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2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - Find A Way Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
ALICE: (spoken)
Oh
LUCY: (spoken)
Alice?
ALICE: (spoken)
Lucy, thank God
LUCY:
I got your telegram
And came as soon as I could
(spoken)
What's the emergency?
ALICE:
The first protest march ever held
In our nation's capital
LUCY: (spoken)
Today?
ALICE:
Two months from today
So there's no time to waste
Welcome to our new office
LUCY:
Ah
ALICE:
You're a member of the
Suffrage March Planning Committee
LUCY: (spoken)
Holy cow! How many in it?
ALICE: (spoken)
Counting you?
LUCY: (spoken)
Don't say two
ALICE: (spoken)
Two
LUCY:
But Alice, we're not in college anymore
We've never planned
A national action before
ALICE: (spoken)
Nope
(singing)
How will we do it
When it's never been done?
How will we find a way
Where there isn't one?
ALICE & LUCY:
How will we find a way
Find a way
We've got to find a way
Find a way
ALICE:
First pursuit is to recruit
Inez Milholland
LUCY:
The Inez Milholland?
ALICE:
The papers call her glamorous
ALICE & LUCY:
Dazzling
ALICE:
All the things I'm not
We need a public face
ALICE & LUCY:
It's gotta be Inez Milholland
ALICE: (spoken)
I'm Alice Paul
and this is my best friend Lucy Burns
LUCY: (spoken)
We were field hockey teammates
at Swarthmore
ALICE: (spoken)
Offense!
LUCY: (spoken)
Defense!
INEZ: (spoken)
Wow, okay, sporty
Why don't we have a smoke?
ALICE: (spoken)
Oh yes, we adore cigarettes
LUCY: (spoken)
*Cough* It's really nice
ALICE:
We want you to be the grand marshal
Of our suffrage march
INEZ:
Miss Paul, I'm far too busy with the bar
ALICE:
She'd rather get liquored
Than fight our liberty?
INEZ: (spoken)
I'm studying for the bar exam
ALICE: (spoken)
Oh, that's marvelous
We could use your legal skills
To procure our permit
This march is unprecedented
INEZ:
How so?
ALICE: (spoken)
It's on Pennsylvania Avenue
INEZ: (spoken)
Oh
ALICE:
The day before the inauguration
INEZ: (spoken)
Ooh
ALICE:
We'll make every front page
with a picture of you leading the pack
INEZ:
On horseback
ALICE & LUCY:
What?
INEZ:
I should be riding
My steed should be white
A feminine reclaiming
Of the armored knight
ALICE:
Of course
LUCY: (spoken)
Where the hell are we getting a horse?
ALICE & LUCY:
How will we do it when
It's never been done?
How will we find a way
Where there isn't one?
ALICE, LUCY & INEZ:
How will we find a way?
Find a way
We’ve got to find a way
Find a way
INEZ:
I want you to meet someone
LUCY:
A socialite?
INEZ:
A socialist
Ruza Wenclawska
ALICE & LUCY:
Ruza Wenclawska
RUZA:
My fellow workers
We must strike!
INEZ:
Came from Poland
When she was seven
RUZA:
We must strike for safe conditions
INEZ:
Worked in a mill since she was eleven
This is her fight, too
Not just us fortunate few
They'll listen to her
RUZA:
Strike!
INEZ:
Not to you
RUZA:
Strike! Strike! Strike!
ALICE: (spoken)
That was a great speech
INEZ: (spoken)
Ruza, this is Alice Paul
From the suffrage movement
LUCY: (spoken)
Suffrage is votes for women
RUZA: (spoken)
I’m Polish, not stupid
Look, I want no part of your polite
Little suffragette parlor games
ALICE: (spoken)
Well, that's perfect
Because when we take on a tyrant
We burn him down
RUZA: (spoken)
So how do we afford a march?
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY & RUZA:
How will we do it when it's never been done?
How will we find a way where there isn't one?
How will we find a way?
Find a way
We've got to find a way
Find a way
ALICE: (spoken)
Get up on this soapbox
INEZ: (spoken)
Ooh
ALICE: (spoken)
Stand there
RUZA: (spoken)
But no one's here
ALICE:
Gotta start somewhere
INEZ:
Women of the country
How long must women wait for liberty?
How long—
ENSEMBLE:
How long must we wait?
INEZ:
—Must we wait?
ENSEMBLE:
Must we wait?
RUZA:
Must we wait?
ENSEMBLE:
Must we wait?
INEZ: (spoken)
Join us in a march
On March 3rd
RUZA: (spoken)
Give some money
ALICE: (spoken)
Spread the word
RUZA: (spoken)
Give more money!
INEZ:
Make your voice heard
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY & RUZA:
How will we do it when it's never been done?
(How will we do it when it's never been done?)
How will we find a way where there isn't one?
How will we find a way, find a way?
(How will we find a way?)
We've got to find a way
Find a way
DORIS: (spoken)
March for our liberty!
ALICE: (spoken)
Lucy, who is she?
LUCY: (spoken)
Doris Stevens
DORIS: (spoken)
A student from Nebraska
LUCY: (spoken)
She just showed up
DORIS:
When I heard about your march
I hopped on the next train
I want to help!
Whatever I can do
DORIS: (spoken)
I wrote up these leaflets, too
ALICE: (spoken)
So you're a writer
DORIS: (spoken)
Yes sir—ma'am!
(singing)
Yes, I am
ALICE:
Congratulations on your new job
DORIS: (spoken)
What?
ALICE: (spoken)
You're our secretary now
Keep a record
DORIS: (spoken)
February 1st
Doris Stevens named Secretary!
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY, RUZA & DORIS:
How will we do it when it's never been done?
How will we find a way where there isn't one?
DORIS: (spoken)
February 2nd
A meeting with Officer Sylvester
MAJOR SYLVESTER: (spoken)
It’s Major Sylvester
ALICE: (spoken)
Major, we need a permit
For a protest on the third of March
MAJOR SYLVESTER: (spoken)
I don't have cops to spare
For a ladies' parade
INEZ:
I would just hate for my father to hear you
Deny me my constitutional right
MAJOR SYLVESTER: (spoken)
Father?
INEZ:
Senator Dwight
Chair of the Law Enforcement Treasury
You know?
The man who signs your paycheck
MAJOR SYLVESTER: (spoken)
You can have your doggone permit
Now get the heck out of my sight
INEZ: (spoken)
Thank you, Officer
MAJOR SYLVESTER: (spoken)
Major!
ALICE: (spoken)
Is he really your father?
INEZ:
I used to date his son
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY, RUZA & DORIS:
How will we do it when it's never been done?
How will we find a way where there isn't one?
DORIS: (spoken)
One week to go
ALICE: (spoken)
Numbers?
DORIS: (spoken)
Twenty-six floats
Nine brigades
DORIS:
A delegation from all forty-eight states
ALICE:
Two hundred marshals
RUZA:
Ten marching bands
DORIS:
Representatives from?
ALICE:
Thirty
DORIS:
Thirty universities
INEZ:
Contingents from fifteen professions
ALICE: (spoken)
Oh, and the dancers for the pageant
DORIS:
So we're at one
(spoken)
Wait, no, two
(singing)
With the crowd depending
(spoken)
Two hundred thousand people attending
INEZ: (spoken)
We're gonna need more pinwheels
(All simultaneously)
LUCY:
Should we all spread out or stick together?
If Inez is up in front,
Should I be in the middle?
Alice, are you marching with your college?
I don't have a cap and gown
INEZ:
Did someone remember
To get carrots for the horses?
Am I starting off the singing
Or do I wait for the bugles?
DORIS:
Where will we be able
To go to the bathroom?
What happens if it starts to rain?
RUZA:
What if it's too crowded on the street
To even move an inch
Or let alone to march?
ALICE:
We can do it!
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY, RUZA & DORIS:
How will we do it when it's never been done?
How will find a way where there isn't one?
DORIS: (spoken)
Miss Paul
(singing)
Ida B. Wells wrote
To say she plans to march
LUCY: (spoken)
Ida B. who?
INEZ, ALICE, DORIS & RUZA:
Ida B. Wells
INEZ:
She's a famous journalist
DORIS: (spoken)
But—
ALICE: (spoken)
What?
DORIS: (spoken)
Well, we've received letters
From several Southern donors
Threatening to pull out
If colored women participate
ALICE: (spoken)
But we've already
said they're welcome to participate
DORIS: (spoken)
One proposes we tactfully
ask colored women to withdraw
INEZ: (spoken)
Tactfully
DORIS: (spoken)
Others say they must march in back
ALICE: (spoken)
Let's make a special colored delegation
At the back of the line
No one pulls out
(singing)
It'll all be fine
RUZA:
I'm an immigrant so should
I march in back, too?
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY, RUZA & DORIS:
How will we find a way?
(How will we find a way?)
Find a way
We've got to find a way, find a way
IDA:
So you're this Alice Paul
I've been hearing so much about
ALICE: (spoken)
Mrs. Wells
IDA: (spoken)
Well, you've got quite the team
ALICE: (spoken)
Yes!
INEZ:
We haven't slept in weeks
IDA:
Please, I have four children
I haven't slept in years
ALICE: (spoken)
We're glad you're here for the march
IDA: (spoken)
I’m not only here for the march
(singing)
My club has also come
To agitate for laws against lynching
My people cannot vote
If they are hanging from trees
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY & DORIS: (spoken)
We support you
RUZA: (spoken)
Yes!
IDA: (spoken)
Why have I been told to march in back?
ALICE: (spoken)
All due respect,
But we don't have a choice
ALICE:
Without the Southern women's support
There might be no march
LUCY:
We refuse to be exclusive
So we've made a place for you in back
INEZ:
We're concerned for your safety
Should there be an attack
DORIS:
Mary Church Terrell might agree to it, so
IDA:
Oh, the one other Black suffragist
Whose name you know?
ALICE:
You are a brilliant agitator, Ida
Thousand of Suffs are arriving
In town right now
Should we cancel the endeavor?
IDA:
So I’m the one wrecking the endeavor?
LUCY: (spoken)
No
INEZ: (spoken)
Ida, how about—
ALICE:
I think we all must do whatever it takes
For the march to go on
Even if that means waiting your turn
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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