Chapter Nine
Toulouse: I know she still loves him... there's got to be a reason...
Argentinean: How 'bout one of them is a duke and the other (he falls asleep)
Toulouse: Something's wrong...
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(Piper
is coughing)
Prue: A bit more for me lovey, there you go...
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Warner: The boy is here...
Morris: I told Satine that if Leo were to come near her he would be killed!
Warner: He very soon will be...
Toulouse: He will be killed... that's it! That's why she's pushing him away - to save him! That's it, that's it! LeO! Oh god this is high up!
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(Leo
appears at the door to Piper's dressing room)
Leo: I've
come to pay my bill.
Piper: You shouldn't be here Leo. Just leave.
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Toulouse: Be killed, killed... killed! I must warn him!
Leo: You made me believe that you loved me! Why shouldn't I pay you?
Piper: Please...
Prue: She's got to get on the stage!
Morris: Jealousy has driven the sitar player into hiding!
Leo: If it's you job, you did it very, very well... Why can't I pay you like everyone else does?
Piper: Leo, it's nothing just leave...
Morris: But I have found him!
Piper: (sees Warner with a gun) Go. Please go...
Leo: But if it wasn't real...
Piper: Go...
Leo: Why can't I pay you?
Toulouse: Leo! Leo!
Morris: Open the doors!
Leo: Let me pay! Let me pay!
Morris: Open the doors!
Leo: Tell me it wasn't real! Tell me you don't love me!
Morris: Open the doors!
Leo:
Tell me you don't love me! Tell me you don't love me!
(the doors
open, leaving Leo and Piper exposed to the audience)
Morris: Ha Ha Ha! I am not fooled! Though he has shaved off his beard and adopts a disguise, mine eyes do not lie! For it is he! The same, penniless sitar player! Driven mad by jealousy!
Leo:
This woman is yours now. I've paid my whore. I owe you nothing. And
you are nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous
obsession with love.
(Leo walks down the aisle of the theatre)
Toulouse: I can't remember my line!
Morris: This sitar player doesn't love you! See, he flees the kingdom! (to Piper) Pumpkin, it's for the best. You know it is. The show must go on. (to Audience) And now my bride, it is time for you to raise your voice to the heavens and say your wedding vows!
Toulouse: I've got it! I've got it! Leo, stoooooooooopppppp! The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return!
Piper:
Never knew
I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the
sky before
Want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I'm loving
you more and more
Listen to my heart
Can you hear it sing
Come
back to me
And forgive everything
(she gasps)
Seasons may
change, winter to spring
(whispers) But I love you
(sings) til
the end of time
Leo:
Come what may
Come what may
Come what may
Come what may
I
will love you
Piper: I will love you
Leo:
Until my dying day
Piper: Dying day
Both: Come what may
Leo: Come what may
Piper: Come what may
Both: I will love you until my dying...
Toulouse: (spoken) Leo! He's got a gun! They're trying to kill you!
Morris: (spoken) Shut up!
Toulouse: (spoken) Look, he's got a gun!
Doctor:Vive
la vie la boheme!
(utter chaos on stage
- Argentinean wakes up and bursts through the doors)
Argentinean: No problem! Go back to work!
Cast: No matter what you say, you shouldn't stand in our way. You've got to stand your ground! For Freedom, Beauty, Truth and Love! Children of the Revolution...
Piper: I'll fly away
Leo: My gift is my song...
Cast: No, you won't fool the Children of the Revolution (repeated)
Piper: I'll fly away
Leo: My gift is my song!
Cast: Come what may
Leo and Piper: I will love you!
Cast: Come what may
Leo and Piper: Yes, I will love you!
Cast: Come what may
Leo and Piper: I will love you until my dying
(Dan
picks up the gun which has somehow ended up in the aisle of the
theatre. He points his gun at the lovers)
Dan:(spoken)My way! My way! (Morris punches him
and he falls to the ground)
Leo and Piper: day!
(audience
applauds and cheers)
Man: Stand by for curtain call!
Dancers positions please!
(Piper
coughs and wheezes)
Leo: Piper! (she coughs more) Piper...
Tell me, tell me, what's the matter? tell me... Piper.. what's the
matter? God... oh my god! SOMEONE GET SOME HELP!
Morris: Fetch the doctor.
Piper: I'm sorry Leo. I... I... I... I'm dying
Leo: Shhh...
Piper: I'm so sorry.
Leo: You'll be all right. You'll be all right. All right...
Piper: I'm cold... I'm cold... cold... Hold me... You've got to go on Leo.
Leo: Can't go on without you though...
Piper: You've got so much... to give. Tell our story, Leo.
Leo: No...
Piper: Yes, yes... Promise me, promise me...
Leo: Yes
Piper:
I will... I'll always be with you...
(she dies. Leo starts to
sob)
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Toulouse sings: There was a boy... a very strange enchanted boy...
Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months and then - one not-so-very-special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time. A story about a place. A story about the people. But above all things a story about love. A love that will live forvever. The End.
Singing: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love in return...
THE END
