History FamousLastWords / Theater

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Famous last words in theatrical productions.

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* FamousLastWords/WilliamShakespeare
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* ''Music/AmericanIdiot''
** "[[spoiler:Jimmy]] died today, he blew his brains out in the bay, in the state of mind – in my own private suicide." [[spoiler:St. Jimmy]]
* ''Literature/AndThenThereWereNone''
** "The legal life's narrowing. I'm all for crime. Here's to it!" [[spoiler:Anthony Marston]]
** "I'm all right now. I just—gave me a turn." [[spoiler:Ethel Rogers]]
** "Don't talk to me that way. You don't understand. I want to sit here and wait—wait for Lesley to come for me." [[spoiler:General John [=MacKenzie=]]]
** "I'll get some sticks and a few knobs of coal and get a nice fire going." [[spoiler:Thomas Rogers]]
** "Drowned—drowned—in the pond—" [[spoiler:Emily Brent]]
** "Miss Claythorne." [[spoiler:Dr. Edward Armstrong]]
** "What's that? A boat! A boat!" [[spoiler:William Henry Blore]]
** "I can't spoil my lovely rhyme. My ten little Indian boys. You're the last one. One little Indian boy left all alone. He went and hanged himself. I must have my hanging—my hanging—" [[spoiler:Justice Lawrence Wargrave]]
* ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}''
** "The country is not what it was." [[spoiler:John Wilkes Booth]]
** "Who care? Pull switch! No care, no more, no-" [[spoiler:Giuseppe Zangara]]
** "I'm sorry?" [[spoiler:James A. Garfield]]
** "...and the Lord!" [[spoiler: Charles J. Guiteau]]
** "That's all you have to do–" [[spoiler:The Balladeer]]
* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical''
** "So many regrets... [[CaptainObvious I'm dead]]." [[spoiler:Cedric Diggory]]
** "[[BlatantLies A heart attack, surely.]]" [[spoiler:[[DeathByAdaptation Cornelius Fudge]]]]
** "Why didn't you tell me? [[ForgotICouldFly I could have shrunk it with magic!]] Severus, please don't kill me!" [[DoomedByCanon Albus Dumbledore.]] [[spoiler:[[UnexplainedRecovery He gets better]]]]
** "Oh, that is ''not'' fair" [[spoiler:Bellatrix Lestrange]]
** "No, Potter, I'll show you what you need to do. Watch... very... carefully" [[spoiler:Severus Snape]]
** "No, you weren't." [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies Harry Potter.]] [[NotQuiteDead He gets better]]]]
** "Let's put that theory to the test, Potter. Avada Kedavra!" [[spoiler:Lord Voldemort. Kinda.]]
* Theatre/BareAPopOpera
** "I'm fine." - [[spoiler: Jason, while [[DrivenToSuicide dying of an overdose]] and very clearly ''not'' fine.]]
* ''Big Fish''
** "Oh... chupa... labra..." [[spoiler: Red Fang the Poison Assassin, [[UnreliableNarrator or so Edward says, anyway]]]]
** "[[AGoodWayToDie It all ends well, this much I know]]." [[spoiler: Edward Bloom]]
* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon''
** "Where is my brother?" [[spoiler:Elder Thomas' sister]]
** "Oh, God! Why are you letting me die? Without having me show people the plates? They'll have no proof I was telling the truth or not. They'll have to believe it just...'cause. Oh! I guess that's kinda what you were going for." [[spoiler:Joseph Smith, according to "All-American Prophet"]]
** "My wife's body is none of your business! And you are no general." [[spoiler:Ugandan Man]]
** "Brigham Young, you must take the Golden Plates and lead the Mormons to the promised land!" [[spoiler:Joseph Smith, according to "Joseph Smith American Moses"]]
* ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}''
** "''Auf wiedersehen''... ''A bientot''... Good night." [[spoiler:The Emcee, in the stagings that imply he was taken to the camps]]
* ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}''
** "Tighter - still tighter! Julie!" [[spoiler:Billy Bigelow]]
* ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}''
** "Roxie, please!" [[spoiler:Fred Casely]]
** "Uh, honey, are you going to believe what you see, or what I tell you?" [[spoiler:Harry (Go-to-Hell Kitty's lover)]]
** "Not guilty." [[spoiler:Katalin Hunyak]]
* ''Theatre/ChildrenOfEden''
** "I want to go with [[spoiler:Cain]]." [[spoiler:Abel]]
** "Someday you'll come home...." [[spoiler:Eve]]
* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''
** "Roxane!..." [[spoiler:Christian de Neuvillette]]
** "''Ce soir, quand j'entrerai chez Dieu, Mon salut balaiera largement le seuil bleu, Quelque chose que sans un pli, sans une tache, J'emporte malgré vous, et c'est...mon panache''" ("To-night, when I shall enter unto God, my salute will grandly sweep the threshold of blue; one thing shall I take with me, without blemish, without stain, despite you all, and that is... my ''panache''"). [[spoiler:Cyrano]]
* ''Theatre/DearEvanHansen''
** [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck you!"]] [[spoiler:Connor Murphy]]
* ''Theatre/TheDuchessOfMalfi''
** "Go, tell my brothers, when I am laid out, / They then may feed in quiet." [[spoiler:The Duchess]]
** "I am quick with child!" [[spoiler:Cariola]]
** "I go, I know not whither." [[spoiler:Julia]]
** "Let my son fly the courts of princes." [[spoiler:Antonio]]
** "Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, / Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust." [[spoiler:Ferdinand]]
** "And now, I pray, let me / Be laid by and never thought of." [[spoiler:The Cardinal]]
** "Mine is another voyage." [[spoiler:Bosola]]
* ''Theatre/{{Evita}}''
** "I saw the lights, and I was on my way." [[spoiler:Eva Peron, on her deathbed]]
* ''Theatre/TheFlyingDutchman'':
** "Here I am! Faithful to you, until death itself!" [[spoiler:Senta]]
* ''ComicBook/FunHome''
** "Oh my God, why am I standing here?" [[spoiler:Bruce Bechdel]]
* ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}''
** "Oh God, I'm dead..." [[spoiler:Jesus]]
* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}''
** "Tomorrow there'll be more of us..." [[spoiler:John Laurens]]
** "Un deux trois..." [[spoiler:Phillip Hamilton]]
** "Raise a glass to freedom..." [[spoiler:Alexander Hamilton]]
* ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods''
** "I'M NOT THE LAD!" [[spoiler:[[BreakingTheFourthWall The Narrator]]]]
** "Because of the way you treated me, I'll never, never be happy!" [[spoiler:Rapunzel. At least, these are the last words we actually hear her say in a scene prior to her death, aside from screaming.]]
** "Jack..." [[spoiler:Jack's Mother]]
** "And now it's time to leave the woods." [[spoiler:The Baker's Wife]]
* ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar''
** "You have murdered me, murdered me, murdered me...." [[spoiler:Judas]]
** "Father! Into your hands I commend my spirit!" [[spoiler:Jesus, but you should know this.]]
* ''Theatre/LesMiserables''
** "And tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake." [[spoiler:Fantine]]
** "[[KilledMidSentence And rain will make the flowers....]]" [[spoiler:Eponine]]
** "[[KilledMidSentence So you'd better run for cover when the pup grows...]]" [[spoiler:Gavroche]]
** "Let others rise to take our place until the Earth is FREE!" [[spoiler:Enjolras]]
** "There is nowhere I can turn; there is nowhere to go OOOOOONNNN!" [[spoiler:Javert]]
** "Your mother gave her life for you and gave you to my keeping," OR "Forgive me of my trespasses and take me to your glory," OR "To love another person is to see the face of God," depending on the production and staging [[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]
* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''
** "Who, ''moi?'' Why, I couldn't hurt a minnow...." [[spoiler:Ursula]]
* ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic''
** "Only the last." [[spoiler:Madame Armfeldt]]
* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors''
** "Are you satisfied? I've laughed myself to..." [[spoiler:Orin Scrivello]]
** "Seymour? Seymour?! SEYMOUR?! '''SEYMOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR!!!!!'''" [[spoiler:Mr. Mushnik]]
** "I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene. Oh don't you see, finally I'll be, somewhere that's green..." [[spoiler:Audrey]]
** "Open up! Open up! '''OPEN UP!!! NOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!'''" [[spoiler:Seymour Krelborn]]
* ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha''
** "Whithersoever they blow, onward to glory... I... go..." [[spoiler:Alonso Quijana/Don Quixote]]
* ''Theatre/{{Matilda}}''
** "Love our girl with everything. She is everything." [[spoiler:The Acrobat]]
** "This demon! This villain! This monster! She has sullied the memory of my wife! She has betrayed the trust of her own sister! She has shown cruelty to the most precious reality of my marriage! Bullying children is a game, is it? Well, let us see what this creature thinks she can do when the wrath of a grown man stands before her!" [[spoiler:The Escapologist]] [[spoiler:(Magnus Honey)]]
* ''Theatre/TheMousetrap''
** "Here—what are you doing? Why did you turn out the light?" [[spoiler:Mrs. Boyle]]
* ''Literature/{{Ragtime}}''
** "President! Mr. President!!" [[spoiler:Sarah]]
** "Thank you for your kindness to my family." [[spoiler:Coalhouse Walker, Jr.]]
* ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''
** "Take me, take me, I love you." [[spoiler:Angel Dumott Schunard]]
** "I should tell you... I love you." [[spoiler:Mimi Marquez. She gets better.]]
* ''Theatre/RockOfAges''
** "What?!" [[spoiler:Dennis Dupree]]
* ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead''
** "All right, then. I don't care. I've had enough. To tell you the truth, I'm relieved." [[spoiler:Rosencrantz]]
** "Now you see me, now you--" [[spoiler:Guildenstern]]
* ''Theatre/TheSorcerer'':
** "Be happy all/Leave me in my despair/I go/It matters not with who/Or where." [[spoiler:John Wellington Wells]]
* ''Theatre/SpringAwakening''
** "So dark. So dark. So dark...." [[spoiler:Moritz Stiefel]]
** "Mama, don't leave me! ''Mama???!!!''" [[spoiler:Wendla Bergman]]
* ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge''
** "Goodbye, Mama." [[spoiler:Marie]]
* ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''
** "You [[{{Fauxreigner}} like-a]] my plan?" [[spoiler:Adolfo Pirelli]]
** "Well, sir, I take that very kindly." [[spoiler:Beadle Bamford]]
** "[[TemptingFate Fire, and I will stop!]]" [[spoiler:Jonas Fogg]]
** "Hey! Don't I know you, mister?" [[spoiler:Lucy Barker]]
** "''[[OhCrap Benjamin Barker!]]''" [[spoiler:Judge Turpin]]
** "Just keep living it, really living it–" [[spoiler:Mrs. Lovett]]
** "And she was beautiful. And she was virtuous. And he was...naïve." [[spoiler:Sweeney Todd]]
* ''Theatre/{{Titanic}}''
** "[[IronicEcho Autumn]]... [[MadnessMantra Shall we all meet in the autumn... Shall we all meet in the autumn...]]" [[spoiler:Thomas Andrews, architect of the ''RMS Titanic'']]
* ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}''
** "Remember me, boys! Oh God, what have I done? Remember me!" [[spoiler:Joseph "Old Man" Strong]]
** "If only–" [[spoiler:Bobby Strong]]
** "Well, that went pretty well." [[spoiler:Officer Barrel]]
** "And what if I am flying the coop? What if I'm actually on my way to the airport right now to catch the last flight out to Rio? What would you say to that? Hmmm?" [[spoiler:Senator Fipp]]
** "Can I come?" [[spoiler:Mrs. Millennium]]
** "I regret nothing! You hear me? Nothing! Maybe I was a bad father and a cruel and vicious man! But I kept the pee off the street and the water in the ground! You hear me? I kept the water in the ground!" [[spoiler:Caldwell B. Cladwell]]
** "We see a river flowing for freedom; we see a river just in view. You see a river flowing for freedom; you see a river straight and true." [[spoiler:Hope Cladwell (eventually)]]
* ''Theatre/WestSideStory''
** "Hold him!" [[spoiler:Riff Lorton]]
** "Come on, you yellow-bellied Polack bas-" [[spoiler:Bernardo Nunez]]
** "Hold my hand and I'll take you there, someday, somehow..." [[spoiler:Anton "Tony" Wyzek]]
* ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''
** "You have to hide. No one can know you were here. Hide yourself!" [[spoiler:Elphaba, although the audience finds out that she only fakes her demise.]]
* ''Film/WitnessForTheProsecution''
** "I've got the money. I've been acquitted, and I can't be tried again, so don't go shooting off your mouth, or you'll just get ''yourself'' hanged as an accessory after the fact." [[spoiler:Leonard Vole]]
* ''Theatre/TheWiz''
** "Look what you've done. You ruined me! Water! The only thing I'm powerless against. The only thing that could destroy me! Winkies...help!!" [[spoiler:Evillene, the Wicked Witch of the West]]
* ''Theatre/TheYeomenOfTheGuard'':
** "...Who sipped no sup/And who craved no crumb/As he sighed for the love of a lady." [[spoiler:Jack Point]]
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** "To love another person is to see the face of God," OR "Forgive me of my trespasses and take me to your glory," depending on the production and staging [[spoiler:Jean Valjean]]

** "Hold him!" [[spoiler:Riff]]
** "Come on, you yellow-bellied Polack bas-" [[spoiler:Bernardo]]
** "Hold my hand and I'll take you there, someday, somehow..." [[spoiler:Tony]]

** "You have to hide. No one can know you were here. Hide yourself!" [[spoiler:Elphaba, although the audience discovers she was faking it.]]

** "Take me, take me, I love you." [[spoiler:Angel Dumott Schunard]][[note]]In stagings where "Contact" is omitted, this character's last words are "It's gonna be a happy new year".[[/note]]

** "The legal life's narrowing." I'm all for crime. Here's to it!" [[spoiler:Anthony Marston]]

* ''SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''

** "Don't talk to me that way. You don't understand. I want to sit here and wait—wait for Lesley to come for me." [[spoiler:General John MacKenzie]]

** "I saw the lights, and I was on my way." [[spoiler:Evita, on her deathbed]]

** "Are you satisfied? I've laughed myself to..." [[spoiler:Orin]]
** "Seymour? Seymour?! SEYMOUR?! '''SEYMOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR!!!!!'''" [[spoiler:Mushnik]]

** "Open up! Open up! '''OPEN UP!!! NOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!'''" [[spoiler:Seymour]]

** "It's gonna be a happy new year." [[spoiler:Angel, whose next appearance is dying on a hospital bed.]]
** "I should tell you... I love you." [[spoiler:Mimi. She gets better.]]