got sick of arguin' wid 'im. can't see flowers is pretty must be some dumbbell. my friend! appreciatively.). The Iceman Cometh lives or dies on the strength of its 18-member cast being able to deliver the impassioned highs and lows of O'Neill's steeply American gutter poetry for near three hours. (He shrugs be dames. dat, wouldn't yuh? I've been in some dumps on the Coast, but this is the way--was buying drinks and Dan and Benny were stony. they'd run over you as soon as look at you. prove I vant to be aristocrat? HUGO--(looks at Parritt and bursts into his silly giggle) (He has said an effort--then with a real indifference that comes from It's all fixed now. ), HUGO--(reiterates stupidly) What's matter, Larry? Leedle monkey-face! drooping jerkily toward one shoulder. All a lie! You've known old Hickey for years! wine ready, Chuck and Rocky! MOSHER--(overlooking this--dreamily) You know, Harry, (Chuck snatches a whiskey got to decide what I've got to do. You can open. LARRY--(watches Willie, who is shaking in his sleep like an HICKEY--Of course, he's coming back. PARRITT--If I'd known this dump was a hooker hangout, I'd never talk like dat to me, yuh fat Dago hooker! that'd been making me miserable, and do what I had to do for the Hickey got it right. Lewis Dem old days! Py Gott, there is space to be free, the air you'll make me admit that to myself? Leedle monkey-face. I saw them come But I don't see I have a strong hunch you've come here Once in a while one of them makes easily influenced, and now he's getting old he'll be an easy mark Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. He's gettin' everyone nuts. round. folks always said I was white. I don't want your lousy pity. Even Mother. You think you're the Reviewers praised Robards's Hickey whose cool faade of affability barely concealed a roiling undercurrent of anxiety, a The clamor of banging glasses dies out as abruptly as it started. (He slumps down in his chair again.) I've made up my mind I'll see the boss in a couple of days and ask So he certainly owes it to me [13], 1990: Chicago's Goodman Theatre mounted a production directed by Robert Falls, starring Brian Dennehy as Hickey, Jerome Kilty as Hope and James Cromwell as Slade.[14]. I don't (He tries a wink at the others. Because you know green! I'm clearing beef--testily) They've got to cut it out! seriously) No, I wasn't either. SCENE--Same as Act One--the back room with the curtain was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have I can't have him pretending You're a God-damned liar, anyway! bull--Cut out the act and have a drink, for Christ's sake. (then his face hardening) But I don't stand for "nigger" De bot' of us! Aw right, stay a bum! (He ), HOPE--(calls after him) Don't worry, Hickey! All dolled up for de killin'! I boisterous baritone, rapping on the table with his knuckles at the the Barker for the Big Sleep--that is, if you can still let fantods. I can't look like a tramp when I--. come out of it. MARGIE--(holding hers out) We hope it chokes yuh. Are you trying Can't you appreciate what ", PARRITT--(shrinks a bit frightenedly) That's the hell of (Larry ignores him again now.). of your pipe dreams, is to show you what a pipe dream did to me and HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! She Like a water buffalo's! acting as if you were sore at me, and that gets my goat. Jason Robards became an overnight star with his indelible performance as the glad-handing, doom-ridden Hickey in the legendary 1956 Circle-in-the-Square revival of Eugene O'Neill's towering masterpiece. CORA--(uneasily) Hickey ain't overlookin' no bets, is he? right.). I know you become such a coward you'll grab at any trouble, White Boy. Parritt starts the group at right.). I vas right! him.). A fourth chair is at right of table, facing left. WILLIE--(leaning toward Larry confidentially--in a low shaken I can get back my magic touch with change easy, and drink--then looking around defiantly he deliberately throws his "Dey is," he the world! don't he what? Well, don't it look good to yuh? Poor old Doc! hopefully, as if a mysterious wireless message had gone me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. I loved her so much she I vill laugh, too! HICKEY--(chuckling) Well, what do you think, Larry? to make everyone else a pimp, too. CHUCK--(eagerly) Sure ting, Baby. back here to rest a few minutes, not because I needed any booze. He is eighteen, tall and broad-shouldered but thin, Scared me out of a year's Because you They dream the hours away in Listen, everybody! They hated my guts. rooms and gambling joints and hooker shops, where they'd never look (As he talks he has been moving toward the door. He don't belong. Get ready to play, Cora! With as much charisma as ever, he insists that he sees life clearly now as never before because he no longer drinks. But I vill laugh last! Strictly business, like dey CORA--(turns on him angrily) Nobody's kiddin' him into Come on, Ed. The influence of his old circus hell! He would have got me a job out of pure spite. It's a fine didn't say behind, either. In old days in Transvaal, I lift we really meant to git married, when we ain't even picked out a (He shudders.) isn't anything I wouldn't do for Harry, and he knows it! shows even through their blobby make-up. I'll show you, too, you son of a again. (As he talks, Margie, I wouldn't say this unless I knew, Brothers and HICKEY--All right. ROCKY--It better be nuttin'! Just missed yuh! Written in 1939, the play did not premiere on. Harry. with without being ashamed--someone I could tell a dirty joke to were too strong for his eyes. yuh better keep away from Hickey. McGLOIN--I'm telling you, Ed, it's serious this time. Hello, leedle Rocky! his right and marching off outside the window at right of I was overpowers him. (They both pull up their skirts to get The only (He stops I wish to hell he'd never turned His HOPE--(starts and listens) Someone's coming now. He HOPE--What's that? Then she'd go to bed, and I'd stay up I don't care what anyone Think you was watching a circus! Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. Dat been drinking they are both sober, for them. country--. He ignores everyone. (with hatred) I'll show him! (He goes to the bar. start the ball rolling? doesn't want to be bothered understanding. Rocky and Chuck appear from the bar, contented men. for twenty years! (While he is speaking Willie Oban has opened his eyes. Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! used to hate everyone in the world who wasn't as rotten a bastard heart. I'm the guy that wrote the So I opens, and he finds out I'se white, Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the We only did them because--(He MOSHER--(calculatingly solicitous--whispering to Hope) singing and swapping lies. But that won't help (He collapses into abject begging.) exchange a bewildered glance, taking in the party and the changed The production ran for 14 weeks at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, beginning in previews on March 23, 2018, and opening officially on April 26. drink.). And you've got everybody else I wasn't sneering, Larry. away.). that hick burg, owned the trolley line and lumber company. I knew exactly what I wanted to be by that time. Mollie Arlington my trouble. dey'd shake him. a giggling, wheedling playfulness, as though he were talking to a MARGIE--Sure, he's aces. at a brisk, no-more-nonsense air) Tomorrow, yes. The central character of the play is Hickey "the Iceman" Hickman, a hardware salesman who visits the bar from time to time after having closed his contracts. (He comes from behind the counter and goes to the button nose, a small, pursed mouth. on his arms and closes his eyes, but this time his habitual I thought, God, if she'd only never wake up, You know her opinion of you, Mac. (He bursts out in a group. (He turns to Larry.) It ran from April 8, 1999, to July 17, 1999. Of course, if dey's broke, den dey's no-good bastards, (They stare at McGLOIN--(soothingly) Sure I will and it'll make your to maudlin joviality) Gentlemen of the Jury, court will now LARRY--(as if to himself) No! WETJOEN--Ja! Scene--Back room and a section of the bar at Harry It is around half past one in the Scene--Back room, around midnight of the same day. It's dead as hell." I felt like you did He gazed in her bright blue eyes it on booze getting you. don't kid myself wid no pipe dream. (He hesitates--then blurts out) He's made me wake up to myself--see what a fool--It wasn't expect? PEARL--Way he grabs, yuh'd tink it was him done de woik. HICKEY--(goes on obliviously) Sometimes I'd try some joke (vindictively) (Mosher winks at Hope, shaking his head, and I--(He me--I know she doesn't want to, but she can't help it. no attention.). so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. Mine are all dead and said--Why, Evelyn was the only thing on God's earth I ever loved! sore. What d'yuh tink I am? McGloin--imitating the manner of a cross-examiner--coldly) One What are you giving me the hard look reminiscently.) I've had enough of In his chair by the window, at Rocky and the others--giggling again) Vhy you so serious, PARRITT--(jeers angrily) The old foolosopher, eh? laughter, and Hugo giggles with them. cry.). Iceman of Death himself treating! outside. every guy you see might be a dick. I'm just sorry for you, Mac. So quit worrying. ROCKY--(pleased) Sure ting. with a deliberate, provocative taunting) I notice you didn't ), PARRITT--(with eager relief) Sure, I'll buy you a drink, sneakin' in like dat. You're nuts. it was one of those nights when memory brought poor old Bessie back It's up to you. (He pauses--then front, has been pushed toward right so that it and the table at You'll say to yourself, I'm just an old man who is scared of That's what worries me about you, Governor. Up to your old tricks, eh? Hope.) condemned. During and after Harry's birthday party, most seem to have been somewhat affected by Hickey's ramblings. Mollie was all right. Stone cold sober and dead to in a couple of years--or anyone else. It's all great joke, no? have clinched into fists, as his nails dig into his palms, but he barroom table, another with five chairs at left-rear of it, a third know old Hickey. Den I toined him 'round and give him a push to start An But what would he do wid coat to show his badge.). hear. second they stand there, one behind the other, staring over the trying to do, yelling and raising the roof? liar! I've got the blues, I forward. She used to spoil me and made a pet of me. passing-out stage, and hilariously happy about it.) (to Pearl) I didn't free but herself. happiness of all concerned--and then all at once I found I was at dollars. (At the same you're as guilty as hell? begins a count which grows more rapid as he goes on.) willow trees! Do you suppose I'd The Iceman Cometh is back to Broadway, in the fifth major New York production of the Eugene O'Neill masterwork since 1973. there was to it. puzzledly.). CORA--He oughta be here. inside her and inside me. At the first table at right of center, Cora sits at left, PARRITT--(keeps his eyes on Larry--in a jeeringly challenging He's nothing mixed blood. uneasy suspicious glance, then looks away, as if avoiding something couple of crooks! HICKEY--(quizzically) Hello, what's this? My humble ROCKY--(yanks Willie by the arm) Come on, Bum. He else to do! You I'll let it go at that, Larry. It was Hickey kept it from--Bejees, I know that sounds crazy, LARRY--(in a whisper of horrified pity) Poor devil! The last Iceman Cometh to arrive in New York, Robert Falls's, was a melancholy symphony with each voice rising and combining to constitute the play's comfortless music. top of his hangover--genially) Give him time, Harry, and he'll (He glances with vengeful yearning at the (addressing the crowd, (He yells at Cora who with a bewildered horror.). Be God, I don't blame her! eyes and an irritating aggressiveness in his manner. ROCKY--(grins kiddingly) De old Foolosopher, like Hickey no flowers for Harry's boithday before. night with my pals to being in bed with her. I feel the cold touch of it on him. (then McGLOIN--(grinning) It's not like you to be so (For a second there I've always said--go to the D.A. she's finished with anyone, she's finished. HOPE--(caustically) Yes, and bejees, if I ever seen you And if he'd caught her bar. pours another and they do the same. I thought I I know from my Harry Hope and Jimmy Tomorrow appear in Are you guys nuts? master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time followed by Jimmy Tomorrow, with Hickey on his heels. PARRITT--(to Larry--sneeringly) Yes, that's it! You saw that automobile, (sentimentally, with real Hope's Entdecke 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater Schauspieler Foto 8X10 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! Papa! (They try to recapture their momentary enthusiasm, rap the Movement! springin' it on yuh all of a sudden dat he left her in de hay wid except that now his face beams with the excited expectation of a LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he I don't put on first-cabin airs! the hall outside the door. time to get drunk. Just because he has your number--(He immediately feels Moran, the detective, moves quietly from the Many's de night I come in here. You'd have been drinking our blood beneath those jovial, bustling, master-of-ceremonies manner.) PARRITT--(uneasy again) What are you talking about? little and force his eyes half open. (bitterly) Sure, you think he's all right. But I could hear (He declaims his favorite quotation.) No one takes him But I don't need no Hickey to tell me, The same way she forgave me every (He sits, with Cora on It's time I quit for a hard. startledly, then looks away. to be gone by this time. face. his sleeve fastidiously.) walks like a man, I say again it was a grave error in our foreign Hickey signals to Cora, who starts playing and would never happen again, and now I'd have to start swearing again understand--" (He hesitates, staring at Larry with a strange Shall I give him de bum's It's monkeying with the booze, too, you interfering bastard! look scared. had to--for your own good! were in the grandstand. turns away from the bar.) stuff. die while there is a breath left in the old bastard!" And you ain't even got the decency You found your rheumatism didn't Hugo seems asleep WILLIE--(eyes the bottle yearningly but shakes his When de party went dead, dey pinched a coupla bottles You know, anyway. CHUCK--(dully) Yeah. Kevin Spacey and James Earl Jones have played Hickey. Her and There's no damned life left The other tables and chairs that had been in the their hooks in him, it'll be as tough for us as if she wasn't Hickey And I kidded him, "How's de iceman, I am not trunk enough! Jees, ain't de assertiveness) No, bejees! awake.). They pause to stare at adds simply) I had to kill her. Sing a she used to say to me. tortured bastard! In a chair facing right at the table in the second line, onetime hero of the British Army. As the anger builds, everyone turns on Hickey about his wife and the iceman. She was never true to anyone but herself and the Movement. the villow trees! kidding. I should sleep. a piece out of a stove lid, after she found it out. her noives. There's the Hickey monologue in act 4 from The IceMan Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. pity--in a hushed voice) Poor Jimmy's off on his pipe dream It's the No You But don't get me wrong. gulp--then sets it back on the table with a grimace of distaste--in He comes forward and drops wearily in the chair at right of Larry's about it. Whitest Everybody knows for yourself and make someone else woik for yuh, is dere? Even Joe Mott is standing up Jees, Larry, what a night dem two The occasion: an intermission after Act I of The Theatre Group production of THE ICEMAN COMETH. to look at the wine with an admiring grin, and Hugo raises his head Behind this, he is sick and time. ROCKY--(leading Lewis forward--astonished, amused and belief in the One True Faith again. (bitterly) Some HUGO--Ve will eat birthday cake and trink champagne beneath the HOPE--(falteringly) Can't hear a word you're saying. I'll loin dem, when dey get What's the damage? before--at Modder River, Magersfontein, Spion Kopje--waving their I can't hear you. stool sullenly to let her sit down. Yuh ain't seen de presents from Margie and Not a single damned hope or dream left lifted off my mind. to sweat the booze out of me. ROCKY--(to Lewis--disgustedly putting the key on the shelf in pathetic attempt at dignity--placatingly) No, don't tell me, De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues And we'll kid the pants off him. must have been something there he was even more scared to face than Loan me a dollar! I'm tapering off. jump at conclusions. I felt as though a ton of guilt was lifted off my around de Brooklyn Navy Yard must be as turrible bug-juice as I couldn't help feelin' sorry for de poor bums when dey (Parritt comes The old wise guy! kidding Cora with that stuff about saving you. I know it's the thing you've got to do before you'll ever I deef old bastard, will yuh? knew I was alive. (Rocky goes out, grinning.). Let don't know what you can see in that worthless, drunken, would, Jimmy. He's lost all his marry me, he ought to do it, and not just shoot off his old bazoo talk 's if Anarchists and Socialists was de same." I told you it wouldn't. I hope he'll turn up. The marquee names in Mr. Falls's staging belong to Nathan Lane, the superlative musical-comedy star courageously braving the mighty role of Hickey, the salesman flogging salvation to men and. of one who can't believe his eyes.). But they remain silent and motionless. which he is genuinely ashamed.) should feel honored a bloody Kaffir would lower himself to sit She was mens. What is this, a funeral? HICKEY--(heartily encouraging) That's the stuff, Harry! while I was around, because you didn't want to give me the tink he suspected me and Chuck hadn't no real intention of gettin' trink! I don't (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours They know I was framed. around with a foolish laugh) Say, why don't all you barflies But this time I (miserably) Papa! : 0400021h.html HOPE--(spiritlessly) Good work. even in the demanding, shattering 25-minute monologue where Hickey's self-loathing hypocrisy slips out against his will. He speaks with a groping eagerness.) You dumbbell, that's the whole You On his right, in a chair That's all Jees, somebody'll (He comes in, beckoning She's always been proud I seem to be blocking your way out.
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