Lucheni: Ma che cazzo voi? The world is ending, indubbiamente. At court they haven't noticed, but in Vienna's coffeehouses, it's common knowledge.
Professor
All these news are the same!
Journalist
This soup is very plain
Student
Anyone up for a game?
Bohemian
My God, this world's insane
Poet
The Empress has turned recluse
Crying ev'ry day
She's been this way
Since her girl passed away
Bohemian/Lucheni
Some coffee, please! / One coming up!
Professor
She's probably pregnant again
Journalist
She hides her waist, it's known
Poet
We've been long due for an heir
To secure the throne
Journalist
At Circus Renz they've seen her
As a guest this fall
Professor
The mother of the Emperor
Didn't like that at all!
All
Nah! Might as well
Lounge around the café all day
Wake me, shake me
When the end of the world comes!
Lucheni: Gossips! They know everything and nothing, sitting around per ingannare il tempo. Just to kill time, day in and day out.
Poet
Another year come and gone
Bohemian
It's all the same to me
Professor
A treaty's still going on
Student
Who'll play some cards with me?
Journalist
Politically the Emperor
Has no guile or flair
He's easily led by his mother's wile
Bohemian
Another drink!
Customer
The Crimean War has achieved
Our neutrality
Student
Austria's now on her own
Alone politically
Professor
France, England, Russia
Are now bosom friends
Student
Will this new war with Piedmont ever end?
All
Nah! Might as well
Lounge around the café all day
Wake me, shake me
When the end of the world comes!
Student
Her newborn turned out a boy,
Well, who could have thought?
Poet
And also taken away
Her crying for naught
Journalist
She pities Hungary's plight
Is for Hungarian rights
Student & Poet
A left-wing idealist?
Professor & Bohemians
Liberal elitist?
All
She is the strangest thing!
Great! So good for
When the end of the world comes!
Lucheni
In her birth bed lying
The mother had had a horrible vision
Of the world about to come!
She saw red flags flying
Masses of angry people
At the Ballhausplatz with guns
She saw rebels dying
And the leader of the rebellion
Of that hellion was her son!
Poet
Wonderfully eccentric!
Bohemian
A wit unsurpassed!
Professor
Austria should have a Parliament at last!
All
Nah! Might as well
Lounge around the café all day
Wake me, shake me
When the end of the world comes! (2x)
Customers 1 (simultaneously)
Pauper artists
Paper gossips
Jaded scribers
Faded writers
Commentators
Procrastinators
Agitators
In a café!
Customers 2 (simultaneously)
Joking, thinking, snoozing
Smoking, drinking, boozing
Broking, winning, losing
All in a café!
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Elisabeth: The Musical
FanfictionIn the mysterious underworld, Italian assassin Luigi Lucheni is forced to relive his murder of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, whose tragic life he narrates. Free-spirited Sisi's life is utterly changed when she marries her cousin, Franz Joseph, and...
