Good Morning, Good Day

[ARPAD]
Good morning

[SIPOS]
Good day

[ARPAD]
How are you this beautiful day? Isn't this a beautiful morning?

[SIPOS]
Very

[ARPAD]
Hey, Sipos, how's this?

[SIPOS]
That's an awfully elegant pose. But is all that elegance necessary?

[ARPAD, spoken]
And why not? I represent Maraczek's, don't I? We're not a butcher shop or a hardware store. We're a parfumerie. And that means we're... we're...

[SIPOS]
We're stylish

[ARPAD]
That's it!

[SIPOS]
With a quiet dignity

[ARPAD]
Yes! And we get the tilt of our hats right

[SIPOS]
That's right

[ARPAD]
When I ride my bike, people see what Maraczek's like. So I think it's very important that I look my best

[SIPOS, spoken]
And, uh, how many people have you run over today?

[ARPAD, spoken]
Not one

[SIPOS, spoken]
Well, it's early

[ARPAD, spoken]
Here comes Miss Ritter

[SIPOS]
Ah

[ARPAD, spoken]
She spent the night with Mr. Kodaly

[SIPOS, spoken]
Again?

[ARPAD, spoken]
They always kiss goodbye at the newsstand. Then, she walks around the block to make us think she's been home

[ILONA]
Good morning

[ARPAD & SIPOS]
Good day

[ILONA]
How are you this glorious day? Have you seen a lovelier morning?

[ARPAD & SIPOS]
Never

[ILONA]
It's too nice a day, to be inside shuffling soap. I have no more energy whatsoever

(spoken)
Anybody mind if I take the day off? Arpad, why aren't you old enough to take me away from all this?

[ARPAD, spoken]
I'm old enough

[ILONA, spoken]
Well, then marry me, and I'll quit my job. No... I'm afraid you're not really quite old enough

[ARPAD, spoken]
It won't be long, though. I'm catching up. You know, Miss Horvath always used to say I'd get to be 35 before you ever did

[SIPOS, spoken]
Ah, Mr. Kodaly

[KODALY]
Good morning

[ARPAD, SIPOS & ILONA]
Good day

[KODALY]
How are you this radiant day? What a rare, magnificent morning

[ARPAD, SIPOS & ILONA]
Is it?

[KODALY]
Good morning, my dear. How are you this ravishing day? Do you know you've never looked more exquisite?

[ILONA]
Thank you, kind sir

[KODALY, spoken]
What a lovely dress

[ARPAD, spoken]
Same one she had on yesterday, Mr. Kodaly

[SIPOS, spoken]
Well, if it isn't Mr. Nowack

[GEORG]
Good morning

[ARPAD, SIPOS, ILONA & KODALY]
Good day

[GEORG]
Isn't that a beautiful sky?
What a perfect sample of summer weather
It's too nice a day, to be indoors counting out change
What a waste of holiday weather, all together
Let's all run away

[ILONA]
Wouldn't it be something if we all took off from work?

[SIPOS]
Leaving Mr. Maraczek without a single clerk?

[ARPAD]
Why not have a picnic?

[SIPOS]
I could bring my wife's preserves

[KODALY]
Champagne might be nice with hot hors d'oeuvres

[ARPAD, SIPOS & GEORG]
It's too nice a day

[ILONA & KODALY]
It's too nice a day

[ARPAD, SIPOS & GEORG]
To be stuck inside of a store

[ILONA & KODALY]
To be stuck inside of a store

[ARPAD, SIPOS & GEORG]
We could all be getting a...

[ILONA & KODALY]
We could all be getting a...

[ARPAD, SIPOS & GEORG]
Suntan

[ILONA & KODALY]
Suntan

[ARPAD, SIPOS & GEORG]
It's so nice a day

[ILONA & KODALY]
It's so nice a day

[ARPAD, SIPOS & GEORG]
To be dozing under a tree

[ILONA & KODALY]
To be dozing under a tree

[SIPOS]
Then we'll all be out of a job

[ILONA]
If it costs that much to get suntanned

[SIPOS]
I'll stay untanned

[KODALY]
Pale, but solvent

[ARPAD]
A picnic...

[ALL]
A picnic... Ah... oh, well