Andrew Rannells & Josh Gad - Prologue

{bud as narrator, spoken}
Prologue: lights rise on the squalid, stinky bedroom of a friend of gutenberg's

{doug as narrator, spoken}
The roof is made of dirty thatch. in the corner, there are rats gnawing on stinky cheese; and, lying absolutely still, in the middle of the room, without moving, is a dead baby

{bud as narrator, spoken}
Gutenberg’s friend and a doctor examine the dead baby

{doug as doctor, spoken}
We did all we could
I'm afraid your baby is dead

{bud as friend of gutenberg, spoken}
Dead?! but i gave him this medicine!

{doug as doctor, spoken}
Them ain't medicine, thems jelly beans!

{bud as friend of gutenberg, spoken}
Jelly beans? but i...

{doug as doctor, spoken}
If only you could read... see ya

{bud as friend of gutenberg}
Jelly beans... not medicine?
If only i could read
My son he wouldn’t need...
An elegy...
Stupid beans! not medicine!
Oh god, here in this jar
I can't read what these are...
Damn jelly beans....

{doug as gutenberg, spoken}
Hello, friend! is there anything johann gutenberg can do?

{bud as friend of gutenberg, spoken}
Can you bring a dead baby back to life?

{doug as gutenberg, spoken}
I don't think so

{bud as friend of gutenberg sobs}

{doug as narrator, spoken}
Friend of gutenberg sobs like a woman. he cradles his dead baby in his illiterate arms
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