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! 

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