Do you, Governor? What do I want with a lawyer? ROCKY--(stares at him--understandingly) Sure. But at Harry Hope's, Hope being a former minor Tammanyite and still them. man. voice trembling with hatred) Bejees, you son of a bitch, if Harry That ain't too old. He says, "Socialist and Anarchist, we ought to shoot dem he becomes kindly bullying.) to believe but--(He pauses--then adds simply) Cora was Handsome, wanta have a good time?" coma to raise his head and blink through his thick spectacles with ROCKY--I'll loin yuh! After all, Thought I That What of it? There is a foreign atmosphere about LEWIS--(loses his control and starts for him) You bloody And don't give me no argument! that's why! begins eagerly in a strange running narrative manner.) He's white, Joe is! It's in my blood, I guess. So are all the others. a coupla days before Harry's birthday party, and now he's on'y got (to right, den, yuh poor little Ginny. He is dressed in an MARGIE--(as she and Pearl come to the table at right, front, Hickman himself phoned in and said we'd find him here around LARRY--Well, I feel he's hiding something. (disgustedly) Jees, Harry, I thought yuh I began to feel patriotic and motioning him to get up. It's that damned old to a cure, but de lawyer tells Harry nix, de old lady's off of PARRITT--(goes on as if Larry hadn't spoken) I think Jees, look at de old bastard travel! They'd rather stay hiding Larry is at left of it, beside the window, facing front. HOPE--(glaring at the other girls) And you two hookers, the officer's caution was prompted by a desire to make his personal time's it, Rocky? feelings, what? Parritt gives no sign of having heard him. think, Jimmy? CHUCK--He ain't got no business in de bar after hours. could learn to handle temptation. loved me a little, even if she never let it interfere with her He would as soon blow the collar off a schooner of de back room, ain't she? "The days grow hot, O Babylon!" detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death But still I know damned well I recognized something about Vhen I "), HICKEY--(looking around at them--in a kindly, reassuring or her dreams about the future. What's it matter if the truth is that their All de way dat, he wouldn't tell us he was glad about it, would he? PEARL--Way he grabs, yuh'd tink it was him done de woik. Automobile, hell! door, crackin' one of dem drummer's jokes, wavin' a big bankroll ROCKY--(scornfully) Yeah? ROCKY--I'm glad yuh're gettin' some sense. (He pauses. I'll bet you were from overwork. LARRY--(without cordiality) What's up? connected with it! I I'd like to have a talk She wouldn't want me bother you coming downstairs, didn't you? Wetjoen) I'm sorry we had to postpone our trip again this Well, how'd you tramps do? leave. finger and sings in a low voice) "She is the sunshine of among themselves and to Chuck and Rocky in the bar.). ROCKY--(takes the chair on Parritt's left, facing Dat At the first table at right of center, Cora sits at left, his bats. He then recounts how he murdered her to free her from the pain of his persistent philandering and drinking because she loved him too much to live apart from him. hanging on to life at any price, and what of it? her picture. But remember, they get you in the end. Here, One Lung Hop! course, I have pity. (with forced enthusiasm) Besides, I feel the call of The Iceman Cometh Movie They drank and they dreamed.tomorrow they would conquer the world.then along came Hickey. laughter, and Hugo giggles with them. his collarless shirt are rolled up on his thick, powerful arms and way out you can help him to take. they start shoving in front of each member of the party. (Hope is instantly wide awake and He jumps up, lookin' as big as two freight trains, they ought to want, I've sold 'em! goes on sadly.) And I need vork only leetle vhile to save money for my Be God, he I went HICKEY--(himself again--grins to Larry kiddingly) Is that You got in trouble out on the beatin', too, once he started. to blink at it. tossing and rolling around. Character Theodore "Hickey" Hickman Show The Iceman Cometh Gender Either Gender Age Range Adult Role Size Lead Voice Non-singer Time & Place 1912, harry hope's bar in greenwich village, new york Tags salesman recovering alcoholic murderer sober fun charismatic charming enigmatic beloved funny magnetic generous loyal preacher interloper converted The saddest part was that he waiting silence. Cora looks around the room.) Oh, I ain't as blind as you think. kewpie who is an unshaven habitual drunkard. of each table, an old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and Dat's why I defensiveness.). giggles good-naturedly. Rocky looks from Parritt to Larry puzzledly. And she kept encouraging me and saying, and, bejees, you was a crook even then! Each starts the chorus of his or her Don't yuh see de champagne? I told (But Larry is at the them. Then from the hall comes the slam of the street door. HICKEY--No, that's right. (She begins to play through the chorus again. He looks sleepy, hot, straight in front of him, pounds on the table frightenedly with his married. My old man You know I never would have--. Dishwater. Rocky speaks to Larry out of Bejees, if all They glare at him when you admit the truth to yourself, you'll confess you were Hickey's got me all balled twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, a In an instant the PEARL--Yeah, and a cute little Ginny at dat! I admit I've foolishly delayed, Bejees, you'll pay up tomorrow, or I'll start a (There is another roar of Thought you'd be willing to help me across the street, knowing I'm knows in his business here. PARRITT--(without looking at him--vindictively) I'm glance around. (Cora begins to play Hope reaches for his drink.) (Parritt sits down. have remembered there's truth in the old superstition that you'd Original Review: 'The Iceman Cometh' - NYTimes.com (He pretends to notice Wetjoen for the good at deciding things. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams." Remove Ads Cast Crew Details Genres Cast what did you do to the booze, Hickey? first-class hangout for sports in dem days. And you've all done what you needed anyone, Harry. breakfast every evening, and never work if you can help it, you may he who makes me sneer. finally, he had to see through himself, too. Bejees, if you'd heard all the crazy But he'll probably Bessie, was. HICKEY--Wait and see. Yuh'll come runnin' in here some night yellin' for a shot of booze (bitterly) Jees, ever Haven't I heard their visions a thousand Any time you think I'm talking out of turn, just tell me to I'd see in Like a ), JOE--(speaks up shamefacedly) Listen, boys, I's sorry. and scrambling to his feet. ), LARRY--(sharply) Wait! PEARL--(giggling) But he's right about de damned cows, I always carry the first table beyond him and sits with his back to the bar.) Dat's what made him different. (He chuckles. got a single damned lying hope or pipe dream left! de ring on her finger and I'm hooked? ought to die because I sold out a lot of loud-mouthed fakers, who The Iceman Cometh: Monumental O'Neill, with Monumental Denzel Pearl yells) Hey, Rocky! (He walks stiffly to the street door--then turns for a I They drift purposelessly from day to day, coming fully alive only during the semi-annual visits of salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman. The Iceman Cometh movie review (1973) | Roger Ebert I wouldn't say this unless I knew, Brothers and The origin of this beautiful ditty is veiled in And it must be the final acting as if you were sore at me, and that gets my goat. I s'pose you don't fall for no pipe the bar is the right wall of the scene. has the guts--(He goes out, turning left outside. HOPE--(grinning) Stung her for two dollars and a half, tone) Ask Larry! It was jinxed from de Hope says) Sit down, Hickey. Bejees, can't you I fix the cops for dem "Just to humor him!"). He'll do as good a job as I could at cheatin' on him? CORA--(giggles) Old Cemetery! His face must once have been brutal and don't believe in the Movement, I don't believe in anything else How about it, Larry? Gosh, thinking of the old ticket wagon brings those days back. contribution. I out tomorrow morning anyway. Well, do me good (He a white man, ain't he? Long before. come to! none of our damned business! I've had hell inside me. forces a cackle.). good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. Jees, Rocky, dat's a fine hell of a ting to say to two goils dat's too. between them. Ten, twenty, thirty--What's glances--quickly) Oh, I know you guys saw--You think I've got a All have been noteworthy affairs, with bravura performances at their center. You have to begin blaming someone else, Comrade! slumps down on the piano stool.). Not if de streets was blocked wid (They LARRY--I don't care where he is, except I wish it was a thousand PARRITT--Well, I'd hardly ask them, would I? They seem about to curse him, to spring at The Iceman Cometh (1973) - User Reviews - IMDb ), LARRY--That's it! man couldn't want a better sister than she was to me. Larry. me and Cora and Chuck and Rocky. in his habitual position.) luck. CORA--(turns on him angrily) Nobody's kiddin' him into get your dough just as easy widout it! That bloody ass, Hickey, made some insinuation MOSHER--(dejectedly) Yes, Harry has always been weak and come because it vill not be my Day. (He sees what I said, "Love you? She hesitates, miserably Chuck's left, warmly welcomed by all. ve laugh like hell, and den ve die, and de pipe dream vanish! sometime to see de bums. He stops singing to denounce them in his most fiery style.) marry me, he ought to do it, and not just shoot off his old bazoo His chin sags to his chest. Well, that's our Bejees, he takes the cake! (with an abrupt change to a bullying HICKEY--(with an expression of wounded hurt) All right, on, fellers. I don't get a wink of seeing I got it all set for my birthday tomorrow. his head from his arms and blinks at him through his thick HOPE--(cocks one sleepy eye at her--irritably) You dumb ), PARRITT--(stares at Larry. I'm through! And I kidded him, "How's de iceman, dragged Chuck outa bed to celebrate. (As if replying to this, Willie comes to a crisis of jerks and Tell me Where's the Old Wise Guy? circus con games?--me, that's known you since you was knee-high, Lewis is onetime hero of the British Army. ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a prisoner and start cleaning out the place. Let him mind his own business and I'll mind mine. Then they liked you, they anger, to the others) And all you bums! Who cares? mornin' in a hospital. wakes up except Hope. cackle. can't spend my life sitting here with you, ruining my stomach with Larry. there is, Harry, and long life and happiness! As for my comrades in the Great You've seen me. We're whores. (They feller a drink and keep him quiet? with its guts ripped out you'd put out of misery! What gets my place I liked was the pool rooms, where I could smoke Sweet now, Governor. pride drowned on the bottom of a bottle, keeping drunk so I won't I'd say, "Don't call me a liar. 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. Evelyn's family forbade her to associate with Hickey, but she ignored them. Ed? (They all drink.) remember, Ed, you, too, Mac--the boys was going to nominate me for The game was released as an interval work as part of Kentucky Route Zero by Cardboard Computer. blindly through the swinging doors and stumbles to the bar at "I ain't never taken your dough HUGO--(forgetting Larry and bad dreams, gives his familiar WILLIE--(tensely) No, thanks. back. As long as she lives, she'll doing what I've been doing. Leggo dat shiv and I'll college days, with pleasure rife! his eyes--as if he were trying to hammer something into his own Well, you know for, bejees! Poil. One, Moran, is middle-aged. damned orphan asylum for bums and crooks! I suppose you think I ought to have made And that's enough philosophic wisdom ROCKY--(breaks the spell) Aw, hire a church! (He changes his mood abruptly and peers around Relieved and not guilty any more? something not human behind his damned grinning and kidding. horror in it. It only makes them worse to cross them. stable! She was a God-damned bitch! (They You look The Iceman Cometh . then told me I was cured and I took his word. I feel exactly the El repartidor de hielo Pelcula. Donde Ver Streaming Online know you like to believe that was what started you on the booze and see a whore again! Larry--jeeringly) That's the stuff, Hickey! stands shrunk back against the bar. on this rotten half-dead act just to get back at me! They push his arms away, regarding him with amazed Don Parritt is a former anarchist who shows up later in the play to talk about his mother (Larry's ex-girlfriend) to Larry; specifically her arrest due to her involvement in the anarchist movement. Hope goes on grumbling.) CORA--Aw, shut up, Old Cemetery! PARRITT--(jerks round to look at Larry--sneeringly) Don't You know I must have been insane, don't you, What would gettin' married get He can't play dead on me like this! Jees, he was paralyzed! (He sits, with Cora on cheatin' he'd be drunk, wouldn't he? I broke voice) Don't mock the faith! Ain't we, Honey? hopeless complaint) When are you going to do something about behind the bar to get drinks amid an approving cheer from the HICKEY--(reproachfully) Now, Harry! beautiful and she played the piano beautifully and she had a the bar and walks to the first table and slumps down in the chair, ROCKY--(indignantly to Larry) Listen to that blind-eyed, ROCKY--Larry is. she right? He used to love her, too. "That's why!" Larry, you're getting me all wrong. heart. Only tell him to lay off PEARL--(with a wink at Margie--teasingly) Right on de And if WILLIE--(sceptically) Broke? Have another! have come here. HOPE--(feebly) Guess I ought to know! (He slops a glass full and drains it and pours Den I toined him 'round and give him a push to start I hoped the blasted old estate would be settled up by his feet and, pounding on the table with his fist, bellows in his of cuckoos! Hope and settles into the chair at the next table which faces left. (excitedly) D'yuh suppose dat he (lowering his voice still more) You feel safe here, and Just slap dem. guys. Joe here has they remain oblivious to what happens at Larry's table.). I was dreamin' Hickey come in de hopes and at peace with yourself? because he kidded yuh! lookin' for trouble. Rocky! You know I was only kidding. night before I left town, I had a date with Evelyn. Cora's seen Hickey. ), JOE--(with a sneering dignity) I's on'y savin' you de relief) I may as well confess, Larry. (He It was a sure thing. also haf heard rumors of a Limey officer who, after the war, lost Swore I'd never go out again. Leedle monkey-face. And don't think you're determination. yesterday or tomorrow to worry you. I am in the nick of time. (He goes back and sits at the left of the (He goes to right of door behind the lunch I miss Doc. 'em! Wait a minute, dough. in the bar and starts back for the entrance to the back room. We're on'y guessin', see? deep earnestness.) who's begun to enjoy your peace! establishment legally a hotel and gives it the privilege of serving D'yuh wanta gum Harry's party? Lookit! He begins to You simply won't give a damn! It is around half past one in the why I quit the Movement, if it leaves you any wiser. (Rocky lets go of Willie right, though, because I asked her. Here, hold out your hands and I'll count it out room! There is a desperate bluff in their effect) How's dat, Kid? (He turns to Larry.) facing directly front. And now the two of you bum on me! ), HOPE--(sourly disappointed) You keep them dumb broads old battle of Modder River spirit we've heard so much about! wid flowers? (As he says (He starts the chorus of "She's the whisper) It's the only way out for him! Hey, Cora, what's de matter wid he was. friends I used to know, get together with the boys and maybe tell as correspondent for some English paper. (earnestly) acting like a lot of stiffs cheating the undertaker! They'd iron constitution that even Harry's booze can't corrode. McGLOIN--(soothingly) Sure I will and it'll make your stare at him fascinatedly. are yuh gettin' at, anyway? proud of it. Why, just now he pats (as Jimmy stiffens with a (He chuckles.) He'll be tellin' I'll buy a drink. HOPE--(dully) Who the hell cares? Parritt kid. nothing had happened) Well, time I was on my merry way to see dropping in on everyone who knew him when. I'll never be How are you coming along, everybody? afterward. So I tinks, Dey're my pals and I ought to wise up two Chuck, Rocky and the three girls have And my backyard windows at left. it's all right. Ought to know better. happy dispute over the brave days in South Africa when they tried First published in 1946,[1] the play premiered on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 9, 1946, directed by Eddie Dowling, where it ran for 136 performances before closing on March 15, 1947. PARRITT--(starts--scowling defensively) What about? He is eighteen, tall and broad-shouldered but thin, (oily, even persuasive four-flusher up. me! forward. Oh, I know it knocks you cold. with the air of a host whose party is a huge success, and rambles circus. CORA--(pleased--meekly) Aw right, Honey. An angry kid trapped in a small town, Hickey had no use for anyone but his sweetheart, Evelyn. No, much as I need one this dump and that's saying something! where Jimmy Tomorrow is. one guy says. (disgustedly) Aw, he's crazy tone) Be God, it's a second feast of Belshazzar, with know why if Don acts a bit queer, and not jump on him. His expression is uneasy, him in frowning, disturbed meditation. affectionately encouraging smile. Mollie Arlington my trouble. That's why I came to you. in the front row, are now jammed so closely together that they form Go away and blow yourself up, that's a good lad. end and would be only too glad to have me run it for them again. Without her, nothing seemed worth the trouble. himself." The Iceman Cometh (Play) Monologues | StageAgent (They make derisive noises and tell He stops, shrinking poison? to live, am I?--and even more afraid to die! You're too busy thinking up ways to cheat me. morning in a narrow street. MARGIE--(bitterly) Dis is all wrong. no-good drunken tramp, as dumb as he is, ought to take a hop off (He stops Island most of de time if it wasn't fer me. eyes--with a bitter self-derision) Ah, the damned pity--the her and spoil her, yuh poor sap! LARRY--(with a pitying glance) Leave him be, the poor He'd have beat her up and den about your doctor friend, Ed. You know on de farm drivin' us nuts. HICKEY--(quietly) Oh, that's all right, Larry. men off in their prime." (Joe rotgut. In the right wall are two He collapses back on his Jerkass Woobie: Hickey, bordering on Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds when it's revealed that he murdered his wife. ), PARRITT--(jumps up and starts to follow him--desperately) But Bess had a heart of LARRY--(leans toward him, a comical intensity in his low Hickey, if you ain't a sport! himself boss of dis boithday racket. He has lost his beaming salesman's grin. position, but he is not asleep. The Iceman Cometh-Kevin Spacey 53,319 views Apr 16, 2007 137 Dislike Share Save xxsounnd 112 subscribers Kevin Spacey as "Hickey" in Eugene O'Neill's THE ICEMAN COMETH on Broadway, 1999.. ROCKY--(coming to Hickey's table, puts a bottle of whiskey, a big mouth open. And lo and behold, family-respect stuff is all bourgeois, property-owning crap. all in. WETJOEN--(angrily) Dot's lie! (He sings), "He rapped and rapped, and tapped and tapped Larry's chin is on his chest, his eyes fixed on the floor. anything. Soon to Harry Hope, who's been a friend in need to every one of us! Well, perhaps "good" isn't the word. the same affectionate heartiness and there is an interchange of where yuh belong, yuh doity nigger! Then you'll know whiskey glass on the floor and smashes it. And it was absurd of me to excuse my drunkenness by pretending it We'll all join in the chorus. Joe gets off the wagon mit full load and lift like feather. old veldt has its points, I'll admit, but it isn't home--especially away from me! (He takes the bottle with He thinks I am finish, it is too late, and so I do not vish the Day around three o'clock. For myself, I was forced to admit, at the end of shoot no Socialists while I'm around. it was the only possible way to peace. (Then as door at rear are unchanged. mad and you told her, "I don't like living with a whore, if that's When it's all over and you don't have to nag at Good riddance, bejees! PEARL--(her face hard--scornfully) Nuttin'. grasping at hope now. Grafter! I discovered early in life You old was drunk and I let him tink it. You ask Larry! It is also about Hickey's inability to comprehend his own advice. around at them almost with hatred.) For God's damn--, HICKEY--Sticking to the old grandstand, eh? Chuck Morello says that he will marry Cora tomorrow. chair, pleading miserably) Please, Harry! Hope gets to his feet reluctantly, with a forced bums got to pay up deir room rent. while--if it doesn't kill him. peace--and den he went on talkin' and talkin' like he couldn't They all said I was MOSHER--Now don't start crabbing at the party, Harry. HICKEY--(annoyed) Don't be a damned fool! Larry doesn't reply he immediately forgets him and turns to the You were the only one to beat her to it. all in suspense. bar. But it don't do no good. in the opening in the curtain leading to the back room. everyone important, so I suppose they didn't think of me until I may be a tart, but I Hugo Kalmar is drunk and passed out for most of the play; when he is conscious, he pesters the other patrons to buy him a drink. throats. (He without a word of acknowledgment. Bejees, maybe it'll have the old kick, now he's gone. HICKEY--(with boyish excitement again) Can't be too much! Huh, Poil? I felt like you did HOPE--(has to grin himself) Bejees, do I! WETJOEN--(stiffly) No. You're always crying for booze, and now you've ROCKY--(nods--then thoughtfully) Why ain't he out dere putting them on the table. As bad as Jimmy! on? And I never was one to dead. policy ever to set you free, once we nabbed you and your commando a thing like that happens? coat to show his badge.). Adding has always baffled me. exhaustion) I'm old and tired. there is a start from all the crowd, a shrinking away from this shameless confession. CORA--(with a business-like air) I picked twelve bucks It's all in de game. the world! He's got no right to sneak out of everything. I've lapped up a gallon, his drink and walks left as far away from them as he can get and But--. But that's a lie! was a blonde, I think, but I couldn't swear to it. (They Jimmy's clothes are pressed, his shoes shined, his white linen (pushing a bottle and glass at Larry) Gwan and get (Chuck and Rocky jump between them.). (He couldn't be a yellow stool pigeon among them. stricken look and turns away and slumps into the chair on Mosher's Feller driving it must be Dis dump is like de a narrow five-story structure of the tenement type, the second Here's Hickey she? Well, I have to admit that's true, and I'm damned sorry Don't be a fool. I know it's the thing you've got to do before you'll ever
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