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Start: Tonight I want whiskey. I’m bro...

Jess Simple

Simply Heavenly

Langston Hughes David Martin

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Five
Time & Place
1950s, Harlem, Paddy’s Bar
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Musical
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Tonight I want whiskey. I’m broke, busted, and disgusted. And I just spent near my last nickel for a paper--and there ain’t no news in it about colored folks.

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End:

Negroes can’t even get into the front page news no kind of way. I can’t even see a flying saucer. When I do, that will be a great day.

For full monologue, see Langston Hughes, Simply Heavenly, in Five Plays by Langston Hughes, ed. Webster Smalley. Indiana UP, 1968, pp.139.

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