Defying Gravity (end of act 1)

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Rapunzel: Var, wait! Where are you going?

Varian: Oh no! There are no more stairs! This must be the attic....

Rapunzel: Varian, listen to me.....

Varian: I have to barricade the door! 

He picks up a broom and places it over a trap door 

Rapunzel: Varian, why couldn't you stay calm for once instead of flying off the handle 

Rapunzel: I hope you're happy! I hope you're happy now I hope you're happy how you've hurt your cause forever I hope you think you're clever.

Varian: I hope you're happy! I hope you're happy too I hope you're proud of how you would grovel in submission to feed your own admission

Both: So though I can't imagine how I hope you're happy right now.....

Gothal: Citizens of Carona, there is an enemy that must be found and captured! Believe nothing he says. He's evil. Responsible for the mutilation of these poor, innocent monkeys! His green skin is but an outward manifestation of his twisted nature! This distortion..... this repulsion.... this.... Wicked Wizard!

We come back to Varian and Rapunzel

Rapunzel: Don't be afraid

Varian: I'm not..... it's the Wizard who should be afraid..... of me!

Rapunzel: Var, just say your sorry before its too late.

Rapunzel: You can still be with the Wizard what you've worked and waited for you can't have all you ever wanted 

Varian: I know...... But, I don't want it, no, I can't want it anymore... something has changed in me something is not the same I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game! Too late for second guessing too late to go back to sleep it's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap... It's time to try defying gravity I think I'll try defying gravity and you can't pull me down!    

Rapunzel: Can't I make you understand you're having delusions of grandeur

Varian: I'm through with accepting limits cuz someone says there so but till I try I'll never know! Too long I've been afraid of losing love I guess I've lost well if that's love, it comes at much too high a cost! Kiss me goodbye I'm defying gravity and you can't pull me down!

The guards bang on the door to the attic 

Guard: Open this door, In the name of his supreme Wizardness 

Varian: Ah May Ah Tay Ah Tum Ditum....

Rapunzel(as Varian is chanting): What are you doing?! Stop it! That's what started all this in the first place..... That hideous levitation spell! STOP!!!

Varian stops chanting     

Rapunzel: Well... Where are your wings? Maybe your not as powerful as you think you are...

A broomstick floats across the room toward Varian

Varian: I did it!, Rapunzel.... I did it!

The Guards bang on the door again 

Varian: Quick! Get on!

Rapunzel: What?!

Varian: Come with me.... think of what we could do.... together... (singing) unlimited, together we're unlimited together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been, Rapunzel dreams the way we planned 'em 

Rapunzel: If we work tandem 

Both: Just you and I defying gravity with you and I defying gravity 

Varian: They'll never bring us down. (speaking) Well are you coming?

Rapunzel: Var, your trembling.... here, put this around you...

Rapunzel drapes a black cape over Varian's shoulders 

Rapunzel: I hope your happy now that your choosing this 

Varian: you too. (singing) I hope it brings you bliss 

Both: I really hope you get it and you don't live to regret it I hope you're happy in the end! I hope you're happy.... my friend!

Varian runs off as the guards break down the door they grab Rapunzel thinking she is Varian

Rapunzel: What in Carona?! Let go of me! Do you hear me! Let go! 

Varian: That's not me. Rapunzel has nothing to do with this. I'm the one you want. It's me. hahahahaha. I'm up here!

Varian rises to the center of the room holding his broom 

Varian: So if you care to find me look to the western sky as someone told me lately, everyone deserves the chance to fly! And if I'm flying solo at least I'm flying free! to those who ground me, take a message back from me! Tell them how I am defying gravity!!! I'm flying high defying gravity!!! And soon I'll match them in renown and nobody in all of Carona.... No wizard that there is or was is never going to bring me down!!!

Caronian: Look at him, He's wicked get him!!!

Varian: Bring me down!!!

Caronians: No one mourns the wicked! So we've got to bring him.......

Varian: Ahhhhhhhhh!!! (this is supposed to be the little riff Elphaba does in the musical)

Caronians: Down!!!!


 









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