Babes in Arms Page #4

Figaro

Figaro

We're gonna break it up tonight

Stand back

Give them room

- You've gotta clown

- Yeah, you gotta clown on old Broadway

Broadway rhythm, it's got me

Everybody dance

Broadway rhythm, it's got me

Everybody dance

Out on the gay white way

And each merry cafe

Orchestras play

Taking your breath away with that

Broadway rhythm, it's got me

Everybody sing

Everybody stand right up and dance

- Hey, Pop, how did you like that?

- Oh, it was fine. Grand, son.

Great, but you see, for instance,

that number, it just wouldn't fit in.

- Well, for Pete's sake, why?

- Because we're doing a comeback show.

The kind of acts we did on the big time.

They've got value, a selling point.

Oh, I get you, Pop.

I've gotta show you,

just like the rest of the world.

I thought we could help you, but

you don't want us on the stage, do you?

- Just because you're all... Just because...

- Wait a minute, Mickey.

All right, I hope you're all a big success.

Mickey's sort of excited, that's all.

- Wait a minute, Mick.

- Don't mind what the folks say, Mickey.

- We're with you.

- Sure we are.

- Everything will be all right.

- Buck up, Mickey.

I shouldn't have shot my mouth off

the way I did.

It's all right, they understand.

I wouldn't wanna hurt Dad

for all the show business in the world.

- Forget it.

- Certainly, our time will come.

- You bet it will.

- Sure, sure.

Listen, you kids,

I think our time has come.

- What do you mean?

- I'll tell you.

Might as well face it, our folks

are up against it, and up against it good.

I've been snooping around...

...know what I found out?

- What?

There's a frame up to get the actors

and their kids out of it.

Our houses are mortgaged unless payments

are up to date by July 1 st or out we go.

Yeah, I know something else too.

Miss Steele of the Welfare Society...

...is getting a petition to send us

to a state work school.

- Work school?

- Are you kidding?

- Can I go too, Mickey?

- Quiet, will you, Bobs?

She thinks we ought to be learning a trade

instead of the theater.

She's against show business.

Just be her chance,

while our folks are on the road.

We can't go on the road.

No, we're too young.

We're excess baggage.

You willing to stick together

and pull yourselves out?

- You bet.

- I've got an idea.

Our folks think we're babes in arms?

We'll show them whether we are or not.

I'm gonna write a show for us

and put it on right here in Seaport.

The most up to date thing

these hicks here have ever seen.

Opening night, we'll have Max Gordon,

Sam Harris down to give us the once over.

How about it, kids?

We'll get every kid in this town on our side

and we'll start now. What do you say?

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