Original Broadway Cast of Caroline, or Change
Rose Stopnick Can Cook
[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
In 1963 our widowed son
A tragedy, a tragedy
Married a friend from New York City
A pity, a pity

[STUART]
Wonderful things come to an end
Marry a friend
Make a new start

[GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Rose Stopnick can cook
Rose Stopnick is lovely
Rose Stopnick doesn't smoke
Or play the bassoon

[CAROLINE]
Night, Mrs. Gellman, I done wash the clothes

[ROSE]
Please, call me Rose

[CAROLINE]
I put up the shrimps, I washed the floor upstairs, I dusted the World Book Encyclopedia, I ironed the linens
[ROSE]
And please take this cabbage home to your kids

[CAROLINE]
Don't like the smell
Night, Mrs. Gellman

[NOAH AND GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Rose Stopnick can cook

[STUART]
Make a new start

[NOAH]
Rose Stopnick is nice to me

[ROSE]
Noah, darling, look
You left change in your pants pockets again

[NOAH AND GRANDMA AND GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Rose Stopnick doesn't smoke

[STUART]
Marry a friend, make a new start
[NOAH]
I hate her
I hate her
With all my heart