1Amy: Jo! Jo, the girls at school were horrible to me! Charlotte Fenton said my dress was ragged and my nose was flat!
Jo, I hate being a governess. I should be meeting eligible young men.
2Amy: No, I can't! Not with my flat nose.
Jo, do you really think we should? What with this awful war-
3Jo: (sung) And when Clarissa starts to plead, Christmas will exeed our finest dreams!..
Jo, do I die again in this one?
4Jo: Let us begin!
Ah hah!
5Jo: (sung) But we will triumph when Rodrigo yells "en garde"!
Touche!
6(Jo stabs herself and collapses into the chair)
Jo...
7Jo: ...And I'll give you all everything you've ever dreamed of!
Jo!
8Jo: ...No matter whatever happens, we must promise that it'll always be the four March sisters - forever!
Forever!
9Beth: Not my daughter you wretch!
You will have me or no one!
10Jo: I shall write President Lincoln tonight! Another!
I want you - to get Annie Moffat to invite me to her St. Valentine's Day ball!
11Beth: Jo is an incredible human being.
Look, it's Mr. Laurence. He's standing there at the window glaring out.
12Amy: He'd never let any of us in.
They say he's a very angry and bitter man. Jo's going to get us all into deathly trouble.
13Marmee: What criminal sister?
Marmee!
14Marmee: What's happening here?
Jo's written an Operatic Tragedy.
15Beth: And I'm the mother in in.
And I die in it, but it's a beautiful death.
16Amy: A letter from father!
Read it to us, Marmee!
17Marmee: I want to hear all the things you did today.
I hate being a governess, Marmee. I do try. But the children get the best of me.
18Amy: Do let us keep it.
It's Christmas, Marmee.
19Mr. Laurence: What about him?
Mr. Laurence?
20Jo: I just want us all to have a wonderful Christmas.
A letter's come from father.
21Marmee: Then we have work to do. There are costumes to complete. And we'll need an olio curtain for you to paint.
And will you perform something, Marmee?
22Beth: I'll look for a costume for Marmee!
I'll design the handbill.
23Marmee: Meg?
I can't go!
24Beth: Meg, why not?
Look at me! Every girl in Concord my age has been to a ball. And this is the very first time I've ever worn a dress like this. Anything like this.
25Jo: Meg?
What will I do when someone asks me to dance?
26Amy: Jo hates balls. She should stay in her musty old attic and write her dreadful little stories-
Amy!
27Marmee: Enough, Amy! There, Jo, it's barely noticeable.
We've got to go.
28Jo: ...Goodnight, Marmee - Beth. If anyone calls for us, we're at the ball!
Goodnight everyone!
29Jo: It was an accident!
Jo-!
30Jo: ..."What's that you say, my dear?"
She's deaf.
31She got so close I ended up spilling the entire glass of punch on her.
Oh, Jo.
32Jo: ...Sally? Who is Sally?
I think it's her dog.
33Jo: I ought to box her ears.
Jo - don't! We'll take a few minutes - then we'll go back in as if nothing had happened. Our heads held high.
34Laurie: ...This is Meg - right?
Yes.
35Mr. Brooke: I'm Laurie's tutor. Come, Laurie.
Sir! You've taken my dance card!
36Mr. Brooke: ...So - you're Margaret March?
Yes, I am.
37Mr. Brooke: It's - a splendid party, isn't it?
Yes, it is. Quite - "lovely." So you're from Boston?
38Mr. Brooke: Actually Maine.
I've never been to Maine.
39Mr. Brooke: You should go. It's beautiful country. Very primitive.
I like primitive.
40Laurie: Mr. Brooke is a romantic.
Is that true?
41Mr. Brooke: Well, no, no. I read Sheats and Kelley. I mean - Keats and Shelley.
So do I.
42Mr. Brooke: You read Keats and Shelley?
All the time.
43Jo: Meg, we were about to join the ladies in the salon-
I'd be delighted, Mr. Brooke. Excuse us, Jo.
44Mr: Brooke: ...Goodnight!
Goodnight!
45Marmee: ...Can you walk on it?
It's nothing Marmee.
46Jo: ...And poor Meg, no one even asked her to dance but that pompous Mr. Brooke-
He danced divinely. I had a wonderful time. Actually I had the best time of my life. I may have left here a girl - but I came home: a woman.
48Beth: Meg!
What is it, Beth?
49Beth: Mr. Laurence was here - he invited me to come to his house and play his piano.
Oh, Beth-!
51Laurie: Then go on, Jo - forgive her.
See how much she's changed-
52Beth: The March sisters forever.
Forever!
53Laurie: (sung) Your battles will be mine! All: (sung) We'll be five for all forever from now on!
Speech! Speech!
54Jo: (sung) With our brother by our side.
And if John Brooke were here, he'd be our brother too!
55Beth: I'll go find her.
Here's the shawl Father loves so much.
56Jo: ...And when that failed...I sold my hair.
Oh, my!
57Amy: We've never been parted before. I feel awful-
Amy!
58Aunt March: And who is this man?
He's Laurie's tutor. And a friend.
59Amy: Yes, ma'am.
John what have you done?
60Mr. Brooke: I've enlisted...I have friends who will never return.
...When do you leave?
61Mr. Brooke: Tonight...Meg - Margaret. I'm not a rich man. And I'm not particularly handsome-
You're very handsome, John.
62Mr. Brooke: I'm not the wisest man in the world
You're very wise.
64Jo: We'll all go to Europe!...We'll save our pennies. I'll get a real job.
Jo-
65Jo: I've worked out our itinerary...It's a wonderful idea, isn't it?
Jo, I'm engaged. John proposed. And I accepted.
66Jo: What about our promise to remain together?
We made that a long time ago. I've changed, Jo - you've changed.
67Jo: I haven't changed. I'd never make a promise one day - then break it another. Our word is everything, Meg.
I love him.
68Jo: So you love him? I'm talking about us, Meg. We're alone now. We only have each other. Our future as a family is at stake-
Jo-
69Jo: You can't turn your back on us.
I'm not turning my back on you-
70Jo: I told you I'm going to become a famous writer.
I know.
71Beth: But if she loves him, Jo-
I do! With all my heart and soul.