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And , so what ? We aren ' t allowed to do that ? MS . PEMBERTON :
Apparently not ... oh , and to top it all off , they don ' t understand why we killed Esmeralda at the end of the play .
But , she was killed in the novel !
But not in the musical .
TONY :
MS . PEMBERTON :
MRIDU : Well then , why can ' t we do the original musical with everyone living happily every after ?
TONY :
All that reading we did on the inhuman policies towards immigrants both back then and now for nothing ?! That doesn ' t seem right either , Mridu .
( to MS . PEMBERTON )
Do you know how much video game time I sacrificed to do the assignments , so we could adapt the musical to make it more consistent with Victor Hugo ' s novel ? Dam ... I mean darn it all !
( to MS . PEMBERTON )
TONY :
Why don ' t we confront the school board and put on the play here , anyway ? MS . PEMBERTON :
We can ' t , Tony . They ' ve threatened to expel any student who attempts to put on the musical on school premises and … to terminate my employment .
MRIDU :
Ugh ... this is awful . One minute , I ' m living a dream and then it ' s suddenly killed in this nightmare .