Paris, 1832

"Hviezdy, vo svojich zástupoch, vystrašené zo spočítania, napĺňajúce temnotu."

Paris: Look Down

BEGGARS:
Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down,
Upon your fellow man!
GAVROCHE:
'Ow do you do? My name's Gavroche.
These are my people. Here's my patch.
Not much to look at, nothing posh
Nothing that you'd call up to scratch.
This is my school, my high society
Here in the slums of Saint Michele
We live on crumbs of humble piety
Tough on the teeth, but what the hell!
Think you're poor?
Think you're free?
Follow me! Follow me!
BEGGARS:
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man!
(An old beggar woman finds a young prostitute occupying her pitch)
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN:
What you think yer at?
Hanging round me pitch?
If you're new around here, girl
You've got a lot to learn!
YOUNG PROSTITUTE:
Listen you old bat...
Crazy bloody witch...
'Least I give me customers
Some pleasure in return!
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN:
I know what you give!
Give 'em all the pox!
Spread around your poison
Till they end up in a box.
PIMP:
Leave the poor old cow,
Move it, Madeleine.
She used to be no better
Till the clap got to her brain.

BEGGARS:
When's it gonna end?
When we gonna live?
Something's gotta happen now or
Something's gonna give
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
It'll come, it'll come, it'll come
MARIUS:
Where the leaders of the land?
Where are the swells who run this show?
ENJOLRAS:
Only one man - and that's Lamarque
Speaks for these people here below.
BEGGARS:
See our children fed
Help us in our shame
Something for a crust of bread
In Holy Jesus' name

URCHIN:
In the Lord's Holy name.
BEGGARS:
In his name, in his name, in his name...
MARIUS:
Lamarque is ill and fading fast!
Won't last the week out, so they say.
ENJOLRAS:
With all the anger in the land
How long before the judgement day?
Before we cut the fat ones down to size?
Before the barricades arise?
GAVROCHE:
Watch out for old Thenardier
All of his family's on the make
Once ran a hash-house down the way
Bit of a swine and no mistake
He's got a gang
The bleeding layabout
Even his daughter does her share
That's Eponine, she knows her way about
Only a kid, but hard to scare
Do we care?
Not a cuss
Long live us.
Long live us!
BEGGARS:
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down, look down upon your fellow man!

The Robbery / Javert's Intervention

THÉNARDIER:

Everyone here, you know your place

Brujon, Babet, Claqusous!

You, Montparnasse, watch for the law

With Eponine, take care

You turn on the tears

No mistakes, my dears

MADAME THÉNARDIER:

These bloody students on our streets

Here they come slumming once again

Our Eponine would kiss their feet

She never had a scrap of brain

MARIUS:

Hey, Eponine, what's up today

I haven't seen you much about

ÉPONINE:

Here, you can always catch me in

MARIUS:

Mind the police don't catch you out

ÉPONINE:

Here, whatcher doing with all them books

I could have been a student, too

Don't judge a girl on how she looks

I know a lot of things, I do

MARIUS:

Poor Éponine, the things you know

You wouldn't find in books like these

ÉPONINE:

I like the way you grow your hair

MARIUS:

I like the way you always tease

ÉPONINE (to herself):

Little he knows... little he sees

[Valjean arrives with Cosette, now grown up.]

MADAME THÉNARDIER (to Éponine):

Here's the old boy, stay on the job

And watch out for the law

ÉPONINE:

Stay out of this

MARIUS:

But Eponine—

ÉPONINE:

You'll be in trouble here

It's not your concern

You'll be in the clear

[She pushes MARIUS away.]

MARIUS (seeing Valjean):

Who is that man?

ÉPONINE:

Leave me alone

MARIUS:

Why is he here?

Hey, Eponine!

[He begins to follow her, and bumps into Cosette.]

I didn't see you there, forgive me

THÉNARDIER:

Please M'sieur, come this way

Here's a child that ain't eaten today

Save a life, spare a sou

God rewards all the good that you do

Wait a bit— know that face

Ain't the world a remarkable place?

Men like me don't forget

You're the bastard that borrowed Cosette

[Thenardier grabs Valjean and rips open his shirt, revealing the number on his chest.]

VALJEAN:

What is this? Are you mad?

No, Monsieur, you don't know what you do

THÉNARDIER:

You know me, you know me

I'm a con, just like you

ÉPONINE:

It's the police! Disappear!

Run for it! It's Javert!

[Javert arrives and the fight ceases. Valjean picks himself up and looks for Cosette, who is with Marius.]

JAVERT:

Another brawl in the square

Another stink in the air

Was there a witness to this?

Well, let him speak to Javert

M'sieur, the streets are not safe

But let these vermin beware

We'll see that justice is done

Look upon this fine collection

Crawled from underneath a stone

This swarm of worms and maggots

Could have picked you to the bone

I know this man over here

I know his name and his trade

And on your witness, M'sieur

We'll see him suitably paid

[Valjean and Cosette have disappeared.]

But where's the gentleman gone

And why on earth did he run?

THÉNARDIER:

You will have a job to catch him

He's the one you should arrest

No more bourgeois when you scratch him

Than that brand upon his chest!

JAVERT:

Could it be he's some old jailbird

That the tide now washes in?

Heard my name and started running

Had the brand upon his skin

And the girl who stood beside him

When I turned they both had gone

Could he be the man I've hunted?

Could it be he's Jean Valjean?

THÉNARDIER:

In the absence of a victim

Dear Inspector, may I go?

And remember when you've nicked him

It was me who told you so!

JAVERT:

Let the old man keep on running

I will run him off his feet

Everyone about your business

Clear this garbage off the street!

GAVROCHE:
That inspector thinks he's something
But it's me who runs this town!
And my theater never closes
And the curtain's never down
Trust Gavroche, have no fear
You can always find me here!

Éponine's Errand

ÉPONINE:

Cosette! Now I remember!

Cosette! Now can it be?

We were children together

Look what's become of me

Good god! Oh, what a rumpus!

MARIUS:

That girl, who can she be?

ÉPONINE:

That cop! He'd like to jump us

But he ain't smart, not he

MARIUS:

Éponine, who was that girl?

ÉPONINE:

Some bourgeois, two-a-penny thing!

MARIUS:

Éponine, find her for me!

ÉPONINE:

What will you give me?

MARIUS:

Anything!

ÉPONINE:

Got you all excited now

But God knows what you see in her

Ain't you all delighted now?

No, I don't want your money sir

MARIUS:

Éponine, do this for me

Discover where she lives

But careful how you go

Don't let your father know

'Ponine! I'm lost until she's found

ÉPONINE:

You see, I told you so!

There's lots of things I know

'Ponine, she knows her way around

The ABC Café / Red & Black

COMBEFERRE:
Enjolras! At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
FEUILLY:
At Rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!
COURFEYRAC:
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!
ENJORAS:
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 army 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 national guard will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
To call them to arms
To bring them in line!
(Marius enters)
Marius, you're late.

JOLY:
What's wrong today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost.

GRANTAIRE:
Some wine and say what's going on!
MARIUS:
A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!
GRANTAIRE:
I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius 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 better than an o-per-a!
ENJOLRAS:
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 rich young boys to play?
The color of the world
Is changing day by day...
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!

MARIUS:
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!
GRANTAIRE:
Red...
MARIUS:
I feel my soul on fire!
GRANTAIRE:
Black...
MARIUS:
My world if she's not there!
ALL (except Enjolras):
Red...
MARIUS:
The color of desire!
ALL (except Enjolras):
Black...
MARIUS:
The color of despair!

ENJOLRAS:
Marius, you're no longer a child
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!
ALL:
Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at last!
ENJOLRAS:
Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?
Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short.
Grantaire, put the bottle down!
Do we have the guns we need?

GRANTAIRE:
Give me brandy on my breath
And I'll breathe them all to death!
[Gavroche rushes in, shouting.]

GAVROCHE:

Listen, everybody! General Lamarque is dead!

ENJOLRAS:

Lamarque is dead!

Lamarque!

His death is the hour of fate

The people's man

His death is the sign we await!

On his funeral day, they will honor his name

With a light of rebellion ablaze in their eyes

From the candles of grief we will kindle the flame

On the tomb of Lamarque shall the barricade rise

The time is here

Let us welcome it gladly with courage and cheer

Let us take to the streets with no doubt in our hearts

But a jubilant shout

They will come one and all!

They will come when we call!

Do You Hear the People Sing?

ENJOLRAS:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
COMBEFERRE:
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
COUFEYRAC:
Then join in the fight
That will give you the right to be free!
ALL:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
FEUILLY:
Will you give all you can give
So that our banner may advance
Some will fall and some will live
Will you stand up and take your chance?
The blood of the martyrs
Will water the meadows of France!

ALL:
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing a song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!

In My Life

COSETTE:
How strange?
This feeling that my life's begun at last
This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.
In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me
Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Did he see what I saw?
Does he feel what I feel?
In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!

VALJEAN:
Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company.
COSETTE:
There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago...
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself?
Why we're always alone?
So dark! So dark and deep...
The secrets that you keep!
In my life
Please, forgive what I say You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa,
In your eyes I am still like a child
Who is lost in a wood
VALJEAN:
No more words
No more words. It's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard,
Better unsaid.
COSETTE:
In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!
VALJEAN:
You will learn
Truth is given by God To us all in our time In our turn (Valjean leaves the garden, Marius and Éponine arrive outside)

MARIUS:
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop as if something is over and something has scarcely begun
Éponine, you're the friend who has brought me here, thanks to you I am one with the gods and Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new that is free
ÉPONINE (to herself):
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be his
MARIUS & ÉPONINE:
In my life
There is someone who touches my life
MARIUS:
Waiting near
ÉPONINE:
Waiting here...

A Heart Full of Love/Attack on Rue Plumet/My God, Cosette!

MARIUS:
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad'moiselle
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE:
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
MARIUS:
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE:
And mine's Cosette
MARIUS:
Cosette, I don't know what to say
COSETTE:
Then make no sound
MARIUS:
I am lost
COSETTE:
I am found!
MARIUS:
A heart full of light
MARIUS & COSETTE:
A night bright as day
MARIUS:
And you must never go away
Cosette, Cosette
COSETTE:
This is a chain we'll never break
MARIUS:
Do I dream?
COSETTE:
I'm awake!
MARIUS:
A heart full of love
COSETTE:
A heart full of you
MARIUS:
A single look and then I knew
COSETTE:
I knew it too
MARIUS:
From today
COSETTE:
Every day

COSETTE & MARIUS:
For it isn't a dream
Not a dream after all.
ÉPONINE (Interjecting):
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me, not for me...
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way! (Marius and Cosette move away as Montparnasse enters furtively)

(Thénardier arrives with the rest of his gang)
THÉNARDIER:
This is his lair
I've seen the old fox around
He keeps himself to himself
He's staying close to the ground
I smell profit here!
Ten years ago
He came and paid for Cosette
I let her go for a song
It's time we settled the debt
This'll cost him dear
BRUJON:
What do I care
Who you should rob?
Gimme me my share
Finish the job!
THÉNARDIER:
You shut your mouth
Give me your hand
THÉNARDIER:
(not recognizing her)
Who is this hussy?
BABET:
It's your brat Éponine
Don't you know your own kid
Why's she hanging about you?
THÉNARDIER:
Éponine, get on home
You're not needed in this
We're enough here without you
ÉPONINE:
I know this house
I tell you there's nothing here for you
Just the old man and the girl
They live ordinary live
THÉNARDIER:
Don't interfere
You've got some gall
Take care, young miss,
You've got a lot to say!
BRUJON:
She's going soft
CLAQUESOUS:
Happens to all
MONTPARNASSE:
Go home, 'Ponine,
Go home, you're in the way
ÉPONINE:
I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here.
THÉNARDIER:
One little scream and you'll regret it for a year.
(She screams)
THÉNARDIER:
You wait my girl, you'll rue this night
I'll make you scream, you'll scream all right
(The gang scatters. Marius and Cosette run back into the garden
and he hurriedly introduces Éponine before she takes off)
MARIUS:
It was your cry sent them away
Once more 'Ponine saving the day
Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine
Brought me to you, showed me the way!
Someone is near
Let's not be seen
Somebody's here!
(Marius leaves quickly as Valjean enters)

VALJEAN:
My God, Cosette!
I heard a cry in the dark
I heard the shout of angry voices in the street.
COSETTE:
That was my cry you heard, Papa,
I was afraid of what they'd do.
They ran away when they heard my cry.
VALJEAN:
Cosette, my child, what will become of you?
COSETTE:
Three men I saw beyond the wall
Three men in shadow moving fast
VALJEAN:
This is a warning to us all
These are the shadows of the past
Must be Javert!
He's found my cover at last!
I've got to get Cosette away
Before they return!
We must get away from shadows
They will never let us be
Tomorrow to Calais...
And then a ship across the sea!
Hurry, Cosette, prepare to leave and say no more,
Tomorrow we'll away!
Hurry, Cosette, it's time to close another door
And live another day!

One Day More

VALJEAN:
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!
MARIUS:
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?
VALJEAN:
One day more.
MARIUS & COSETTE:
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!
ÉPONINE:
One more day all on my own.
MARIUS & COSETTE:
Will we ever meet again?
ÉPONINE:
One more day with him not caring.
MARIUS & COSETTE:
I was born to be with you.
ÉPONINE:
What a life I might have known.
MARIUS & COSETTE:
And I swear I will be true!
ÉPONINE:
But he never saw me there!

ENJOLRAS:
One more day before the storm!
MARIUS:
Do I follow where she goes?

ENJOLRAS:
At the barricades of freedom.
MARIUS:
Shall I join my brothers there?
ENJOLRAS:
When our ranks begin to form
MARIUS:
Do I stay; and do I dare?
ENJOLRAS:
Will you take your place with me?
ALL:
The time is now, the day is here
VALJEAN:
One day more!

JAVERT:
One more day to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
I will join these little schoolboys,
They will wet themselves with blood!

VALJEAN:
One day more!
M. & MME. THÉNARDIER:
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little `dip'
There a little `touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
Students (2 Groups):
1: One day to a new beginning
2: Raise the flag of freedom high!
1: Every man will be a king
2: Every man will be a king
1: There's a new world for the winning
2: There's a new world to be won
ALL:
Do you hear the people sing?
MARIUS:
My place is here, I fight with you!
VALJEAN:
One day more!

(everyone in counterpoint)
MARIUS & COSETTE:
I did not live until today.
ÉPONINE:
One more day all on my own!
MARIUS & COSETTE:
How can I live when we are parted?
JAVERT(overlapping):
I will join these people's heros
I will follow where they go
I will learn their little secrets,
I will know the things they know.

M. & MME. THÉNARDIER:

Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall, Here a little dip' There a little `touch'

VALJEAN:
One day more!

(everyone in counterpoint)
MARIUS & COSETTE:
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
ÉPONINE:
What a life I might have known!
MARIUS & COSETTE:
And yet with you my world has started!
JAVERT(overlapping):
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We'll be ready for these
Schoolboys
THENARDIERS (overlapping):
Watch 'em run amok
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all!
VALJEAN:
Tomorrow we'll be far away,

VALJEAN & JAVERT:

Tomorrow is the judgement day
ALL:
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn!
One more day!
One day more!

Paris, 1832

"Hviezdy, vo svojich zástupoch, vystrašené zo spočítania, napĺňajúce temnotu."

Paris: Look Down

The Robbery / Javert's Intervention

Stars & Trust Gavroche

Éponine's Errand

The ABC Café / Red & Black

Do You Hear the People Sing?

In My Life

A Heart Full of Love/Attack on Rue Plumet/My God, Cosette!

One Day More

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