Broadway production 1998 Ragtime the Musical - Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. Lyrics
"Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc." is a song from musical Ragtime performed by Peter Friedman (Tateh).
Tateh: anyone can get lucky in America. I remind myself of this everyday.
the first nickel I ever earned, I keep in a little silver frame. it's how I gave my company a name, reminding me how very far I came! I was a maker of the silhouettes who made a small improvement- a little book of silhouettes that simulated movement. well, people seemed to like it, soon the money's going clink! and I'm buffalo nickel photoplay, inc! I go from silhouettes to photos. I invent a small projector, and soon, I'm making movies and they're calling me director! an industry is dawning and i'm standing on the brink- mister buffalo nickel photoplay, inc! life shines from the shadow screen comical, yet infinitely true. people love to see what people do, here where everyone is someone new. such tales from the shadow screen! little men who never get the breaks, fighting on till something fin'lly takes- what a lovely movie it all makes! well, business is booming I'm happy to say. I just made a contract to film for pathe a series of chapters that end in suspense- each week, see what's next for another five cents! and I am waking every morning filled with such anticipation! I frame the sea, I frame the sky. and this is my vacation. I shake your hand, I kiss your hand, I buy you all a drink! and maybe if you chance to see a movie that was made by me remember when the name goes by that's ash-k-e-n-a-z-y the baron, now american, who happened once to think of silhouette and flicker book and movies as they're meant to look and buffalo nickel photoplay, inc! action!
Other Songs: Ragtime the Musical Lyrics
Ragtime the Musical Lyrics
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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