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2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - Alva Belmont Lyrics
The song is written by Shaina Taub.
ALICE:
How will we do it when
It’s never been done?
How will we find a way
Where there isn’t one?
DORIS: (spoken)
So what just happened?!
RUZA: (spoken)
Did Carrie kick you out or did you quit?!
LUCY: (spoken)
As in - kick us out of NAWSA altogether?!
ALICE: (spoken)
Yes
INEZ:
How will we afford our travel?
DORIS:
How will we raise any money?
RUZA:
Have you even thought of money?
LUCY:
How will we -
ALICE: (spoken)
We can do it!
LUCY, INEZ, DORIS, RUZA, ALICE:
How will we do it
When it’s never been done?
ALICE:
I want us to meet someone
LUCY:
A socialist?
ALICE:
A social-ite...
ALVA:
Alva belmont
INEZ, LUCY, RUZA, DORIS, ALICE:
Alva belmont
ALVA:
I divorced my husband
For philandering
Now I’ve got his millions
For philanthropy
INEZ:
You really think she’ll
Give her money to a radical squad?
ALVA:
Every worthy cause
Needs a rich, old broad
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY, RUZA & DORIS:
Alva belmont
ALICE: (spoken)
I’m Alice Paul
ALVA:
Oh I know you who you are, doll
ALICE: (spoken)
We’re starting a woman’s political party
INEZ / LUCY / RUZA/ DORIS: (spoken)
What? / Sure / We are? / Yay!
ALICE:
And we’d love for you to join it
ALVA:
You mean you’d love
For me to fund it
ALICE: (spoken)
Oh, that would be great
ALVA: (spoken)
Let me get this straight -
(singins)
You gals just stood in front
Of the suffrage establishment
And the national press, no less
And declared political warfare
On wilson and his party
While the country’s
On the brink of war itself
And now you shamelessly demand
My riches of me
For this risky rebel coup?
The nerve of you
I love it.
(spoken)
To whom do I make out the check?
ALICE: (spoken)
The Woman’s Party
ALVA: (spoken)
Should be the National Woman’s Party -
Gives it more oomph
INEZ: (spoken)
Woman’s Party is sharper
ALVA:
Is this enough to cover your plans?
ALICE: (spoken)
National Woman’s Party it is!
RUZA: (spoken)
Now wait a tick!
(singings)
You capitalist elite merely want
To exploit the working class
To promote your own dominance
ALVA: (spoken)
Ooh I like you -
(singings)
You really put the ‘rage’ in suff-rage!
(spoken)
What’s your name, darling?
RUZA: (spoken)
Ruza.
ALVA:
Rosie, be a good little socialist
And socialize.
RUZA: (spoken)
That’s not what that means.
ALVA:
‘Cuz I’ve got a surprise,
Close your eyes
(spoken)
Rosie, close your eyes.
Open sesame!
Welcome to your new NWP
Headquarters right across the street
From the White House.
ALICE / INEZ / LUCY / DORIS / RUZA: (spoken)
What?! / It’s huge! / Holy mackerel! /
This is all for us? / Now I’m on board
ALVA: (spoken)
Now go head out west on a radical spree!
ALICE, INEZ, LUCY, DORIS, RUZA:
How can we ever thank you?
ALVA:
Someday you’ll name it after me
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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