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Musical: Caroline, or Change
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ROSE Hello I’m back! Back from shopping! Caroline? Noah! Is anyone home? Noah, help grandpa with the groceries. Where’s Caroline, darling? NOAH Caroline left. ROSE She left? NOAH Yes. ROSE Why? Is anything wrong? NOAH No, she just left. ROSE …with the laundry still on? Noah is there something you aren’t telling me? NOAH And the next day day day Caroline stayed away –way-way And she didn’t come back back back And she didn’t come back back back. And the next day day day Caroline stayed away –way-way And she didn’t come back back back And she didn’t come back back back. And the next day day day Caroline stayed away –way-way And she didn’t come back back back And she didn’t come back back back. ROSE Stuart, I’m worried, she left in a hurry, I call her at home, she won’t come to the phone, her kids say she’s out, but I have my doubts. I think she’s there; this isn’t like her. Stuart! STUART Maybe she’s ill. ROSE And look, in the bleach cup: A twenty dollar bill. ROSE AND STUART Noah, please, no monkey biz: Tell us whose this twenty is. STUART Noah? ROSE Did Caroline find this money in your patns? MR. STOPNICK No, Rose, I think the twenty is mine. I thought I’d lost it. Now everything’s fine. NOAH And the fourth day day day Caroline stayed away –way-way And she didn’t come back back back And she didn’t come back back back. I did it. I killed her. I did it. She died. ROSE Dotty? Rose Gellman. Is Caroline—oh. Well why didn’t she call and tell me so? I’m glad she’s fine, but— I’ve been worried, a lot, I couldn’t imagine, for five days and not— If she needed time off, if it’s family stuff, and things around here have been sort of tough, well, not tough, more like tense, but it doesn’t make sense, to just up and vanish without an adieu, I thought maybe she’d gotten the Spanish flu. Tell her to call. That’s all that I ask. I won’t take her to task, just tell me what’s what. I worry a lot. Thanks, Dotty, You’re swell. You can all go to Hell! I’m not the enemy! MR. STOPNICK No, you’re the boss. ROSE Oh, shut up, papa. Forget it. Her loss. STUART I have to go practice. ROSE Great. Thanks a lot, Stu. STUART No, really. I do. MR. STOPNICK So what else is new? Here’s how I see it: ROSE I didn’t ask. MR. STOPNICK Nonetheless. You want that boy to love you. ROSE I guess, yes of course. And I’ve tried! At bedtime he’ll only let Stu tuck him in, if I try to do it – well, somehow I blew it! MR. STOPNICK And his mother is dead— ROSE Forget it! MR. STOPNICK And everything’s wrong. ROSE No-win. MR. STOPNICK Then you marry his father but you don’t belong. ROSE But how he misses Caroline— Caroline! MR. STOPNICK Caroline. Given the givens she’s in perfect position for the boy to adore her. She’s competition. ROSE Competition! Oh, yes! And I mean to destroy the silly attachment of that little boy for the maid. Oh I’m the oppressor, right? I’m the employer! MR. STOPNICK I don’t mean you consciously planned to destroy her in Noah’s affections— ROSE OK fine. MR. STOPNICK Well, not by design. But maybe you had to— one way or another. It’s hard, but not mean. You got in between. Maybe Rosie, now you can be his mother. ROSE It figures you figure in three seconds flat how to make me the villain— MR. STOPNICK I didn’t say that. ROSE I’m glad you came down, now go home, keep in touch, you’ve made me feel awful, thanks ever so much! And while you were giving me this third degree perhaps you neglected to notice that he still won’t let me near him – so I’ve failed. MR. STOPNICK Wait and see. ROSE Just stop it Papa, stop picking a fight! MR. STOPNICK I didn’t mean to upset you, Rosie. Honor bright. ROSE I’m not the boss. Her loss. Leave it be and let it end. It’s just no way to treat a friend. [Thanks to Michael for lyrics] Back to main page: Caroline, or Change Lyrics
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