Sophie's Dance - Act one
* Outside the Factory 7.30 Monday morning

Mrs Blabb - Now then Mrs Blebb. Here we are again, one fer all and all fer one

Mrs Blebb/Blabb - Here we are again, Happy as can be, all good friends and jolly good company

Mrs Blebb - Eh you what? All for Ackroyd you mean. All us silly sods working us socks off so's Ackroyd can send his snotty daughter to Switzerland

Mrs Blabb - Eh up? What's been rattling your cage? Live and be grateful to the likes of dear old Ackroyd for giving us a job so as we can earn a few bob to enjoy us selves. That's what I say anyroad fer after all yer a long time dead

Mrs Blebb - [seriously] Oh aye Mrs Blabb Have you eard about little Sophie she's right poorly so they say

Mrs Blabb - Ah know! the' took her to't hospital early Saturday morning

Mrs Blebb - Aye we eard it an all. Me and my little Willie were avin us a moment of bliss- that damned siren fair knocked him off his stride
* Enter Mrs Emsley

Mrs Blabb - Eh up blanche! We've heard about Sophie. What's happened???

Mrs Emsley - Well she's going to be all right. She'll be in hospital a few more days though

Mrs Blabb - What did she do?
Mrs Emsley Well she poisoned herself you know! She went off dancing down't cow pastures after school and she must av eaten those big red berries. Anyroads she was right bad y'know ; vomiting, sweating and choking so we had to get't ambulance

Mrs Blabb - Thank God she'll be ok she's a smashing little girl, always laughing an dancing- a right little smasher

Mrs Blebb - A lovely name an all. Right posh blanche-not common at all. where do you get that from?

Mrs Emsley - Well when Alf wor int war his best pal was Reginald Smythe- a posh lad from down't south

Mrs Blabb - You mean Doncaster

Mrs Blebb - No you idiot London way she means. go on blanche

Mrs Emsley - [ distractedly] well-er-anyroads-er-oh aye! Reginald's lass were called Sophie and Alf always said that he'd name our's after her especially as they were at Arnhem together and Reg saved Alf's life but got killed himself
Mrs Blebb/Blabb Oh!
* A few moments silence ended by the factory siren

Mr Ackroyd - Na then you lot let's av ya

Mrs Blebb - Eh up. Start of another perfect day

Mrs Blabb - [to Mrs E caringly] Come on love, don't suppose you feel like working today?

Mrs Emsley - No! we were at hospital all last night with our little treasure but one things for sure

Mrs Blabb - What's that?

Mrs Emsley - Our little Sophie wont have to work in this place when she grows up

Mr Ackroyd - Come on i'm not payin ya to stand round and gossip

Act 2- Ten years later outside the Factory 7.30 am

Mrs Blabb - Now then Mrs Blebb Here we are again one fer all and all fer one

Mrs Blebb/Blabb - here we are again..........

Mrs Blebb - Eh up! Here comes little Sophie. Her silly mother thought she were too good to work in't factory-making her have those silly dancing lessons to be a ballet dancer or summat

Mrs Blabb - Shurrup. You've a rotten tongue! now then Sophie love, how are you enjoying working at factory?
Sophie It's Horrible!!

Mrs Blebb - [harshly] We thought you were going to be a dancer love. we didn't expect to see you working here

Sophie - [innocently] I had to stop having them Dancing lessons-we couldn't afford them

Mrs Blabb - [consolingly] well never mind love. Them things are fer those posh folk not fer't likes of us. We're best off being what we are
* Factory siren

Mr Ackroyd - Na then let's av ya
Mrs Blebb Come on me lovelies, another day in paradise

Act 3- dinner time in the factory Mrs Blabb/Blebb are looking out of a window

Mrs Blabb - Look at Sophie go

Mrs Blebb - Aye she's fair racing up that hillside like a greyhound

Mrs Blabb - Like a rat up a drainpipe more like an every dinner time anall. it's a wonder where she gets her energy from

Mrs Blebb - Loves young dream. she's courting that young Jimmy-lee he's an ugly boy

Mrs Blabb - Shurrup you've a rotten tongue! anyway them lee's are a right nice family and so as't Emsley's an all

Mrs Blebb - Well it's not his family she's supposed to be marrying-it's him. But I know something about him she doesn't- he's two timing her

Mrs Blabb - Oh no! you're making it up!!

Mrs Blebb - Well my Willie goes for a pint every Thursday with his cousins up at blue bell up at windy holes. He's always there with one of them posh lasses. So if she's thinking of dancing to't alter she'll need a new partner to do it with.
# SONG-Gently through the Valley

Act 4- Sophie's monologue

Sophie - [crying] Oh woe is me!! [sob]
so it's true. Jimmy has written to me and told me were not going to get married. [sob]
What shall I do
What shall I do? Woe is me
I feel as unhappy as a flea
About to be gassed, or a pea
about to be boiled in a salty sea
I'm a lame monkey stuck up a tree
I'm like an athlete with a dodgy knee
I am so unhappy I could dee
I don't even want a cup of tea
It's as if my hearts been stung by a bee
A happy dancer is not what I'll be
I'll never marry my little Jimmy Lee
# SONG - Are My Tears too late

Act 5- Enter Derek

Sophie - Here comes my best friend Derek,a sweet and sensitive soul. Just the kind mate to share my sorrow

Derek - [loud and coarsely] Eh u Sophie. I hear you've been Chucked!!!

Sophie - Oh my dear sweet Derek thank you for making me feel so much better with your soft consoling words

Derek - He wor a two-timing ugly little worm anyway-yer best off getting rid

Sophie - Do you know Derek, I hate living here-that horrible job, loads of mean minded people knowing all yer business. I want to leave it all behind. Oh to go to a pure land-far away, far away where they wont see me, far away where they wont hear me, far away from

Derek - [thoughtly] Mmm!! I don't know about that. My uncle went to Bognor once and got bitten by bed-bugs.

Sophie - Where the summer sun will bathe my body in it's beauty and the soft spring rain will wash away all-

Derek - Don't go to Cleethorpes, My uncle Cliff went there once and got vicious constipation

Sophie - Where in the shades of green my wandering mind s stilled and rested, where the manic city's reddened eye wont-

Derek - [with alarm] Eh up!! your right ranting and raving now! Best thing you can do is come out boozing with me an't rest of em on Friday. Meet us at mucky Duck at
8 o'clock
# SONG - Far away from here

Act 6- outside the Factory, 7.30 am

Mrs Blabb - Now then Mrs Blebb!! here we are again. One fer all and all fer one

Mrs Blebb/Blabb - Here we are again...........

Mrs Blebb - Here comes Sophie - with a suitcase! Eh up Sophie! where are you going?

Sophie - To't Station. slow train to Leeds and then 9 o'clock to Kings Cross

Mrs Blabb - Where's that

Mrs Blebb - London you crackpot!!! What are you going there for love?

Sophie - To start a new life away from the cloudy hills of Yorkshire

Mrs Blabb - But what are you going to do? where are you going to live?

Mrs Blebb - It can be a cruel and lonely place I've heard

Mrs Blabb - I've heard it's all right apart from't people

Mrs Blebb - Aye, they ave some right funny folk down there - cannibals and murderers that kill you then eat you

Mrs Blabb - Aye and some of them eat bits of you then kill you

Mrs Blebb - But don't let us put you off

Mrs Blabb - Do you know anybody down there

Sophie - Well. Me uncle Harry has fixed me up with a bed sit in Holloway road and 'im at own's it has a clothes factory so I'm starting there tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock

Mrs Blebb - Some people have all the luck

Mrs Blabb - Shurrup!! [to Sophie] Well love, it sounds right good so best of luck and look after yourself

Mrs Blebb - Tara love take care
# SONG - The cloudy hills of Yorkshire

Act 7 - Sophie is alone in her Bed sit

Sophie - I am Fed up of this lonely life
I wish I was at home as Jimmy's Wife
The Job is bad I am so sad
there are no friends that I have made
All my hopes have begun to fade
I wish I was back at home
* A scratching noise at the door
Sophie What's that [she opens the door]
Goodness me a cat. hello sweetheart! come in! want some milk?
Cat Meow!
Sophie Just a minute cat, there drink that!
* She puts down a saucer of milk

Sophie - Just think if only you could talk, you would be my best friend in ,London town

Cat - In that case girl, prepare yourself for a pleasant shock. Genghis is my name being a talking cat is my game.

Sophie - Wow!! a talking cat!!!!

Cat - Not only that missus, I can see into the future too. Happiness can be your fate, if only you go home before it's too late

Sophie - How do you mean?

Cat - Well, Jimmy your own true love misses you so much - you are his life's sweetheart!!
Get on that train, take a ride and soon you'll be a blushing bride.
# SONG- sweet falls the northern rain

Act 8 the wedding reception. All the characters except Genghis are there.

Sophie - Oh finally we're married!

Jimmy - Y'know it wont true, it wo just the people talking that made me spli up wi ya

Sophie - Aye i know now sorry i eva doubted ya

Jimmy - So then Sophie are ya gonna show us ya stuff on the dancefloor, lets see if those dancing lessons payed off

Derek - Eh up lass who'd of thought it?

Sophie - Aye an were so happy

Derek - This ad betta not stop us nights out down at mucky ducks

Sophie - Na it wont
* move to back of stage

Mrs Blebb/Blabb - There hey are again, happy as can be, worked out all their problems together finally

Mrs Blabb - it's bin a good day ant it love

Mrs Blebb - aye it's bin good

Mrs Blabb - Well Sophie Dear you look right lovely and so does Jimmy too in his new suit

Mrs Blebb - Yes I always said he wor an handsome boy-even though his suit's too big for him

Mrs Blabb - Eh up blanche love!!! it's nice to see Sophie looking so happy

Mrs Emsley - Yes. She' got a good un there. I always said them Lees and us Emsleys were right for each other

Mrs Blabb - A Marriage in Calderdale made in Heaven

Mrs Emsley - You're dead right there Enid well said

Mrs Blabb - It's been a right good do anall, Blanche, proper food an all

Mrs Emsley - Oh aye, you can't beat them black pudding and dripping sandwiches y'know. They grease your chest up and keep out' cold. Proper food an all. reyt healthy. Our uncle Amos swore by them He did an all

Mrs Blebb - And how long did he live?

Mrs Emsley - He died when he wor 27. He wor dead unlucky

Mrs Blabb - Where are you going for't honeymoon Sophie love?

Sophie - Oh Blackpool. we're catching 3 o'clock train
Jimmy Dead excited aswell arent ya love

Mrs Blabb - ow ya payin 4 that

Jimmy - I've bin saving up

Mrs Blebb - And are you coming back to't factory?
* Mr Ackroyd Walks past

Sophie - Yes Mr Ackroyd's been ever so kind. He says I can have Monday off but if I'm late on Tuesday ill get sacked

Mr Ackroyd - and dont dare be a minute late, only joking love av a good day

Mrs Emsley - Yes. They're right good bosses them Ackroyd's. they know how to treat folk properly y'know. Sophie love, it's right good to see you back home with yer friends and family around you. You and Jimmy living in't next street where you belong.

Mr Ackroyd - good do this nice food anall, i remember in my day music were nowt like today........
* Mrs emsley walks Mr Ackroyd off

Jimmy - are you enjoying yourself love

Sophie - aye i am avin a reyt good time how bout you?

Jimmy - aye me too i love you mrs lee

Sophie - aye i love you too mr lee

Derek - well now then you two you look reyt happy

Sophie - aye we are

Derek - you beta treat her right you

Jimmy - aye i will do

Derek - you look dead beautiful you do im proud of ya.

Sophie - thank you your so kind

Derek - aye you've got good un there

Sophie - i know

Derek - enjoy rest of your night, so far it's bin a classic