Nina sings a song Jesse has written for her about loving someone who makes it hard to love them (“Don’t Let Me Know”), and it launches her. Under pressure to keep delivering for her, and because he is hidden away, he quickly falls back into drugs as he watches Nina play the part of the superstar. Jesse sets out to find her in Los Angeles ("I Heard Your Voice in a Dream"), culminating in a confrontation at her first big gig.īecause he loves her, Jesse agrees to keep supplying “Nina” with music, even though she wants to make sure no one even finds out who he is. Jesse fears all is lost, until one day when he hears one of his songs on the radio ("The Love I Meant to Say (Reprise)") sung by someone he knows is her, even though the singer is called “Nina,” and has come out of nowhere. Her family believes she has finally committed suicide. When he wakes up in the morning, not only is Amanda gone, but she's disappeared altogether, last seen by the water where she first met Jesse. They spend the night together, but while he's asleep, she steals his songs and leaves. Jesse is anxious for a second date, as he has fallen in love with her. After a terrible dinner with her family in which they tell her they will no longer financially support her if she continues to pursue her pop dreams, she decides to do the same ("Original"). He dreams that together maybe they can get out.Īmanda watches The Diva perform on the VMAs ("Reach for Me"), and hears a little bit about her backstory and how she came to be The Diva. Jesse plays her one of his songs on a bridge ("The Love I Meant to Say"), and they connect. Rejected for the last time, she contemplates suicide on the side of the East River ("Broadway Here I Come") until Jesse rescues her. They both dream that they can change their lives, but know they truly can't ("Rewrite This Story").Īmanda gets a big meeting with a record label and plays them one of her songs ("Good For You") – while fantasizing about performing in a club – but they don’t like the song. Amanda is a poor little rich girl from the Upper East Side who dreams of being a pop star, but doesn't have enough of a defined look or style in both herself and her songs. Who does she hit? We flash back to the beginning of the story, where we meet Jesse, a struggling songwriter (and recovering addict) in Greenpoint with a dead-end life and no hope of getting out. When she reaches the front, she points her gun and shoots. She moves through the throngs, singing a haunting song a cappella (“Broadway Here I Come (Pre-Reprise)"). The Diva comes to Amanda’s concert, just another fan in the crowd.
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