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Lizzy Lines
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Start of show | YOU FORGOT ABOUT ME! |
| Elizabeth?Elizabeth! Lizzy...it's alright...shhhhhhh. it's alright. Shhh.... | I'm awake...I'm awake |
| Another one. I'm worried about you | Mother, it was nothing |
| Was it him again? | I don't want to talk about it |
| elizabeth... | Anna... |
| No ma'am. I worry... you won't talk to me | me?you! you won't tell me anything about him...except that I have his eyes |
| -----I've told you the story a hundred times | ouch. That's all that it is to you... a story |
| ----than I will ever be | But you...you and Ms.Margaret. YOu give bread to all those kids that have nobody and nowhere to call home. |
| ---sneaking bread out from under our noses-- | But it was going to be thrown away |
| ---those kids | they're fun |
| They're lucky | lucky |
| they have you | did you love him |
| ---I loved him very much | Did he love you? |
| --But he loved himself more | and me? |
| --- I la-la-love you | I la-la-love you, too |
| --stay out of trouble | ma |
| oohhh! Oh no! Not the rat hole | What's the rat hole? |
| I heard thats where Marie Laveau gets the rats and snakes for her rituals | You mean the voodoo queen? |
| the Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away... | Can't you just ask them for a place to live? |
| ---But thanks for the bread | Same time tomorrow! |
| Are you ok? You don't look.. | Hey Ma! Ms.M! dunno what you put in the sack yesterday, but they ate it up! Geo and Fink fought for the last scrap! |
| If they don't watch it, someone's gonna take notice. | Oh they have |
| what do you mean | the Constable brought some politician businessman through yesterday and he told them they had 2 weeks to "relocate." Some kinda fever. |
| ---Beaucoup dollars and no heart | Here. What's that mean, Ms.M? |
| ---Lizzy, give this to your mother. | You sick? |
| Anna...shhh... | I know Ms.M |
| --- Might as well take some fresh stuff to your friends today | Thank ya Bread Lady... |
| ---Scat | La-la-love you! |
| Squished! | What are we doing? |
| WE are trying to get some lunch. Scram | I brought some... |
| What do you mean, not your pr... | what he's tryin' ta say, Mr... |
| Poydras | what he's tryin' ta say, Mr. Poydras... |
| Who are you? | Elizabeth, Elizabeth Landry. You can call me Lizzy |
| ---umm...associates? | No sir. My mother works with the Bread Lady |
| Ms.Landry is your mother? | yes. And she works... |
| Anna is your mother | ...ugh... YES... and she works with the Bread Lady...you know...? Ms.Margaret? |
| Ah yes...Ms.Haughrey | Yeah,her. SHE says if you politicians were doing your job... |
| ---go on... | Well, Ms.Margaret says the politicians could easily solve this problem if they would spend some of their beaucoup dollars to help find the Forgotten a place to live... |
| Don't waste your breath | Is she right |
| Who? | The Bread Lady. Couldn't you help? |
| ---so no we can't help | you mean you WON'T help |
| ---Anyone else got somethin'ta say?! | Harris...c'mon... |
| ---Little Lizzie sunshine | I'd do SOMETHING! |
| hannah, stop | You don't know what you're talking about |
| Hannah! | WHAT? What did you say? |
| tryin' t'be one of us... | Shut up. |
| Lizzie...you wanna help? that ain't helpin' | you're no better than that stupid politician! Just in it for yourself! Playing the victim |
| Livin' one moment at a time | All of you? You feel this way too? Moab? |
| ---they follow me. Not you | Yeah, I know how you work. You bark, they jump. I get it. I guess I'm just part of the meal ticket... that's fine... make it last! |
| she can take care of herself | And one more thing, little boy, I know more than you think I know. Just thought maybe you would want more for yourselves |
| ---too hard to take care of a bunch of nobodies. It's business | I am more than a business deal. Don't you want more than...than this? |
| ---But no one is going to remember me | oh, but how could anyone forget you, Moab?! |
| I'm afraid of being forgotten | Why? |
| ---I've ever been close to ends up forgetting me. | I won't |
| ---Is your mother like you Lizzie? | no. Well, I don't know. I think we're alike sometimes, but then...she's...she's just |
| ---took off with my 2 sisters | oh Moab. |
| We stick together. It's what we do | Oh really. And..what else do you do? |
| I don't guess I ever thought about it | Peter's writing a book. Geo's going to be a businessman. Don't you have a dream? |
| No. | No!? Everybody's got a dream |
| I don't. It's dangerous | How is dreaming dangerous!? That's ridiculous |
| ---that I have been let down | Like your fmaily |
| ---No family, no home, no legacy | my mother says that it's our job to make this world a better place |
| ---A city on a hill cannot be hidden | Be the light |
| No one's gonna live forever | it's not about living forever |
| It's about doing something that will! | YES! That's why you're my favorite, Mo. I gotta get these to Mrs.Wheeler or Ms.Margaret's gonna kill me |
| Don't forget to ask her for... | She never forgets, Fink! That's HER was of making this world a bit brighter |
| Elizabeth... | Ms.Margaret, I was just coming to... what's the matter? Why are you...? Where's my mother? |
| Elizabeth ... | No, where is she?? |
| We were talking and...and...she collapsed... | is she okay??? We have to go! Tell me where she is RIGHT NOW! |
| ---but she had passed before he arrived. | No...no...this can't... no... |
| ---What about the bread lady? | I can't stay with her |
| Why not? | Her spinster sister...said she wasn't taking care of nobody's child. |
| Go!Shhh... ghosts remember?! | Go where? There's nowhere TO go |
| We sleep at Lafayette No.1 | The cemetery???!!! |
| Watch out for Yellow Jack | Yellow Jack?!I can't do this |
| ---You've had a rough day | You okay |
| That's my bed | What's your problem with me? |
| Move | Make me |
| ---I am going to ask you one more time. Move | The last I heard, you didn't own this property. So, I think I'll just sleep here tonight |
| This one belongs with me | it's public property |
| Read the name | Here rests Henry and Harriet Meyers |
| after simultaneously | Oh.Oh Hannah |
| ---Harris listens to everything you say | This has nothing to do with Harris! |
| ---You had one more time with a mother than any one of us | but that's not my fault |
| ------three days 'fore someone remembered I was down there. | I don't |
| I don't want your pity. Go | I'm sorry... |
| Echoes: Lizie, Lizzie, Lizzie | ma??? |
| Echoes: elizabeth, Elizabeth | NO!You left me. |
| I didn't leave, honey, he took me | Who |
| echoes: Jack, Jack, Jack | yellow Jack? |
| Echoes: yellow jack.. for you too... | But I don't wanna end up like you! |
| oh | that's not what I meant |
| ----be better | I can't. I don't |
| Echoes: your voice...voice | my voice? |
| I la-la-love you | I la-la-love you too |
| Make them hear your voice!!!! | No!Mother!You stay away! No! |
| Scene change | Leaver her alone! |
| Lizzie!Lizzie!Wake up! Hey. | make them hear your voice |
| What are you talking about? | My mom... |
| lizzie...she's gone... | No! She came to me in my dream |
| I know you miss her | I can't... I'm not strong like her. She did it all |
| Where was your father? | Dunno. Never met him. Sh rarely talked about him. Just that she loved him and that he left her. She always told me I have his eyes |
| Your eyes are beautiful | people always say that. And although it's very kind, it hurts my heart... I want more than anything in this world to have HER eyes. |
| ---She is part of you...and always will be | I'm nothing |
| She wanted you to make a difference in this world | How? I can't. Nobody cares about orphans. Right? That's what you said. Why even try? We're nobodies...ghosts. How can a nobody change anything |
| ---We have to change Poydras' mind | sigh... it doesn't work like that, Harris. |
| Why!WHY won't it work??! peter said... | because I don't want to MAKE it work! I want my mother back! I didn't make her proud. I didn't do anything but complain about him |
| No who's playing the victim? You're not the only one here to lose someone! | It's NOT ALL ABOUT YOU HARRIS!!!! |
| Kids adlib to be quiet | I miss her. Do you miss? |
| ---how do you forget a six year old | I don't think I can do what you do |
| I look out for myself | You look out for them. they look up to you |
| ---stealing...we shouldn't have ta... | what do you wish you could do? |
| ---Always wanting to help other people. Little Lizzie Sunshine | It's not about me... |
| Why do you care so much? | because I was forgotten too... |
| but your mother... | Not her... |
| Oh... | yeah... |
| We can do this. | Do what? |
| Fight for them. Make them hear our voice | I can't |
| Proverbs 30 and 8 | huh? |
| I could use some coins in my pockets! | No, but he COULD put that money to good use! Ms.Margaret said he could use that money to house us orphans...to keep us off the streets |
| Well, uh | There's strength in numbers, right?! We've got that! We marc right up to Mr.Poydras' mansion |
| enters Poydras' mansion | this is it |
| Cna we really do this | Yes |
| See harris weak | You alright? |
| Ahhhh, Mr.Carroll. Miss landry | yessir |
| ---Miss Landry believes the politicians are responsible for your current circumstances | That is NOT what I said! |
| Lizzie... | NO! Mr.poydras, with all due respect, I never said the politicians were at fault. I DID say that you have the means to HELP! Now, you have a choice |