Gene Kelly credited as playing...
Danny McGuire
- Danny McGuire: Hey, do you like Glenn Miller?
- Sonny: Do you like rock 'n' roll?
- Danny McGuire: I love rock 'n' roll.
- Sonny: I love Glenn Miller.
- Danny McGuire: Don't tell anyone, but I'm nervous.
- Kira: What about?
- Danny McGuire: I haven't had a club opening since... 1945. Wow.
- Kira: Then just pretend it's 1945 all over again.
- Danny McGuire: [looks fondly at Kira] I don't have to pretend. It *is* 1945 all over again.
- Sonny: [Sonny hears a clarinet being played, and goes to investigate, finding Danny McGuire sitting on some rocks] Hey mister, what are you doing up there?
- Danny McGuire: Hope you don't mind a little noon-time music, kid. A little lunch time serenade.
- Sonny: Oh, I don't mind. It's kinda nice. But I was just wondering where they laid out the body. I mean, you got something a little more upbeat?
- Danny McGuire: Sure!
- [Plays a short, lively upbeat piece]
- Danny McGuire: Better?
- Sonny: [chuckles] Well, at least it's faster!
- Danny McGuire: [chuckles] Here, gimme a hand kid.
- Sonny: Sure.
- Danny McGuire: Boy oh boy, they sure don't make rocks like they used to!
- Sonny: Want some popcorn?
- Danny McGuire: Kid, can you imagine it?
- Sonny: Imagine what?
- Danny McGuire: A bandstand. Right over there in that corner. And a big band, like in the 40s.
- Sonny: Nah, nah, nah. Bandstands went out with running boards. Over there. A great rock 'n' roll band. This is the 80s!
- Danny McGuire: Real smooth dancers... wild trombone... the band decked out in tuxedos.
- Sonny: Six guys wearing electric orange... synthesizer... heavy precussion... electric guitar.
- Danny McGuire: Lots of glamour. Everybody dressed in elegance and style.
- Sonny: You ever think about going back into music?
- Danny McGuire: Oh, only about 20 or 30 times a day.
- Danny McGuire: [after Sonny drives off of the edge of the pier] You're a real Errol Flynn, kid... what else do you do?
- Danny McGuire: Kira, I want you to promise me one thing.
- Kira: Anything!
- Danny McGuire: On opening night, I get the first dance.
- Kira: Okay.
- Sonny: You're gonna dance?
- Danny McGuire: Oh, I've been known to twinkle a toe or two.
- Kira: In Xanadu, did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree...
- Danny McGuire: "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea." Yes, Xanadu.
- Kira: I'm Kira.
- Danny McGuire: Yes, Kira. But...
- Kira: But?
- Danny McGuire: Don't I know you?
- Kira: I don't think so.
- Danny McGuire: Are you sure? Because...
- Kira: Because?
- Danny McGuire: Never mind.
- Danny McGuire: You know, I used to be in the music business, but now I'm what you might call retired. It's a refined name for bum.