![]() What this world needs is a good swift kick in the pants. We will miss each other but the world will stay the same. You'd think the world was coming to an end every time a man sailed off t the North Pole with Admiral Peary. Various ship personnel, their families and an historical society mill about the pier below.)Įverything will be fin, Mother. We are on the main deck of the ship that will be carrying FATHER on an expedition to the North Pole with ADMIRAL PEARY.įATHER is bidding goodbye to his FAMILY. Immediately we hear the confident sounds of a ship's Sousa-esque orchestra playing the "All ashore" music prior to its immediate departure. (We hear the stentorian blasts of an ocean-going steam vessel. ADMIRAL PEARY'S MARCH - Ragtime Musical Script. In riches and rags, and in rhythm and rhymeĢ. RAGTIME (Conclusion) - Ragtime Musical Script. BLACKS, WHITES and IMMIGRANTS find themselves in moments of contact or confrontation there is the potential for violence. (The dance swirls around our three principals-MOTHER, TATEH and COALHOUSE-increasing in intensity. (THAW takes aim at WHITE with a small revolver.)Īnd although the newspapers called the shooting the Crime of the Century, Goldman knew it was only 1906. Thaw, was a violent man.Īfter her husband shot her lover, Evelyn became the biggest attraction in vaudeville since Tom Thumb. Her husband, the eccentric millionaire, Harry K. Her lover was the eminent architect, Stanford White, designer of the Pennsylvania Station on 33rd Street. If she wore her hair in curls, every woman wore her hair in curls. (EVELYN NESBIT appears, dressed in her costume from MAMZELLE CHAMPAGNE.)Įvelyn Nesbit was the most beautiful woman in America. The radical anarchist Emma Goldman fought against the ravages of American capitalism as she watched her fellow immigrants' hopes turn to despair on the Lower East Side. Let me at those sons of bitches! These men are the demons who are sucking your very souls dry! I hate them! The moment is broken as HOUDINI is enveloped by his crowd of admirers.)Īt the very apex of the American pyramid. But for all his achievements, he knew he was only an illusionist. ![]() He was a headliner in the top vaudeville circuits. Harry Houdini was one immigrant who made an art of escape. He throws the strait jacket to the crowd below. He would not lose her, as he had her mother. It would be a long journey, a terrible one. In Latvia, a man dreamed of a new life for his little girl. TATEH looks old and we will think he is THE LITTLE GIRL's grandfather.) THE LITTLE GIRL is the same age as THE LITTLE BOY. They, to, are, poorly clothed and undernourished. (IMMIGRANTS are in a line to board a rag ship bound for America. He had no patience with Negroes who lived less than exemplary lives. He counseled friendship between the races and spoke of the promise of the future. Washington was the most famous Negro in the country. One young woman thought Coalhouse played just for her. This was a music that was theirs and no one else's. In Harlem, men and women of colour forgot their troubles and danced and reveled to the music of Coalhouse Walker, Jr. is playing for a lively crowd of dancers.) Now retired and living with his daughter and her family, he was thoroughly irritated by everything. ![]() Grandfather had been a professor of Greek and Latin. His sister wondered when he would find it. But he was also a young man in search of something to believe in. ![]() Mother's Younger Brother worked at Father's fireworks factory. She took pleasure in making it comfortable for the men of her family, and often told herself how fortunate she was to be so protected and provided for by her husband. The house on the hill in New Rochelle was Mother's domain. (MOTHER steps forward, a gracious, appealing woman.) Father was also something of an amateur explorer. His considerable income was derived from the manufacture of fireworks and bunting and other accoutrements of patriotism. (FATHER steps forward, a strong, commanding figure.)įather was well-off. The skies were blue and hazy Rarely a storm. In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York,Īnd it seemed for some years thereafter that all the family's days would be warm and fair. Its inhabitants and neighbours, descend, merge and leap into three-dimension.) Two scrims, each with an image of a large Victorian house, He picks it up and brings it to his eyes. THE LITTLE BOY's footsteps echo as he walks down the shaft of light to a stereopticon viewer on the floor. (We see the silhouette of THE LITTLE BOY as he stands in the shaft of light from the open door. We hear the sound of a doorknob turning and a door swinging open.) ![]()
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