Final Sequence: The Death of Alonso Quijana / Dulcinea (reprise) / The Impossible Dream (reprise) / Man of La Mancha (reprise) / The Psalm Songtext
von Mitch Leigh

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
Sancho knows. 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
Yes, 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
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.)

ALDONZA
My Lord...

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.

The Psalm

De profundis clamo ad te,

Domine, Domine,

Audi vocem meam!

Fiant aures tuae intendae

Ad vocem obsecrationis meae.

Si delictorum memoriam serva veris,

Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit.

Finale

ALDONZA
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,

PADRE
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go...

ANTONIA
To run where the brave dare not go,
Though the goal be forever too far.

SANCHO, ANTONIA
To try, though you′re wayworn and weary,

PADRE, ANTONIA, SANCHO, BARBER
To reach the unreachable star.

ALL
To reach the unreachable star,
Though you know it's impossibly high,
To live with your heart striving upward
To a far, unattainable sky!