The songs are from 'The Mikado' except for 'Leatherwing Bat' by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Scene 6
A lush quiet garden
[Enter LUCIELLE as music starts
LUCIELLE:
Alone, and yet alive! Oh, sepulchre!
My soul is still my body's prisoner!
Remote the peace that Death alone can give —
My doom, to wait! my punishment, to live!
Hearts do not break!
They sting and ache
For old love's sake,
But do not die,
Though with each breath
They long for death
As witnesseth
The living I!
The living I!
Oh, living I!
Come, tell me why,
When hope is gone,
Dost thou stay on?
Why linger here,
Where all is drear?
Oh, living I!
Come, tell me why,
When hope is gone,
Dost thou stay on?
May not a cheated maiden die?
May not a cheated maiden die?
(enter GUIDO, who hears the last lines of song)
GUIDO:
Hi, Lucielle.
LUCILLE (quickly turns):
Hello, Guido.
GUIDO:
You have to forgive me for overhearing your thoughts.
LUCIELLE (sighs):
That's all right, like it matters at all.
GUIDO:
What do you mean?
LUCIELLE (tears up):
OH, Guido, you can't POSSIBLY understand how I'm feeling right now!! I don't expect you to, not at all!!!
GUIDO (quickly, seeing she's about to go off runs to her side and starts kneeding her shoulders)
Oh, come on, try me!
LUCILLE (calming down a little):
Not only did I get rejected by one of the most wonderful cats around..NOW I hear he's,…he's…he's been KILLED!!! Oh, Guido..and the worst part of it is I think it's all my fault!
GUIDO:
How do you mean?
LUCILLE:
I was flirting with him all that time, before he rejected me for Polly! Oh God maybe if I didn't flirt with him…oh this is all my fault, I'm a living death trap! You'd better go away, Guido, or I'll hurt you too!
GUIDO:
That's a chance I'm willing to take, Lucielle. (massages her shoulders) I don't think that this was your fault! Besides, sometimes things aren't always as they seem.
LUCIELLE:
You mean Speedy might have been falsely accused?
GUIDO (after a pause):
Yeah.
LUCIELLE:
So they falsely accused him and didn't even give him a chance to defend himself? Oh, that horrible! Poor Speedy!
GUIDO:
So, it probably wasn't your fault, If it was, do you think I'd b here talking to you? He was one of my very best friends, remember?
LUCIELL:
Of course, you two have been together since…well..forever. I was usually surprised that you two have been together as long as you have, you always seem to fight.
GUODO:
That's what happens when we get in the way of one of the most beautiful cats in all of Tokyo. Besides, we never really meant it. Sure, we got sidetracked by your beauty…but I loved Speedy to death, he was like my brother.
LUCIELLE:
Speedy didn't think I was beautiful at all, not after Polly came along, He just dumped me for her!!
GUIDO:
Maybe he just discovered his destiny. Ya know..they were meant to be.
LUCIELLE:
Destiny, destiny..oh Guido, why can't I be someone's destiny?! What's WRONG with me?!
GUIDO (sensing she might blow massages her shoulders deeper):
Oh, Lucielle. NOTHING is wrong with you!
LUCIELLE:
It's these dumb MISSLES I have, isn't it?! They drive everyone away! Oh, why do I have them?!
GUIDO:
Don't say that! I always did kind of like your missles myself.
LUCIELLE:
Right, Guido!
GUIDO:
No, I mean it, I really like them! They make you unique.
LUCIELLE:
Not unique enough to be someone's destiny!
GUIDO:
Funny you should say that…I've always felt you were part of mine!
LUCIELLE:
You have?
GUIDO: (Massaging her even deeper)
Definiely, Lucielle. You're so beautiful, and sweet, and fun to be around..
LUCIELLE:
Why didn't you say anything before, Guido?
GUIDO:
You were always so busy with Speedy. Seemed you took a better liking to him/
LUCIELLE:
Guido…all you had to do was say what you just said to me now! (touches his shoulder) What else about me do you like?
GUIDO:
I love to hear you sing, Lucielle.
LUCIELLE:
Really?
GUIDO:
Yeah…sing something, your voice is lovely (music starts)
LUCIELLE (sngs):
"I" said the little leatherwing bat
"I'll tell to you the reason that
The reason that I fly by night
Is because I've lost my heart's delight."
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low
"I" said the blackbird sittin' on a chair
"Once I courted a lady, fair.
She proved fickle and turned her back
And ever since then I've dressed in black."
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low
"I" said the woodpecker sittin' on a fence
"Once I courted a handsome wench
She got scared and from me fled
And ever since then my head's been red."
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low
"I" said the little turtle dove
"I'll tell you how to win her love
Court her night and court her day
Never give her time to say o-neigh!"
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low
"I" said the bluejay and away he flew
"If I were a young man I'd have two
If one were faithless and chanced to go
I'd add the other string to my bow"
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Howdy dowdy diddle-dum day
Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low
Hey le lee-lee lie-lee low
GUIDO:
Lucille, I can honestly say that was beautiful! Like a bird!
(sings):
On a tree by a river a little tom-tit
Sang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
And I said to him, "Little-bird, why do you sit
Singing Willow, titwillow, titwillow'?"
"Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried,
"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?"
With a shake of his poor little head, he replied,
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
He slapped at his chest, as he sat on that bough,
Singing "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
And a cold perspiration bespangled his brow,
Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!
He sobbed and he sighed, and a gurgle he gave,
Then he plunged himself into the billowy wave,
And an echo arose from the suicide's grave —
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
Now I feel just as sure as I'm sure that my name
Isn't Willow, titwillow, titwillow,
That 'twas blighted affection that made him exclaim
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
And if you remain callous and obdurate, I
Shall perish as he did, and you will know why,
Though I probably shall not exclaim as I die,
"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
(During this song LUCIELLE has been greatly affected, and at the end is almost in tears. GUIDO then takes LUCIELLE in his arms and kisses her deeply. LUCIELLE wraps her arms around him )
LUCIELLE:
Oh, Guido you DO care! I always thought that you were too much of a Ladies Man to even think of a commitment.
GUIDO:
Don't believe everything you hear, Lucielle (knowingly to audience) Don't believe everything! I'll be a one cat man if you'll have me.
LUCIELLE:
There is beauty in the bellow of the car,
There is grandeur in the growling of the gale,
There is eloquent outpouring
When the lion is a-roaring,
And the tiger is a-lashing of his tail!
GUIDO
Yes, I like to see a tiger
From the Congo or the Niger,
And especially when lashing of his tail!
LUCIELLE
Volcanoes have a splendour that is grim,
And earthquakes only terrify the dolts,
But to him who's scientific
There's nothing that's terrific
In the falling of a flight of thunderbolts!
GUIDO
Yes, in spite of all my meekness,
If I have a little weakness,
It's a passion for a flight of thunderbolts!
BOTH:
If that is so,
Sing derry down derry!
It's evident, very,
Our tastes are one.
Away we'll go,
And merrily marry,
Nor tardily tarry
Till day is done!
GUIDO:
There is beauty in your unique missles —
Do you fancy you are powerful enough?
Information I'm requesting
On a subject interesting:
Is a maiden all the better when she's tough?
LUCIELLE:
Throughout this wide dominion
It's the general opinion
That she'll last a good deal longer when she's tough.
GUIDO:
Are you old enough to marry, do you think?
Won't you wait till you are thirty in the shade?
There's a fascination frantic
In a ruin that's romantic;
Do you think you are sufficiently arrayed?
LUCIELLE:
To the matter that you mention
I have given some attention,
And I think I am sufficiently arrayed.
BOTH:
If that is so,
Sing derry down derry!
It's evident, very,
Our tastes are one.
Away we'll go,
And merrily marry,
Nor tardily tarry
Till day is done!
If that is so,
Sing derry down derry!
It's evident, very,
Our tastes are one.
Away we'll go,
And merrily marry,
Nor tardily tarry
Till day is done!
Sing derry down derry!
We'll merrily marry,
Nor tardily tarry
Till day is done!
(GUIDO kisses her again, they exit)