Current Setting: The orphanage
Loracarol:
Rin is sitting on a window when Molly begins to have a
nightmare
Molly: Mommy! Mommy!
Pepper: Shut up! Can't a kid
get a piece of goodnight sleep around here?
Shippo: Leave Molly
alone! She ain't doing anything to you!
Loracarol: All the
orphans have woken up and have started fighting. Rin jumps down to
stop them
Rin: Stop! Stop, stop, stop! You want Miss Kagura to
come in here? Its okay, Molly, you Just had another bad dream
Loracarol:
Rin picks up the crying Molly, and lays her in her bed..
Molly:
I'm scared; I want my mommy and daddy.
Pepper: Molly, we don't
have any mommies or daddies. And we ain't ever gonna have um',
that's why we're called orphans.
Rin: I'm not an
orphan! (Pushes Pepper) My parents left me with a locket and a note
saying they'll come back for me!
Molly: Will you read me the
note again, Rin, please?
Pepper: Not again!
Rin: "This is
our daughter Rin—
Pepper: "'We'll be back for her as soon
as we can. She wears a half shaped heart locket around her neck, so
you'll know that she's our baby' ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Rin:
Pepper, do you wanna sleep with your teeth inside your mouth or out?
Now get to bed, all of you, this may mean nothing to you but it's
everything to me. Don't worry, Molly, someday things will be
better, you'll see, now go to sleep.
Loracarol: Music comes
from the invisi-band, and Rin starts singing a lullaby to Molly to
help her go to sleep.
Rin: Maybe far away, or maybe real nearby. He may be pouring her coffee; she may be straightening his tie. Maybe in a house or hidden by a hill. She's sitting playing piano. He's sitting paying a bill. Betcha their young, betcha their smart, bet they collect things like ashtrays and art. Betcha their good, why shouldn't they be? Their one mistake was giving up me! So maybe now it's time and maybe when I wake. They'll be there calling me "baby"…maybe.
Loracarol:
Molly is asleep, and Rin kisses Molly on the forehead, than tucks her
in bed along with the rest of the children who have also fallen
asleep.
Rin: Betcha he reads, betcha she sews, maybe she's
made me a closet of clothes. Maybe their strict as straight as a
line, don't really care as long as their mine. So maybe now this
prayer's the last one of it kind. Wont you please come get your
baby, maybe.
Maybe
Loracarol: Rin is packing everything of hers into a bag, and the noise wakes up Pepper, and some of the other girls.
Pepper:
Now what?
Annie: If my parents haven't found me yet I'll have
to find them.
Pepper: Again?
Annie: Pepper, watch over
Molly.
Kate: But what if Miss Kagura catches you?
Annie: She
won't.
Loracarol:
Rin goes to the door, and tries to open it, but Miss Kagura is
blocking the door.
Miss Kagura: Boo, trying to make a break again?
Loracarol: Rin leans over, and shows her butt to Miss Kagura.
Miss
Kagura: What the hell are you doing?
Rin: Aren't you gonna beat
the tar out of me?
Miss Kagura Have I ever hit any of ya?
Rin:
No, but you threatened that's worse.
Miss Kagura: I know. Look,
kid, if you think its bad in here its lousy out there, I'm doing
you a favor by not letting you go.
Loracarol: Miss Kagura has grabbed Rin by the back of Rin's dress.
Miss
Kagura: What do we say?
Rin: I love you, Miss Kagura.
Miss
Kagura: (Twisting Rin's dress) I can't hear ya.
Rin: (Louder)
I love you Miss Kagura!
Miss Kagura: (Throwing Rin) Rotten
orphan.
Rin: I'm not an orphan my mom and dad left me with a not
saying they'll come back for me someday.
Miss Kagura: Ha-ha-ha
that was 1922, this is 1933, you're an orphan. (They walk to the
orphans sleeping) Rise and shine, little ones! Rin here tried to run
away so as a welcome home party you're gonna clean this
dump!
Shippo: But it's in the middle of the night.
Miss
Kagura: Do you think I know that! What do we say!
All
orphans. We love you, Miss Kagura.
Miss Kagura: And I love you!
Loracarol:
Then Miss Kagura left the bedroom, and the invisi-band started
playing another song.
All orphans: It's a hard knock life for us! It's a hard
knock life for us!
Rin: 'Steada treated'!
All
orphans: We get tricked!
Rin: 'Steada kisses'!
Orphans: We get kicked. It's the hard knock life! Got no
folks to speak of, so, it's the hard knock row we know!
Rin:
Cotton blankets!
All orphans: 'Steada
wool'!
Rin: Empty bellies!
All orphans: 'Stead of full,
All
orphans: It's the hard knock life!
Rin:
Don't it feel like the wind is always howling'?
Kate and Tessie: Don't it seem like there's never
any lights?
Shippo and July: Once a
day, don't you wanna throw the towel in?
Molly
and Pepper. It's easier than puttin' up a fight.
Rin: No ones there your dreams at night get creepy! No one
cares if you grow…or if you shrink! No one dries when your eyes get
wet an' weepy!
All orphans: From all
the cryin' you would think this place's a sink! Ohhhh! Empty
belly life! Rotten smelly life! Full of sorrow life! No tomorrow
life!
Molly:
Santa Clause we never see!
Rin: Santa
Clause, what's that, -who's he?
All orphans. No
one cares for you a smidge when you're in an orphanage.
Molly: You're gonna clean this dump till it shines like the top
of the Chrystler Building!
All orphans: Yank the whiskers from her
chin, Jab her with a safety pin, make her drink a Mickey Finn! I love
you Miss Kagura!
Molly: (Whistles) Get to work!
(Whistles) Strip them beds (Whistles) I said get to work.
All
orphans: It's the hard knock for us it's the hard knock life
for us no one cares for you a smidge when your in an orphanage it's
the hard knock life it's the hard knock life it's the hard knock
life!
Loracarol: Miss Kagura has entered
and blows her real whistle.
All orphans: We love you, Miss
Kagura.
Molly: (Who is inside the laundry basket) I love you, Miss
Kagura!
Miss Kagura: What the heck! (Looks in) What are you doing
in there?
Molly: Nothing.
Miss Kagura: You're days are
numbered. Get her out of there.
Mrs. Bundles: Morning, kids!
Morning, Kagura.
All orphans: Morning, Mrs. Bundles.
Mrs.
Bundles: Alright, kids, clean sheets whether ye need um' or
not.
All orphans: Right!
Mrs. Bundles: Oh, Miss Kagura, I
live for laundry day here at your fine establishment.
Loracarol:
As Miss Kagura and Mrs. Bundles speak the other orphans put Rin in
the basket of clothes and cover her up.
Miss Kagura: Mrs. Bundles,
you're full of applesauce.
Mrs. Bundles. (Offering her a rose)
Oh, Miss Kagura, won't you let me ask you out for an ice cream for
my brother?
Miss Kagura: No.
Mrs. Bundles. How come?
Miss
Kagura. Because I'm saving myself for Lord Sesshomaru. Now get the
dirty laundry and get the heck out of here.
Mrs. Bundles. Very
well. So long, Kagura! (She gets the basket with Rin in it and walks
off) And Merry Christmas to one and all!
All orphans: Bye!
July:
Miss Kagura, may we please have our breakfast now?
Miss Kagura: No, but you may get it later if your good.
(She whistles) Role Call! (Each orphan stands across from the
other)
Kate: I love you, Miss Kagura.
July: I love you, Miss
Kagura.
Shippo: I love you, Kagura.
Tessie: I love you, Miss
Kagura.
Pepper: I love you, Miss Kagura.
Molly: I love you,
Miss Kagura.
Loracarol: Miss Kagura has just noticed that Rin's
gone.
Miss
Kagura: Rin, get your little orphan self out here!
Shippo: Um,
Miss Kagura, Rin ain't here.
Miss Kagura: Really? Where is
she?
Kate: Mrs. Bundles rolled her out with the dirty
laundry.
Miss Kagura: What? I could lose my life for this
Loracarol:
Miss Kagura runs out the door.
Molly: Yea! Rin made it
Shippo:
But the kid she's out there free.
Pepper:
Runnin' free in N.Y.C.
Kate: Bet she finds her folks—
All
orphans: Like that.
July:
Mom and dad—
All orphans: Right off the bat! No more
hard knock life, no more hard knock life, no more hard knock life! No
more hard knock life for her!
