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"I Miss the Music" -- Curtains

Underwater?
It's like a song you hear on the radio at night.
Like sleepin with the light out.
It's like the wooden sound of your mama sad bassoon.

Noah,
Someday we'll talk again
but they's things we'll never say.
That sorrow deep inside you,
it's inside me too,
and it never go away.
You be OK.
You'll learn how to lose things...

My sorrow go where my heart grow calm.
When you stop breathing air you get
oh so calm,
no fire down there
so it's calm calm calm
and there's never any money
so it's very very calm
but you miss
oh you miss
the sun and the moon
and the wooden bassoon.

Tony Kushner is a genius.

Was listening to this again and just came to the realization that it may be the greatest musicalized scene in all of music theatre. It stands on its own with or without the music.

Hits me everytime.


Dot: Yes GEORGE RUN TO YOUR WORK, HIDE BEHIND YOUR PAINTING. I've come to tell you I am leaving because I thought you might care to know. Foolish of me because you care about NOTHING.

George: I care about many things.

Dot: THINGS, not people.

George: People too. I can not divide my feelings up as neatly as you. And I am not hiding behind my canvas I am living in it.

Dot: WHAT YOU CARE FOR IS YOURSELF!

George: I CARE FOR THIS PAINTING. You will be in this painting.

Dot: I HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN USE.

George: I HAD THOUGHT YOU UNDERSTOOD...

Dot: It's because I understand, that I left, that I am leaving

George: And there is nothing I can say is there..

Dot: YES GEORGE THERE IS...

YOU COULD TELL ME NOT TO GO!... Say it to me... TELL ME NOT TO GO!...Tell me that you're hurt, tell me your relieved. Tell me that you're BORED. Anything, but dont' assume I know. Tell me what you feel.

George: WhatI feel? You know exactly how I feel. Why do you insist you must hear the words, when you know I can not give you words? Not the ones you need...... There's nothing to say. I can not be what you want.

Dot: What do you want George?

George: I needed you and you left....

Dot: There was no room for me.

George: You will not accept who I am. I am what I do. Which you knew. Which you always knew. WHICH I THOUGHT YOU WERE A PART OF!

DOT:

NO, YOU ARE COMPLETE GEORGE, YOU ARE YOUR OWN!

WE DO NOT BELONG TOGETHER!

You are complete George, you all alone.
I am UNFINISHED, I am DIMINISHED with or WITHOUT you.

WE DO NOT BELONG TOGETHER... AND WE SHOULD HAVE BELONGED TOGETHER...

What made it so right together, is what made it all wrong.

No one is you George, there we agree, but others will DO George!

No one is you and no one can be, but NO ONE IS ME GEORGE, no one is ME....WE DO NOT BELONG TOGETHER, AND WE'LL NEVER BELONG!

You have a mission. A mission to see. Now I have one too George.

And we should have belonged together.

I HAVE TO MOVE ON!

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Updated On: 4/13/07 at 12:01 PM