Alice at the Palace | movie | 1982 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures i | dG1fd0NSeF9lNEdGdVU

Transcript

00:00do you want to play croquet okay come on honey jump jump jump jump this is the most curious

00:13croquet ground I've ever seen in all my life jump darling jump jump it's all ridges and furrows I

00:19said jump jump the croquet balls are live hedgehogs and the croquet mallets are live flamingos

00:27you two darling off with our head I mean um the chief difficulty seems to be in managing the

00:39flamingo once you get it tucked away comfortably enough under the arm with the with with the legs

00:55with the legs with the legs hanging down and once you get its neck nicely straightened out

01:03and you're going to give the hedgehog a blow with its head

01:10it looks up in your face and gives you such a puzzled expression that everyone bursts out laughing

01:17I've come to the conclusion it's a very difficult game indeed

01:26oh never play croquet with the ball that's a hedgehog hedgehog run away

01:37never hit a hedgehog with the beak of a flamingo that's not how to play croquet

01:43you'll be stuck with your pork in the muck and you'll be stuck

01:50you'll be stuck with your pork in the muck and you'll be stuck

01:54you'll be stuck with your pork in the muck and you'll be stuck

02:19you'll be stuck with your pork in the muck and you'll be stuck

02:21I see lots of hedgehogs running

02:30I see lots of flamingos sunning themselves

02:40In this tropical day

02:43It isn't fair

02:47It's my turn now

02:54Never play progay with the ball

02:58It's the hedgehog

02:59Cause the hedgehog will run away

03:01Never hit a hedgehog

03:03With the beagle or the bingo

03:05Cause that's not how to play progay

03:07And you'll be stuck

03:09With your bug in the bug

03:10And you'll be stuck

03:12And you'll be stuck

03:15With your bug in the bug

03:17And you'll be stuck

03:18And you'll be stuck

03:21With your bug in the bug

03:23And you'll be

03:24I don't think they play at all fairly

03:26Stuck