Jevina, it wasn
JEVINA: Ooh, Sistah Child. You need to stop kiddinself. Now you know these white folks are gonna pretend you
CORRINA: Giving what away for free, Jevina? My letter come today?
JEVINA: Nope. Not today.
CORRINA: Thank you. Good night.
SCENE 57
CORRINA: No, the first few weeks are always hard for everyone. C
MOLLY: Please donke me go to school again!
CORRINA: Okay. All right. All right. Don
SCENE 58
MRS.
MORGAN: Thank you, Corrina. Say good-bye, Sophia.
CORRINA: Good-bye ... Psst!
MOLLY: Wow!
SCENE 59
CORRINA: (On phone): Well, its just a light fever. I
MOLLY: Got it.
CORRINA: Good.
SCENE 60
MOLLY: Isn
CORRINA: Well, I think the thrill for me is gone.
MOLLY: After lunch, can we go swimming in the park?
CORRINA: Thatwork to do.
MOLLY: Oh, come on. Please?
CORRINA: No.
MOLLY: Yes!
CORRINA: No, we simply can
SCENE 61
CORRINA:
MOLLY:
CORRINA: Sing out more!
MOLLY: t you know each cloud contains ...
CORRINA: Feel it girl!
MOLLY:
CORRINA: Oh, wait! I hear Esther Williams coming on.
MOLLY: d contains, pennies from heaven ...
CORRINA: Feel it, girl! Very good!
CORRINA/
MOLLY:
SCENE 62
SID: that
MANNY: Please! Just rhyme with
SID: I
MANNY: No!
SID:
MANNY:
SID: Armadillo
MANNY: Yeah, that
SID: Little hunks of jello that run across the road!
SCENE 63
CORRINA: Oh, very Abraham Lincoln. Very Abraham Lincoln, yeah.
MOLLY: Will I have chi-chis like yours someday?
CORRINA: Why do you call them
MOLLY: My Daddy calls them that.
CORRINA: He calls them chi-chis?
MANNY: Anybody home?! Oh, youwas thinking. It
SCENE 64
CORRINA: My favorite song.
MANNY: Mine, too.
CORRINA: You know, Billy does a better of it.
MANNY: No one
CORRINA: Nice hat!
SCENE 65
CORRINA: Now, listen to this. He writes: for a week without food and water.ur milk.
MOLLY: I hate milk.
MANNY: Listen to your mother. (To Corrina): Somebody once wrote that writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture.
CORRINA: That is exactly what we. I mean, I couldn
SCENE 66
MANNY:
CORRINA: You sound like a doorbell.
MANNY: Ha! Ha! Oh, have you ever had a block?
CORRINA: Yeah. All my life. ... That
MANNY: She was ... kind. She had a real sweetness about her. Didnbut she loved to laugh. What about Edward B.?
CORRINA: Oh. Edward B. ...Edward B. He was not kind. But he did have a good sense of humor. Sometimes, that
MANNY: Me, too.
SCENE 67
MANNY: ou don
CORRINA: Right. Right.
MANNY: See, and I don
MANNY/
CORRINA: u don
CORRINA:
MANNY:
CORRINA:
MANNY:
CORRINA: Really?
MANNY:
CORRINA: You just ... you did it. You just fixed your problem. You took the
MANNY: Oh! um ... ba-dum.
CORRINA: Good.
MANNY: Corrina!
SCENE 68 Molly is jumping on her bed in complete ecstasy.
SCENE 69 Manny and Corrina play a beautiful song on the piano together.
SCENE 70
JENNY:
LEWIS/
HOWARD: he light ...
JENNY:
LEWIS/
HOWARD:
JENNY: ur silvery beans will bring long strings ... we
JENNY/
LEWIS/
HOWARD:
SCENE 71
EVA: Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday! Now, make a wish! Make a wish!
MANNY: Make a wish! ... Ah! Hey! You got all of
EVA: What is that?
MANNY: It
EVA: Hoola-hoop?
MANNY: Come here, try it. ... Hey! There ya go! Uh, you gotta get some
CORRINA: Yeah, she
MANNY: C
CORRINA: Yes! Yes! Oh, no, no. I have to show her.
MANNY: Swing! Oh, yeah!
EVA: Come on. Come on. Mollinchka, you
MOLLY: Can Corrina come, too?
EVA: Oh, no, no, no. Corrinam sure she wants to go home. Come on Mollinchka. Pick your favorite place in the whole world!
SCENE 72
EVA: I don
SCENE 73
MOLLY: She should have cleaned this up before we got here.
CORRINA: That My!
MOLLY: Well, let
CORRINA: All right.
SCENE 74
CORRINA: We deserve a break.
SCENE 75
MAVIS: Molly, I hope that lady has more parties. These are some leftovers!
PERCY: Yuk! Cream ones. I hate cream ones!
MAVIS: Give it here, Percy. I don
PERCY: Yuk! Coconut! I hate coconut!
MAVIS: Give it here, Percy. I don
PERCY: You don
SCENE 76
PERCY: Look! Look!
TV: s rich, too. And makes hundreds of thousands of dollars.
CORRINA: Molly! I know you
SCENE 77
MANNY: ok ... Come over here and take a look ... It
SCENE 78
MANNY: Molly? (To Corrina): Its okay. Iinner and celebrate?
SCENE 79
MANNY: How was school today, Mol?
MOLLY: Hard work.
MANNY: What did you do?
MOLLY: I won the spelling bee.
MANNY: You did? Oh!
CORRINA: Well, what do you say we all go on out? Is everybody hungry?
MANNY: Did you hear that? Molly won the spelling bee.
CORRINA: I heard.
MANNY: What was the word?
MOLLY: Vacuum.
CORRINA: Ha! Ha! Why don
MANNY: Vacuum? Thatrd. How do you spell it?
MOLLY: H-O-O-V-E-R.
SCENE 80
MANNY: For Molly Singer! Oh ...
MOLLY: No. That one
CORRINA: Ooh. An angel just flew over.
MOLLY: Where?
CORRINA: Well, you can
MAN #1: Mad everything. Hey!
MANNY: Hey! What
MAN #1: Well, I don
MAN #2: So look at this kid. Look at that. Another nigger lover.
MANNY: I mean, is she wearing red?! Sit down and clean it yourself! Check, please!
SCENE 81
TV:
CORRINA: Hi.
JEVINA: Girl, when you gonna wake up and smell the coffee?
CORRINA: God, Jevina! Don
JEVINA: Lonely man. Lost his wife. Left with that poor little girl. Now Honey, I seen this coming from a mile away!
CORRINA: You know, I don
JEVINA: What you need is that nice, tall drink of water across the street, Baby! Whatt gonna buy no more albums for a while!
CORRINA: I didn
JEVINA: Oh! He buyin
CORRINA: ...And that bothers you, doesn
JEVINA: That still don
CORRINA: When did this come? It doesn
JEVINA: Slow. ly ... Whitey.
SCENE 82
MOLLY: Do you taste like chocolate?
LIZZIE: I don
SINGING:
SCENE 83
SINGING: ight of mine, I
MOLLY: I
LIZZIE: Molly! What a mean thing to say! You
MOLLY: Well, I didn
LIZZIE: I don
MOLLY: But you just called me a donkey!
PERCY: Not
LIZZIE: Shut up! She is not! She!
SCENE 84
CORRINA: God does not like ugly. You
MOLLY: But I don
MANNY: You don
MOLLY: Back to Jenny
MANNY: Well, we about that later. Okay? You know why? Because more importantly, you are looking at the winner of the new
MOLLY: Yea!
MANNY: Yea! It absorbs twenty-seven times ite to thank the people who got me there. Mademoiselle. Madame. Thank you. Yea! Another yea! (Doorbell rings) It must be the press.
SCENE 85
JENNY: Ta da! Congratulations, Manny Singer! Manny! Oh, your mother just called me with the fabulous news, and I thought we could toast (To Manny): Oh, this must be your girl.
MANNY: Uh, yeah. Corrina Washington, this is Jenny Davis.
JENNY: How very nice to meet you. You know, I hear you
MANNY: No. I
JENNY: Oh. Okay. Gosh, aren
MANNY: Uh, has anybody seen my cigarettes?
CORRINA: I just got you a carton. I canybe pick some up.
JENNY: Or, this is what is called a good time to quit.
CORRINA: You
JENNY: Something sure smells good. I
SCENE 86
JENNY: Well, Ipt Douglas, and ... (Phone rings).
MANNY: Excuse me.
JENNY: Yeah.
MANNY: Hello? Hello?
MOLLY: Operator? We
MANNY: There.
JENNY: But I ... (Phone rings again) Don
MANNY: I really should. Hello?
MOLLY: Hi, Daddy!
MANNY: Molly?
MOLLY: You recognized my voice.
MANNY: What do you think you
MOLLY: Well, I can
MANNY: Good night, Molly.
JENNY: Maybe our voices are keeping her up.
MANNY: You okay?
SCENE 87
ANTHONY: Boy, I
SCENE 88
MANNY: Jenny.
JENNY: Manny?
MANNY: This is all very new for me. This is all very confusing. And I just don
JENNY: Oh, Manny. I know. I know. I know how hard it is to let yourself love again.
MOLLY: Would you like a cigarette?
JENNY: No, thank you. I don
MOLLY: Well, maybe you should start.
JENNY: And maybe you should get some sleep, huh? That
SCENE 89
CORRINA: Excuse me. IInto phone): Hello?
MOLLY: You know what
CORRINA: I don
MOLLY: My Dad
CORRINA: I don
MOLLY: But I cant go to sleep if I have to go back to school.
CORRINA: All right. I
MOLLY: Okay. I promise. I love you.
CORRINA: I love you, too, Molly. Okay? Go to sleep.
MOLLY: I, though.
CORRINA: Well, Honey, you don
MOLLY:
ANTHONY: Yeah, well ... It
JEVINA: Well, you know, I used to sing myself.
ANTHONY: No kidding?
SCENE 90
MANNY: Hi.
CORRINA: The bus driver was twenty-minutes late.
MANNY: I have to talk to you. Corrina! Corrina! We need to ...Whether you like it or not, I employ you!
CORRINA: Oh, yes! You did! I meant to tell you, I
MANNY: What?
CORRINA: A week in advance, which is fair, though you don
MANNY: Look, about last night.
CORRINA: This is what is called one week
MANNY: Listen to me, please. Jenny is a friend of mine and I wasn I just wanted to apologize.
CORRINA: Well, thank you. But let
MANNY: All right.
CORRINA: This is my job. I work for you, nine to five, time and a half for overtime. No more, no less.
MANNY: Absolutely.
CORRINA: Fine.
MANNY: Okay. I
CORRINA: Would you just wait a minute! Turn around. You have your thing that
SCENE 91 Molly colors one of her doll
SCENE 92
EVA: I tell you, Manfred. I think she
MANNY: Ma, enough. Kids are impressionable, thatg that could have happened to her. Okay? Try the light.
MOLLY: Grandma, you
EVA: Ha! Ha! Ha! Since when have you become such an expert on cleaning? Which reminds me, did you see how the crystal sparkled at Jenny
MANNY: Ma, please. Don
EVA: Listen, Manny. It wouldn
MANNY: Ma, no oneanywhere. You
EVA: Ha! Ha! Molly
MANNY: Pop? Pop? Show me an A. And a C sharp.
EVA: That was beautiful, Harry! Oh, before you skedaddle, Maestro, could you spare a moment to fix the light in the frigidaire?
MANNY: Ma, the light works fine.
EVA: So, are we gonna talk about it or what?
MOLLY: Grandpa? Can you hear me? Make Daddy marry Corrina, okay?
MANNY: I told you. Shes glowing.
EVA: Manny, I wasn
MANNY: Well, it
EVA: You were kissing Miss Washington on your front steps.
MANNY: What?
EVA: I got a call from your neighbor, Mrs. Murphy.
MANNY: This is sick. This is really sick.
EVA: Donove, but where will they build their nest?
SCENE 93
MOLLY: It
MANNY: There it is!
MOLLY: It
MANNY: Oh, no! Here it is. Here it is. Under the tree.
MOLLY: I
MANNY: In the sandbox. In the sandbox ... What the ...?
SCENE 94
MANNY: Molly! This isn
MOLLY: Corrinad went out for a pack of cigarettes and died.
MANNY: What are you saying?
MOLLY: They all die. That
MANNY: Oh, Molly. You have my promise that I will never, ever, ever leave you. Ever.
MOLLY: Promise? Because Mommy said it
MANNY: Yeah, she did say that. You see, we remember. You know what? If Mommy were here right now, she
MOLLY: Blue like mine?
MANNY: Mm hm. And you know what else? ... Yep. She smelled just like you do. ...What was that?
MOLLY: What?
MANNY: Did you hear that? I think it was a plane. Who wants to take a trip to Kalamazoo?!
MOLLY: Make sure you get tickets for three, not two!
MANNY: Come here! Let
SCENE 95
MANNY: Uh oh. Here you go.
MOLLY: I
MAN #1: Okay. Okay.
MAN #2: We appreciate your patience. They had to special order the fabric from France.
CORRINA: Your wife had taste.
MANNY: Yes, she did. Wasn
CORRINA: Well, nobody
SCENE 96
MANNY: One of the last things my wife said to me was: aid she had a coupon for roasted ... But I was in a hurry and I didn
CORRINA: I don
MANNY: What?
CORRINA: Slow down.
MANNY: Hm?
CORRINA: Slow ... down.
MANNY: You have such an amazing smile.
CORRINA: Thank you.
MANNY: You want to dance?
CORRINA: What?
MANNY: You wanna dance?
CORRINA: Sure. It
MANNY: What?
CORRINA: Take a look at the window. ... I have to go.
SCENE 97
CORRINA: I beg your pardon, madame, but I have a gift for you. Now, close your eyes. Here you are. I made this special for you, in honor of you going back to school tomorrow, so that you have a place to put all your papers and your poems and your drawings, and you can show them to your Dad. Here. I don Did you notice that is Lois on the cover there? I just wanted to point that out to you.
SCENE 98
MRS.
RODGERS: Yes, Gregory, what is it?
GREGORY: I was just wondering when Molly Singer would be coming back to class.
MRS.
RODGERS: Sheon as she
GREGORY: That means that she
MRS.
RODGERS: What makes you say that, Gregory? She
SCENE 99
MANNY: Hello, Manny Singer. Hello Mrs. Rodgers, how are you? ... What?
SCENE 100
MANNY: Corrina! Where
CORRINA: She
MANNY: How dare you keep her out of school and not tell me!
CORRINA: There
MANNY: No, there is no explanation!
CORRINA: There is an explanation!
MANNY: Molly!
CORRINA: She just wasn
MANNY: Corrina, I trusted you!
CORRINA: She was not ready to go back! She was not ready!
MANNY: Corrina, youa!
MOLLY: Please, stop! Corrina! Corrina! Corrina! Corrina!
MANNY: Why did you lie to me? Hm? Why did you lie to me? What are you doing? Molly! Molly! Molly, you have to talk to me!
SCENE 101
MANNY: Go on. What happened? (Phone rings) Jesus! Hello? Ma, look, this isn
SCENE 102
JENNY: Howard, here. Why don
MAN: Pardon me, could you just slow down? Mr. Singer just hired me.
JENNY: I want all the ashtrays emptied, please. And another pot of hot coffee.
MAN: Sure.
JENNY: Hi. How are you?
MAN: Where
SCENE 103 Molly is under a mountain of clothes on the bed, staring up at the ceiling.
SCENE 104
MOLLY: C
SCENE 105
JENNY: You know, I can stay. Make a good dinner. Hm? Howard! Untie him right now! I could clean up a little. I could put Molly to bed. You need me right now.
MANNY: That
JENNY: Okay.
MANNY: What are you doing with that?
JENNY: Oh! I was going to surprise you and get it restored. You know, I bet I can get rid of all these cracks.
MANNY: No, I like the cracks.
JENNY: No you don
MANNY: Yeah, I do. I like them a lot.
JENNY: Manny, you are what is called ... upset. Uh, perhaps you need a little time. Okay. Um, we
MANNY: Jenny. Thanks for everything.
SCENE 106
PERCY: Uh oh! He
MAVIS: Come on the house, Percy.
MANNY: Hi. I should have called. My father died. And it gets you thinking about the people you love, and the things that you
JEVINA: Corrina. Your supper
CORRINA: I
MANNY: Corrina. I
CORRINA: It
MANNY: You know, Im not very good at this. Um, can you please help me out here? Just this once?
CORRINA: Manny. Who you talkin
MANNY: What
CORRINA: Oh, a new friend.
MANNY: Yeah. Yeah.
CORRINA: I made this for Molly.
MANNY: Would you like to give it to her yourself?
CORRINA: I might.
MANNY: Okay.
CORRINA: I just want to clear up one thing.
MANNY: Okay.
CORRINA: Really clear.
MANNY: Okay.
CORRINA: So there
MANNY: Okay.
CORRINA: Okay?
MANNY: Yeah.
CORRINA: All right.
MANNY: You
CORRINA: Did you check their references?
MANNY: Yeah!
CORRINA: Yeah. Good.
MANNY: I know.
CORRINA: Manny. Manny! I live in this neighborhood. Come inside!
SCENE 107
PERCY: Ha! That
CORRINA: This is Manny.
MANNY: Hello, everybody. Manny Singer.
FRANK: Good to meet you.
MANNY: Good to meet you.
JEVINA: Percy, get your jaw off the table and pull up an extra seat.
LIZZIE: Is this Mr. Puddin
CORRINA: Yes, this is the face himself.
PERCY: Sit there. Go ahead, sit there.
MANNY: Thank you. What
PERCY: Percy.
MANNY: Percy. Thank you, Percy.
PERCY: You
SCENE 108
MOLLY: our part.
EVA: Mollinchka, enough.
MOLLY: I
EVA:
MOLLY/
EVA: m gonna let it shine ... Let it shine, let it shine, shine, shine, let it shine ...