THE PAJAMA GAME - Page 20
CUES SCRIPT
BABE I don’t want an explanation. It’s humiliating
SID But you mustn’t think…
BABE I don’t think anything. I don’t care Sid, if it’s about you
and Gladys, it’s none of my business.
SID But it is your business.
BABE Oh the hell with that. I’m talking about something
bigger.
SID Well, this is just great. Can’t we even talk to each
other
and make sense anymore?
BABE I don’t see how. Not until this is over.
SID I’ve been eating mud long enough. I’ve had it.
BABE What do you suggest, Sid?
SID Meet me after the rally
BABE I can’t. I have a date.
SID Well, that’s that.
EXIT BABE BABE I’ll break it.
ENTER GLADYS GLADYS Sid, I gotta warn you. Vernon’s not fooling this time.
We’ve been at it all night, screaming and yelling &
SID Just calm yourself, Gladys. I’ll fix everything. I’ll take
ENTER HINES AS him aside and tell him the whole story. In the
SHADOW meantime here’s your key.
(HINES’s shadow appears in doorway R, aims knife, then
disappears)
GLADYS Listen, I thought I heard something.
SID You maniac! The fool! Heinzie, you damn fool. Whey!
GLADYS I told you I heard something.
SID You heard something all right. Well, I’m glad he’s got
that out of his system.
GLADYS How do we know that he has. How do we know?
SID Now Gladys cut it out. It’s going to be all right. Now you
(CLUNK. Another knife flies through the air, to desk)
GLADYS (crouching by desk)You’ve got to stop him.
SID I’ll fix that baby.