Avery goes back to sweeping. Sam keeps watching the window as if he hopes [Rose] might appear again.
-- Stage Direction (Act 1, Scene 2)

Importance: This stage direction is important because when it’s enacted onstage, it indicates to the audience just how attracted Sam is to Rose, and how much he wants her to pay attention to him.

Well, it is kind of dinner money, because we’re so vastly underpaid and because Steve is a total douchebag and doesn’t have a credit card machine and is like totally fishy anyway with his finances and basically has like no idea how to run a movie theatre … Steve is like a compulsive gambler who doesn’t pay child support. He has like five kids somewhere in like Maine and his ex-wife is always taking him to court.
-- Rose (Act 1, Scene 3)

Importance: These lines indicate just how much Rose dislikes Steve. It also foreshadows the moment later in the play when...