The Schuyler Sisters
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Cast List:
Burr | Company | Angelica | Eliza | Peggy |
Schuyler Sisters | Men | Women
BURR
There’s nothing rich folks love more
Than going downtown and slummin’ it with the poor
They pull up in their carriages and gawk
At the students in the common
Just to watch them talk
Take Philip Schuyler: the man is
loaded
Uh-oh, but little does he know that
His daughters, Peggy, Angelica, Eliza
Sneak into the city just to watch all the guys at—
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA
Angelica!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ELIZA
Eliza!
PEGGY
And Peggy!
COMPANY
Work, work!
The Schuyler sisters!
ANGELICA
Angelica!
PEGGY
Peggy!
ELIZA
Eliza!
COMPANY
Work!
PEGGY
Daddy said to be home by sundown
ANGELICA
Daddy doesn’t need to know
PEGGY
Daddy said not to go downtown
ELIZA
Like I said, you’re free to go
ANGELICA
But—look around, look around, the
Revolution’s happening in New York
ELIZA/PEGGY
New York
COMPANY
Angelica
SCHUYLER SISTERS/COMPANY
Work!
PEGGY
It’s bad enough daddy wants to go to war
ELIZA
People shouting in the square
PEGGY
It’s bad enough there’ll be violence on our shore
ANGELICA
New ideas in the air
ANGELICA/MEN
Look around, look around—
ELIZA
Angelica, remind me what we’re looking
for…
MEN
She’s lookin’ for me!
ANGELICA
Eliza, I’m lookin’ for a mind at work
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA
I’m lookin’ for a mind at work!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA
I’m lookin’ for a mind at work!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA
Whooaaaaa!
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
Whooaaaaa!
SCHUYLER SISTERS/COMPANY
Work!
BURR
Wooh! There’s nothin’ like summer in the city
Someone in a rush next to someone lookin’ pretty
Excuse me, miss, I know it’s not funny
But your perfume smells like your daddy’s got money
Why you slummin’ in the city in your fancy heels
You searchin for an urchin who can give you ideals?
ANGELICA
Burr, you disgust me
BURR
Ah, so you’ve discussed me
I’m a trust fund, baby, you can trust me!
ANGELICA
I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas
Paine
So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane
You want a revolution? I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration:
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
“We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal”
ANGELICA
And when I meet Thomas Jefferson
COMPANY
Unh!
ANGELICA
I’m ‘a compel him to include women in the sequel!
WOMEN
Work!
ELIZA
Look around, look around at how
Lucky we are to be alive right now!
ELIZA/PEGGY
Look around, look around at how
Lucky we are to be alive right now!
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen
to be
In the greatest city in the world!
SCHUYLER SISTERS/COMPANY
In the greatest city in the world!
ELIZA/PEGGY
Look around, look around
The revolution’s happening in—
New York!
In New York!
ANGELICA
Cuz I’ve been reading Common Sense by Thomas
Paine
So men say that I’m intense or I’m insane
You want a revolution?
I want a revelation
So listen to my declaration:
MEN
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
WOMEN
Look around, look around the revolution’s happening
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created
equal
Whoo!
WOMEN
Look around
Look around
At how lucky we are to be alive right now
WOMEN
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
COMPANY
Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now!
History is happening in Manhattan and we just happen
to be
WOMEN
In the greatest city in the world
MEN
In the greatest city—
COMPANY
In the greatest city in the world!
Work, work!
ANGELICA
Angelica!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ELIZA
Eliza!
PEGGY
And Peggy!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
The Schuyler sisters!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
We’re looking for a mind at work!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
Hey!
COMPANY
Work, work!
ANGELICA/ELIZA/PEGGY
Hey!
ANGELICA
Whoa!
In the greatest
City in the world
ELIZA/PEGGY
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
In the greatest
City in the world
COMPANY
Work, work!
Work, work!
Work, work!
COMPANY
In the greatest city in the world!