THE PAJAMA GAME - Act 1 : Page 13
CUES SCRIPT
POOPSIE One dollar. And all the beer you can guzzle.
MABEL No beer for me. It gives me the heartburn something
awful.
ENTER HINES HINES Me too.
MABEL You!
POOPSIE You gonna do your knife throwing act this year, Mr.
Hines?
HINES I suppose so. There always seems to be a demand for
it.
POOPSIE Was you honest on the real stage?
GLADYS That’s where I first met him, Poopsie. He was throwing
knives at a woman at the Majestic Theatre.
POOPSIE Is Mr. Hasler in his office?
GLADYS No.
MABEL Here. One hard earned dollar, and I hope the ham
ain’t as salty as it was at the last union picnic. I was
dried up for a week after.
POOPSIE Thanks.
EXIT POOPSIE HINES What’re you doing — leaving him a note? Huh?
Carrying on with Sorokin, huh?
GLADYS: Oh, Vernon!
HINES I saw you leave that note on his desk. I’m not blind
That’s why you wore that low neck dress to work
today.
GLADYS You make me scream, Vernon — you just make me
scream.
HINES All right, then, what’s in it? I dare you to tell me what’s
in it.
GLADYS Read it, then go cut your throat.
HINES “Okay payroll seven thousand five hundred and two
dollars and one cent.”
GLADYS That means I love you in Morse code.
MABEL Ain’t you ashamed of yourself, Heinzie?
GLADYS Now that we got that all settled, ... l ... do you think