Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series)

The New York Philharmonic's Performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel (2013)

Shuler Hensley: Jigger Craigin

Quotes 

• Billy Bigelow : Does he have to be killed?

  Jigger Craigin : No, he doesn't have to be. He can give up the money without being killed. But these New Englanders are funny. They'd rather be killed. Well?

  Billy Bigelow : I won't do it! It's dirty!

• Billy Bigelow : You got something to tell me, make it quick.

  Julie Jordan : I can't tell it so quick. Why don't you drink your coffee and by the time you drink it, I'll have told you?

  Billy Bigelow : Well?

  Julie Jordan : Well, yesterday my head ached and asked me If I were sick, but it weren't nothing like that. Heh. It's awful hard to tell you. I ain't a bit ashamed because it's perfectly natural when two people live together and... I'm gonna have a baby.

  Billy Bigelow : You...

  Julie Jordan : Mm-hmm.

  Billy Bigelow : A baby?

  Julie Jordan : Yeah.

  Billy Bigelow : [laughs, picks Julie up and spins her around]  Oh...

  [suddenly concerned about spinning her] 

  Jigger Craigin : Where you going?

  Billy Bigelow : Hey, Jigger! Julie's gonna have a baby!

  Jigger Craigin : Yeah, what about it?

  Billy Bigelow : Nothing.

  Jigger Craigin : [sighs]  My mother had a baby once.

• Jigger Craigin : [picks Carrie up over his shoulder]  This how firemen carry people.

  Carrie Pipperidge : Is it?

  Jigger Craigin : See how helpless you can make a fella if he gets fresh with you?

  Carrie Pipperidge : Mr. Craig...

  [sees Enoch] 

  Carrie Pipperidge : hello, Enoch! This is the way firemen carry people.

  Mr. Enoch Snow : Where's the fire?

  Carrie Pipperidge : He was just showing me how to defend myself.

  Mr. Enoch Snow : It didn't look like you'd learned very much by the time I came!

• Jigger Craigin : Tut-tut-tut. Carnival hussie coming between a man and his wife.

  Mrs. Mullin : Oh, yeah, call names. But I got him back just the same and you're through!

  Jigger Craigin : Put on a new coat of paint. You're starting to peel you old pleasure boat!

  [Leaves, Billy enters] 

  Mrs. Mullin : You'll be wanting an advance on your salary. It's only fair you being out of work such a long time.

  [hands Billy money] 

  Billy Bigelow : [gives money back]  Go on back to your carousel, Mrs. Mullin.

• Mr. Enoch Snow : [singing]  I might've had a baby...

  Jigger Craigin : [speaking]  What?

  Mr. Enoch Snow : [singing]  ... to dandle on my knee.