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Star Wars - Musical Libretto
Star Wars - Musical Libretto
Star Wars
Music: Kevin Bayuk, Garrin Hajeian, John Zuckerman
Lyrics: Kevin Bayuk, Garrin Hajeian, John Zuckerman
Premiere: 1995
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ACT 1
Scene 1
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Scene 2
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OWEN and BERU LARS prepare for another day's work on their Tatooine
moisture farm. BERU goes to wake their nephew, LUKE SKYWALKER.
UNCLE OWEN: Let's get to work while the sun is still low!
UNCLE OWEN: Here we're so far from the Empire. We are free from oppression...
LUKE: (spoken) If there's a bright center of the universe we're on the planet
that it's farthest from! (He exits)
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Scene 3
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UNCLE OWEN: (spoken) You can waste time with your friends later.
LUKE: (Looking through macrobinoculars) All I can see are just some Banthas...
Wait a minute, I see one now...
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Scene 4
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The Death Star. Stormtroopers march on-stage, led by GRAND MOFF TARKIN
and VADER.
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BEN: Luke, its been so long, my look how you have grown, you remind me of your
father.
LUKE: Obi-wan, what do you mean? I was told that he had been
a pilot on a freighter.
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Luke races home to find it destroyed. OWEN and BERU are dead.
LUKE: I can't believe it's true.
Not Uncle, not Beru.
This place is the only home that I've known.
I live but yet they die.
No sense, no reason why...
They're gone, my home is lost, and I am alone.
Helpless...As my past dies,
as my heart cries.
I should have been there with them.
Sadness...unforgiving...
But the living must move on; start again.
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BEN: (spoken off-stage) Mos Eisley spaceport. You'll never find a more
wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Lights come up as a wild array of aliens dance and move the set into
place. The bartender, WUHER, addresses the audience.
MALE CHORUS: If you will it, there's a way. If you want it, I can get it -
just as long as you pay, we'll be willing to forget it.
WUHER: (to Luke) No droids! We don't serve their kind here. They'll have to
wait outside.
FEMALE CHORUS: Hey there, handsome - think tonight, you'll be looking for
action?
BEN: Wait here. I'll go find a pilot. Watch yourself, this place can get
violent.
CHEWBACCA, the wookie co-pilot of HAN SOLO, takes BEN and LUKE to a
table to discuss business.
BEN: (spoken) Chewbacca here is first mate on a ship that might suit us.
HAN: Reverse power couplings and its own game board, oh yeah!
BEN & LUKE: How much money? Whoa, how much money?
HAN: Hidden cargo in the floor, you should see this baby soar.
It's custom to a fit, its been modified a bit...
Millenium Falcon!
BEN & LUKE agree on the ship and exit out the back door.
GREEDO SEQUENCE
HAN: We're gonna get enough to pay off Jabba the Hut!
CHORUS: Falcon!
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Scene 8
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TARKIN and VADER are on the Death Star, overlooking the planet of
Alderaan.
TARKIN: At last!
TARKIN: Fire at will! You may fire when ready! Fire! Fire! Alderaan's
through! See how the Death Star seals our rule! Fire! Fire! You may fire
when ready! Fire! Fire when ready! See how the Death Star seals my rule!
VADER: I know the power to destroy a planet's nothing! The darkside of the
Force is more powerful! Battle stations! Can not compare! The Dark Side!
The Dark Side! That is where the power lies! The Dark Side! The Dark Side!
My evil, my power! In the dark lies my strength and power!
TARKIN: Fire!
VADER: Destroyed!
The souls of Alderaan sing in a jubilant chorus as they join with the
Force.
SOULS: Redeemed!
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ACT 2
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TARKIN: (spoken) Send a scanning crew on board. I want every part of this ship
checked!
HAN: (spoken off-stage) Hey down there! Can you give us a hand with this?
The rebels enter, led by CHEWIE, who knocks the officer out.
BEN leaves.
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Scene 2
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Scene 3
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They enter call block A-23 and are face to face with an Imperial GUARD.
Han shoots the guard as CHEWBACCA breaks free and shoots the cameras.
LEIA: (to Han) Looks like you've cut off our only escape.
HAN shoots a grating which leads to a garbage compactor.
HAN: (to Chewie) Get in the hole! I don't care what you smell!
HAN: (to LEIA) Don't you complain. Perhaps you'd like it in your cell!
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VADER: I am Vader!
VADER: I am Vader!
LUKE and the others are in the garbage compactor, center stage.
HAN: (spoken) Well, one thing's for sure. We're all gonna be a lot thinner.
TARKIN: Surely he must be dead, all the Jedi now are gone.
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LUKE: No!
He was my teacher and my Jedi master and now he is gone...
How can I learn all the ways of the Jedi without Obi-wan?
He killed my father, and killed Bed...
The Dark Side has won again...
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Scene 6
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Rebel pilots are gathered on the fourth moon of Yavin. GENERAL JAN
DODONNA addresses them.
PILOTS: Death
PILOTS: Star
PILOTS: Death
PILOTS: Star
BOTH: But maybe our paths will cross in the stars someday.
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Scene 7
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The Rebel pilots approach the Death Star.
LUKE and WEDGE are the only fighters left. OBI-WAN again appears by
Luke's side. Again he is bathed in blue light.
DODONNA & LEIA: Luke, you know what you must do.
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