Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - Nothing Like the City Lyrics
"Nothing Like the City" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Marin Mazzie (Mother), Alex Strange (Edgar), Peter Friedman (Tateh), and Lea Michele (Little Girl).
[TATEH] Mister, please, where is this?
[CONDUCTOR] You're in New Rochelle. You can atke the rope off her. This ain't the city.
[LITTLE BOY] Mother!
[MOTHER] I see! I see! He's afraid of losing her. Immigrants are terrified of losing their children. So are we but just not so conspicuously. Don't stare. It's not polite to stare.
[TATEH] He's a rude little boy. Ignore him. poeople of good breeding do not stare at other people. They acknowledge htem politley with a bow... like this.
Good day.
[MOTHER] Good day, sir.
[TATEH] She called me "sir." Without a doubt, We're really out Of New York City!
[MOTHER] Fine weather, isn't it?
[TATEH] Isn't it? Now that we're out of the city, Isn't it?
[BOTH] Nothing like the city...
[LITTLE GIRL] He's still staring.
[TATEH] Never mind.
[LITTLE BOY] My father's at the North Pole, With Admiral Peary and eskimos! Where is your mother?
[LITTLE GIRL] Dead.
[MOTHER] Edgar!
[LITTLE BOY] My name is Edgar. We're off To visit out foreworks factory. What is your name?
[LITTLE GIRL] No name.
[LITTLE BOY] That's impossible. Everyone had a name, Even the little Negro baby Who lives in our attic!!!
[MOTHER] Sshh. Do not be rude! He talks. [LITTLE BOY] I never knew anyone Who stayed on a rope Like a puppy dog. What does it feel like? [TATEH] I see that.
[LITTLE GIRL] Safe.
[MOTHER] He also stares.
[LITTLE BOY] Safe?
[MOTHER] You'd think He'd never Seen someone From New York City
[LITTLE GIRL] Yes.
[LITTLE BOY] Everyone's safe In New Rochelle.
[TATEH] That's children, Isn't it?
[LITTLE GIRL] Safe?
[MOTHER] Isn't it?
[LITTLE BOY] Yes.
[BOTH] Always another surprise, Isn't it?
[CONDUCTOR] Boston Post Road trolley! Boston!
[MOTHER] Well.
[TATEH] Well. Have a pleasant day, ma'am.
[MOTHER] Have a pleasant trip, sir...
[MOTHER & TATEH] Nothing like the city...
[CONDUCTOR] Mamaroneck! All aboard for Mamaroneck!
[LITTLE BOY] We know those peopl.
[MOTHER] That's ridiculous. They're poor foreigners.
[LITTLE BOY] Then we're going to know them.
[MOTHER] Who put such thoughts in your head?
Ragtime the Musical Nothing Like the City Lyrics
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SYNOPSIS Prologue Goodbye My Love Journey On The Crime of the Century What Kind of Woman A Shtetl Iz Amereke Success His Name Is Coalhouse Walker Getting' Ready Rag Henry Ford Nothing Like the City Your Daddy's Son The Courtship New Music Wheels of a Dream The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square Gliding The Trashing of the Car Justice President Till We Reach That Day Harry Houdini Master Escapist Coalhouse's Soliloquy Coalhouse Demands What a Game Fire in the City Atlantic City Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. Our Children Harlem Nightclub Sarah Brown Eyes He Wanted to Say Back to Before Look What You've Done Make Them Hear You Wheels of a Dream (reprise)
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