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Favorite Quotes from the Play(or movie)


I have to go with...

"don't be stingy with the blintzes"

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i like that line too, my school is doing it now, and i'm helping with the costumes.

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My school just finished the show today and i was a G-Man in it. I like the part were Ed and Essie say they have to ask Grandpa if they can have a baby, then later in the play Essis asks Ed if Grandpa said yes and then they run upstairs. It was really funny.

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"that's my mother"

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Bathroom? Mr. Kirby

And I feel I'll live on forever!
With Satin himself by my side!

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[Reba's setting the table for dinner]
Reba: "Let's see...six, and Mr. DePinna, and if Mr, Kolenkov comes that'll make 8, won't it?"

[sounds of firecrackers popping, whirring and booming]

Reba: [deadpan]: Yeaaaah...I better set for 8."

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Kolenkov: No one writes to me. They're all dead. It's his delivery as much as the line.

Fatima had a fetish for a wiggle in her scoot

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From the movie (don't know if this is from the play), when they're all in jail, Grandpa to Mr. Kirby: "well, you did come on the wrong night, you know."

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He said that in the play, and added, well the Broadway production anyway for sure, "Now TONIGHT, I'll bet you nothing will happen...maybe."

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