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!