DON QUIXOTE
(courteously, but without recognition.)
Now then. What is it you want?
ALDONZA
Don't you know me?
DON QUIXOTE
Should I?
ALDONZA
I am Aldonza!
DON QUIXOTE
I'm sorry. I do not recall anyone of that name.
ALDONZA
Please, my Lord.
DON QUIXOTE
Why did you say "my lord"? I am not a lord.
ALDONZA
You are my lord, Don Quixote!
DON QUIXOTE
Don Quixote? You must forgive me, I have been ill...
I'm confused by shadows. It is possible I knew you once,
but I do not remember
ALDONZA
Please! Try to remember!
DON QUIXOTE
Is it so important?
ALDONZA
Everything. My whole life.
You spoke to me and everything was... different!
DON QUIXOTE
I spoke to you?
ALDONZA
And you looked at me!
And you called me by another name!
Dulcinea (Reprise)
ALDONZA
Dulcinea... Dulcinea...
Once you found a girl
And called her Dulcinea,
When you spoke the name
An angel seemed to whisper...
Dulcinea... Dulcinea...
Dulcinea... Dulcinea...
Won't you please bring back
The dream of Dulcinea...
Won't you bring me back
The bright and shining glory
Of Dulcinea... Dulcinea...
DON QUIXOTE
Then perhaps... it was not a dream...
ALDONZA
(kneeling beside Quixote again.)
You spoke of a dream. And about the Quest!
DON QUIXOTE
Quest?
ALDONZA
How you must fight and it doesn't matter whether
you win or lose if only you follow the Quest!
DON QUIXOTE
The words. Tell me the words!
ALDONZA
"To dream the impossible dream"...
but they're your own words!
"To fight the unbeatable foe"...
Don't you remember?
"To bear with unbearable sorrow"...
You must remember!
"To run where the brave dare not go!"
DON QUIXOTE
To right the unrightable wrong.
ALDONZA
Yes.
DON QUIXOTE
To love, pure and chaste, from afar
ALDONZA
Yes.
DON QUIXOTE
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!
ALDONZA
Oh Thank you. My Lord!
DON QUIXOTE
But this is not seemly, My Lady.
On thy knees? To me?
.ALDONZA
Oh, my Lord, you are not well!
DON QUIXOTE
Not well? What is sickness to the body of a knight-errant?
What matter wounds? For each time he falls he shall rise
again... and woe to the wicked! Sancho!
SANCHO
Here, Your Grace!
DON QUIXOTE
My armor! My sword!
SANCHO
More misadventures!
DON QUIXOTE
Adventures, old friend!
Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) (Reprise)
DON QUIXOTE
Oh the trumpets of glory
Now call me to ride,
Yes, the trumpets are calling to me,
And wherever I ride,
Ever staunch at my side
My squire and my lady shall be!
I am I, Don Quixote...
DON QUIXOTE, ALDONZA, SANCHO
The Lord of la Mancha
My {Our} destiny calls and I {we} go!
And the wild winds of fortune Shall carry me {us} onward,
Oh, whithersoever...
(Don Quixote falters)
ALDONZA
My Lord!
SANCHO
Master!
DON QUIXOTE
Whithersoever they blow
Onward to glory... aah!... I... go...
(crumples to the floor, dead.)
SANCHO
He is dead.
My master is dead.
ALDONZA
A man died.
He seemed a good man, but I did not know him,
SANCHO
But...
ALDONZA
Don Quixote is not dead. Believe, Sancho, believe.
SANCHO
Aldonza...
ALDONZA
My name is Dulcinea.