Dulcinea/The Impossible Dream
I, Don Quixote/The Psalm

Reprise

ALDONZA: spoken
Please...try to remember. You looked at me, and you called me by another name.
sung
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: spoken
Perhaps...perhaps it was not a dream.
ALDONZA: spoken
You spoke of a dream....and about the quest.
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
Quest... The words. Tell me...tell me the words.
ALDONZA: spoken
"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: spoken
To right the unrightable wrong.
ALDONZA: spoken
Yes.
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
To love, pure and chaste, from afar.
ALDONZA: spoken
Yes.
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
To try when your arms are too weary.
To reach the unreachable star.
ALDONZA: spoken with the music continuing in the background
Thank you, my Lord.
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
But this is not seemly, my Lady. On thy knees? To me?
ALDONZA: spoken
My Lord, you're not well.
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
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: spoken
Here, your Grace!
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
My armor! My sword!
SANCHO: spoken
More misadventures!
DON QUIXOTE: spoken
Adventure, old friend.
sung
Oh, the trumpets of glory now call me to ride.
Yes, the trumpets are calling to me.
And where ever I ride, ever staunch at my side
my squire and my Lady shall be.
I am I, Don Quixote,
DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO, AND ALDONZA:
The Lord of La Mancha.
Our destiny calls and we go,
and the wild winds of fortune
shall carry us onward. Oh...
ALDONZA: spoken
My Lord?!
SANCHO: spoken
Master!
DON QUIXOTE:
Whither so ever they blow,
onward to glory I....<a shriek>
whispered
I....go....
ALDONZA: spoken
Oh, my Lord....
PADRE:
De profundis clamo ad te
Domine, Domine,
Audi vocem meam
fiant aures tuae intentae
ad vacem obse creationis meae
si delicatarum
memoriam
serva neris...

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