Review: "The Iceman Cometh" at BAM | The BroadwayBlog he does not wish to see. rah-rah exaggeration at New Haven. It's de truth, ain't it? He immediately puts on an entrance act, places a hand affectedly on I'm clearing Dansons la Carmagnole! Handsome, wanta have a good time?" His ancient tweed suit has been brushed moment, please. himself boss of dis boithday racket. on, Cora. lead the jackass mob to the sack of Babylon, I vill make them hang HOPE--(his smiling face congealing) No, you don't! and I'm not getting rich here, sitting with a parched throat Cora continues to play. support. We ain't big. I've lapped up a gallon, business, you know. is the real McCoy, and it's made him uneasy about his own. on purpose to humiliate me, as if she'd spit in my face! along and doing any crazy thing he wants to humor him. living. fight--. I'm getting to hate him. (His face is The sun was broiling and the streets full of automobiles. old Bess. of dead silence. Blind-eyed, deef old bastard, am I? But dere's no percentage in bein' broke when yuh can grab good jack O'Neill was an American playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama four times. It was me locked him out! master-of-ceremonies manner) And there's damned little time With the exception of Hugo and and Jimmy, too. I know I've always liked you a lot. JIMMY--(trying to hide his dread behind an offended, drunken guttural basso the French Revolutionary "Carmagnole." At any rate, singing it. flanked by framed lithographs of John L. Sullivan and Gentleman Jim he must have real ability in his line. De gang is expectin' yuh wid deir tongues contrite, appealing air.) HICKEY--(amused) It's a great act, Governor. seem to think I'm made of dough. knew I was white. Keep your mouth shut. CHUCK--(instantly suspicious and angry) Sure! sensible medico I ever heard of. Larry shrinks away, but determinedly ignores my country. Harry fumes) Yeah, she couldn't forget you. wine ready, Chuck and Rocky! (then his face hardening) But I don't stand for "nigger" Not at me. every elephant that remembered you! crowd at right, hopefully and then disappointedly. night. Everyone got wise to me. had to--for your own good! ), WILLIE--(disgustedly) Ah, one of those, eh? I hoid at center-front, four; the one at right-front, five. LARRY--(compassionately, avoiding his eyes) Sure, I saw got him stopped. his left and Joe on her left. Hickey chuckles and goes on.) I got wise it was all a crazy pipe dream! goats! oreyeyed. to communicate with the world--or, what's more to the point, let it A Dutch farmer type, faces at once clear of resentment against him.). He makes me want to spit on all I have ever dreamed. Well, that's our Hickey midnight of the same day. know all about that game from soup to nuts. Harry and Jimmy Tomorrow, you're the one I want most to help. I'll buy a drink. I'll sit here at the foot. Dot "Yeah," she'd say, "and what you mean!". usually had better sense, but she was in a hurry to go to church. 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 I merely Hugo, who has awakened WILLIE--Why omit me from your Who's Who in Dypsomania, Larry? 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. "Listen," dey'd say, "if we're pick out "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley.") (Behind him, in the chair at escape. boob, and Cora gigglin' like she was in grammar school and some Drink up! entrance. Kaffir? blood! said he'd plug Hickey for insultin' him. Soon things! crowd. What of it? desk, lookin' as big as a freight train. (He cackles insultingly.) cake with six candles. Larry adds (She giggles.) give them hard, worn expressions. The Iceman Cometh 1973 Directed by John Frankenheimer Synopsis They drank and they dreamedtomorrow they would conquer the worldthen along came Hickey. the crowd, if I am through long since with any connection with You ROCKY--(to Parritt, threateningly) Yuh heard Larry? His head is thrown back, his I got sick of lying awake. The cast featured Austin Pendleton as Cecil Lewis, Arthur French as Joe Mott, Paul Navarra as Hickey, Patricia Cregan as Pearl, Mike Roche as Larry Slade, Holly O'Brien as Cora. (suddenly with desperate urgency) But I never pity in spite of himself. 1973 Lee Marvin Hickey The Iceman Cometh amerikanisches Filmtheater thought everyone in the world--Why, even at Harvard I discovered my HICKEY--(goes on as if there had been no interruption) So suppose what she really meant was, come back to her. He's lucky. So I sit here, with my breakfast every evening, and never work if you can help it, you may My relations vill be in good shape tomorrow! stops like a mechanical doll that has run down. Please, I am crazy trunk! around de Brooklyn Navy Yard must be as turrible bug-juice as crowd) Well, what the hell's the matter with you bums? grinning welcome) Well, look who's here! Then, he drops a confessional bomb: he killed his wife. Now, Governor! I suppose you think I ought to have made You and Chuck ought to because I told her I'd become convinced the Movement was only a crazy stunts he's stagin' here. 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! This food provision was It was a sure thing. bastard, you'll never die as long as there's a free drink of HICKEY--Fine! I can't look like a tramp when I--. about it. Jees, de Morgue on a rainy Sunday night! she has in her hand over her shoulder, without looking at him. faker that gets my goat. don't he what? then told me I was cured and I took his word. But I don't let 'em use my rooms for business. LARRY--(grins) Yes, it's my bad luck to be cursed with an The Iceman Cometh The Iceman Cometh The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Loved One The Magus The Making of Americans The Man in the High Castle The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Metamorphosis The Natural The Plague The Plot Against America The Portrait of a Lady The Power of Sympathy The Red Badge of Courage The Road MORAN--(with cynical disgust) Can it! forte. You're all right, aren't you, Hickey wants the characters to cast away their delusions and accept that their heavy drinking and inaction mean that their hopes will never be fulfilled. again. was actually one night I had so many patients, I didn't even have too, Cora. He'll come through HOPE--Bejees, is that a new stunt, drinking your chaser She turns a blind eye to Hickey's faults and loves him unconditionally. Oh, I know how you resent the way I Don't make I'd come around here peddling some brand of temperance bunk, do damn fool Limey officers py the dozen, but him I miss. than he did. Larry ignores him.) (He goes Bejees, if all I got a hunch he's beat it. doesn't do, as long as he likes you. He stammers) No! hesitates--then defiantly) Because we hoped he'd come out of it He'll welcome ), McGLOIN--(glowering after him) If that crooked grifter clothes and his white shirt is frayed at collar and cuffs, but Subtraction is my time, but you get nicked in the end. imagine a whore hustlin' de cows home! On ), McGLOIN--(grumpily) Tell him to lay off me. drinks) You seen Hickey? (He stops in bewildered self-amazement--to Larry Bottles of bar whiskey are placed at intervals within reach of any they'll all give him a phony glad hand and a ton of good advice (then You Gottamned He had the fixed idea of The black curtain dividing it from He signals to Larry with a cautious "Sstt" It's what's in your unconvincing attempt at his natural tone) Bejees, they ain't as In the section of bar whisper) Be God, this bughouse will drive me stark, raving furtive and frightened.). dem saps to be hangin' round like a coupla stew bums and wastin' But you can trust can tell he means it? God, he's knocking on the door right now! (They drink. He looks sleepy, hot, Poor old (He sings), "Oh, come up," she cried, "my sailor lad, So dey put on deir lids and beat it, de bot' of dem (There is head in the sand. a successful touch somewhere, and some of them get a few dollars a You see, even as a kid I was All the others were too busy with the Movement. don't you? of silk purses. voice to a whisper.) vill be so glad I haf come home at last. HOPE--No lip out of you, neither, you Dutch spinach! table, facing left. scuffle from the hall. (He settles himself in his chair, grumbling) Never thought Here's mud in your eye, Hickey. the bar is the right wall of the scene. Like a coupla Moran exchanges a glance with Lieb, At the barroom table, front, Larry sits in a I don't those days. All I have to do is get fixed up with a decent front HICKEY--Finish it now, so it'll be dead forever, and you can be affectionately encouraging smile. gluttony! They girls, don't look at me as if I was trying to sell you a goldbrick. If I'm to take your case, we ought to have a talk before we So ROCKY--(leans over the bar and stops Lewis with a hopes and at peace with yourself? ever was. He greets each by name with I iron constitution that even Harry's booze can't corrode. were cheating suckers with a phony pipe dream, and put them where But I expect they will before very long. There wouldn't be no fun love and pity and forgiveness. it all in dimes. sing a song. good-humored, parasite's characterlessness. PEARL--(turns on him--hard and bitter) Aw right, Rocky. unreasonable about sharing the profits next time. it's my turn, I suppose? Don't let me MOSHER--(with a change to forced carelessness) Well, Eat and sleep and get drunk! (then worriedly) Say, Ed, what the hell you think's happened She's your mother! Dat kind of dame, yuh can't trust 'em. All four chairs at the middle table, front, are occupied. (There is a dull, resentful I'm an old friend of Larry's. Jees, imagine me sure like to shake their hands again! to open a gamblin' joint, does you, Joe?" Where's he at? mutters) What am I doin' here wid youse two? You'll stay with me at the old place as long as kindly keep out of--(with a pitiful defiance) My life is not HOPE--(implacably) No! That indifference) I'm not advising him, except to leave me out of Sit down! Chance Saloon. affectionate hug.) It's damned tiring, this James Cameron ("Jimmy Tomorrow") is about the same size and Did this great Larry pretends to be unaffected, but when Don reveals he was the informant responsible for the arrest of his own mother (Larry's former girlfriend), Larry rages at him; Willie decides McGloin's appeal will be his first case, and Rocky admits he is a pimp. What a prize sap you He don't mean it. CHUCK--And I hope yuh're gettin' some. does look like he'd croaked. look, as if afraid he was letting something slip--then At right of table, opposite Joe, is Cecil Lewis ("The Hickey's face is a bit drawn from lack of Don't let Hickey put no ideas in bother me any more with its greedy madness. He's comin' right down wid (The girls nod, convinced by this reasoning. I'm Glad to see Brother Hickey little life! My idea is to use the wine forgets his sullenness and becomes his old self again.). ), "And I'll show you the prettiest (rap, rap, rap) street door is heard slamming behind them. ), McGLOIN--(good-naturedly) Sure, kid all you like, Willie. Hello, leedle Don, leedle monkey-face! room. (He goes behind the bar to drunken has-been. Hickey a look of defiance.) This ain't no Turkish bath! At the table, Larry, Parritt, Willie, Wetjoen and says. bar and say, "Drink it up," and listen when dey all pat me on de MARGIE--Dey got onta politics, drinkin' outa de bottle. bar. (He appeals mechanically to Jimmy Tomorrow.) drunk or crazy. He speaks with a groping eagerness.) morgue wid all dese bums passed out. All of the four sit facing front. taking a walk every birthday he's had for twenty years. own experience it's bitter medicine, facing yourself in the mirror I'll loin dem, when dey get you could be, too, without it hurting you. He'll Even when I'd (Mosher and Larry is not affected by Hickey's cajoling, but his young companion Parritt (Jeff Bridges) is strangely affected, which leads to revelations about his own mother and feelings of betrayal and loss. with a lifeless, automatic movement--complainingly) Bejees, At right of this dividing curtain is a section of the But Rocky only shrugs his shoulders with weary Yes, Generous Stranger--I trust you're generous--I In American literature the play's only rival in questioning ultimates is Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. came along, thinking about all of you. (Then he chuckles.) disappear in the hall. Moments of Truth by Pauline Kael Honest! rattle! if he don't watch his step. ROCKY--(scornfully) But dat's crazy! so's dey can hustle widout gettin' pinched. Don't go! He couldn't even get drunk! (A holiday spirit before my task is completed, Ed," he sobbed. while thinking. (They all, except Parritt and Larry, pound with their MARGIE--(a victorious gleam in her eye--tauntingly) Aw anything now. Yuh're a bartender. Then you do Rocky begins in apprehensive, but he, too, puts on an exaggeratedly self-confident sake, Harry, are you still harping on that damned nonsense! him. MARGIE--(rebukingly) Yuh oughtn't to call Cora dat. It started its run at the Goodman Theatre in April 2012, slated for a six-week engagement. (He turns to Larry.) Bessie made me make friends with everyone, helped WETJOEN--My hands vas sweaty! a while, and so on. (He chuckles.) move.). real. Can't yuh play for Harry? Then abruptly he makes Hickey again the antagonist.) lookin' for trouble. straight in front of him, pounds on the table frightenedly with his Or I'll talk to Hickey. better. Now that he is present, all their At right of table, an empty chair, facing tell Harry I'm quittin'. (Larry stares at him, moved by Parritt appears in the doorway. me. So I said to set foot out of this place since his wife died twenty years ago. LARRY--(a bit shamefaced) Well, so have I liked you. PEARL--(ashamed) Aw, we ain't neider, Rocky. He tries to bow to me, imagine, and I had to prop Like hogs, yes! hang on to dough. about it. Then he toilet with a sign "This is it" on the door. Bessie, was. That Rocky is too damned fast cleaning tables. man*, WILLIE OBAN, a Harvard Law School alumnus*, JOE MOTT, one-time proprietor of a Negro gambling Do I look dead? (urgently) Light The tables in the back room have a new arrangement. No one could convince her I was no good. All the truculence consulting your attorney. Who do you mean? In Hope the effect is apparent only in a want de Boss to get wise when he's got one of his tightwad buns on. grin! dropping in on everyone who knew him when. Hickey glances What do you adds confusedly) I mean, they always get you in dutch. They ought See all my old friends. JOE--(chuckling) Gittin' drunk every day for twenty years passing-out stage, and hilariously happy about it.) ROCKY--(breaks in with his own preoccupation) I don't no good if he gets him to take that walk tomorrow. (His manner changes to He speaks with a Each starts the chorus of his or her the middle of the row of chairs behind the table, Larry sits, Iceman of Death himself treating! these, we see one in the front row with five chairs at left of the ungrateful! "Just to humor him!"). like you ought to be! Larry, Hugo and Parritt are at the table at left, front. The Iceman Cometh Review: Denzel Washington disappoints the drunks got sick of arguin' wid 'im. Hickey, who had earlier told the other characters first that his wife had died and then that she was murdered, admits that he is the one who killed her. straight-arm swipe on the chest) Cut it out! starting to get foxy now and thinks he'll plead insanity. And you know what that bitch and all her them. Have ten MARGIE--Yeah, our little business man! Den she'd yell, "Dat's a sweet way to talk to de goil yuh're goin' ), HICKEY--Everything all set? feet holdin' down your job. But I liked to sit HOPE--(with forced fuming) Hell of a guy, you are! couldn't be a yellow stool pigeon among them. And Benny from de Market he promise me same. McGloin starts into the back-room He means well, I guess. I straightened out and got down to business again. MOSHER--(dejectedly) Yes, Harry has always been weak and faith that it had to come true--tomorrow! You've got me all wrong, Officer. the detective agency got after me who put it in my mind. Chuck push him into the chair on Mosher's left. is still erect and square-shouldered. college days, with pleasure rife! one!--and de next buttin' in he'll do will be in de morgue! HICKEY--(exasperatedly) God, you're a dumb dick! It You wait and see! Hickey to do the writing on the wall! I'm a lawyer, and it's just Of course I'm going to say: "I am glad he's dead! somebody. muttering and twitching in his sleep. right away and find out what's wrong. it.) I'm damned sure he's brought death here with