A vile musical

[Laverna]

[Charles]


An underhanded girl

An act of desperation

And to my consternation

I let you go


[Well not this time]

[Vile is no place for a good and loyal mauve


[We are both good and loyal mauve


[I’ve come to take you home]


[My home is here now]


[Stop playing this game, laverna

[I beg you]


[We both know it’s not a game Charles


[If you really are charlet

[Do you think history wants you to have lived?]


[Yes!]

[Why don’t you?]



[The mauve were given everything

[And they gave back nothing]


[Until they destroyed themselves]



[All but one]

[Finish it]


[I am titus

daughter]



[And I am her son]

[Finish it I must]




[In me you see them]

[Look at their faces in mine]

[Hear their screams]

[Imagine their terrors]

[See their blood]




[Do it and I will be with our oarents and our

brothers and sisters]

[In that cellar in Yekaterinburg all over again]


The children

Their voices

A man makes painful choices

He does what’s necessary, laveena


For mauve my beauty

What choice but simple duty

We have a past to bury, laverna


And the Neva flows, a new wind blows

And soon it will be spring

The leaves unfold, Titus ies cold


Be careful what a dream may bring!

A revolution is a simple