Act 1: Scene 14

SCENE 14

            (The girls have fled to the upmost turret of the Wizard’s Pakace.)

GLINDA

Elphie, wait! Where are you going?!

ELPHABA

Oh no! There are no more stairs!

GLINDA

Elphaba, listen to me!

ELPHABA

The guards are coming up! We have to barricade the door!

GLINDA

What?!

ELPHABA

I’ll use this!

            (ELPHABA blockades the door shut with an old broom.)

GLINDA

Why couldn’t you have just stayed calm, for once! Instead of flying off the handle!

                        (Sings)

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY NOW

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY HOW YOU

            HURT YOUR CAUSE FOREVER

            I HOPE YOU THINK YOU’RE CLEVER

ELPHABA

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY TOO

            I HOPE YOU’RE PROUD HOW YOU

            WOULD GROVEL IN SUBMISSION

            TO FEED YOUR OWN AMBITION

BOTH

            SO THOUGH I CAN’T IMAGINE HOW

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY RIGHT NOW…

MORRIBLE’S VOICE

Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy who must be found and captured! Believe nothing she says, she is evil! Responsible for the mutilation of these poor, innocent monkeys! 

GLINDA

Oh no.

MORRIBLE’S VOICE

Her green skin is but an outward manifestorium of her twisted nature! This distortion! This repulsion!! This Wicked Witch!!!

GLINDA

Don’t be afraid.

ELPHABA

I’m not. It’s the Wizard who should be afraid… of me!

GLINDA

Elphie, listen to me. Just say you’re sorry. Before it’s too late…

                        (Sings)

            YOU CAN STILL BE WITH THE WIZARD

            WHAT YOU’VE WORKED AND WAITED FOR

            YOU CAN HAVE ALL YOU’VE EVER WANTED…

ELPHABA

I know—

                        (Sings)

BUT I DON’T WANT I—

NO—I CAN’T WANT IT

ANYMORE…

SOMETHING HAS CHANGED WITHIN ME

SOMETHING IS NOT THE SAME

I’M THROUGH WITH PLAYIING 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…

GLINDA

            CAN’T I MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU’RE

            HAVING DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR…?

ELPHABA

I’M THROUGH ACCEPTING LIMITS

‘CAUSE SOMEONE SAYS THEY’RE SO

SOME THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE

BUT TIL 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

I’D SOONER BUY

DEFYING GRAVITY

KISS ME GOODBYE

I’M DEFYING GRAVITY

AND YOU CAN’T PULL ME DOWN…

GUARDS’ VOICE

Open this door! In the name of His Supreme Ozness!

GLINDA                                                                                                                         ELPHABA

What are you doing?!                                                                                                             Ah May

That’s what started all of this in the first place!                                                                Ah Tay Ah

That hideous levitation spell!                                                                                           Tum Ditum                                   

Stop!!!

GLINDA

Well? Where are your wings? Maybe you’re not as powerful as you think you are.

            (The old broom levitates over to ELPHABA.)

GLINDA

Sweet Oz!

ELPHABA

I told you, Glinda! Didn’t I tell you!

GUARDS’ VOICE

Bash it in! Fetch the battering ramikin!

ELPHABA

Quick get on!

GLINDA

What?!

ELPHABA

Come with me. Think of what we can do… together.

                        (Sings)

UNLIMITED

TOGETHER WE’RE UNLIMITED

TOGETHER WE’LL BE THE GREATEST TEAM

THERE’S EVER BEEN

GLINDA—

DREAMS THE WAY WE PLANNED ‘EM…

GLINDA

            IF WE WORK IN TANDEM…

BOTH

            THERE’S NO FIGHT WE CANNOT WIN

            JUST YOU AND I

            DEFYIING GRAVITY

            WITH YOU AND I

            DEFYING GRAVITY

ELPHABA

            THEY’LL NEVER BRING US DOWN…

Well? Are you coming?

(The answer is no, but GLINDA can’t bring herself to say it. Instead, she gets an old blanket from a shelf and wrps it around ELPHABA’S shoulders.)

GLINDA

Elphie, you’re trembling. Here… put this around you.

                        (Sings)

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY

            NOW THAT YOU’RE CHOOSING THIS…

ELPHABA

            YOU TOO—

            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…

            (The PALACE GUARDS burst in, their muskets drawn.)

GUARD

There she is! Don’t let her get away!

GLINDA

Leave me alone, you hear! Let go of me!

ELPHABA

It’s not her! She has nothing to do with it! I’m the one you want! It’s me!

GLINDA

Elphie!

ELPHABA

It’s meee!

            (ELPHABA rides her enchanted broom skyward.)

ELPHABA

SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME

LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY

AS SOMEONE TOLD ME LATELY:

“EV’RYONE DESERVES THE CHANCE TO FLY”

AND IF I’M FLYING SOLO

AT LEAST I’M FLYING FREE

TO THOSE WHO’D 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 OZ

NO WIZARD THAT THERE IS OR WAS

IS EVER GONNA BRING ME DOWN!

GLINDA

            I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!

CITIZENS OF OZ

            LOOK AT HER, SHE’S WICKED!

            GET HER!

ELPHABA

            BRING ME DOWN!

CITIZENS OF OZ

            NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED

            SO WE’VE GOT TO BRING HER…

ELPHABA

            AHHHH!

CITIZENS OF OZ

            DOWN!

            END ACT 1