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Les Miserables: I - Prologue
Les Miserables: I - Prologue
EP 1
I . Prologue
Narrator(REYES): Year 1815, 26 years before the Narrator(REYES): Eight years later, Year 1823
start of the French revolution, a King is once Montreuil…
again on the throne of France.
(BG of At the End of the Day)
(Back ground music )
Poors (IAN, IRENE, GALLEGA, MACKY, BELARO):
Prisoners (BORNALES): Aah, aah, aaaah At the end of the day you're another day older
Aah, aah, aaaah And that's all you can say for the life of the poor
It's a struggle, it's a war
And there's nothing that anyone's giving
Jean Valjean (PLALE): Look down, look down
One more day standing about, what is it for?
Don’t look ‘em in the eye
One day less to be living (sing)
Look down, look down
You’re here until you die
Foreman(GABON): At the end of the day you get
Prisoner (BORNALES): No God above nothing for nothing
And hell alone below Sitting flat on your bum doesn't buy any bread
(sing)
Valjean (PLALE): Look down, look down
There’s twenty years to go Lady 1 (OROT): Have you seen how the Foreman
is fuming today?
Prisoner (BORNALES): I’ve done no wrong With his terrible breath and his wandering
Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer hands?
It's because little Fantine won't give him his way
Take a look at his trousers, you'll see where he
Valjean(PLALE): Look down, look down
stands!
You’ll always be a slave
And the boss, he never knows
Look down, look down
That the Foreman is always on heat
You’re standing in your grave (Low tone
If Fantine doesn't look out
#Fading)
Watch how she goes
She'll be out on the street! (sing)
II. Valjean’s Soliloquy
LADY (MORRE): And what have we here, little
Valjean(PLALE): What have I done? Sweet Jesus, innocent sister?
what have I done? Come on, Fantine, let's have all the news!
Become a thief in the night, become a dog on Dear Fantine, you must send us more money
the run Your child needs a doctor
Have I fallen so far and is the hour so late There's no time to lose (sing)
That nothing remains but the cry of my hate?
The cries in the dark that nobody hears
Fantine(TAVAREZ): Give that letter to me
Here where I stand at the turning of the years
It is none of your business (sing)
I'll escape now from that world Pervert (GABON): I might have known the bitch
From the world of Jean Valjean could bite
Jean Valjean is nothing now I might have known the cat had claws
Another story must begin! (Sing) I might have guessed your little secret
Ah, yes, the virtuous Fantine
Who keeps herself so pure and clean
You'd be the cause I had no doubt
Of any trouble hereabout
You play a virgin in the light
But need no urgin' in the night (rap)
Javert( PASTOR): Lord let me find him Narrator (REYES): Marius did not obey his
That I may see him grandfather (sad tone)
Safe behind bars
I will never rest People (ALEXANDRITE): Vive La France! (3x)
Till then, this I swear
This I swear by the stars! (dialogue)
(Marius and Cosette saw each other)
VI. 9 years later 1832 PARIS
There was a time we killed the King Enjolras (PACPACO): The time is near
We tried to change the world too fast So near, it's stirring the blood in their veins
Now we have got another King And yet beware
He is no better than the last Don't let the wine go to your brains (sing)
This is the land we fought for liberty
Now when we fight, we fight for bread Rebel1 (LIWAG): Marius wake up!
Here is the thing about equality What's wrong today?
Everyone’s equal when they’re dead You look as if you've seen a ghost
Take your place, take your chance Marius: A ghost you say, a ghost maybe
Vive La France! Vive La France!! (sing) She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone (sing)
/transition/
(Marius and Eponine walking /running/hopping Eponine (JOVELYN): On my own, pretending he's
to see Cosette in their house) beside me All alone,
I walk with him 'til morning Without him,
Marius and Eponine ( RANDOLF, JOVELYN): In I feel his arms around me
my life And when I lose my way
There is someone who touches my life (sing) I close my eyes
And he has found me
Marius (RANDOLF): Waiting near (sing) In the rain, the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
Eponine ( JOVELYN): Waiting here (sing)
And all I see is him and me forever
And forever
(Marius and Cosette finally met) And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
Marius (RANDOLF): A heart full of love And although I know that he is blind Still I say,
A heart full of song there's a way for us I love him,
I'm doing everything all wrong but when the night is over He is gone, the
Oh god, for shame river's just a river Without him,
I do not even know your name the world around me changes The trees are
Dear Mad'moiselle bare and everywhere
Won't you say? The streets are full of strangers I love him, but
Will you tell? (sing) every day I'm learning All my life,
I've only been pretending Without me, his world
Cosette (MOLACRUZ): A heart full of love would go on turning
No fear, no regret (sing) A world that's full of happiness That I have
never known I love him... I love him... I love him...
Marius (RANDOLF): My name is Marius But only on my own (sing)
Pontmercy (dialogue)
(Eponine unveiled Cosette's letter)
Cosette (MOLACRUZ): And mine’s Cosette
(dialogue) [Ond Day More]
Marius, Cosette & Eponine (RANDOLF, Valjean (PLALE): One day more
MOLACRUZ, JOVELYN): And it isn't a dream (his
heart full of love) Marius (RANDOLF): I did not live until today How
Not a dream (he will never) can I live when we are parted?
After all! (feel this way) (sing)
Enjolras (PACPACO): One more day before the
(Marius left) storm
At the barricades of freedom When our ranks
(Eponine/JOVELYN screams) begin to form Will you take your place with me?
Narrator (REYES): As Eponine screams, Valjean Marius (RANDOLF): Do I follow where she goes?
panicked and told Cosette to pack her things. Shall I join my brothers there? Do I stay or do I
Cosette was hesitant first but eventually, she dare?
pack her things.
Javert (PASTOR): One more day till revolution
(Cosette leaves a letter at the gate. Then We will nip it in the bud We'll be ready for these
Eponine took the letter secretly) schoolboys They will wet themselves with blood!
M. & Mme. Thenardier (LUBOS, JOAQUIN): Will you stand up and take your chance?
Watch them run amuck Catch'm as they fall The blood of the martyrs
Never know your luck When there's a free for Will water the meadows of France!
all Here a little dip There a little touch Most of Do you hear the people sing?
them are goners So they won't miss much! Singing the song of angry men? (sing)
It is the music of the people
Marius & Cosette (RANDOLF, MOLACRUZ): I did Who will not be slaves again!
not live until today Tomorrow you'll be worlds When the beating of your heart
away And yet with you my world has started Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
Eponine (JOVELYN): One more day all on my When tomorrow comes
own
(Some of the French Armies collaborated with
the rebellions)
Javert (PASTOR): I will join these people's
heroes I will follow where they go I will know
their little secrets I will know the things they
know
Enjolras (PACPACO): Red, the blood of angry Enjolras (PACPACO): French Revolution! (Shout)
men!
Army (TORDILLOS, LUBOS, ANANGGO): Fire!
[Alexandrite:] Black, the dark of ages past! Red, (Shouts) (Gunshots)
a world about to dawn! Black, the night that
ends at last!
/Marius almost got shot but Eponine saved
him/ A LITTLE FALL OF RAIN
(Sing) (Night)/ Transition
Marius (RANDOLF): What have you done? (Sad
Rebel3 (ANANGGO): He's back! (Pertaining to tone) 'Ponine :
Javert)
Eponine (JOVELYN): Don't you fret, M'sieur
Javert (PASTOR): Listen my friends, I have done Marius.
as I said I have been to their lines I have I don't feel any pain
counted each man I will tell what I can Better A little fall of rain, can hardly hurt me now
aware They have armies to spare And our You're here. That's all I need to know
danger is real We will need all our cunning to And you will keep me safe
bring them to heel (Sing) And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow (Sing)
Enjolras (PACPACO): Have faith If you know
what their movements are we'll spoil their Marius (RANDOLF): But you will live, 'Ponine,
game There are ways that people can fight We dear God above
shall overcome their powers (Sing) If I could heal your wounds with words of love
(Sing)
Javert (PASTOR): I have overheard their plans
There will be no attack tonight They intend to Eponine (JOVELYN): Just hold me now,
strave you out and let it be Shelter me, comfort me (Dialogue)
[Marius:] Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine (Sing)
Before they start a proper fight
Concentrate their force Hit us when it's light
(Dialogue)
Marius/Eponine (RANDOLF, JOVELYN): You/I Narrator (REYES): Valjean fears that Cosette
don't feel any pain A little fall of rain Can hardly will be taken away from him by Marius, but for
hurt me/you now Cosette's happines, he is willing to make sure
that Marius will be safe so he came to the
Marius (RANDOLF): I'm here barricade disguised as a French Army and
volunteered himself as an ally, in the middle of
Eponine/Marius (JOVELYN, RANDOLF): That's all his introduction few rebels thought of him as an
I need to know invader, yet he saw French army aiming to shot
And I/ you will stay with you them, he warned the rest. Enjolra's gratitude
led Valjean to eyed on Javert's case /
Marius (RANDOLF): Till you sleep
Enjolras (PACPACO): Do what you want to do,
the man belongs to you
Eponine (JOVELYN): And you will keep me close
IX. DRINK WITH ME Gavroache (PONELAS): But we've got some bite!
Enjolras (PACPACO): Marius, rest Gavroache's brother (MACKY): Come here! ...so
never kick a dog Because he's just a pup...
Marius (RANDOLF): Do I care if I should die now
she goes across the sea? Life without Cosette /Gun shots/
means nothing at all Wod you weep, Cosette, if I
were to fall? Would you weep, Cosette for me Gavroache brother (MACKY): No!
(Sing)
[avroache (PONELAS): ...we'll fight like twenty
/Sleeps/ armies And we won't give up!
JAVERT (PASTOR):Who is this man, what sort of Narrator (REYES): Marius' senses came back,
devil is he? he resorted, together with Cosette, to his
To have me caught in a trap and choose to let grandfather's abode
me go free?
It was his hour at last to put a seal on my fate Cosette (MOLACRUZ): Every day you walk with
Wipe out the past and wash me clean off the stronger step You walk with longer step The
slate! worst is over
All it would take is a flick of his knife Don't think about it,
Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life! Marius With all the years ahead of us I will
Damned if I'll live in the debt of a thief! never go away
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase And we will be together every day
I am the Law and the Law is not mocked Every day We'll remember that night And the
I'll spit his pity right back in his face vow that we made: (sing)
There is nothing on earth that we share
It is either Valjean or Javert! XI: A heart full of love
How can I now allow this man
To hold dominion over me Valjean (PLALE): She was never mine to keep
(sing)
This desperate man whom I have hunted
He gave me my life, he gave me freedom Cosette (MOLACRUZ): A night full of you, The
And my thoughts fly apart words are old But always true (sing)
Can this man be believed?
Shall his sins be forgiven? Valjean (PLALE): She is youthful, she us free
Shall his crimes be reprieved?
And must I now begin to doubt
Marius (RANDOLF): Cosette, Cosette
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow Cosette (MOLACRUZ): I saw you waiting and I
Is he from heaven or from hell? knew
And does he know
That granting me my life today Marius' grandfather (GABON) Thank God you are
This man has killed me even so? home ×2
I am reaching, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold Valjean PLALE): Love is the garden of the young
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold Marius (RANDOLF): Waiting for you At your feet
I'll escape now from that world
From the world of Jean Valjean Valjean (PLALE): Let it be
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on! (dies, sing)
Cosette (MOLACRUZ) : At your call
/transition, sad ambiance/
Valjean (PLALE): Let it be
Women1 (MILLAN): Did you see them going off
to fight? Children of the barricade who didn't Marius & Cosette (RANDOLF, MOLACRUZ): And
last the night (sing) it wasn't a dream Not a dream After all
Valjean (PLALE): A heart full of love This I give
you On this day
THE END