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Our Finest Dreams

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JO: Listen everyone: I have risen to the occasion

this year and written us An Operatic Tragedy!
BETH: And we're going to perform it for Christmas! (under VAMP)
AMY: No, I can't! Not with my flat nose.
AMY/BETH/MEG:
MEG: Jo, do you really think we should?
All of Concord!/Oh, Jo, no!
What with this awful war-JO: Filled with blood and guts!
JO: When have we let anything defeat us? Years from
Two massacres, a masked ball and
now people will talk about us: 'One Christmas Eve
four penniless and ragged sisters put on an Operatic several heart-wrenching scenes!
Tragedy for all of Concord! (start VAMP)
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