Alice By Heart - Dr. Butridge/King of Hearts/Jabberwocky/Mock Turtle Lines

Tabatha - Oh do youthink? Just like mine and yours, his and hers,

Hallam. Alfred Hallam

Red Cross Nurse - Alice! Back to your bed.

Superventrical Tachycardia, with Hypovolemia-

Alice - What does that mean?

Hyperhydrosis-

Alice - That means he’ll be all right? Right?

Due to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis-

Red Cross Nurse - Catch that cough, he’ll be your death. Ward D. The good-as-dead.

Whaaaat?

Red Cross Nurse - Is there family?

None left. She found him in the gutter, buried in the rubble. Whole block went down.

Alice - Noooooooo! I didn’t mean it, Alfred. I didn’t!

Stay Away.

Alice - Dr. Butridge, no. Bring him back!

There’s no returning. Terminal prognosis. Awaaaay.

Dr. Butridge - There’s no returning. Terminal prognosis. Awaaaay.

From that Haemoptystic Hare, that Buck Tubercular. “Twas brillig, and the slithy lobes”-

Alice - The Jabberwock!? That’s not what’s next. “Then came a pattering of feet on the stairs, and Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled-”

Trembling Sickness. Delirium Tremens. Orthostatic Tremor…

Alice - What?

Whaaaaaat?

Alice - What?

“Beware the Jabberwock!”

Alice - No! Alfred!

“Beware the frumious Bandersnatch, the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!”

Alice - “And soon, Alice found, she had cried herself into a pool of her own tears…”

Boo hoo! Boohooooooo.

Alice - Turtle? My Poor Turtle?

Turtle? Me? No, I am no longer a turtle. Only a mock, turtle.

Alice - Oh dear dear me

You mock me!

Alice - Oh no no, I assure you.

Ahhhh, If only you knew who I used to be.

Alice - A terribly grand turtle, I should think.

A baby grand, perhaps.

Alice - But, what…

Such a salty story, really. I can’t tell it.

Alice - Really?

Not a word, until I finish. Please.

Alice - Sorry. I don’t see how you can finish if you never start.

Once… Once… Once, when I-like you-

Alice - Not I

When, like you-

Alice - Not me, yet

Not yet you

Mock Turtle - Not yet you

When I had my Tortoise still with me… Well, we called him “Tortoise” because, of course, he taught us: Coral, Shells, and Fractions, Addition and Subtraction, Reeling and then Writhing…

Alice - My friend and I, we read together in our garden, every day, but now all that’s been blown away.

Your garden? I’m talking about my entire coral reef! I’m floundering! You see, I-

Alice - Now, who is he?

A Mock Mock me

Mock Turtle - A Mock Mock me

A mockery!

Mock Mock Turtle - I knew Tortoise too, you see

But not like me

Mock Mock turtle - And yet, it all began with me

Nay, me!

Mock Mock Turtle - In truth, he thought you were a drama queen.

Me?!

Mock Mock Turtle - Ah, the life my Torty and I had, before the crash.

“Torty?”

Mock Mock Mock Turtle - You think you know misery? My Torty passed on my birthday!

Your Torty?

Mock Mock Mock Mock Turtle - My Tortsy. Like the sea - so wise, so deep. Swallowed by a whale. Oy Me!

Ayyyyy meeeee! Ayyyyy meeeeeee! Ayyyyyyyy meeeeeee!

Alice - Stop! Enough! No one has ever loved like me. I’ve lost everything. And now… I’ve lost him too.

You see, we are a we!

Mock Mock Turtle - Don’t. If you never move forward…

You never have to leave your friend behind.

Queen of Hearts - Well, I am proud - so proud, to behold this record-breaking crowd. Which of you, can we say, loves us most? Yes?

Never has there been a Queen

Queen of Hearts - Mm?

Who has accomplished so much

Queen of Hearts - And?

And has done… so many things.

Queen of Hearts - You? Well. At least, she?s brought her head. That's good.

Brought her head. That’s Important.

Queen of Hearts - Isn’t it a trial? (END OF SONG)

Herald-Read the Accusations

Queen of Hearts-You did

And the Verdict Is?

Mad Hatter - She added a big “Un “ to everything “Important”

Un-Important. That’s very Important. And the Verdict is-

Queen of Hearts - Acting as if she were some mock me?

A mockery!

Duchess - Well, i’m hardly the only thing she’s turned into an aging queen.

How exactly does one get out of jury duty? And the Verdict is?

Queen of Hearts - Can someone silence that rather unfortunate grin? I cannot expert myself with another word. You, tell her for me.

Every dream would love to hold its dreamer. Its-

Alice - But I know! I know the dream-by heart. This is my heart. My dream.

Oh do you think? Then-

Queen of Hearts - You think?

Then, where are we, when you’re not here? You think we just appear-

Queen of Hearts - because you read us?

The truth is, we are here, and sometimes we let you into our dream.