every story, tale or memoir...all are tales of love at heart
I found the Aida script online
read through the entire thing (when I should have been doing my english paper)
and cried
why isn't this show still on broadway
it has to be the most beautiful love story
the most depresing, and yet the most hopeful
it deserves to be well known and loved
just reading the script could make me cry
and not just teary eyes,
but tears running down my face
MEREB
(He bows to ZOSER)
Yes, oh Chief Minister Zoser... loved by the Gods, the people and himself.
MEREB
The Nubian camp. Look, everybody knows that I'm the one who can get things. And our people... They've have asked me to bring them... you.
AIDA
Why? So they can see a reckless fool dressed as a servant? No that is what I am, Mereb. My father told me not to leave the boundaries of our village, but I could not be so constrained. I took Nehebka and the other women up the river. I had to see the countryside. And that's where the Egyptians captured us. I deserve this. And our people deserve a leader who thinks of them. Not of her own selfish pleasures.
MEREB
Aida, the Nubians want their princess.
AMNERIS
Look, he is preparing to move into the Palace.
AIDA
But he's my...He's my king.
AIDA
Nubia will never die! Whether we are enslaved or whether we are far from our
native soil, Nubia lives in our hearts. And therefore, it lives.
AMONASRO
So the odds are slim. Can you use a sword, boy?
MEREB
Me? Actually I'm better at providing encouragement from the sidelines.
AMNERIS
Yes, but our Egyptian armies just stormed in and seized power? How oppressive
of us.
ZOSER
Perhaps, Princess. But where do you think that beautiful necklace came from?
(He points to her necklace. AMNERIS looks down at it, then removes it,
placing it on Zoser's table.)
AMNERIS
Suddenly it's not so beautiful
GUARD #1
We are here for Aida. Which one is she?
NEHEBKA
I am Aida!
MEREB
Forgive me, Princess. I failed you.
AIDA
No...never! You, Mereb, inspired me.
MEREB
I wanted to go back to Nubia. Aida, take me home.
AMNERIS
Your Majesty, you have poison in your blood. We both know this. Soon I will be completely alone, because everyone I love will be gone. So you must allow me to exercise my will over Egypt. Because I am to be your successor. And because I demand it.
RADAMES
Give me your hand. I'm right here with you. There is another world waiting for us, Aida. I can feel it. The way I always knew there was a world beyond every bend in the Nile. Just waiting to be discovered.
AIDA
You will find me in that world?
RADAMES
If I have to search for a hundred life times, I will find you again, Aida.