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shaina taub & original broadway cast of suffs - find a way lyrics

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lucy
alice?

alice
lucy, thank god!

lucy
i got your telegram and came
as soon as i could
what’s the emergency?

alice
the first protest march ever held
in our nation’s capital

lucy
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
holy cow! how many in it?

alice
counting you?

lucy
don’t say two?

alice
two

lucy
but alice, we’re not in college anymore
we’ve never planned a national action before

alice
nope

how will we do it when it’s never been done?
how will we find a way when there isn’t one?

alice, lucy
[chorus]
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
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
i’m alice paul and this is my best friend lucy burns

lucy
we were field hockey teammates at swarthmore

alice
offense!

lucy
defense!

inez
wow, ok. sporty. why don’t we
have a smoke?

alice
oh yes, we adore cigarettes

lucy
[cough] it’s really nice

alice
we want you to be the grand marshall of our suffrage march

inez
ms. paul, i’m far too busy with the bar

alice
she’d rather get liquored
than fight our liberty?

inez
i’m studying
for the bar _exam_

alice
oh, that’s marvelous
we could use your legal sk!lls
to precure our permit?
this march is unprecedented

inez
how so?

alice
it’s on pennsylvania avenue

inez
oh

alice
the day before the inauguration

inez
oooohhhhh

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
where the h_ll are we getting a horse?

[chorus]
alice, lucy
how will we do it when it’s never been done?
how will we find a way when 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

inez
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 the mills
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
that was a great speech

inez
ruza, this is alice paul from the suffrage movement

lucy
suffrage is votes
for women

ruza
i’m polish, not stupid
look
i want no part of your polite little suffragette parlor games

alice
well that’s perfect
because when we take on a tyrant
we burn him down

ruza
so how do we afford a march?

[chorus]
alice, inez, lucy, ruza
how will we do it when it’s never been done?
how will we find a way when there isn’t one?
how will we find a way, find a way?
we’ve got to find a way, find a way

alice
get up on this soapbox

inez
oooh!

alice
stand there

ruza
but no one’s here

alice
gotta start somewhere

inez
women of the country
how long
must women wait
for liberty?
how long?

chorus
how long
must we wait

inez
must we wait

chorus
must we wait

ruza
must we wait

chorus
must we wait

inez
join us
in a march
on march 3rd

ruza
give some money

alice
spread the word

ruza
give more money!

inez
make your voice heard

chorus
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 when 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
march for our liberty!

alice
lucy, who is she?

lucy
doris stevens

doris
a student
from nebraska

lucy
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
i wrote up these leaflets too

alice
so you’re a writer?

doris
yes sir_ma’am!
yes i am!

alice
congratulations on your new job

doris
what?

alice
you’re our secretary now
keep a record

doris
february 1st
doris stevens named secretary!

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?

doris
february 2nd
a meeting with
officer slyvester

major sylvester
it’s major sylvester

alice
major! we need a permit for a protest on the 3rd of march

major sylvester
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
father?

inez
senator dwight
chair of the law enforcement treasury
you know?
the man who signs your paycheck

major sylvester
you can have your dawggone permit
now get the heck out of my sight

inez
thank you, officer

major sylvester
major

alice
is he really your father?

inez
i used to date his son

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?

doris
one week to go

alice
numbers?

doris
26 floats
9 brigades
a delegation from all 48 states

alice
200 marshalls

ruza
10 marching bands

doris
representatives from?

alice
30

doris
30 universities

inez
contingents from
15 professions

alice
oh, and the dancers for the pageant!

doris
so we’re at one
wait no, 2
with the crowd depending
200,000 people attending

inez
we’re gonna need more pinwheels

[all at once]
lucy
should we all spread out
or stick together
if inez is up front
should i be i the middle
alice wants to be
[[needs work]]

doris, inez, ruza
tk tk tk tk

alice
we can do it!

all
how will we do it when it’s never been?
how will find a way where there isn’t one?

doris
ms. paul
ida b. wells wrote to say
she plans to march

lucy
ida b who?

inez, alice, doris, ruza
ida b. wells

inez
she’s a famous journalist

doris
but

alice
what?

doris
well, we’ve received letters from several southern donors threatening to pull out if colored women partic_p_te

alice
but we’ve already said they’re welcome to partic_p_te

doris
one proposes we tactfully ask colored women to withdraw

inez
tactfully

doris
others say they must march in back

alice
let’s make a special colored delegation at the back of line, no one pulls out
it will all be fine

ruza
i’m an immigrant
so should i march in back too?

alice// all
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

ida
so you’re this alice paul
i’ve been hearing so much about

alice
mrs. wells!

ida
well, you’ve got quite the team

alice
yes!

inez
we haven’t slept in weeks

ida
please
i have four children
i haven’t slept in years

alice
we’re glad you’re here for the march

ida
i’m not only here for the march
my club has also come
to agitate for
laws against lynching
my people cannot vote
if they are hanging from trees

all
we support you

ruza
yes!

ida
why have i been told to march in back?

alice
all due respect, but we don’t have a choice
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 suffragists 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 ?

inez
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

- shaina taub original broadway cast of suffs lyrics

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