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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Music by Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics by Nan Knighton
Based on the Novels by Baroness Orczy
Opened on Broadway November 9, 1997, at The Minskoff Theatre

Synopsis

The time is 1792. In France, the Revolution has turned unthinkably bloody. Madame Guillotine feeds upon hundreds of French men and women, too many of whom are innocent of any crime. Out of this chaos, one man emerges to right the wrong. With his small band of men, he defies all odds, saving the doomed French in one ingenious rescue after another. He is known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel.

In England, one woman has captured the imagination of all. She is Marguerite, the beautiful French actress who has moved away from home to marry Sir Percy Blakeney. Marguerite receives a visit from a former companion, Chauvelin - the French government's most formidable zealot. Chauvelin tells Marguerite that the Scarlet Pimpernel is an Englishman, a man he suspects of moving in her circle. He urges her to spy, to work side by side with him as she did in the early days of the French Revolution: together they will capture the mysterious hero. Marguerite refuses. She adores the brave Pimpernel, whomever he may be, particularly in the light of the fact that her own husband, Sir Percy, has turned out to be such a ridiculous, useless fop - a man who is either entertaining the royal court with his inane ditties or taking endless trips to see his tailor. Marguerite's greatest heartbreak is that somehow she continues to love Percy, but her troubles grow even worse when the obsessed Chauvelin forces her hand and she delivers him information which will surely doom the Pimpernel.

In the unforgettable climax of this Baroness Orczy classic, Chauvelin comes head to head with the Pimpernel, as both he and Marguerite uncover the hero's remarkable disguise...

Song List

Overture
The Pimpernel Fanfare
Madame Guillotine
Believe
Vivez!
Prayer
Into the Fire
Falcon in the Dive
When I Look at You
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Where's the Girl?
When I Look at You (reprise)
The Creation of Man
The Riddle
They Seek Him Here
Only Love
She Was There
Storybook
Where's The Girl? (reprise)
Lullaby
You Are My Home
Believe (reprise)

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