Sunday, June 10, 2012

Before the Performance

*deep breath*

Before the Performance

CHRISTINE
Gustave, will you hand me those earrings? The sapphires on the left? There- how do I look?

GUSTAVE
You look so beautiful
So very beautiful
Like a queen in a book

CHRISTINE
You too are beautiful
So very beautiful
Once this performance is through
We'll spend some time, just us two
Won't that be fun?

GUSTAVE
Father! Doesn't mother look lovely tonight?

RAOUL
Indeed she does...as lovely as she looked the very first time I came to her dressing room door.

CHRISTINE
And look at you Raoul! You look just like that handsome boy in the opera box. The one who would always toss me a single red rose.

RAOUL
Please Gustave, if you don't mind
Would you wait outside awhile?

GUSTAVE
But when's mother going to sing? I don't want to miss it!

CHRISTINE
Go and wait backstage my dear
Soon Papa will fetch you there

You can both watch from the wings.

RAOUL
Since our wedding day
Things have gone astray

CHRISTINE
Raoul...

RAOUL
I'm not proud of the way that I've acted

CHRISTINE
We've both been-

RAOUL
The demands I've made!
All our hopes mislaid!
I'm aware of the price they've exacted

Though I've no right to ask you to
There's one thing more I'd have you do
If you love me as I love you

CHRISTINE
Anything darling

RAOUL
Don't sing the song dear

CHRISTINE
What? But Raoul-

RAOUL
You have to know something's terribly wrong dear

CHRISTINE
But I have to do this!
It's what we agreed to

RAOUL
That Hell-spawned demon
He's had us playing his game all along dear

CHRISTINE
Let me just get through this
Listen please, I need to

RAOUL
You need so much, it's true
And I've denied you
You need the man you knew
Back here beside you
You'll have him back, I vow
Just ask it of me
But we must leave here now
If you still love me

CHRISTINE
But, darling I'm due on stage in ten minutes! How can I possibly amend-

RAOUL
Listen! Please! I have passage for three to Schoenberg on the Atlantic Queen. It leaves tonight-let's be on it! For both our sakes...and for Gustave.

Leave this place behind.

CHRISTINE
Go and find Gustave. Tell the stage manager not to disturb him. I need some time.

(Raoul leaves and shuts door)
(Christine takes off earrings and tries to leave, but door is locked) 
(Phantom appears behind her)

PHANTOM
You know his love is not enough
You know he isn't what you need
You know you're made of finer stuff
I think on that, we're all agreed

It's time to leave him in the dust
It's time to be who you should be
It's time to do now as you must
And set the music in you free

In moments, mere moments
Drums will roll
There you'll stand, just like before
The crowd will hush
And then in one sweet rush
I will hear you sing once more

And music, our music
Will swell and then unwind
Like two strands of melody
At last entwined
Fulfill us, complete us
Make us whole
Seal our bond forevermore
Tonight, for me, embrace your destiny
Let me hear you sing
Once more!

(Phantom leaves)

STAGEHAND
Five minutes Miss Daae!

CHRISTINE
Twisted every way
What answer can I give?

I know I can't refuse
And yet, I wish I could
Oh God...

RAOUL
Christine, Christine
Don't think that I don't care

PHANTOM
But every hope, and every prayer
Rests on you now! 



 



Mother Did You Watch?

 Poor Meg...


Mother did you watch?

MEG
Mother did you watch?
Everything is sold
Mother can't you tell
The new routine it went so well!

I was worried just a touch
That it might have been too much
Just a bit, well rather free
But just listen to that crowd
Why they've never been so loud
Screaming only for me

GIRY
Meg....

MEG
And the master must have heard
Every note and every word
Mother tell me-did he see?

GIRY
Meg stop...

MEG
Even he will now concede
I'm the only one he'll need

 GIRY
Meg, sweet fool you did all that you could
Charming, bright and yet still not enough

MEG
What do you mean?

GIRY
How you danced! They're all entranced
All but the one whose entrancement we sought

MEG
He wasn't even there?!

GIRY
Where poor girl do you think that he was?
Yes! That's right! In with her all along

MEG
With Christine...

GIRY
Dreaming of their son, their love
Too smitten to spare you a moment of thought
All that you gave him has all been a waste

MEG
No! You're wrong!

GIRY
All you have done it has all been erased

MEG
No! Don't say that!

GIRY
Now he has them- as for us
We have both been replaced

MEG
No! NO!

Friday, June 1, 2012

Bathing Beauty

Not my personal favorite, but I'll do it anyways. 

Bathing Beauty

FLECK
But first, for those of you whose taste is a little more earth-bound.

SQUELCH
It's Phantasma's famous Ooh-La-La Girl!

GANGLE
The incomparable

ALL
Meg Giry!

MEG
I took a little trip to Coney Island
To get away from all the city sprawl
I couldn't bear to choose
Which bathing suit to use
So goodness me I guess I brought 'em all!

But when at last I got to Coney Island
And found myself a spot upon the sand
I noticed something strange
There was no place to change!
And so I asked my friends to lend a hand!

Girls...

CHORUS
 Aah-Ah
Oooh-ooh
Bathing Beauty take a look at you

ALL
Bathing beauty on the beach
Bathing beauty say 'hello!'
What a cutie, what a peach
Bathing beauty watch her go


CHORUS
Posing under her parasol
She is whatcha call a real spectacle
Prim and Proper with class and poise
But she's got the boys at the plaque to call!

Bathing beauty on the beach
See her practically glow
Wearing a smile and
Giving Coney Island
A bathing beaut of a show!

Bathing beauty on the beach

MEG
Checks!

CHORUS (MEN)
What a cutie, what a peach!

MEG
Stripes!

ALL
Bathing beauty

Bathing beauty

MEG
Dots?

CHORUS
Dots?

Dots, dots, dots, dots!

Dots!

Bathing beauty on the beach
See her practically glow
Taking the sun in

MEG
Til all the boys are runnin

CHORUS
Rollin in clover

MEG
And gettin tan all over

CHORUS
Wearing a smile and

MEG
Giving Coney Island

ALL
A Bath-ing Beaut
 Of a show!

Bathing beauty say

MEG
Hello!

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Intro to the Concert

Intro to the Concert

SQUELCH
Ladies, gents!

GANGLE
You, good sir!

FLECK
And you my friend!

ALL
Everyone!
Time for fun!

Starting soon upon our stage
The performance of the age!

SQUELCH
Wonders and astonishments for your delectation

GANGLE
Phantoms and automatons for your fascination

SQUELCH
Plus a finale to sweep you away

SQUELCH/ FLECK
Brought from Paris to perform just one day!

ALL
The beautiful, breathtaking Christine Daae! 

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Devil Take the Hindmost

 Sorry, it's been awhile! I've been busy with other things. More posts should be coming soon.

Devil Take the Hindmost

 RAOUL
 No, no it can't be!

PHANTOM
Not afraid of me, you say?

RAOUL
Stay back! Or I'll kill you I promise you!

PHANTOM
Insolent boy! You think you own more of her soul than I do?

RAOUL
She is my wife! Your music may speak to her, but her heart will always follow me!

PHANTOM
You think so? You really think so? Follow you with all your...charms?

Look at you, deep in debt
Stinking drunk, pitiful
Shall we two make a bet?
Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL
Look at you, foul as sin
Hideous, horrible
Call the stakes, deal me in
Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM
Our Christine shall choose tonight

RAOUL
Let her choose

PHANTOM
Is she yours or mine?

RAOUL
Draw the line

PHANTOM
If she sings, you lose tonight

RAOUL
I won't lose

PHANTOM
You leave from here

RAOUL
Fine!

PHANTOM
Disappear

RAOUL
Fine! And if she won't, if I win?

PHANTOM
All your debts wiped away

RAOUL
Very well, let's begin

BOTH
Devil take the hindmost

PHANTOM                                                    RAOUL
Our old game, it's been changed                      You think you have the odds
Every throw, riskier.                                        You think you're in control
All the rules, rearranged                                   You think you've fixed the dice                                                                      Well I will gladly roll
                                                                      I'll bet against the house, I 'll even double down


PHANTOM
 Fate has redesigned us

RAOUL                                                        PHANTOM
Fortune's on my side                                      Cut the deck, let us play
I won her long ago                                         You and I, once again
I won her from you then                                In the end
I'll wager even now I'll win her back again
And when the game is done

PHANTOM
Either way

BOTH
Devil take the hindmost!

Now Christine shall choose at last
Is she yours or mine

RAOUL
We've a son, our bond secure

PHANTOM
Are you sure

RAOUL
What

PHANTOM
Are you so sure

RAOUL
What do you mean?

PHANTOM
Such a child, strange to see
Talented, musical

RAOUL
Huh?

PHANTOM
Is he more you or me?
Which one do you find most?

RAOUL
You lie!

PHANTOM                                     RAOUL
Yet you doubt, doubt your wife          No woman could, or ever would
Doubt your son, everything                Love such a man, you're insane
Now we play, for your life                 So now I play for my life

BOTH
Devil take the hindmost


RAOUL                         PHANTOM
I call your bluff               Deal the cards
The game is on              Let them fall
And we will see             Choose your hand, try your best
Who wins out                He who wins
Once and for all

BOTH
Wins it all

Devil take the hindmost!

PHANTOM
She walks, you leave together.
Pockets full, debts paid!
She sings...
You leave alone.

Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL

What have I done? I could lose her forever! My Christine!

Monday, April 16, 2012

Why Does She Love Me?

Why Does She Love Me?

RAOUL
One more!

BARTENDER
Ah, buddy don't ya think you've had enough? It's practically morning!

RAOUL
One more I said.

BARTENDER
Alright, alright. My shift is over anyway. So let's settle the bill, ok? Geez, you're in a bad way, ain't ya? Worst than most that wind up here. Ah, here's the morning shift. Maybe he'll know what to do with you.

RAOUL
Yes...yes what to do with me...that's the question, isn't it? That's always been the question. Ever since the beginning.

She looks for sympathy
I give her sorrow
She asks for honesty
I've none to borrow

She needs my tender kiss
She begs it of me
I give her ugliness
Why does she love me?

She yearns for higher things
Things I can't give her
The rush that music brings
I can't deliver

And even when she sings
And soars above me
I try to clip her wings
Why does she love me?

One more drink, sir
That's what I need
Don't you think, sir?
Leave the hurt behind

Did you hear me? Another drink.

She wants the man I was
Husband and father
At least she thinks she does
She needn't bother

Beneath this mask I wear
There's nothing of me
Just horror, shame, despair
Why does she love me?

How 'bout you sir?
Tell me, what am I to do sir
Leave the hurt behind.

MEG
Morning Bernie!
Coffee please!
Hurry up before I freeze!
I'll just take it black. 

Vicomte! Fancy meeting you here...

RAOUL
Miss Giry...

MEG
Drowning your sorrows, are you?

RAOUL
On the contrary, I'm celebrating a reunion with old friends. Friends I had long thought dead and buried. And you?

MEG
Me? I'm in for a swim.

This town is coarse and cold and mean
It's hard to keep your conscience clean
Faceless in the crowd
Anything's allowed

And so I come at dawn each day
Come to wash it all away
Sink into the sea
Blue and cool and kind
Let it set me free
Let the past unwind
Leave the hurt behind

RAOUL
Miss Giry...

MEG
What do you think will happen Vicomte, at the concert? Have you thought? When he hears her sing again...when she sings...

RAOUL
Ah, Miss Giry, I wish I knew, but I'm afraid her music has always been somewhat of a mystery to me.

MEG
But there's more to this than the music, monsieur! Believe me! I saw it! There's something I...I don't know! Just take her away! Now! For all our sakes.

Sail across the sea
Put us out of mind
Close you eyes and flee
Let yourself stay blind

RAOUL
What do you mean? What are you talking about!?

MEG
Trust me, monsieur! Don't let her sing! One he gets into her soul, there's nothing she won't do for him.

Leave this place behind!

RAOUL
Miss Giry! He's not Mephistopheles you know! When it comes down to it, he's just another circus freak. I'm not afraid of him!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Phantom Confronts Christine

I must say, this was one of my favorite changes in the songs...Enjoy!

The Phantom Confronts Christine

CHRISTINE
Gustave! Gustave! Gustave it's alright-its me!

GUSTAVE
It's horrible! Horrible!

CHRISTINE
Oh, shhh.....don't be frightened!

PHANTOM
How could think I wouldn't guess?
How could you think I wouldn't know?
Do you have something to confess?
I want the truth right now if so!

CHRISTINE
Listen, darling, I want you to go with Miss Giry back to the hotel...alright? I have to talk to Mr. Y alone. Meg, would you mind?

Once upon another time
You left me, yet left me alone
But that's not all you did
You left me with a son

Ever since that other time
I've wished you could somehow have known
I kept the secret hid
The secret my marriage forbid
What else could I have done?

Just love...

PHANTOM
A son...

CHRISTINE
Just live

PHANTOM
My son...

CHRISTINE
Just give what I could give
And take what little I deserve

PHANTOM
Forgive me!
He sees me and shuns me
As you did once
Take him now
Take him and go
Go now be free but swear one thing to me
 He will never ever know

CHRISTINE
I swear it believe me
You know you have my word
And I swear this music won't
Remain unheard

This music, your music
Will live again
Once last time just as I swore

BOTH
And soul to soul we will
Once more be whole

PHANTOM
When I hear you sing

CHRISTINE
Once more...

PHANTOM
From out of ugliness such light
From out of darkness such a flame
In him my wrongness is made right
And yet he loathes me just the same

So let him shun me in disgust
Let him flee this cursed face
If I must hide from him I must
Yet he shall be my saving grace

For Christine, my Christine
If it's true he's my reason to live
Ah Christine, then our son shall have all I can give
Ah Christine, all I create on this earth
All that I'll never be worth
All shall be his!

GIRY
 All shall be his...
Ten long years and he casts us aside
Ten whole years this is how we're repaid
Ten dark years of toil and tears
And now what we've worked for will go to that child

All our hopes were at last in our grasp
All the dreams and the plans that we laid
Everything is vanishing
And we get discarded, rejected, reviled
All of the bonds in between us now torn
All of the love that we gave him forsworn
All would be ours if that bastard had never been born!

Well that's half of the show! More up soon!

The Beauty Underneath

The Beauty Underneath

PHANTOM
Have you ever yearned to go
  Past the world you think you know? 
 Been enthralled to the call  
 Of the beauty underneath?
 


Have you let it draw you in  
Past the place where dreams begin?  
Felt the full breathless pull 
 Of the beauty underneath?
 

When the dark unfolds its wings  
Do you sense the strangest things?  
Things no one would ever guess  
Things mere words cannot express?

GUSTAVE
Yes!

PHANTOM
 Do you find yourself beguiled
By the dangerous and wild
Do you feed on the need
For the beauty underneath

Have you felt your senses surge
And surrender to the urge
And been hooked as you looked
At the beauty underneath

When you star behind the night
Can you glimpse its primal might
Might you hunger to possess
Hunger that you can't repress

GUSTAVE
Yes!

It seems so beautiful
So strange yet beautiful
Everything's just as you said

PHANTOM
And he's so beautiful
Perhaps too beautiful
What I suspect cannot be
And yet somehow we both see
The very same way

GUSTAVE
 Is there music in your head
Have you followed where it led?
And be graced with the taste of the beauty underneath
Does it fill your every sense
Is it terribly intense
Tell me you need it too
Need the beauty underneath

BOTH
 When he lifts his voice and sings,
Don't you feel amazing things?
Things you know you can't confess
Things you thirst for, nonetheless

GUSTAVE
It's all so beautiful

PHANTOM
Can it be?

GUSTAVE
Almost too beautiful

BOTH
Do you see what I see?

GUSTAVE
Heavenly

PHANTOM
To him it's beautiful
My world is beautiful

GUSTAVE
How can this be what it seems

BOTH
All of my most secret dreams
Somehow set free!

PHANTOM
You can feel it

GUSTAVE
Yes

PHANTOM
Come closer

GUSTAVE
 Yes

PHANTOM
You've no fear of the beauty underneath
You can face it

GUSTAVE
Yes

PHANTOM
You can take it

GUSTAVE
Yes

PHANTOM
You see through to the beauty underneath
 To the splendor

GUSTAVE
To the splendor

PHANTOM
And the glory

GUSTAVE
And the glory

PHANTOM
 To the truth of the beauty underneath

GUSTAVE
The beauty underneath

PHANTOM
 You'll accept it

GUSTAVE
Yes

PHANTOM
You'll embrace it

 GUSTAVE
Yes

PHANTOM
Let me show you the beauty underneath
 To the splendor


GUSTAVE
To the splendor

PHANTOM
And the glory

GUSTAVE
And the glory

PHANTOM
 To the truth of the beauty underneath

GUSTAVE
The beauty underneath

PHANTOM
 You'll accept it

GUSTAVE
Yes

PHANTOM
You'll embrace it

 GUSTAVE
Yes


PHANTOM
 Let me show you the beauty under-

GUSTAVE
(screams)



Beautiful

Beautiful

GANGLE
Come along and follow us

FLECK
Come and follow faster

SQUELCH
Come along and follow us

ALL
Come and meet the master
Hurry up and follow us
Hurry if you care to
Soon the dark will swallow us
Follow if you dare to

GUSTAVE
What is this place?

PHANTOM
This is my realm
Illusion's domain
Where music and beauty and artifice reign

One moment little Vicomte while I prepare our adventure!

GUSTAVE
May I?

PHANTOM
Does the young Vicomte play?

What's this?

GUSTAVE
Just a song in my head

PHANTOM
Go on...

GUSTAVE
I think it's beautiful
Hear how each note seems to float
Hear how they all die and fall
Just like the night

It's beautiful

PHANTOM
This boy...

GUSTAVE
So very beautiful

PHANTOM
This music...

GUSTAVE
Music that comes uncontrolled

PHANTOM
He plays like me!

GUSTAVE
Haunting and lovely and bold

PHANTOM
He's just 10 years old...
Ten years old!

My God!
Come with me...I want to show you something...Follow me! I want to know what you think! 





Monday, March 19, 2012

Dear Old Friend

Dear Old Friend

CHRISTINE
Slow down Gustave! There are people working here, be careful!

GUSTAVE
But I want to find Mr.Y! And go see the island!

CHRISTINE
I'm sure he'll send for you when he's ready.

RAOUL
Who is this Mr. Y? What does he do-apart from spend ludicrous amounts of money on light entertainment?

GUSTAVE
Father! Look over there!

RAOUL
Gustave slow down!

MEG
Heaven help me could it be?
No it couldn't possibly

CHRISTINE
Sorry do I...

MEG
Yes I think you do.

CHRISTINE
Have we...

MEG
Go on take a guess

CHRISTINE
Wait it can't be is it...

MEG
Yes!

CHRISTINE
Oh my god I can't believe it's you!

MEG
Look at you, Christine. Regal as a queen and beautiful

CHRISTINE
 Meg, and you as well I could hardly tell it's you

BOTH
 My dear old friend
Can't believe you're here, old friend

CHRISTINE
 After all this time

MEG
Christine you came
You look sublime

CHRISTINE
You look the same

BOTH
 My sweet old friend.
Never thought we'd meet, old friend

CHRISTINE
What of your career?

MEG
Everything's great

BOTH
And isn't fate a splendid thing?

CHRISTINE
It brought me here

MEG
To see the sights?

CHRISTINE
And sing

GIRY
You!

RAOUL
My god, it's you!

GIRY
It can't be true

RAOUL
Is this a dream?
It's been ten years!

GIRY
What brings you here?

RAOUL
What do you think?
Christine
She's here to sing

GIRY
I read the news
For Hammerstein?

RAOUL
No plans have changed
He's been outbid

GIRY
Outbid by whom?

RAOUL
The contract's here
It's rather strange

MEG
Sorry, did I hear you right?
Here to sing

CHRISTINE
Tomorrow night

MEG
That seems odd there must be some mistake
That's the leading lady slot
I've been booked

CHRISTINE
Oh surely not...

MEG
This was meant to be my lucky break

CHRISTINE
Look I hardly sing
Just one little thing
An aria

MEG
Christine it's a thrill
Just to share the bill with you

MEG/GIRY
My dear old friend
It's becoming clear old friend
Someone's overlooked
His leading act

RAOUL
Well double-booked
To be exact
Now my old friend
Can you clarify old friend
This Mr. Y
With whom we signed
Who hides behind the pseudonym

GIRY
You haven't guessed?

RAOUL
I've no idea

GIRY
It's him

RAOUL
It's him?

GIRY
That's what I said

RAOUL
You work for him?

GIRY
Now you do too

RAOUL
My poor wife, we thought him dead
She'll be appalled

GIRY
Unless she knew

CHRISTINE
 Darling, please, are you alright?

RAOUL
 Tell me now, this music, who was its creator?

CHRISTINE
 Darling, please don't squeeze so tight

RAOUL
 Something's going on here, I'll deal with you later

MEG
 What's this about?

GIRY
I wish I knew

GIRY/RAOUL
The truth will out before we're through

ALL
My dear old friends
Can't believe your here old friends

GIRY
My dear Christine

MEG
My dear Vicomte

CHRISTINE
What does this mean?

RAOUL
What does he want?

ALL
My grand old friend
I don't understand old friend

MEG/GIRY
Maybe it's a joke

CHRISTINE/RAOUL
Some silly game

ALL
And what his aim is in the end
I can't pretend to comprehend old friend

MEG
It isn't fair

GIRY
We need to think

CHRISTINE
I need some air

RAOUL
I need a drink

ALL
My bold old friend(?)
Isn't this abhorred old friend

CHRISTINE
I'm still amazed

MEG
I'm still confused

GIRY
I'm feeling dazed

RAOUL
I'm feeling used

ALL
And yet old friend
Let's not get upset old friend

GIRY
We can sort this out

RAOUL
I'm sure we will

MEG
Without a doubt

ALL
Because we're still
Such grand old friends
Such devoted and old friends
Back again (at last)
When everyone (is doing great)
Won't this be fun? (so much fun)
With two old friends
Just able with two old friends (?)

GIRY
Let us raise a glass

CHRISTINE
To times gone by

RAOUL
To Mr. Y

MEG
To happy ends

ALL
To such sincere
And very dear old friends

Old friends!

RAOUL
No offense, but I need something stronger. Madame I shall see you tomorrow night at the concert, where I am sure you will both surpass yourselves. Good day.

CHRISTINE
Raoul, please! I can explain!
I'm sorry...look I wonder would you mind....Gustave!

MEG
What is it?

CHRISTINE
My son! He was with...Gustave! Gustave!

MEG
Christine wait!

Well...that was long. Any corrections?









The Phantom Blackmails Christine

 Ok that's not actually the title, but it fits!

 The Phantom Blackmails Christine

PHANTOM
What a child! Full of life...full of you...my Christine.

Help me through the sadness
Do this kindness for your mentor
Or your progeny, that perfect specimen
May disappear on Coney Island
Vanish here on Coney Island
 Ah, Christine...

CHRISTINE
What are you saying? How could you? After all that we've been? Who are you?

PHANTOM
 I am your angel of music! I am dying Christine! Suffocating here in the dark! Give me breath, give me life! Sing for me! Or I will take from you everything you have ever loved!

CHRISTINE
No! No you can't!

PHANTOM
Oh, but I can.  A man as hideous as this, believe me, is capable of anything.

CHRISTINE
And what am I to sing?

PHANTOM
One song composed by me.

CHRISTINE
And then we're free to leave?

PHANTOM
And will of course receive a princely fee.
 Is it on
with the show?
Does he stay?
Does he go?

RAOUL
He's nowhere to be seen! Insolence!

CHRISTINE
Who?

RAOUL
Hammerstein! What the devil is going on in this place?

CHRISTINE
Raoul...

RAOUL
Christine?

CHRISTINE
Things have changed Raoul. 

Mother Please I'm Scared

Mother Please I'm Scared

GUSTAVE
Mother Please I'm Scared
What a dream, an awful dream
Someone strange and mad
Seizing me and drowning me

CHRISTINE
Gustave, hush it's alright

Come and meet a friend of mine

PHANTOM
Welcome to my world young friend.

GUSTAVE
Your world? Where are we?

PHANTOM
We're in Phantasma, little Vicomte! On Coney Island! A world of fantasy where illusion is emperor!

Tell me where you'd like to go
Tell me what you want to see
Madame please I insist

GUSTAVE
Could you show me if you please
All Phantasma's mysteries
All that's strange and wild and dark
In the shadows of the park

PHANTOM
 You shall see it all tomorrow. In fact, I myself will show you. I promise.

CHRISTINE
Back to sleep now Gustave

GUSTAVE
Why does he wear a mask mother? Is he a magician?

CHRISTINE
Yes darling...in his way...

Ten Long Years of Yearning

Ten Long Years of Yearning

PHANTOM
Ten Long Years of Yearning
Years of dreaming of this moment
When that miracle, that peerless instrument
Plays for me, just fleetingly
Lays the ghost which tortures me, tortures me
Ah, Christine

I know what Hammerstein is paying you, I will double the amount for just one night's work. One night here in my concert hall.

CHRISTINE
No!

PHANTOM
Just one night Christine! One song, that is all I ask.

CHRISTINE
Why should I? For ten years you've let me believe you were dead! And now you lure us here and expect me to do you're bidding, submit to you again... I won't do it! I owe you nothing!



Once Upon Another Time

Once Upon Another Time

CHRISTINE
Once upon another time, our story had only begun
You chose to turn the page, and I made choices too

Once upon that other time, we did what we thought must be done
And now we have no choice, we do what we must do

We love, we live, we give what we can give
And take what little we deserve

PHANTOM
Once upon another time, I knew how our story would end
And maybe I was wrong, but now the moment's gone

Were it still that other time, I'd make time itself somehow bend
But now I'm not that strong, and time keeps moving on

BOTH
 We love, we live, we give what we can give
And take what little we deserve
We love, we live, we give what we can give
And take what little we deserve
Once upon another time


Beneath A Moonless Sky

Beneath A Moonless Sky

CHRISTINE
So it was all an empty lie
One final lie to fool us all
To make your death our story's end
To put your life beyond recall

How dare you come and claim me now?
Invade my life, ensnare my voice

PHANTOM
If you could know the pain I've known
Then you would know I had no choice
My Christine...

CHRISTINE
Your Christine
I was yours one brief night long ago
Long ago
With a man that I no longer know

PHANTOM
Ah, Christine
You came and found where I hid
Don't you deny that you did
That long ago night

Once there was a night beneath a moonless sky
Too dark to see a thing, too dark to even try

CHRISTINE
I stole to you side
Tormented by my choice
I couldn't see your face
Yet trembled at your voice

 And I touched you

PHANTOM
 And I felt you

BOTH
 And I heard those ravishing refrains

CHRISTINE
The music of your pulse

PHANTOM
The singing in your veins

CHRISTINE
And I held you

PHANTOM
And I touched you

 BOTH
And with every breath and every sigh

CHRISTINE
I felt no longer scared

PHANTOM
I felt no longer shy

BOTH
At last our feelings bared, beneath a moonless sky

 CHRISTINE
And blind in the dark, as soul gazed into soul
I looked into your heart and saw you pure and whole

PHANTOM
 Cloaked under the night, with nothing to suppress
A woman and a man, no more and yet no less
And I kissed you

CHRISTINE
And caressed you

BOTH
 And the world around us fell away
We said things in the dark, we never dared to say

PHANTOM
And I caught you

CHRISTINE
And I kissed you

PHANTOM
And I took you

CHRISTINE
And I begged you

BOTH
With a need too urgent to deny
As nothing mattered then, except for you and I
Again and then again, beneath a moonless sky


PHANTOM
And when it was done, before the sun could rise
Ashamed of what I was, afraid to see your eyes
I stood while you slept and whispered a good-bye
And slipped into the dark beneath a moonless sky

CHRISTINE
And I loved you, yes, I loved you
I'd have followed anywhere you led
I woke to swear my love, and found you gone instead

PHANTOM
And I loved you

CHRISTINE
Oh I loved you

PHANTOM
And I left you

CHRISTINE
How I loved you

PHANTOM
And I had to both of us knew why

CHRISTINE
We both knew why

BOTH
And yet I won't regret from now until I die
The night I can't forget beneath a moonless sky

PHANTOM
And now?

CHRISTINE
How can you talk of now? For us... there is no now.

Look With Your Heart

Look With You Heart

CHRISTINE
Love's a curious thing
It often comes disguised
Look at love the wrong way
It goes unrecognized

So look with your heart
And not with your eyes
The heart understands
The heart never lies

Believe what it feels
And trust what it shows
Look with your heart
The heart always knows

Love is not always beautiful
Not at the start

So open your arms
And close your eyes tight
Look with your heart
And when it finds love
Your heart will be right

Learn from someone who knows
Make sure you don't forget
Love you misunderstand
Is love that you'll regret

GUSTAVE
Look with your heart
And not with your eyes
The heart can't be fooled

CHRISTINE
The heart is too wise

GUSTAVE
Forget what you think

CHRISTINE
Ignore what you hear

BOTH
Look with your heart
It always sees clear

GUSTAVE
 Love is not always beautiful
Not at the start

CHRISTINE
But open your arms
And close your eyes tight
Look with your heart
And when it finds love
Your heart will be right

Time for bed now Gustave. I'll be in in a minute. 

What A Dreadful Town!

Here it is!

What A Dreadful Town

RAOUL
What a dreadful town
What a vulgar place
What an awful mistake to have come here

To be on display
In that shameless way
For the crude common lower class scum here

How do they dare to treat us so?

GUSTAVE
Father dear
Come play with
Come and see this toy I bought

RAOUL
What a slum at most
From our so-called host
Did he think sending freaks would be funny?
 Could the fool have thought
That our pride was bought
By his filthy American money

What a farce! What an outright slap in the face!
An utter disgrace!
I've got a mind to pack and go!
Never you mind the debts we owe!
Who would have thought we'd sunk this low

GUSTAVE
Father dear, come play with me

RAOUL
Gustave enough, the answer's no!

Must you play now?

GUSTAVE
I think it's beautiful

RAOUL
What is it?

GUSTAVE
I don't know! It was just here on the piano

RAOUL
Well it hurts my head!

CHRISTINE
Please let's not fight dear
I'm sure Mr. Hammerstein never intended a slight dear

RAOUL
How dare you patronize me?
We should never have accepted

CHRISTINE
We need the money
That's all
That's why things haven't been right dear

RAOUL
Why doesn't it surprise me that I get the blame here?

CHRISTINE
Let's leave tonight dear
If it would serve to ease your troubled mind
Leave the hurt behind

GUSTAVE
Father dear, come over here
And look at what they gave to me
Wind it up and father see
Look it plays a melody

CHRISTINE
Raoul...

RAOUL
What's this?

CHRISTINE
What is it?

RAOUL
It's from Hammerstein. He wants to meet me in the hotel bar, alone. Well, he may lack courtesy, but he does show a certain savoir-faire in choosing a business rendezvous.

CHRISTINE
Raoul, please...

RAOUL
Please what?

CHRISTINE
Nothing

GUSTAVE
Father never plays with me
Doesn't he love me?

CHRISTINE
Oh, darling! 

Are You Ready To Begin?

Enjoy!

Are You Ready To Begin?

MAN
Look at that! No Horses!

MAN2
That's the darnedest thing I've ever seen!

WOMAN
How does it work?

GANGLE
Honored friends
Welcome to America!

GANGLE/SQUELCH/FLECK
Take a seat
Rest your feet

SQUELCH
Honored friends
Mr. Hammerstein's expecting you

TRIO
Climb aboard
Fledgling lord(?)

CHRISTINE
Gustave!

RAOUL
Where is Hammerstein?
We were assured he'd be here to greet us in person!

GUSTAVE
Here my dreams can wonder free
Tell me what we're going to see

GANGLE
This way prima donna 
We three will escort you

SQUELCH
We assure Mr. Hammerstein
Sent us to transport you

RAOUL
I give up! Take us to Hammerstein!

GUSTAVE
Mysteries and melodies
Play inside my mind
Fairy tales and fantasies
Silently unwind

TRIO
Ask no questions
Have no fear
Anything can happen here

PHANTOM
I am your angel of music
Come to me angel of music

Corrections?

Christine Disembarks

I'll admit it- I'm not looking forward to this one because it's mostly spoken words...Oh well- I'll do it anyway!

Christine Disembarks

REPORTER
Hey! have the passengers disembarked yet?

MAN
Yeah! They're going through customs now!

WOMAN
Here they come!

MAN
Hey it's Mrs Aster! Mrs Aster over here!

MRS ASTER
Over there Lucille!

WOMAN
Is that the latest Paris style?

MAN
Look! It's Colonel Vanderbilt!
Thanks Colonel!

REPORTER
Hey Colonel, is Christine Daae still on board?

VANDERBILT
I believe so, young man!

WOMAN
What's she doing?

MAN
Hey! Christine! Where are you? Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!

MAN2
Look! There she is!

(Various people try to get her attention)

RAOUL
Her name- Her name is Madame de Changy! Stand Aside!
Gustave come here! No pictures please! No pictures of the boy!

MAN
Hey Christine! sing something!

MAN2
Your first performance in years, why ain't you singing at the Met?

RAOUL
The Viscountess has been engaged by the well-known impresario, Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, to open his new Manhattan opera house.

MAN
How'd he lure the great Christine Daae over here anyway?

MAN2
Ah, it's the money, right? All that American moolah!

RAOUL
My wife is an artist!

MAN
Yeah and it's her art that's payin off your gambing debts is what they're saying in France!

MAN2
Is it true you left your entire fortune on a roulette table in Monte Carlo?

RAOUL
Insolent Jackals! How dare you?

REPORTER
Hey kid! How does it feel to have a famous mother?

MAN
It this your first time to America?

MAN2
2 weeks til the opera house opens, what are you gonna do?

MAN3
You gonna go see the statue of Liberty?

MAN4
You gonna ride the new subway?

MAN5
Are you gonna go to the baseball

GUSTAVE
 I want to go to Coney Island! And learn how to swim!
Mother look, right over there! Across the square, that carriage!


Phew! Glad that one's done! As usual let me know if you have corrections!

Ten Long Years

I particularly liked this one because it develops Meg's character so much more. Enjoy!

Ten Long Years

GIRY
Hurry up people! You have four more shows to do! No time to dawdle!

MEG
Mother did you see?
Was it all alright?
Mother was he watching?
Was he keeping out of sight/

I was frightened half to death
And I had to catch my breath
As the lights began to dim
I was suddenly aware of a presence in the air
And I knew it was him

Yes I know there were some snags
There are moments where it lags

Mother, mother what's wrong?

GIRY
A surprise announcement, from Mr. Oscar Hammerstein
Christine Daae left Paris this morning to sing at the opening of his new Manhattan opera house

MEG
Christine, Christine

GIRY
Christine...

Ten long years
Not a sign, not a word
Ten long years
Now she comes to our shows
We must pray she keeps away
From us, and from him
And his dreams and his scores

MEG
What do you mean?

GIRY
In Paris, when the mob surrounded him
Who was there? We were there
Where was she when the low men hounded him?
Gone, long gone
We stayed on

Who concealed him safe away?
Smuggled him up to Calais?
Found a freighter out of France?

MEG
I don't see the problem
This is ancient history

GIRY
And who helped him buy his first sideshow?

MEG
Mother don't...

GIRY
And who plied the politicians?

MEG
That's all over now!

GIRY
Charmed investors and the press?
No, not her

And who stayed with him?
Helped him and advised him?
We stayed with him
Loved and Idolized him
She betrayed him
Shunned him and despised him

She chose Raoul
Chose to make a new start
Chose beauty and youth over genius and art
Fixed her aim on wealth and fame
Fled from the master
Yet fled with his heart

MEG
It seems a hundred years ago
Since you and I were both on show
Dancing side by side
Shy and starry-eyed
The waves now bring you back to me
And any day we soon will be
Side by side again
Just the same as then

BOTH
Ah, Christine
Long Ago
How I watched as you rose like a star
Ah, Christine
We have all traveled long
Traveled far
Ah, Christine

MEG
You seem a thousand miles away
And yet your ship sets out today
Sails across the sea
Bringing you to me
And I will show you all the sights
Manhattan's noise
And Coney's lights
Friends at last again
Just the same as then
Just like way back when

Corrections? Review!

 

Only For You

Enjoy!

Only For You

GANGLE/SQUELCH/FLECK
Mr. Y welcomes you to Phantasma!

GANGLE
Featuring Dr. Gangle, Master of Ceremonies

FLECK
Miss Fleck, Aerialist Extraordinaire

SQUELCH
The Amazing Squelch, the World's Strongest Man

GANGLE
And direct from Paris, France

FLECK
It's Coney Island's Ooh-La-La Girl!

ALL
Miss Meg Giry!

MEG
Welcome
Each and everyone
To our festival of fun

MEG/SHOWGIRLS
Something notable and new

MEG
We bring glamor from afar
Plus a touch of the bizarre

ALL
And it's only for you

MEG
See the wonders of our age
All assembled on our stage

ALL
Too fantastic to be true

MEG
What sensation seekers seek
Every kind of living freak

ALL
And it's only for you

If it's marvel and illusion that your soul and body crave
You'll be leaving here content without a doubt
Are you ready? Are you willing?
Are you braver than the brave?
There's an oh-so simple way of finding out

MEG
Is your life a little hum-drum?
Is your wife a little glum?

ALL
We've a remedy for all who wear a frown
We won't bite you we'll delight you
We invite you to succumb
To this singular attraction
Which is offered at a fraction
Of the price of any other show in town

MEN
We've got jugglers from the East
We've go vermin
We've got beasts

SHOWGIRLS
It's a pretty heavy brew

MEN
We've a fiddler from the West
Who is said to be possessed

ALL
And it's only for you

We bring magic, we bring mirth
We've been halfway 'round the earth
From Turin to Timbuktu
To present to you today
This delectable display
Which is only for you

Such a show you've never seen
Such a show there's never been
And today's our grand debut
Prince and pauper come on in
Let the spectacle begin
Cause it's only for you

Let the banners be unfurled
Raise the curtain on our world
Without any more adieu
Mr. Y has all you need
Satisfaction guaranteed
And it's only for you

SQUELCH
Welcome each and everyone
To our festival of fun

ALL
For you!

GANGLE
Ladies and gentlemen
Miss Meg Giry
The Ohh-La-La Girl

SQUELCH
Five shows daily

FLECK
Only here at Phantasma!



I'm not entirely sure about that one line, but I know the rest are OK!


 



The Coney Island Waltz

This was a personal favorite of mine-the set absolutely blew me away! Enjoy!

The Coney Island Waltz

GANGLE
Coney Isle
Glistening and Glimmering
Rising bright
Drenched with light

GANGLE/SQUELCH
See it smile
Beckoning and Shimmering
All agleam
Like a dream
Every fantasy set free
Sun up rising by the sea

GANGLE/SQUELCH/FLECK
Wonders and astonishment's
For you delectation
Phantoms and automatons
For your fascination
Marvels undreamt
Since the dawn of creation

ALL
Coney Isle
Miracle on miracle
Sleek and sound
Burning 'round
Mile by mile
Loud and lewd and lyrical
Thrill on thrill
Never still

Welcome one and Welcome all
Welcome to the monster's ball
Welcome to the (X7)
Ahhhh!

(Instrumental)

Coney Isle
Miracle on miracle
Sleek and sound
Burning 'round
Mile by mile
Loud and lewd and lyrical
Thrill on thrill
Never still

Welcome one and Welcome all
Welcome to the monster's ball
 Welcome one and Welcome all
 Welcome to the (X7)

Corrections? Let me know!


Til I Hear You Sing

Hey everyone! OK, so has anyone else noticed how it is sort of impossible to get lyrics from the LND au show? I've decided I'm going to post them here so they'll be archived. I'll be doing them in order, so here is 'Til I Hear You Sing'!

Til I Hear You Sing

PHANTOM
Ten long years
Living a mere facade of life
Ten long years
Wasting my time on smoke and noise

In my mind
I hear melodies pure and unearthly
But I find
I can't give them a voice
Without You

My Christine, my Christine
Lost and gone, lost and gone

The day starts the day ends
Time crawls by
Night steals in
Pacing the floor
The moments creep
Yet I can't bear to sleep
Til i hear you sing

And weeks pass and months pass
Seasons fly
Still you don't walk through my door
And in a haze I count the silent days
Til I hear you sing

And sometimes, in darkness
I dream that you are there
But wake holding nothing
But the cold night air

And years come
And years go
Time runs dry
Still I ache deep in my core
My broken soul
Can't be alive or whole
Til I hear you sing once more

And music. your music
It teases at my ear
I turn and it fades away
And you're not here

Let hopes pass, Let dreams pass
Let them die
Without you, what are they for
I'll always feel
No more than halfway real
Til I hear you sing
Once more!

If you have any corrections, please let me know!