LES MISERABLES SCRIPT Javert:

No! It means you get

Act I: The year is 1815. The Your yellow ticket-of-leave

French revolution is a distant You are a thief
memory. Napoleon has been
defeated. France is ruled by a Valjean:
King again. I stole a loaf of bread.
SCENE 1: Toulon, Home port of the My sister's child was close to
French navy death
“Look Down” And we were starving.

Chorus (Prisoners): Javert:

Look down, look down Don't look You will starve again
'em in the eye Unless you learn the meaning of
Look down, look down, You're here the law.
until you die Valjean:
1st Convict: I know the meaning of those 19
The sun is strong years

It's hot as hell below A slave of the law

Chorus: Javert:

Look down, look down, Five years for what you did

There's twenty years to go The rest because you tried to run

2nd Convict: Yes, 24601.

I've done no wrong! Valjean: My name is Jean Valjean

Sweet Jesus, hear my prayer! Javert:

Chorus: And I am Javert

Look down, look down, Do not forget my name!

Sweet Jesus doesn't care Do not forget me, 24601.

Javert: Chorus:

Prisoner 24601 Look down, look down

Your time is up You'll always be a slave

And your parole's begun Look down, look down

You know what that means. You're standing in your grave.

Valjean: Yes, it means I'm free. (exit)

SCENE 2: The Bishop’s House
(SOUND: A KNOCK at the door.) 8 YEARS LATER (Montreuil-sur-Mer,
1823.)
(VALJEAN enters UR escorted by
TWO “At the End of the Day”
POLICEMEN.) The Poor:
POLICEMAN #1: Monseigneur, I At the end of the day you're
regret this disturbance, but this another day older
man is the one who stole your
silver. And that's all you can say for the
life of the poor
THE BISHOP: That is right.
It's a struggle, it's a war
But my friend you left so early
And there's nothing that anyone's
Surely something slipped your giving
mind
One more day standing about, what
[The bishop gives Valjean two is it for? One day less to be
silver candlesticks.] living.
You forgot I gave these also Woman 1:
Would you leave the best behind? Take a look at his trousers,
you'll see where he stands!
(to the officer) I commend you for
your duty. May God’s blessing go Woman 4:
with you.
And the boss, he never knows That
The Bishop: the foreman is always in heat
But remember this, my brother Woman 3:
See in this some higher plan If Fantine doesn't look out,
watch how she goes
You must use this precious silver
All Women: She'll be out on the
To become an honest man street!
By the witness of the martyrs Girl: (Grabbing a letter from
By the Passion and the Blood Fantine)

God has raised you out of darkness And what have we here, little
innocent sister?
I have bought your soul for God!
Oh, Come on Fantine, let's have
all the news!
(Reading the letter)
"dear Fantine you must send us
more
money...Your child needs a
doctor...
SCENE 3: At the end of the day
There's no time to lose..."
Fantine:
Give that letter to me
It is none of your business
With a husband at home
And a bit on the side!
Is there anyone here
Who can swear before God
She has nothing to fear?
She has nothing to hide?
Valjean:
What is this fighting all about?
Will someone tear these two
apart?
This is a factory, not a circus!
Now come on ladies, settle down
I run a business of repute
I am the Mayor of this town
(To the foreman)
Deal with this Forewoman.
Be as patient as you can.(exit)
Women:
(Women will rip out fantine’s
clothes/ grab hair)
She'll be nothing but trouble
again and again
Woman 2: You must sack her today
Workers: Sack the girl today!
Foreman: Right my girl. On your
way! (pushes Fantine out harshly)
SCENE 4: Fantine’s Reminisence
(She pulls herself into a sitting
position
against the head of the mattress.
She draws her legs up and wraps
her arms round her knees,
huddling against the
misery of the world.)
“I Dreamed A Dream”
Fantine:
There was a time when men were
kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was
blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never
die
I dreamed that God would be
forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and
wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame
He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless
wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came
And still I dream he'll come to
me
That we will live the years
together
But there are dreams that cannot
be
And there are storms we cannot
weather
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm
living
So different now from what it
seemed
Now life has killed the dream I
dreamed.
(Fade)
BAMATABOIS: Sold your teeth, did
you? Ugh, how ugly you are.
FANTINE: Leave me alone.
BAMATABOIS: You’ve got some nerve
you little slut, you’ve got some
gall
(harassment & Fantine slaps
bamatabois)
BAMATABOIS: By Christ, you'll pay
for what you've done
I guarantee, I'll make you suffer
FANTINE: I beg you, don't report
me sir
I'll do whatever you may want
JAVERT: Tell me quickly what's
the story
Who saw what and why and where
Let him give a full description
Let him answer to Javert.
BAMATABOIS: Javert, would you
believe it
I was crossing from the park
When this prostitute attacked me
You can see she left her mark.
FATINE: There's a child
sorely needs me
Please Monsieur, she's but that
high
Holy God, is there no mercy?
If I go to jail, she'll die
VALJEAN: A moment of your time,
Javert, I do believe this woman's
tale.
JAVERT: Monsieur L’meir—
VALJEAN:You've done your duty,
let her be
She needs a doctor, not a jail
JAVERT: Monsieur L’meir!
FANTINE: Can this be?
VALJEAN: Where will she end
This child without a friend?
I've seen your face before
Show me some way to help you
How have you come to grief
In such a place as this?
FANTINE: Monsieur, don't mock me
now, I pray
It's hard enough I've lost my
pride
You let your foreman send me away
Yes, you were there, and turned
aside
FANTINE and (VALJEAN):
I never did no wrong
(Is it true, what I've done)
My daughter's close to dying
(To an innocent soul?)
If there's a God above
(Had I only known then...)
who
He'd let me die instead
VALJEAN
In His name, my task has just
begun
JAVERT: Be at peace
Monsieur L’meir! Be at peace evermore
VALJEAN: FANTINE
I will see it done My Cosette...
VALJEAN
Scene 5: Fantine’s Death Shall live in my protection
SCENE 8: In the Infirmatory FANTINE
(Fantine in lying down on the bed Take her now
and close to death after finding
out that her child will have a VALJEAN
better life with Val Your child will want for nothing
Jean.)
(Dying Fantine imagine cosette FANTINE
by her side)
Good M'sieur, you come from God
“Come to me” in Heaven.
FANTINE: Tell Cosette I love her
Cosette, it's turned so cold And I'll see her when I wake...
Cosette, it's past your bedtime
You've played the day away SCENE 9: Thernardier’s Inn
And soon it will be night (The village street is bright
with booths set up for a Frost
Come to me, Cosette, the light is Fair. Families and visitors are
fading out buying baubles, or laughing
Don't you see the evening star at the antics of travelling
appearing? players. Small girls cluster
round a stall that displays
Come to me, and rest against my prettily-dressed dolls.
shoulder
Amongst them is a prettily-
How fast the minutes fly away and dressed girl of 8 or 9 years:
every minute colder EPONINE.)
VALJEAN (On a frosted window of the inn,
through which we see a little
Oh, Fantine, Cosette will be here girl, COSETTE, gazing out at the
soon display of dolls.)
Dear Fantine, she will be by your “Castle on a Cloud”
side
Young Cosette
FANTINE
There is a castle on a cloud,
Come, Cosette, My child, where
did you go? I like to go there in my sleep,
Aren't any
VALJEAN
floors for me to sweep, Not in my
castle
on a cloud.
There is a room that's full of
toys,
There are a hundred boys
girls,
Nobody shouts or talks too loud,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
There is a lady all in white,
Holds me and sings a lullaby,
She's nice to see and she's soft
to touch,
She says "Cosette, I love you very
much."
I know a place where no one's
lost,
I know a place where no one cries,
Crying at all is not allowed,
Not in my castle on a cloud.
(Madame Thenardier comes bustling
down the stairs in a bad mood. She
glowers at little Cosette and
changes the closed sign from
“closed” to “open”.)
MME THERNADIER: Now look
who's here. The little madame
herself!
Pretending once again she's been
`so
awfully good. You better show me
you
are not slacking. Your mother
sends
me ten rotten francs. What could
you
buy with that? Now take that pail.
(Sarcastic) My little
`Mademoiselle’
and go and draw some water from
the
well! We should never have taken
you in in the first place. How
and stupid, the
things that we do! Like mother
like daughter, the scum of the
street.
EPONINE: Mama!
MME. THERNADIER: Eponine, come
my dear, Eponine, let me see you.
You look very well in that new
little blue hat. There’s some
little girls who know how to
behave.
And they know what to wear. And
I'm saying thank Heaven for that.
Still there Cosette? Your tears
will do you no good. I told you
fetch some water from the well in
the wood…
YOUNG COSETTE: Please do not
send me out alone. Not in the
darkness
on my own
MME. THERNADIER: Now Shut
your face, or I'll forget to be
nice! You
heard me ask for something,And I
never ask twice!
The Bargain
(The child COSETTE enters from
the UR entrance to a waiting and
angry
MADAME THENARDIER)
MADAME THENARDIER Look down and show some mercy if
Let me take your coat, m'sieur! you can!
Look down and see the sweepings
VALJEAN of the street!
Cosette shall live in my
protection. Look down, look down,
Upon your fellow man!
THENARDIER
You are very welcome here! GAVROCHE
`
VALJEAN Think you're poor? Think you're
I will not forget my vow. free?
Follow me! Follow me!
THENARDIER: Take a glass!
MADAME THENARDIER: Take a chair! BEGGARS
Look down and show some mercy if
VALJEAN you can!
Cosette shall have a father now. Look down, look down, upon your
fellow man!
No more words! Here's your
price! Fifteen hundred for your ALL: Vive la France! Vive la
sacrifice. France!
Come, Cosette, say goodbye.
Let's seek out some friendlier
sky. SCENE 13: ABC Cafe
Thank you both for Cosette - (ABC cafe, a room where the
It won't take you too long to revolotionists are)
forget.
(Marius comes down the street,
his mind full of thoughts of
(mr & mrs. thernadier kissing the Cosette. Marius arrives at the
money) first floor front room. Here a
SCENE 10: PARIS group of students are cleaning
rifles and sharing their
NINE YEARS LATER excitement at the coming
revolution: ENJOLRAS, COMBEFERRE,
(The dawn light glows on a massive COURFEYRAC,
ELEPHANT. The monument, made of
wood and plaster, now ruined and JOLY, GRANTAIRE, FEUILLY,
crumbling, stands on a plinth on PROUVAIRE and others.)
one side of the wide open square.
On the far side, the remains of ”ABC Café / Red And Black”
the great fortress that was the (Marius enters. Joly turns goes
Bastille. In the middle, over to Marius at the back, a
scaffolding surrounds a half- faraway look on his face.)
built triumphal column, which is
being erected to celebrate the Joly:
new regime.) PARIS, 1832)
What's wrong today?
BEGGARS CHORUS
Look down and see the beggars at You look as if you've seen a
your feet! ghost.
Grantaire Marius:
Some wine and say what's going on! Had you been there tonight
Marius: You might know how it feels
A ghost you say... a ghost maybe To be struck to the bone
She was just like a ghost to me In a moment of breathless
delight!
One minute there, and she was
gone! Had you been there tonight
Grantaire: You might also have known
I am agog! I am aghast! How the world may be changed
Is Marius in love at last? In just one burst of light!
I've never heard him `ooh' and And what was right seems wrong
`aah'
And what was wrong seems right!
You talk of battles to be won
Grantaire: Red...
And here he comes like Don Ju-an
Marius: I feel my soul on fire!
It's better than an o-per-a!
Grantaire: Black...
(They burst into laughter. But
Enjolras isn’t smiling.) Marius: My world if she's not
there!
Enjolras:
All: Red...
It is time for us all
Marius: The color of desire!
To decide who we are
All: Black...
Do we fight for the right
Marius: The color of despair!
To a night at the opera now?
SCENE 14: Cosette and Marius’
Have you asked of yourselves Second Meeting
What's the price you might pay? (Rue Plumet: Valjean’s house)
Is it simply a game (Cosette is pacing in her
bedroom. It’s a pretty room, the
For rich young boys to play? best room in this small summer
The colors of the world house. Her shutters are open,
giving a view of a wild unkempt
Are changing day by day... garden. She looks at herself in a
mirror, aware of her looks
Red - the blood of angry men! perhaps for the first time.)
Black - the dark of ages past! “In My Life”
Red - a world about to dawn! Marius:In my life
Black - the night that ends at She has burst like the music of
last! angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Eponine
You're the friend who has brought
me here
Thanks to you I am one with the
gods
Eponine by Marius’s side.)
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:

And Heaven is near! A heart full of love No fear, no

regret
And I soar through a world that
is new that is free Marius:

Eponine: (to herself) My name is Marius Pontmercy

Every word that he says is a Cosette:

dagger in me! And mine's Cosette
In my life Marius:
There's been no one like him Cosette, I don’t know what to say
anywhere
COSETTE: Then make no sound
Anywhere, where he is...
Marius:
If he asked... I'd be his
I am lost
Marius & Eponine:
Cosette:
In my life
I am found!
There is someone who touches my
life. Marius: A heart full of light
Marius: Cosette: A night bright as day
Waiting near Marius: A heart full of love
Eponine: Eponine: (Interjecting)
Waiting here He was never mine to lose
“A Heart Full of Love” Why regret what cannot be?
Marius: Cosette:
A heart full of love A heart full of you
(Cosette goes out the house and Eponine: (Interjecting)
sees Marius. She
These are words he'll never say
comes up the garden path towards
him. She sees
Not to me… Not to me… Not for In the rain the pavement shines
me... like silver
Marius: All the lights are misty in the
river
A single look and then I knew
In the darkness, the trees are
Cosette: full of starlight
I knew it too And all I see is him and me for
Eponine: (Interjecting) ever and forever

His heart full of love And I know it's only in my mind

Marius: From today That I'm talking to myself and not

to him
Eponine: (Interjecting)
And although I know that he is
He will never feel this way... blind
Cosette: Still I say, there's a way for us
Every day I love him
Cosette & Marius But when the night is over
For it isn't a dream He is gone, the river's just a
river
Not a dream after all.
Without him the world around me
changes
(Valjean comes to the door.) The trees are bare and everywhere
VALJEAN: Cosette! Cosette!
The streets are full of strangers
SCENE 15: Eponine’s Heartbreak
I love him
“On My Own”
But every day I'm learning
Eponine:
All my life I've only been
On my own pretending

Pretending he's beside me Without me his world will go on

turning
All alone, I walk with him till
morning A world that's full of happiness

Without him, I feel his arms That I have never known!

around me I love him
And when I lose my way I close my I love him
eyes
I love him
And he has found me
But only on my own.
(She crosses a bridge over the
river.)
“One day more” Enjolras:
Valjean: One more day before the storm!
One day more! Marius:
Another day, another destiny. Do I follow where she goes?
This never-ending road to Enjolras:
Calvary;
At the barricades of freedom.
These men who seem to know my
crime Will surely come a second Marius:
time. Shall I join my brothers there?
One day more! Enjolras:
Marius: When our ranks begin to form
I did not live until today. Marius:
How can I live when we are parted? Do I stay; and do I dare?
Valjean: Enjolras:
One day more. Will you take your place with me?
Marius & Cosette: All: The time is now, the day is
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away, here

And yet with you, my world has Valjean: One day more!
started! Javert:
Eponine: One more day to revolution,
One more day all on my own. We will nip it in the bud!
Marius & Cosette: I will join these little
Will we ever meet again? schoolboys,

Eponine: They will wet themselves with

blood!
One more day with him not caring.
Valjean:
Marius & Cosette:
One day more!
I was born to be with you.
M. & Mme. Théardier:
Eponine:
Watch 'em run amuck,
What a life I might have known.
Catch 'em as they fall,
Marius & Cosette:
Never know your luck
And I swear I will be true!
When there's a free for all,
Eponine:
Here a little `dip’, there a
But he never saw me there! 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
Do you hear the people sing?
Marius:
My place is here! I fight with
you!
Valjean: One day more!
Marius & Cosette:
I did not live until today
How can I live when we are parted?
Eponine: One more day on my own.
Javert:
I will join these people’s heroes
I will follow where they go.
I will learn their little
secrets,
I will know the **things
know.
Valjean: **One day more!
Marius & Cosette:
Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away
And yet with you my world has
started.
M. & Mme. Théardier:
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all
Javert:
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We’ll be ready for these
- schoolboys
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!
(fade,exit)
ACT II
SCENE 16: Back at the barricades
Do you hear the people sing
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of a people
they 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!
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?
MARIUS & ENJOLRAS:
Then join in the fight To the barricades!
(Fade- into the barricades)
That will give you the right To
be free
Do you hear the people sing ENJOLRAS: I need a volunteer!
Someone who can find out and when
Singing the song of angry men?
they’ll attack!
It is the music of a people
JAVERT: I can find out the truth!
Who will not be slaves again! I know their ways, Fought their
wars, Served my time in the days
When the beating of your heart of my youth.
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start SCENE 17: Javert’s Disguise
When tomorrow comes! JAVERT: I have overheard their
Enjolras: plans. There will be no attack
tonight.
Will you give all you can give
They intend to starve you out
So that our banner may advance Before they start a proper fight
– Concentrate their force. Hit us
Courfeyrac: when it’s light -
Some will fall and some will live GAVROCHE: Liar!
Will you stand up and take your (They all look up. There’s
chance Gavroche, on the top of the
Marius: barricade.)
GAVROCHE: Good evening, dear
The blood of the martyrs Inspector. Lovely evening, my
dear!
Will water the meadows of France!
I know this man, my friends. His
ALL: name’s Inspector Javert! So don’t
Do you hear the people sing believe a word he says, cause none
of it’s true.
Singing the song of angry men?
This only goes to show. What
It is the music of a people little people can do.
Who will not be slaves again! (Guns swing round to aim at
Javert. He stares back in
When the beating of your heart
defiance.)
Echoes the beating of the drums
(Gavroche comes dancing down the
There is a life about to start barricade to Courfeyrac’s
delighted embrace.)
When tomorrow comes!
(Gunshots)
COURFEYRAC: Bravo, little
Gavroche! You’re the top of the
class!
(Gavroche grabs Grantaire’s red
cap and puts it on his own head,
mimicking the students.)
PROUVAIRE: So what are we gonna
do with this snake in the grass?
(Enjolras faces Javert.)
ENJOLRAS: Tie this man and take
him. To the tavern in there! The
people will decide your fate,
Inspector Javert!
JAVERT: Shoot me now or shoot me
later
Every schoolboy to his sport!
Death to each and every traitor!
I renounce your people's court!
SCENE 18 The first to fall
ARMY OFFICER: Who’s there?
(At the same time we hear the
clatter of guns being levelled.)
ENJOLRAS: French Revolution.
ARMY OFFICER: Fire!
(All at once the FIRST FULL ATTACK
begins. Shouts and the rattle of
gunfire as
SOLDIERS throw themselves up and
over the barricade. The students
run for their guns and return
fire. They are taken by surprise.
All could be lost in the first
instant. Some soldiers make it up
to the top of the barricade, where
they’re driven back by the fierce
resistance of the defenders.
Eponine sees one soldier aiming
his rifle at Marius - she throws
herself in front of Marius just
as the rifle fires - and Marius
is safe.)
(They are being overrun. Panic
ensues. The gun battle is fierce.
Marius in a flash
of inspiration realizes all is
lost unless they do something. He
drags a barrel of gunpowder to the
top of the barricade,
grabs the torch and with a face
of deadly resolve he tips the
torch towards the
barrel.)
MARIUS: Clear out or I’ll blow up
the barricade! (Everyone freezes)
ARMY OFFICER: Blow it up then and
take yourself with it!
MARIUS: And myself with it!
ARMY OFFICER: BACK! BACK!
FEUILLY: (to Marius) Marius, you
almost got us killed.
LESGLES: What were you thinking!
(As everyone surrounds Marius in
amazement he spots Eponine lying
propped against the barricade.)
MARIUS: Eponine! What have you
done?
(He kneels by her side. Eponine
is dying.)
EPONINE: Here… It’s from
Cosette...I kept it from you… I’m
sorry.
(With a struggle she pulls the
letter out of her pocket, and
pushes it into his hand.)
(Marius is shocked to find blood
pouring from her wound.)
MARIUS: Eponine, you’re hurt! You
need some help!
(Rain begins to fall.)
“A Little Fall of Rain”
Eponine:
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to
know And you
will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers
grow.
Marius:
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear
God above,
If I could heal your wounds with
words of love.
Eponine:
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me
Marius& Eponine:
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
(marius: Dear Eponine)
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
Marius: I’m here
Eponine:
That’s all I need to know
(Marius) & Eponine:
And you will keep me safe
(I will stay with you)
(Till you are sleeping.)
And you will keep me close
And rain.. (and rain)
Eponine:
Will make the flowers... Grow...
Marius:
Will make the flowers... grow...
(She dies. Marius kisses her,
then lays her on the
ground. Marius looks up at the
others, his eyes
full of tears.)
SCENE 21: THE FALL OF THE BRAVE
LITTLE ONE
(Enjolras re-enters the barricade
through the secret gate. He has
been on a reconnaissance. He
looks at the street. No one is
stirring, but for a single
shutter which opens a crack - a
face peeps – and it closes again.
Below him the students are up and
getting ready.)
ENJOLRAS: The people have not
stirred.
COURFEYRAC: Abandoned by those
who still live in fear.
ENJOLRAS: Let us not waste lives!
Let all who wish to go from here!
(There is silence. Uncertainty.
Yet no one moves to go.)
GAVROCHE: (from top of barricade)
Do you hear the people sing
GAVROCHE/COURFEYRAC:
Singing the song of angry men
STUDENTS/CITIZENS: (joining) It
is the music of the 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: Enjolras! Ammunition’s
short.
MARIUS: I will go into the
streets. Ammunition to be found.
(Gavroche is already climbing the
barricade under cover of the
smoke.)
GAVROCHE: Little people know.
When little people fight We may
look easy pickings But we’ve got
some bite!
COURFEYRAC: Come back, Gavroche!
Don’t you dare!
GAVROCHE: So never kick a dog.
When he’s just a pup - We’ll fight
like twenty armies. And we won’t
give up! (Army shots.)
GAVROCHE: So you’d better run for
cover. When the pup grows -
(Crack! A musket shot. Gavroche
falls face down onto the
barricade.)
COURFEYRAC: No-o!
(He runs up the barricade, seizes
Gavroche’s body in his arms,
convulsed with grief, and brings
it back through the gate in the
barricade. At the other end of the
street Javert has appeared. He
sees this gate. And talks to the
Army Officer. As the smoke from
the muskets clears horses are
revealed drawing field artillery
into position. The Army Officer
is lining up the big guns
carefully.)
SCENE 22: The Final Attack
ARMY OFFICER: You at the
barricades listen to this! The
people of Paris sleep in their
beds! You have no chance, No
chance at all! Why throw your
lives away?
(Enjolras gazes on his pitifully
small group.)
ENJOLRAS: Let others rise to take
our place
Until the earth is free!
(Attack scenes)
(Marius is injured and Valjean
saves him)
(Grantaire sees Enjolras with
the muskets raised against him.
Grantaire goes and joins him.
Enjolras smiles, and raises his
now-ragged red flag.
GRANTAIRE & ENJOLRAS: Red - a
world about to dawn!
Black - the night that ends at
last!
(The rifles blaze. Grantaire
drops back to the ground.
Enjolras falls back -)
Javert’s Fall
(He begins to move away along the
embankment, up steps, towards a
bridge.
He’s unaware of everything except
the turmoil in his brain.)
“Javert’s Suicide”
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 he
from heaven or from hell?
And does he know
That granting me my life today
This man has 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 Jean Valjean.
There is nowhere I can turn
There is no way to go on....
(fade)
The ghosts fade away.
Oh my friends, my friends, don't
ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no
more.
(valjean enters)
Valjean Confesses to Marius and
Leaves
(Marius stands before Valjean,
alone in this more private room.)
VALJEAN: Years ago, He broke
parole and lived a life apart… How
could he tell Cosette and break
her heart? It’s for Cosette this
must be faced: If he is caught,
she disgraced… The time has
come to And from this day he gone!
Who am I?
MARIUS: You’re Jean Valjean!

SCENE 23: Love Ones and Marius’ (Marius can’t conceal that he’s
Grief
revelation.)
(Marius makes his way slowly up (Valjean leaving)
the stairs to the upper room. He’s
still weak from his wounds. He MARIUS: Monsieur, you cannot
enters the room where his friends leave!
died, and looks round. He sinks
into a chair.) Whatever I tell my beloved
Cosette,
Marius:
she will never believe me.
There's a grief that can't be
spoken. MARIUS: I give my word.

There's a pain goes on and on. VALJEAN: What I have spoken, why
I must go.
Phantom faces at the window.
MARIUS: For the sake of Cosette,
Phantom shadows on the floor. it must be so.
Empty chairs at empty tables (EXT. MARIUS’S FAMILY HOUSE)
Where my friends will meet no (A waiting cab. Valjean comes out
more. of the modest lodging house and
gets in. Thecab rattles away down I write my last confession.
the street.)
Read it well
(Cosette gazes at Marius,
bewildered bywhat she has just When I at last am sleeping.
learned.)
COSETTE: Where’s he gone without It's the story
a word. That wouldn’t be his way
to go Of those who always loved you.

COSETTE: He can’t leave us now. Your mother gave her life for you
What’s our wedding day without Then gave you to my keeping.
him giving me away?
Fantine:
(fade)
Come with me
SCENE 26: CONVENT CHAPEL
Where chains will never bind you
PARIS
All your grief
(Valjean prays in the chapel, on
his knees. He’s very weak. Next At last, at last behind you.
to the crucifix on the altar are
Valjean’s two silver Lord in Heaven,
candlesticks, in which two
candles burn.) Look down on him in mercy.

VALJEAN: Valjean:

Now you are here again beside me Forgive me all my trespasses

Now I can die in peace for now my And take me to your glory.
life is blessed
Fantine:
Cosette:
Take my hand
You will live, Papa, you're going
to live And lead me to salvation.

It's too soon, too soon to say Take my love,

goodbye!
For love is everlasting.
Valjean:
Fantine & Valjean
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die
And remember
I'll obey,
The truth that once was spoken
I will try.
To love another person
On this page
Is to see the face of God! (As the marchers come nearer we
begin to realise how many there
are: thousand upon thousand. And
there marching among them we see
“FINALE” peoplefrom the past - Enjolras
and the students who died - and
Do you hear the people sing Fantine - and Eponine - And out
Lost in the valley of the night? of the crumbling elephant peers
It is the music of a people another: the grinning face of
Who are climbing to the light. Gavroche. He climbs out to dance
For the wretched of the earth on the elephant, as the crowd fill
There is a flame that never dies. the square.)
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-
share,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their
reward.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with
me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant
drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with
me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant
drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!

SUPERIMPOSE CAPTIONS:

The people of Paris have risen in

their tens of thousands. The King
has fled. A new Republi is born.