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! 

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!

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!

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! 

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?