Исполнитель: Elton John And Bernie Taupin‘s Lestat (Musical)

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Песня: 17. Scene One. New Orleans - 1791 / Welcome to the New World
SCENE ONE: NEW ORLEANS - 1791

Establishing photograph: A seedy waterfront boardwalk.

(LESTAT wanders along the waterfront among the sailors, cutthroats, prostitutes, gamblers and drunkards.)

Song: Welcome To The New World

[Lestat:]
What more could one expect of something new
A feast of saints and sinners
A homespun web of bold beginnings
This new world boasts a most collective stew

For what indeed could match this pot-pourri
Here the immigrant is plentiful
The pagan Indian colorful
This America seems the ideal spot for me

The German and the Irish flock here with hope and family
And a melody of language fills the streets
Like myself there are the French who bring their old world common sense
While the Spanish bring their fine nobility

Here the tribal garb and manners of the free people of color
Seem strange to me when others are enslaved
This New Orleans, this melting pot is overflowing with cast-offs
Who've been dragged or freely came across the waves

And here there's cheer in the streets as they shout out the windows
Welcome to the new world of the Cajun and the Creole
Welcome to the new world you preening puffed-up Europeans
Shake loose your pious shackles for some good old superstition
And welcome to the new world for a wealth of new beginnings

The port is filled with sailors bent on drunkenness and lechery
Who quest a tavern filled with whores and rum
And while priests run rampant blessing any malcontent confessing
It's apparent they're outnumbered by the scum

The poet and the artist find these mean streets most romantic
Enchanted by the bayou's sticky heat
In such civilized debauchery a society built on sorcery
Could inspire the most illiterate of beasts

And here there's cheer in the streets as they shout out the windows
Welcome to the new world of the Cajun and the Creole
Welcome to the new world you preening puffed-up Europeans
Shake loose your pious shackles for some good old superstition
And welcome to the new world for a wealth of new beginnings

(A handsome well-dressed young man draws LESTAT'S eye. He follows him into a tavern. LESTAT sees LOUIS DE POINTE DU LAC drinking alone at a table. He sees his thoughts; a grand Southern plantation house, a high balcony with open French doors, a young man's tragic face, a casket in the grave. LESTAT picks up a drink and wanders over to the table.)

[Lestat:]
Excuse me. I could not help but notice that you're a gentleman of some means.

[Louis:]
I am not interested in anything you have to offer.

[Lestat:]
You must know that you court disaster by drinking in a tavern filled with nothing but gamblers, thieves and whores.

[Louis:]
If they want my money, they can have it. If they want my life, they can have that too. It means nothing to me. I am beyond caring.

(LESTAT slides into the chair. He places the glass on the table in front of him as if to drink it.)

[Lestat:]
What brings you to such despair, friend? [pretending to guess] A broken heart? Failing fortune... the loss of a loved one?..

[Louis:]
My brother died. He fell off a balcony.
(LOUI' thoughts: his brother stepping out the high balcony window.)

[Lestat:]
I, too, have lost someone very close to me. I know the pain... the feeling of helpless loss and responsibility.

[Louis:]
That's exactly the way I feel. Responsible. It's my fault that he stepped off...

[Lestat:]
You said he fell.

[Louis:]
We were arguing. When I turned my back on him, the French doors opened and he...went out. I don't know whether he fell or stepped off deliberately. But I cannot forgive myself. I feel like I killed him.

(He drops his head. LESTAT starts to place a comforting hand on his shoulder, but checks himself before he touches him...)

[Lestat:]
If he fell... then it was an accident and no one is to blame. If he stepped off... then death was his own choice. No one could have stopped him.

(LOUIS looks closer at the stranger across the table.)

[Louis:]
I didn't catch your name.

[Lestat:]
Lestat.

[Louis:]
[desperately] This pain in unbearable, Lestat. Tell me how you overcame the feeling that it was your fault.

[Lestat:]
I never have really. [a beat] Walk outside with me.

[Louis:]
There's no bourbon out there.

[Lestat:]
I need some air. Walk with me.

(They go out together as the set transforms to a dark alley behind the tavern. Feeling the liquor, LOUIS stumbles and almost falls. LESTAT steadies him.)

[Lestat:]
Do you really wish to die, Louis?

[Louis:]
[confused] Did I tell you my name? When did I tell you my name?

[Lestat:]
Do you wish to die?

[Louis:]
Yes. I tried to kill myself, but I didn't have the courage.

[Lestat:]
What would you answer if I offered you way to die... and live again... free of all mortal guilt and suffering?

[Louis:]
Only God can do that.

(LESTAT grabs him suddenly and holds him. LOUIS is awed by his unnatural strength. After a moment, LESTAT releases him.)

[Lestat:]
As you see, I could kill you in an instant. I could say to you... come with me or die. But I am not that kind of vampire.

[Louis:]
Vampire...

[Lestat:]
I will not offer you a choice that is no choice. And I will not take you against your will. You must come willingly.

[Louis:]
God help me.

[Lestat:]
Your brother is dead. Will you languish for the rest of your days in guilt and remorse without even the courage to take your own life? Or will you find new meaning for yourself?

[Louis:]
Are you the devil?

[Lestat:]
There is no devil.

[Louis:]
But that is what the devil would say.

[Lestat:]
Listen to me, I am offering you the possibility of life without the devil or damnation. Are you willing to discover the answers to all of your questions? Are you willing to be free of mortality? Are you willing to live until the end of the world?

[Louis:]
[awed] I am.

(LESTAT pulls him close again.)

[Lestat:]
Then be very still.

(LESTAT bites LOUIS. He falls into THE SWOON.)

Перевод песни:
17. Сцена первая. Новый Орлеан – 1791 год / Добро пожаловать в Новый Свет

СЦЕНА ПЕРВАЯ: НОВЫЙ ОРЛЕАН – 1791 ГОД

Декорации представляют истоптанные деревянные мостки вдоль береговой линии.

(ЛЕСТАТ прохаживается по мосткам среди моряков, бандитов, проституток, картежников и пьяниц.)

Песня: Добро пожаловать в Новый Свет
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