That evening, with help from Arthur, August escapes from Wizard through the subway and heads for his concert. August tells him of his dilemma, and Louis encourages him to go. He meets Louis, and unaware of their blood relationship, they have an impromptu guitar duet. On the day of the concert, August is back in his spot in Washington Square, while Wizard makes plans to smuggle him around the country to play. However, Wizard interrupts the rehearsal and, claiming to be his father, manages to pull August out of the school. August is selected to perform the rhapsody he has been composing at the same concert.
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While looking for him, she takes up the cello again and accepts an offer to perform with the Philharmonic at a series of concerts in Central Park. In New York, Lyla goes to Jeffries' office, and Jeffries identifies Evan/August as her son. A rhapsody takes shape from August's notes and homework. Hope brings August and his abilities to the attention of the parish pastor, who takes August to Juilliard, where he once again impresses the faculty. Evan (now "August") takes refuge in a church, where he befriends a little girl named Hope, who introduces him to the piano and written music. Evan manages to evade the police and remembers Wizard's advice to never reveal his real name to anyone. After Jeffries meets Wizard and Arthur on the street and becomes suspicious, the police raid the derelict theatre in which Wizard and his "children" are living. Despairing, he ends up in New York, where he gets his band back together. On arriving at Lyla's apartment in Chicago, Louis talks to one of her neighbors, who mistakenly tells Louis she is on her honeymoon. Lyla is called to her father's deathbed, where he confesses that her son is alive, causing Lyla to abandon her dying father and immediately start looking for her son. Louis reconnects with his brothers and decides to try to find Lyla. Louis now lives in San Francisco as a talent agent, while Lyla is a music teacher in Chicago.
Seeing the posters that Jeffries has placed for the runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan for his own gain. He gives Evan the stage name "August Rush" and tries to market him to clubs. Evan is so good that Wizard gives him his old spot in Washington Square Park, along with the guitar, which was also Arthur's. Evan tries playing Wizard's prize guitar, Roxanne (a Gibson J150ec). He finds a boy named Arthur busking in Washington Square Park and follows Arthur to his home in a condemned theatre, where Evan is introduced to “Wizard” Wallace, an arrogant and aggressive vagrant and musician who teaches homeless, orphaned, and runaway children to be street performers. Convinced that his parents will find him, Evan runs away to New York City, "following the music" in the hope it will lead him to his family. Evan is a musical genius and displays savant-like abilities and perfect pitch, which often causes him to be bullied. While Lyla is unconscious, her father secretly puts the baby boy up for adoption, telling Lyla that her son died.Įleven years later, the baby is living in a boys' orphanage under the name Evan Taylor, where he is assigned to a social worker named Richard Jeffries. Following an argument with her overbearing father over her unborn baby, she is struck by a car, forcing her to give birth prematurely. They meet and have a one-night stand, but are unable to maintain contact. Louis Connelly is the lead singer of an Irish rock band. In 1995, Lyla Novacek is a cellist studying at the Juilliard School and living under the strict rule of her father.
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