The Wedding Reception (Finale)

Lyrics

[JEKYLL, spoken] Mrs. Jekyll, may I have this dance? [LISA, spoken] Doctor Jekyll, you may have every dance! (Musical interlude as JEKYLL and LISA perform their wedding dance. JEKYLL, suddenly feeling a sharp, familiar pain, leaves the dance floor. UTTERSON, noticing his friend's behavior, walks towards him.) [UTTERSON, spoken] Henry, what is it? [JEKYLL, spoken] Don't make a fuss- Terrible pain- Get me out of here- Need to breathe-! (JEKYLL flinches sharply, growling in pain.) [UTTERSON, spoken] Oh, my God...! (The guests watch in horror as JEKYLL transforms into HYDE.) [JEKYLL, sung] Oh, God, what now-? Oh, God, not now-! Help me, somehow! Please take the pain away! Feel it fill me- This will kill me! Please, God, will me Somehow to fight, I pray! Oh, God, help me! God have mercy! Don't let her see- Not on our wedding day! (JEKYLL screams.) [LISA, spoken] Henry?! [HYDE, spoken] There is no Henry... only Hyde! (The guests gasp in horror.) [STRIDE, spoken] Look at this monster, Lisa! [HYDE, spoken] And what would you have done with her, Stride? Put her in one of your Camden Town whore houses, and rented her out a shilling a time? [STRIDE, spoken] Damn you, Jekyll! Enough! [HYDE, spoken] Enough indeed... end of game! (to LISA) We seem to be married, my love... Ready for our bridal bed, are you? (UTTERSON pulls out a gun.) [UTTERSON, spoken] Henry, stay back! Don't touch her! I beg you- stop! Stop now! (UTTERSON fires. HYDE grunts, wounded.) [LISA, spoken] Henry! Oh, god, Henry... [SIR DANVERS, spoken] Lisa, no! Stay back! [LISA, spoken] Henry, it's me! If this is you, show me! (HYDE grabs LISA and puts his hands around her throat, choking her.) [SIR DANVERS, spoken] No! Stop him! [HYDE, spoken] Stay! Or she dies! [LISA, spoken] (choking) H-Henry, I know you don't want to hurt me. I know you can hear me. Let me go. Henry, please... For us... Let me go... Please...! (HYDE slowly transforms back into JEKYLL, releasing LISA. He turns to UTTERSON) [JEKYLL, spoken] Do it, John. I beg you, set me free! [UTTERSON, spoken] I can't, Henry... [JEKYLL, spoken] We promised... remember? (UTTERSON, remembering the promise, points his gun at JEKYLL.) [UTTERSON, spoken] Forgive me-! (UTTERSON fires. JEKYLL gasps in pain. They switch and HYDE roars as UTTERSON fires again and again.) [LISA, spoken] No! NO! (LISA goes over to JEKYLL and HYDE, transforming as they die.) [HYDE, spoken] Lisa... [JEKYLL/HYDE, spoken] Lisa... [JEKYLL, spoken] Lisa... (JEKYLL breathes his last, sighing softly as he dies.) [LISA, spoken] Go to sleep, my tormented love... (The final music plays as LISA holds the corpse of JEKYLL in her arms.)