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!

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!

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!