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Broadway production 1998
Ragtime the Musical - What Kind of Woman Lyrics
"What Kind of Woman" is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Marin Mazzie (Mother), Kathleen, Alex Strange (Little Boy), Steven Sutcliffe (Younger Brother).
[MOTHER]
Get Kathleen
[LITTLE BOY]
Get Kathleen, I tell you! Call the doctor!
[KATHLEEN]
Is it alive? Oh, please, God, let it be.
[MOTHER]
It's alive. It's a Negro child. A newborn baby boy.
What kind of woman
Would do such a thing?
Why in God's name
Is my husband not here?
I'm such a fool!
Why did I say
He was free to go?
What am I to do?
Where are your instructions,
My dear?
You left me lists.
Everything in lists!
Well, your little lists
Aren't very helpful,
I fear!
Each day, the maids
Trudge up the hill.
The hired help arrives.
I never stopped to think
They might
have lives beyond out lives...
[POLICEMAN]
We found her in the cellar of a home on the next
block. She's a washwoman there. Her name is Sarah.
[MOTHER]
Where will you take her?
[POLICEMAN]
to the charity ward. Eventually she will have to
stand trial.
[YOUNGER BROTHER]
What charges?
[POLICEMAN]
Well, attempted murder, I should think.
[MOTHER]
What's going to happen to the baby?
[DOCTOR]
They have places for unfortunates like this.
[MOTHER]
I will take responsibility for mother and child.
Please take Miss Sarah inside.
What kind of woman
Would do what I've done-
Open the door
to such chaos and pain!
You would have
Gently closed the door,
And gently turned the key,
And gently told me not to look,
For fear of what I'd see.
What kind of woman
Would that have made me?
Ragtime the Musical What Kind of Woman 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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