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: (She pulls herself into a sitting
position
Give that letter to me against the head of the mattress.
It is none of your business She draws her legs up and wraps
her arms round her knees,
With a husband at home huddling against the
misery of the world.)
And a bit on the side!
Is there anyone here “I Dreamed A Dream”

Who can swear before God Fantine:

She has nothing to fear? There was a time when men were
kind
She has nothing to hide? When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
Valjean:
There was a time when love was
What is this fighting all about? blind
And the world was a song
Will someone tear these two And the song was exciting
apart? There was a time
This is a factory, not a circus! Then it all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
Now come on ladies, settle down When hope was high
And life worth living
I run a business of repute I dreamed that love would never
I am the Mayor of this town die
I dreamed that God would be
(To the foreman) forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
Deal with this Forewoman. And dreams were made and used and
Be as patient as you can.(exit) wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
Women: No song unsung, no wine untasted
But the tigers come at night
(Women will rip out fantine’s With their voices soft as thunder
clothes/ grab hair) As they tear your hope apart
She'll be nothing but trouble And they turn your dream to shame
again and again He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless
Woman 2: You must sack her today wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
Workers: Sack the girl today!
But he was gone when autumn came
Foreman: Right my girl. On your And still I dream he'll come to
way! (pushes Fantine out harshly) me
That we will live the years
together
But there are dreams that cannot
be
And there are storms we cannot
weather
SCENE 4: Fantine’s Reminisence I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm If I go to jail, she'll die
living
So different now from what it VALJEAN: A moment of your time,
seemed Javert, I do believe this woman's
Now life has killed the dream I tale.
dreamed. JAVERT: Monsieur L’meir—
(Fade)
VALJEAN:You've done your duty,
BAMATABOIS: Sold your teeth, did let her be
you? Ugh, how ugly you are. She needs a doctor, not a jail
FANTINE: Leave me alone. JAVERT: Monsieur L’meir!
BAMATABOIS: You’ve got some nerve FANTINE: Can this be?
you little slut, you’ve got some
VALJEAN: Where will she end
gall
(harassment & Fantine slaps This child without a friend?
bamatabois) I've seen your face before
BAMATABOIS: By Christ, you'll pay Show me some way to help you
for what you've done
How have you come to grief
I guarantee, I'll make you suffer
In such a place as this?
FANTINE: I beg you, don't report
me sir FANTINE: Monsieur, don't mock me
now, I pray
I'll do whatever you may want
It's hard enough I've lost my
pride
JAVERT: Tell me quickly what's You let your foreman send me away
the story
Yes, you were there, and turned
Who saw what and why and where aside
Let him give a full description FANTINE and (VALJEAN):
Let him answer to Javert. I never did no wrong
BAMATABOIS: Javert, would you (Is it true, what I've done)
believe it
My daughter's close to dying
I was crossing from the park
(To an innocent soul?)
When this prostitute attacked me
If there's a God above
You can see she left her mark.
(Had I only known then...)
FATINE: There's a child who
sorely needs me He'd let me die instead

Please Monsieur, she's but that VALJEAN

high
In His name, my task has just
Holy God, is there no mercy? 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 (Sarcastic) My little
castle `Mademoiselle’
on a cloud. and go and draw some water from
the
There is a room that's full of
toys, well! We should never have taken
you in in the first place. How
There are a hundred boys and stupid, the
girls,
things that we do! Like mother
Nobody shouts or talks too loud, like daughter, the scum of the
Not in my castle on a cloud. street.

There is a lady all in white, EPONINE: Mama!

Holds me and sings a lullaby, MME. THERNADIER: Eponine, come

She's nice to see and she's soft my dear, Eponine, let me see you.
to touch, You look very well in that new
little blue hat. There’s some
She says "Cosette, I love you very little girls who know how to
much." behave.
I know a place where no one's And they know what to wear. And
lost, I'm saying thank Heaven for that.
I know a place where no one cries, Still there Cosette? Your tears
will do you no good. I told you
Crying at all is not allowed, fetch some water from the well in
Not in my castle on a cloud. the wood…
YOUNG COSETTE: Please do not
(Madame Thenardier comes bustling send me out alone. Not in the
down the stairs in a bad mood. She darkness
glowers at little Cosette and
changes the closed sign from on my own
“closed” to “open”.)
MME. THERNADIER: Now Shut
MME THERNADIER: Now look
your face, or I'll forget to be
who's here. The little madame nice! You
herself!
heard me ask for something,And I
Pretending once again she's been
`so never ask twice!

awfully good. You better show me

you The Bargain
are not slacking. Your mother (The child COSETTE enters from
sends the UR entrance to a waiting and
me ten rotten francs. What could angry
you MADAME THENARDIER)
buy with that? Now take that pail.
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 Eponine by Marius’s side.)
And my life seems to stop A heart full of song
As if something is over I'm doing everything all wrong
And something has scarcely begun. Oh God, for shame
Eponine I do not even know your name
You're the friend who has brought Dear Mad'moiselle
me here
Won't you say? Will you tell?
Thanks to you I am one with the
gods 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 Never know your luck
So they won't miss much! When there's a free for all
Students (2 Groups): Javert:
1: One day to a new beginning One more day to revolution
2: Raise the flag of freedom high! We will nip it in the bud
1: Every man will be a king We’ll be ready for these
- schoolboys
2: Every man will be a king
Valjean:
1: There's a new world for the
winning - Tomorrow we’ll be far away.
2: There's a new world to be won Valjean & Javert:
Do you hear the people sing? Tomorrow is the judgement day.
Marius: ALL
My place is here! I fight with Tomorrow we’ll discover
you!
What our God in heaven has in
Valjean: One day more! store -
Marius & Cosette: One more dawn! One more day! One
day more!
I did not live until today
(fade,exit)
How can I live when we are parted?
Eponine: One more day on my own.
ACT II
Javert:
SCENE 16: Back at the barricades
I will join these people’s heroes
Do you hear the people sing
I will follow where they go.
Singing the song of angry men?
I will learn their little
secrets, It is the music of a people
I will know the **things they Who will not be slaves again!
know.
When the beating of your heart
Valjean: **One day more!
Echoes the beating of the drums
Marius & Cosette:
There is a life about to start
Tomorrow you’ll be worlds away
When tomorrow comes!
And yet with you my world has
started. Will you join in our crusade?

M. & Mme. Théardier: Who will be strong and stand with

me?
Watch 'em run amuck,
Beyond the barricade
Catch 'em as they fall,
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 Eponine sees one soldier aiming
Gavroche! You’re the top of the his rifle at Marius - she throws
class! herself in front of Marius just
as the rifle fires - and Marius
(Gavroche grabs Grantaire’s red is safe.)
cap and puts it on his own head,
mimicking the students.) (They are being overrun. Panic
ensues. The gun battle is fierce.
PROUVAIRE: So what are we gonna Marius in a flash
do with this snake in the grass? of inspiration realizes all is
lost unless they do something. He
(Enjolras faces Javert.) drags a barrel of gunpowder to the
ENJOLRAS: Tie this man and take top of the barricade,
him. To the tavern in there! The grabs the torch and with a face
people will decide your fate, of deadly resolve he tips the
Inspector Javert! torch towards the
barrel.)
JAVERT: Shoot me now or shoot me
later MARIUS: Clear out or I’ll blow up
Every schoolboy to his sport! the barricade! (Everyone freezes)
Death to each and every traitor!
I renounce your people's court! 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!
SCENE 18 The first to fall
(As everyone surrounds Marius in
ARMY OFFICER: Who’s there?
amazement he spots Eponine lying
(At the same time we hear the
clatter of guns being levelled.) propped against the barricade.)

ENJOLRAS: French Revolution. MARIUS: Eponine! What have you

done?
ARMY OFFICER: Fire!
(He kneels by her side. Eponine
(All at once the FIRST FULL ATTACK is dying.)
begins. Shouts and the rattle of
gunfire as EPONINE: Here… It’s from
Cosette...I kept it from you… I’m
SOLDIERS throw themselves up and sorry.
over the barricade. The students
run for their guns and return (With a struggle she pulls the
fire. They are taken by surprise. letter out of her pocket, and
All could be lost in the first pushes it into his hand.)
instant. Some soldiers make it up (Marius is shocked to find blood
to the top of the barricade, where pouring from her wound.)
they’re driven back by the fierce
resistance of the defenders.
MARIUS: Eponine, you’re hurt! You And you will keep me safe
need some help!
(I will stay with you)
(Rain begins to fall.)
(Till you are sleeping.)
And you will keep me close
“A Little Fall of Rain”
And rain.. (and rain)
Eponine:
Eponine:
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
Will make the flowers... Grow...
I don't feel any pain
Marius:
A little fall of rain
Will make the flowers... grow...
Can hardly hurt me now
(She dies. Marius kisses her,
You're here, that's all I need to then lays her on the
know And you ground. Marius looks up at the
others, his eyes
will keep me safe full of tears.)
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers
grow. SCENE 21: THE FALL OF THE BRAVE
LITTLE ONE
Marius:
(Enjolras re-enters the barricade
But you will live, 'Ponine - dear through the secret gate. He has
God above, been on a reconnaissance. He
looks at the street. No one is
If I could heal your wounds with stirring, but for a single
words of love. shutter which opens a crack - a
Eponine: face peeps – and it closes again.
Below him the students are up and
Just hold me now, and let it be. getting ready.)
Shelter me, comfort me
ENJOLRAS: The people have not
Marius& Eponine: stirred.
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius COURFEYRAC: Abandoned by those
(marius: Dear Eponine) who still live in fear.
I don't feel any pain ENJOLRAS: Let us not waste lives!
Let all who wish to go from here!
A little fall of rain
(There is silence. Uncertainty.
Can hardly hurt me now
Yet no one moves to go.)
Marius: I’m here
GAVROCHE: (from top of barricade)
Eponine:
Do you hear the people sing
That’s all I need to know
GAVROCHE/COURFEYRAC:
(Marius) & Eponine:
Singing the song of angry men
STUDENTS/CITIZENS: (joining) It
is the music of the people. Who
will not be slaves again SCENE 22: The Final Attack

When the beating of your heart. ARMY OFFICER: You at the

Echoes the beating of the drums. barricades listen to this! The
There is a life about to start. people of Paris sleep in their
beds! You have no chance, No
When tomorrow comes! chance at all! Why throw your
lives away?
FEUILLY: Enjolras! Ammunition’s
(Enjolras gazes on his pitifully
short. small group.)
MARIUS: I will go into the ENJOLRAS: Let others rise to take
streets. Ammunition to be found. our place
(Gavroche is already climbing the Until the earth is free!
barricade under cover of the (Attack scenes)
smoke.) (Marius is injured and Valjean
GAVROCHE: Little people know. saves him)

When little people fight We may (Grantaire sees Enjolras with

look easy pickings But we’ve got the muskets raised against him.
some bite! Grantaire goes and joins him.
Enjolras smiles, and raises his
COURFEYRAC: Come back, Gavroche! now-ragged red flag.
Don’t you dare!
GAVROCHE: So never kick a dog. GRANTAIRE & ENJOLRAS: Red - a
When he’s just a pup - We’ll fight world about to dawn!
like twenty armies. And we won’t
give up! (Army shots.) Black - the night that ends at
last!
GAVROCHE: So you’d better run for
cover. When the pup grows -
(The rifles blaze. Grantaire
(Crack! A musket shot. Gavroche drops back to the ground.
falls face down onto the Enjolras falls back -)
barricade.)
COURFEYRAC: No-o! Javert’s Fall
(He runs up the barricade, seizes (He begins to move away along the
Gavroche’s body in his arms, embankment, up steps, towards a
convulsed with grief, and brings bridge.
it back through the gate in the
barricade. At the other end of the He’s unaware of everything except
street Javert has appeared. He the turmoil in his brain.)
sees this gate. And talks to the “Javert’s Suicide”
Army Officer. As the smoke from
the muskets clears horses are And must I now begin to doubt,
revealed drawing field artillery
into position. The Army Officer Who never doubted all these
is lining up the big guns years?
carefully.)
My heart is stone and still it The ghosts fade away.
trembles
Oh my friends, my friends, don't
The world I have known is lost in ask me
shadow. Is he
What your sacrifice was for
from heaven or from hell?
Empty chairs at empty tables
And does he know
Where my friends will sing no
That granting me my life today more.
This man has killed me even so? (valjean enters)
I am reaching, but I fall Valjean Confesses to Marius and
Leaves
And the stars are black and cold
(Marius stands before Valjean,
As I stare into the void alone in this more private room.)
Of a world that cannot hold VALJEAN: Years ago, He broke
I'll escape now from the world parole and lived a life apart… How
could he tell Cosette and break
From the world of Jean Valjean. her heart? It’s for Cosette this
must be faced: If he is caught,
There is nowhere I can turn she disgraced… The time has
There is no way to go on.... come to And from this day he gone!
(fade) 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.