In Which GofyTomcat and Rose Honorfy Les Misérables

roseandheather wrote:
And Tom and Honor have to have a distant duet on "Empty Chairs on Empty Bridges". Symbolizing their connection to each other even though they're officially on opposite sides of a war.

And then comes the Wedding Chorale - Lester and Michelle?? - celebrating the Grand Alliance.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.

YES.IT IS REALLY GREAT.

"Lovely Ladies" with Elizabeth (and High Ridge persuading her?) with Eloise's scenes intermixed??

GofyTomcat1 wrote:"Lovely Ladies" with Elizabeth (and High Ridge persuading her?) with Eloise's scenes intermixed??

YES.

"A Little Fall of Rain" for Javier and Eloise?"

roseandheather wrote:
"A Little Fall of Rain" for Javier and Eloise?"

Sounds really good.

ABC Café: "Green and Gold (Haven)/ Gold and black (Manticore)"

White Haven
At Manticore the squadrons are prepared!

Admiral Matthews
At Yeltsin’s Star they're straining at the leash!

McKeon
Manties, Graysons everyone,
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Haven coming to our side!

Haven’s Fleet, aboard the flagship:

Shannon Foraker
The time is near
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
For the Navy we fight is a dangerous foe
With the men and the arms that we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
But the men of StateSec will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!

(Theisman enters)

Tom, you're late.

McQueen:
Admiral, what's wrong today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost.

Tourville
Some wine and say what's going on!

Theisman (referring to the vision of Eloise and a restored RoH)
A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!

McQueen:
I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Tom Theisman in love at last?
I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Ju-an
It's just like HD o-per-a!

Aboard HMS Manticore:

White Haven
It is time for us all
To decide who we are
Do we fight for the right
To a night at the opera now?
Have you asked of yourselves
What's the price you might pay?
Is it simply a game
For the Alliance to play?
The color of the world
Is changing day by day...

(Manticore and Haven) Gold- the missiles from our ships!
(Manticore)Black - the dark of ages past! (Haven)Green- The symbol of our past!
(Manticore and Haven) Gold- an age about to dawn!
(Manticore) Black - the night that ends at last! (Haven) Green-the new life that shall last!

Aboard the Havenite ship:

Theisman
Had you been there tonight
You might know how it feels
To be struck to the bone
In a moment of breathless delight!
Had you been there tonight
You might also have known
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!
And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!

Shannon:
Gold
Theisman
I feel my soul on fire!

Shannon
Green

Theisman
My world if she's not there!

ALL
Gold

Theisman
The color of desire!

ALL
Black... (Green)

Theisman
The color of despair!

Shannon
Admiral, you're not an Ensign now
I do not doubt you mean it well
But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!

(Manticore and Haven) Gold- the missiles from our ships!
(Manticore)Black - the dark of ages past! (Haven)Green- The symbol of our past!
(Manticore and Haven) Gold- an age about to dawn!
(Manticore) Black - the night that ends at last! (Haven) Green-the new life that shall last!

HMS Manticore
White Haven
Well, Sonja, do we have our LAC’s?
Wesley, Alistair, our time is running short.
Signal the fleet to prepare itself at once
Sonja, do we have missiles ready?

McKeon
In Erewhon they're with us to a man!
Matthews
In Yeltsin we prepare to sail to war!
Hemphill
Twenty fresh pods good as new!

(Tremaine rushes in shouting)

Tremaine
Listen!

Truman
Twenty tubes for every ship!

Tremaine
Listen to me!
Harkness
Double that aboard the Apollo!

Tremaine
Listen everybody!!
Lady Harrington is dead!

Aboard the Havenite flagship:
Shannon
Honor is dead.
Harrington! Her death is the hour of fate.
The Salamander.
Her death is the sign we await!

White Haven and Shannon together:

On her funeral day they will honor her name.
It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear!
In Harrington’s death we will kindle the flame
They will see that the day of salvation is near!
The time is near!
Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer
Let us form up our walls with no doubt in our hearts
But a jubilant shout
They will come one and all
They will come when we call!

Have you come up with any HH versions yet? I have a few more:

"Stars"
RANSOM
There, out in the darkness
our enemy running
Fallen from god
Fallen from grace
Haven my witness
I never shall yield
Till we come face to face
Till we come face to face

She knows her way in the dark
Mine is the way of the Lord
Those who stand with the People’s Republic
Shall have their reward
And if they fall
As the People once fell
The flame
The sword!

Stars
In your multitudes
Scarce to be counted
Filling the darkness
With order and light
You are the sentinels
Silent and sure
Keeping watch in the night
Keeping watch in the night

You know your place in the sky
You hold your course and your aim
And each in your season
Returns and returns
And is always the same
And if you fall as Haven once fell
You fall in flame!

And so it has been and so it is written
On the doorway to paradise
That those who falter and those who fall
Must pay the price!

Lord let me find her
That I may see her
Safe behind bars
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
This I swear by the stars!





Ransom's Demise (Javert's Suicide)

Ransom:
Who is Harrington?
What sort of devil is she
To have me caught in a trap
And choose to let me go free?
It was her hour at last
To put a seal on my fate
Wipe out the past
And wash me clean off the slate
All it would take
Was her pulser’s sharp knife.
Vengeance was hers
And she gave me back my life!

Damned if I'll live in a murderer’s debt!
Damned if I'll yield at the end of the chase.
I am Haven and Haven is not mocked
I'll spit her pity right back in her face
There is nothing we have in common!
It is either Honor or Ransom!

How can I allow this Harrington
To hold dominion over me?
This Manty foe that I have hunted
She gave me my life. She gave me freedom.
I should have perished by her hand
It was her right.
It was my right to die as well
Instead I live... but live in hell.

And my thoughts fly apart
Can her cause be believed?
Shall her sins be forgiven?
Shall her crimes be reprieved?

And must I now begin to doubt,
Who never doubted all these years?
My heart is stone and still it trembles
The world I have known is lost in shadow.
Is she from heaven or from hell?
And does she know
That granting me my life today
This Manty’s killed me even so?

I am reaching, but I fall
And the stars are black and cold
As I stare into the void
Of a world that cannot hold
I'll escape now from the world
From the world of Harrington.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on....

(Shannon blows up the Tepes)

Shannon:
Whoops…



"Empty Chairs on Empty Bridges"

Theisman (looking at the bridge of his battered vessel.) The Battle of Manticore has occurred offstage.

There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs on empty bridges
Now my friends are dead and gone.

Here they talked of change and honor.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about `tomorrow'
And tomorrow never came.

Honor (looking at McKeon)
From the display in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
At this lonely battle-wall at dawn.

Theisman (Honor slowly joins him)
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me

(The ghosts of those who died appear on the bridges of their respective ships)

That I live and you are gone.
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.

Phantom faces at the bulkheads.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs on empty Bridges
Where my friends will meet no more.

(The ghosts fade away)

Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs on empty Bridges
Where my friends will sing no more

“Bring her home”- Lord White Haven and Protector Benjamin

White Haven:
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
She is young
She's afraid
Let her rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring her home
Bring her home
Bring her home.

Benjamin:
She's like the son I might have known
If the Tester had seen it done.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
Bring her peace
End her war
For Grayson
And Manticore
You can take
You can give
Let her be
Let her live

Both:
If I die
Let me die
Let her live
Bring her home
Bring her home
Bring her home.



One Day More! (with appropriate changes to fit our current cast)

Honor: One day more!
Another mission and the past haunts me,
these endless ashes of my victories.
These men who seem to know my crime will surely come a second time, one day more!

Theisman: I did not live until today, how can I live when we are parted?

Honor: One day more!

Theisman/Eloise: Tomorrow you'll be worlds away,
but yet with you my world has started.

LaFollet: One more day of bloody war
(T/E: will we ever meet again?)
One more day of Peep aggression
(I was born to be with you!)
I’ll protect my Steadholder
(and I swear I will be true!)
She knows that I shall be there!

Shannon: One more day before the storm!
(Theisman: Do I follow where she goes)
At the battle-walls of freedom!
(do I join my brothers there?)
When our fleets begin to form!
(do I stay or do I dare?)
Will you take your place with me?
(Manticorans/Peeps: The time is now, we stop them here!)

Honor: One day more!

Ransom: one more day till I take Honor,
I'll nip her fleet in the bud,
I'll be ready for this Manty
Nouveau Paris will have blood!

Honor: One day more!

High Ridge's supporters/St. Just/Pierre: Watch 'er run amuck, catch 'er as she falls,
this so called 'Salamander' isn't much at all
here a little dip, there a little touch,
her career's a goner, and we won't miss much!

Honor: One day more!

Ransom (others repeat their lines): I will find this Manty hero,
I will follow where she goes,
I will learn her Treecat's secrets,
I will know the things she knows!

one more day till I take Honor,
I'll nip her fleet in the bud,
I'll be ready for this Manty

All: tomorrow will be far away, tomorrow is the judgment day, tomorrow we'll discover what our God in Heaven (Graysons in the chorus use "almighty Tester")has in store...

One more dawn...

One more day...

One day more!!!

Armsman LaFollet:
And now she’s on another ride
another fight another mission
And I am sworn by God above
to protect my own Steadholder
And now the night is near
I can make believe she's here

Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
Her crew all goes to bed
And I can live inside my head

Own my own
Pretending she's beside me
All alone
I walk with her till morning
Without her
I feel her noble presence
And when I lose my way I hear
Her voice: “Let’s be about it”

In deep space the hull plate shines like silver
All the lights seem misty like the river
In the darkness, the wedge is filled with starlight
And all I see is her and me forever and forever

And I know it's only in my mind
That I need to watch myself and protect her
And although I know she can’t be mine!
Still I say, there's a way for us

I love her
But when the night is over
She’s not mine
I’m only her protector
Without her
The world around me changes
The stars are bare and everywhere
The decks are full of strangers

I love her
But every day I'm learning
All my life
I've only been pretending
Without me
Her world would go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known

I love her
I love her
I love her
But only on my own.

GofyTomcat1 wrote:“Bring her home”- Lord White Haven and Protector Benjamin

White Haven:
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
She is young
She's afraid
Let her rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring her home
Bring her home
Bring her home.

Benjamin:
She's like the son I might have known
If the Tester had seen it done.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
Bring her peace
End her war
For Grayson
And Manticore
You can take
You can give
Let her be
Let her live

Both:
If I die
Let me die
Let her live
Bring her home
Bring her home
Bring her home.

Would you be terribly upset if I suggest you swap White Haven and Benjamin here? Benjamin talking about god (Tester) and White Haven about surrogate son?

gamarus wrote:

GofyTomcat1 wrote:“Bring her home”- Lord White Haven and Protector Benjamin

White Haven:
God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there
She is young
She's afraid
Let her rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring her home
Bring her home
Bring her home.

Benjamin:
She's like the son I might have known
If the Tester had seen it done.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.
Bring her peace
End her war
For Grayson
And Manticore
You can take
You can give
Let her be
Let her live

Both:
If I die
Let me die
Let her live
Bring her home
Bring her home
Bring her home.

Would you be terribly upset if I suggest you swap White Haven and Benjamin here? Benjamin talking about god (Tester) and White Haven about surrogate son?

No. That is GREAT.