Eponine is my
favorite character in the book/musical
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Nicknames: ’Ponine
Age: 16 in the book, late teens to early twenties in the
play
Appearance: Dirty and poor yet beautiful
Family:
Love:
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“The
Robbery” – Eponine is introduced
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“Eponine’s
Errand” –
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“In
My Life” – Eponine dreams about a life with
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“A Heart
Full of Love” – Eponine regrets that
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“Plumet
Attack” – Eponine keeps Cosette and
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“One
Day More” – Eponine grieves that
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“Upon
These Stones” – Eponine dresses as a boy to visit
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“On
My Own” – On of the most famous songs in the musical, Eponine sings about how
she dreams of Marius loving her and their life together as she wanders the
streets alone.
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“A
Little Fall of Rain” – Eponine is shot and dies in
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“Finale”
– Eponine guides
The Robbery Eponine’s Errand In My Life A Heart Full of Love
Plumet Attack One Day More Upon These Stones
On
My Own A
Little Fall of Rain Finale
THENARDIER
Everyone here, you know your place
Brujon, Babet, Claquesous
You, Montparnasse, watch for the law
With Eponine take care
You turn on the tears
No mistakes, my dears
MME. THENARDIER
These bloody students on our street
Here they come slumming once again
Our Eponine would kiss their feet
She never had a scrap of brain
MARIUS
Hey, Eponine, what's up today?
I haven't seen you much about.
EPONINE
Here you can always catch me
in.
Mind the police don't catch you
out!
EPONINE
'Ere, wotcher do with all them books?
I could have been a student too!
Don't judge a girl on how she looks.
I know a lot of things, I do!
Poor Eponine, the things you know
You wouldn't find in books like these.
EPONINE
I like the way you grow your hair
I like the way you always tease
EPONINE
Little he knows!
Little he sees!
(Valjean arrives with Cosette, now grown up)
EPONINE (to
Stay out of this.
But Eponine...
EPONINE
You'll be in trouble here
It's not your concern
You'll be in the clear
(She pushes
Who is that man?
EPONINE
Leave me alone!
(He tries to follow her, and bumps into
Cosette)
I didn't see you there, forgive me.
THENARDIER
Please m'sieur, come this way
Here's a child that ain't eaten today.
Save a life, spare a sou
God rewards all the good that you do.
Wait a bit. Know that face.
Ain't the world a remarkable place?
Men like me don't forget
You're the bastard who borrowed Cosette!
(Thénardier grabs Valjean and rips open his shirt, revealing the number on his
chest)
VALJEAN
What is this? Are you mad?
No, Monsieur, you don't know what you do!
THENARDIER
You know me, you know me.
I'm a con, just like you.
EPONINE
It's the police! Disappear!
Run for it! It's Javert!
EPONINE
Cosette! Now I remember!
Cosette! How can it be?
We were children together
Look what's become of me...
(
EPONINE
Good God! Ooh, what a rumpus!
That girl, who can she be?
EPONINE
That cop! He'd like to jump us
But he ain't smart, not he.
EPONINE
Some bourgeois two-a-penny thing!
EPONINE
What will you give me?
Anything!
EPONINE
Got you all excited now,
But God knows what you see in her
Ain't you all delighted now
(She refuses
No, I don't want your money sir...
Discover where she lives
But careful how you go
Don't let your father know
'Ponine! I'm lost until she's found!
EPONINE
You see, I told you so!
There's lots of things I know
(
'Ponine... she knows her way around!
COSETTE
How strange
This feeling that my life's begun at last
This change,
Can people really fall in love so fast?
What's the matter with you, Cosette?
Have you been too much on your own?
So many things unclear
So many things unknown.
In my life
There are so many questions and answers
That somehow seem wrong
In my life
There are times when I catch in the silence
The sigh of a faraway song
And it sings
Of a world that I long to see
Out of reach
Just a whisper away
Waiting for me.
Does he know I'm alive?
Do I know if he's real?
Does he see what I saw?
Does he feel what I feel?
In my life
I'm no longer alone
Now the love in my life
Is so near
Find me now, find me here!
VALJEAN
Dear Cosette,
You're such a lonely child
How pensive, how sad you seem to me
Believe me, were it within my power
I'd fill each passing hour
How quiet it must be, I can see
With only me for company.
COSETTE
There's so little I know
That I'm longing to know
Of the child that I was
In a time long ago...
There's so little you say
Of the life you have known
Why you keep to yourself
Why we're always alone
So dark! So dark and deep...
The secrets that you keep!
In my life
I have all that I want
You are loving and gentle and good
But Papa, dear Papa,
In your eyes I am just like a child
Who is lost in a wood
VALJEAN
No more words
No more words. It's a time that is dead
There are words
That are better unheard,
Better unsaid.
COSETTE
In my life
I'm no longer a child and I yearn
For the truth that you know
Of the years... years ago!
VALJEAN
You will learn
Truth is given by God
To us all in our time
In our turn
(Valjean leaves the garden.
In my life
She has burst like the music of angels
The light of the sun
And my life seems to stop
As if something is over
And something has scarcely begun.
Eponine
You're the friend who has brought me here
Thanks to you I am one with the gods
And Heaven is near!
And I soar through a world that is new that is free
EPONINE (to herself)
Every word that he says is a dagger in me!
In my life
There's been no one like him anywhere
Anywhere, where he is...
If he asked... I'd be his
MARIUS & EPONINE
In my life
There is someone who touches my life
EPONINE
Waiting here
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A Heart Full
of Love
MARIUS
A heart full of love
A heart full of song
I'm doing everything all wrong
Oh God, for shame
I do not even know your name
Dear Mad'moiselle
Won't you say?
Will you tell?
COSETTE
A heart full of love
No fear, no regret
M,ARIUS
My name is Marius Pontmercy
COSETTE
And mine's Cosette
MARIUS
Cosette, I don't know what to say
COSETTE
Then make no sound
MARIUS
I am lost
COSETTE
I am found!
And you must never go away
Cosette,
This is a chain we'll never break
COSETTE
I'm awake!
MARIUS
A heart full of love
COSETTE
A heart full of you
MARIUS
A single look and then I knew
COSETTE
I knew it too
MARIUS
From today
COSETTE
Every day
COSETTE & MARIUS
For it isn't a dream
Not a dream after all.
EPONINE (Interjecting)
He was never mine to lose
Why regret what cannot be?
These are words he'll never say
Not to me...
Not to me...
Not to me...
His heart full of love
He will never feel this way...
EPONINE
'Parnasse, what are you doing
So far out of our patch?
MONTPARNASSE
This house, we're going to do it
Rich man, plenty of scratch
You remember he's the one
Who got away the other day
Got a number on his chest
Perhaps a fortune put away!
EPONINE
Oh Lord, somebody help me!
Dear God, what'll I do?
He'll think this is an ambush
He'll think I'm in it too!
What'll I do, what'll I say?
I've got to warn them here
I've got to find a way.
(Thénardier arrives with the rest of his gang)
THENARDIER
This is his lair
I've seen the old fox around
He keeps himself to himself
He's staying close to the ground
I smell profit here!
Ten years ago
He came and paid for Cosette
I let her go for a song
It's time we settled the debt
This'll cost him dear
BRUJON
What do I care
Who you should rob?
Gimme me my share
Finish the job!
THENARDIER
You shut your mouth
Give me your hand
BRUJON
(catching sight of Eponine)
What have we here?
THENARDIER
(not recognizing her)
Who is this hussy?
BABET
It's your brat Eponine
Don't you know your own kid
Why's she hanging about you?
THENARDIER
Eponine, get on home
You're not needed in this
We're enough here without you
EPONINE
I know this house
I tell you there's nothing here for you
Just the old man and the girl
They live ordinary lives
THENARDIER
Don't interfere
You've got some gall
Take care, young miss,
You've got a lot to say!
BRUJON
She's going soft
CLAQUESOUS
Happens to all
MONTPARNASSE
Go home, 'Ponine,
Go home, you're in the way
EPONINE
I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna warn them here.
THENARDIER
One little scream and you'll regret it for a year.
CLAQUESOUS
What a palaver
What an absolute treat
To watch a cat and its father
Pick a bone in the street
BRUJON
Not a sound out of you!
EPONINE
Well I told you I'd do it, told you I'd do it...
(She screams)
THENARDIER
You wait my girl, you'll rue this night
I'll make you scream, you'll scream all right
Leave her to me, don't wait around
Make for the sewers, go underground!
(The gang scatters. Marius and Cosette run back into the garden and he
hurriedly introduces Eponine before she takes
off)
MARIUS
It was your cry sent them away
Once more 'Ponine saving the day
Dearest Cosette - my friend 'Ponine
Brought me to you, showed me the way!
Someone is near
Let's not be seen
Somebody's here!
VALJEAN
One day more!
Another day, another destiny.
This never-ending road to Calvary;
These men who seem to know my crime
Will surely come a second time.
One day more!
I did not live until today.
How can I live when we are parted?
VALJEAN
One day more.
MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
And yet with you, my world has started!
EPONINE
One more day all on my own.
MARIUS & COSETTE
EPONINE
One more day with him not caring.
MARIUS & COSETTE
I was born to be with you.
EPONINE
What a life I might have known.
MARIUS & COSETTE
And I swear I will be true!
EPONINE
But he never saw me there!
ENJOLRAS
One more day before the storm!
ENJOLRAS
At the barricades of freedom.
Shall I join my brothers there?
ENJOLRAS
When our ranks begin to form
ENJOLRAS
Will you take your place with me?
ALL
The time is now, the day is here
VALJEAN
One day more!
JAVERT
One more day to revolution,
We will nip it in the bud!
I will join these little schoolboys,
They will wet themselves with blood!
VALJEAN
One day more!
M. & MME. THENARDIER
Watch 'em run amuck,
Catch 'em as they fall,
Never know your luck
When there's a free for all,
Here a little `dip'
There a little `touch'
Most of them are goners
So they won't miss much!
Students (2 Groups)
1: One day to a new beginning
2: Raise the flag of freedom high!
1: Every man will be a king
2: Every man will be a king
1: There's a new world for the winning
2: There's a new world to be won
ALL
Do you hear the people sing?
My place is here, I fight with you!
VALJEAN
One day more!
MARIUS & COSETTE
I did not live until today.
EPONINE
One more day all on my own!
MARIUS & COSETTE
How can I live when we are parted?
JAVERT(overlapping)
I will join these people's heroes
I will follow where they go
I will learn their little Secrets,
I will know the things they know.
VALJEAN
One day more!
MARIUS & COSETTE
Tomorrow you'll be worlds away
EPONINE
What a life I might have known!
MARIUS & COSETTE
And yet with you my world has started
JAVERT(overlapping)
One more day to revolution
We will nip it in the bud
We'll be ready for these
Schoolboys
THENARDIERS(overlapping)
Watch 'em run amok
Catch 'em as they fall
Never know your luck
When there's a free-for-all!
VALJEAN
Tomorrow we'll be far away,
Tomorrow is the judgment day
ALL
Tomorrow we'll discover
What our God in Heaven has in store!
One more dawn
One more day
One day more!
ENJOLRAS
Here upon these stones
We will build our barricade
In the heart of the city
We claim as our own!
Each man to his duty
And don't be afraid.
Wait! I will need a report
On the strength of the foe.
JAVERT(disguised as a rebel)
I can find out the truth
I know their ways
Fought their wars
Served my time
In the days
Of my youth.
PROUVAIRE
Now the people will fight
GRANTAIRE
And so they might
Dogs will bark
Fleas will bite.
LESGLES
They will do what is right!
(
God, Eponine, the things you do!
EPONINE
I know this is no place for me,
Still, I would rather be with you!
Get out, 'Ponine, you might get shot!
EPONINE
I've got you worried now, I have
That shows you like me quite a lot!
You are the answer to a prayer!
Please take this letter to Cosette
And pray to God that she's still there!
EPONINE
Little you know!
Little you care!
(She walks to the Rue Plumet, where she meets Valjean)
EPONINE
I have a letter
It's addressed to your daughter, Cosette
It's from a boy at the barricade, Sir,
In the Rue de Villette.
VALJEAN
Give me that letter here, my boy.
EPONINE
He said to give it to
You have my word that my daughter will know
What this letter contains.
(He gives her a coin)
Tell the young man she will read it tomorrow
And here's for your pains
Go careful now, stay out of sight
There's danger in the streets tonight.
(He opens the letter... and reads it)
"Dearest Cosette, you have entered my soul
And soon you will be gone.
Can it be only a day since we met
And the world was reborn?
If I should fall in the battle to come
Let this be my goodbye...
Now that I know you love me as well
It is harder to die...
I pray that god will bring me home
To be with you.
Pray for your
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On My Own (Best
EPONINE
And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to go no one to turn to,
Without a home, without a friend,
Without a face to say hello to.
And now the night is near
Now I can make believe he's here.
Sometimes I walk alone at night
When everybody else is sleeping
I think of him and then I'm happy
With the company I'm keeping
The city goes to bed
And I can live inside my head.
On my own
Pretending he's beside me
All alone, I walk with him till morning
Without him
I feel his arms around me
And when I lose my way I close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me for ever and forever
And I know it's only in my mind
That I'm talking to myself and not to him
And although I know that he is blind
Still I say, there's a way for us
I love him
But when the night is over
He is gone, the river's just a river
Without him the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him
But every day I'm learning
All my life I've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
A world that's full of happiness
That I have never known!
I love him
I love him
I love him
But only on my own.
EPONINE
Don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
You're here, that's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
And rain will make the flowers grow.
If I could heal your wounds with words of love.
EPONINE
Just hold me now, and let it be.
Shelter me, comfort me
You would live a hundred years
If I could show you how
I won't desert you now...
EPONINE
The rain can't hurt me now
This rain will wash away what's past
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
I'll sleep in your embrace at last.
The rain that brings you here
Is Heaven-blessed!
The skies begin to clear
And I'm at rest
A breath away from where you are
I've come home from so far
So don't you fret, M'sieur Marius
I don't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt me now
That's all I need to know
And you will keep me safe
And you will keep me close
MARIUS(in counterpoint)
Hush-a-bye, dear Eponine,
You won't feel any pain
A little fall of rain
Can hardly hurt you now
I'm here
I will stay with you
Till you are sleeping
EPONINE
And rain...
And rain...
EPONINE
Will make the flowers...
Will make the flowers... grow...
(She kisses Marius, then dies)
ENJOLRAS
She is the first to fall
The first of us to fall upon this barricade
MARIUS
Her name was Eponine
Her life was cold and dark, yet she was unafraid.
COMBEFERRE
We fight here in her name
PROUVAIRE
She will not die in vain.
LESGLES
She will not be betrayed.
VALJEAN (to COSETTE)
Now you are here
Again beside me
Now I can die in peace
For now my life is blessed...
COSETTE
You will live, Papa, you're going to live
It's too soon, too soon to say goodbye!
VALJEAN
Yes, Cosette, forbid me now to die
I'll obey
I will try.
On this page
I write my last confession
Read it well
When I, at last, am sleeping
It's a story
Of those who always loved you
Your mother gave her life for you
Then gave you to my keeping.
FANTINE
Come with me
Where chains will never bind you
All your grief
At last, at last behind you
Lord in Heaven
Look down on him in mercy.
VALJEAN
Forgive me all my trespasses
And take me to your glory.
VALJEAN, FANTINE, EPONINE
Take my hand
And lead me to salvation
Take my love
For love is everlasting
And remember
The truth that once was spoken
To love another person
Is to see the face of God.
CHORUS
Do you hear the people sing
Lost in the valley of the night?
It is the music of a people
Who are climbing to the light.
For the wretched of the earth
There is a flame that never dies.
Even the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise.
They will live again in freedom
In the garden of the Lord.
They will walk behind the plough-share,
They will put away the sword.
The chain will be broken
And all men will have their reward.
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Somewhere beyond the barricade
Is there a world you long to see?
Do you hear the people sing?
Say, do you hear the distant drums?
It is the future that they bring
When tomorrow comes...
Tomorrow comes!