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Suffs - The Convention Part 1 Lyrics |
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2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - The Convention Part 1 Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
ENSEMBLE:
We stand united in sisterhood
Working together on the same team
Younger and older
Joining as one
Shoulder to shoulder
For the same dream
MARY: (spoken)
Well, well, well
Look who's finally
Become a member of NAWSA
IDA: (spoken)
Oh no, I'm only in town
For tomorrow's NAACP conference
Care to give a quote
For the Chicago Daily?
MARY: (spoken)
You can quote from my address
As distinguished guest speaker
IDA:
So you've agreed to speak at your
Hundredth white women's convention?
MARY:
Are you just here to sow dissension?
IDA:
Don't you resent
That you're a prop
They trot out at events?
"NAWSA presents our rich
Little Negro mascot -
Come here to preach see?
We have no race hatred
We let Mary make a speech"
MARY:
If I didn't speak
They wouldn't even mention race
I tolerate their system
'Cause that's the only way
They'll ever listen to our case
IDA:
But when the system wants you dead
What then?
MARY:
I can't have this out with you again!
IDA & MARY:
Why are you fighting me?
I am not the enemy
REPORTER: (spoken)
Ladies, a photograph please?
IDA & MARY:
We stand united in sisterhood
IDA, MARY & ENSEMBLE:
Working together on the same team
MOLLIE: (spoken)
Before our formal program continues
Let's entertain a brief diversion
From our junior Washington DC committee
ALICE: (spoken)
Vote Wilson out!
ENSEMBLE: (spoken)
Vote Wilson out!
ALICE: (spoken)
Vote Wilson out!
ENSEMBLE: (spoken)
Vote Wilson out!
ALICE: (spoken)
My fellow Suffs,
That should be NAWSA's rallying cry this fall
It's time to show Wilson,
NAWSA Suffs are the vanguard of the future
It's time to show him
We are not just some gaggle
Of irrelevant old fogies.
Review: Suffs the Musical Lyrics
Suffs the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
Let Mother Vote
Finish the Fight
Find A Way
Wait My Turn
Terrell’s Theme
The March (We Demand Equality)
Great American Bitch
Ladies
Worth It
If We Were Married
The Convention Part 1
This Girl
The Convention Part 2
Alva Belmont
Show Them Who You Are
The Campaign
How Long?
The Young Are At The Gates
Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone
Hold It Together
Wait My Turn (reprise)
The Report
Show Them Who You Are (reprise)
Insane
Fire & Tea
Let Mother Vote (reprise)
She and I
A Letter From Harry’s Mother
I Was Here
If We Were Married (reprise)
Lucy’s Song
Finish the Fight (reprise)
Keep Marching
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