Love Never Dies (2012)

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Ten long years

Living a mere façade 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

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

till 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

till I hear you sing

once more

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

till 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

till I hear you sing

once more!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

Coney Isle

Glistening and glimmering!

Rising bright

Drenched with light

See it smile

Beckoning and shimmering!

All a-gleam

like a dream

Every fantasy set free!

Sodom rising by the sea!

Wonders and astonishments
for your delectation!

Phantoms and automatons
for your fascination!

Marvels undreamt
since the dawn of creation!

Coney Isle!

Miracle on miracle!

Speed and sound

Whirling 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, welcome to the

Welcome to the, welcome to the...

(SCREAMING)

Coney Isle!

Miracle on miracle!

Speed and sound

Whirling 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, welcome to the

Welcome to the, welcome to the...

Mr. Y welcomes you

to Phantasma!

Featuring Dr. Gangle,

master of ceremonies!

Miss Fleck, aerialist extraordinaire.

The amazing Squelch,
the world's strongest man.

And direct from Paris, France...

It's Coney Island's
Ooh-La-La Girl...

Miss Meg Giry!
Meg Giry!

Welcome

each and every one

to our festival of fun!

Something notable and new!

We bring glamour from afar

plus a touch of the bizarre!

And it's only for you!

See the wonders of our age
all assembled on our stage!

Too fantastic to be true!

What sensation-seekers seek!

Every kind of living freak!

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!

Is your life a little humdrum?

Is your wife a little glum?

We've the 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!

We've got jugglers from the east!

We've got bird and we've got beast!

It's a pretty heady brew!

We've a fiddler from the west

who is said to be possessed

And it's only for you!

We bring magic, we bring mirth!

We've been halfway round the Earth

from Teheran 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 ado!

Mr. Y has all you need

Satisfaction guaranteed!

And it's only for you!

Welcome each and every one

to our festival of fun!

For you!

(CHEERING)

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Meg
Giry, the Ooh-La-La Girl!

Five shows daily.

Only here at Phantasma.

And not forgetting,
the fabulous Miss Fleck...

Hurry up, people! You have
four more shows to do.

No time to dawdle.

Mother, did you see?

Was it all all right?

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?

A surprise announcement
from Mr. Oscar Hammerstein.

Christine Daaé left Paris this morning

to sing at the opening of his
new Manhattan Opera House.

Christine, Christine...

Christine

Ten long years

Not a sign, not a word

Ten long years, now she comes to our shores

We must pray she keeps away

from us and from him and
his dreams and his scores

What do you mean?

In Paree

when the mob surrounded him who was there?

We were there!

Where was she

when the lawmen hounded him?

Gone, long gone

We stayed on

Who concealed him safe away?

Smuggled him up to Calais?

Found a freighter out of France?

I don't see the problem
This is ancient history

And who helped him buy his first sideshow?

Mother, don't.

And who plied the politicians?

That's all over now.

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...

It seems a hundred years ago

when 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

Ah, Christine! Long ago

how I watched, as you rose like a star!

Ah, Christine!

We have all traveled long

traveled far! Ah, Christine

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

(CHUCKLES)

(SHIP HORN BLARING)

(ALL TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

Hey, have the passengers disembarked yet?

Yeah, they're going through customs now.

Here they come!

Hey, it's Mrs. Astor.

Hey, Mrs. Astor! Over here!

Over there, Lucille!

Is that the latest Paris style?

Look, it's Colonel Vanderbilt!
Thanks, Colonel!

Hey, Colonel, is Christine
Daaé still on board?

I believe so, young man.

What's she doing?
Waiting for the conductor?

Hey, Christine, where are you?

(YODELING)

Look, there she is!

Christine Daaé!

Miss Daaé, over here!

WOMAN: Christine!
MAN: Christine!

Her name...
Her name is Madame de Chagny!

Stand aside.
Stand aside!

Gustave, come here.
No pictures, do you hear?

No pictures of the boy!

Hey, Christine, sing something!

Your first performance in years!

Why ain't ya singin' at the Met?

The vicomtesse has been engaged
by the well-known impresario,

Mr. Oscar Hammerstein,

to open his new Manhattan Opera House.

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

It's the money, right?
All that American moolah!

My wife is an artist.

Oh, yeah, and her art is payin'
off your gambling debts,

is what they're sayin' in France.

Is it true you left your entire fortune

on a roulette table in Monte Carlo?

You insolent jackals!
How dare you!

Hey, kid, how does it feel
to have a famous mother?

Your first time to America?

It's two weeks till the Opera House opens.
What are you gonna do?

You gonna go see the Statue of Liberty?

Gonna ride the new subway?

You gonna go to the baseball?

I want to go to Coney Island.
And learn how to swim.

(ALL LAUGHING)

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

Mother, look!
Right over there!

Across the square!
That carriage!

Look at that! No horses!

That's the darnedest thing I've ever seen.

How does it work?

Honored friends

welcome to America!

Take a seat! Rest your feet!

Honored friends
Mr. Hammerstein's expecting you

Climb aboard, fledgling lord

Gustave!

Where is Hammerstein?

We were assured he'd be
here to greet us in person!

Here my dreams can wander free

Tell me what we're going to see!

This way, prima donna!

We three will escort you!

Please, Monsieur
Mr. Hammerstein

sent us to transport you

I give up.
Take us to Hammerstein!

Mysteries and melodies

play inside my mind

Fairytales and fantasies

silently unwind

Ask no questions, have no fear

Anything can happen here

(THUNDER RUMBLES)

I am your Angel of Music

Come to me, Angel of Music

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 could he dare to treat us so?

Father, dear, come play with me

Come and see this toy I've got

What a snub, 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

It's an utter disgrace

I've got a mind to pack and go

Never you mind the debts we owe

Who would believe we've sunk this low?

Father, please, come play with me

Gustave, enough!
The answer's no!

(PLAYING SOFT TUNE)

Must you play now?

I think it's beautiful.

RAOUL: What is it, anyway?

I don't know, it was
just here on the piano.

Well, it hurts my head.

Please, let's not fight, dear

I'm sure Mr. Hammerstein
never intended a slight, dear

How dare he patronize us?
We should never have accepted

We need the money, that's all

That's why things haven't been right, dear

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

Let's leave tonight, dear

if that would serve to
ease your troubled mind

Leave the hurt behind

Father, dear, come over here

and look at what they gave to me

Wind it up and, Father, see
Look, it plays a melody

Raoul.

(KNOCKING)

What's this?

What is it?

It's from Hammerstein.

He wants to meet me in
the hotel bar. Alone.

Alone?
Well, he may lack courtesy,

but he does show a certain savoir faire

in choosing a business rendezvous.

Raoul, please.
Please what?

Nothing.

Father never plays with me

Doesn't he love me?

Oh, darling.

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

Look with your heart

and not with your eyes

The heart can't be fooled

The heart is too wise

Forget what you think

Ignore what you hear

Look with your heart, it always sees clear

Love is not always beautiful (LAUGHING)

not at the start

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.

(GASPING)

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?

If you could know the pain I've known

then you would know I had no choice

My Christine

Your Christine

I was yours one brief night long ago

Long ago

with a man that I no longer know

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

I stole to your side

tormented by my choice

I couldn't see your face

yet trembled at your voice

and I touched you

And I felt you

And I heard those ravishing refrains!

The music of your pulse

The singing in your veins!

And I held you

And I touched you

And embraced you

And I felt you

And with every breath and every sigh!

I felt no longer scared

I felt no longer shy

BOTH: At last,
our feelings bared

beneath the moonless sky

And blind in the dark

as soul gazed into soul

I looked into your heart

and saw you pure and whole

Cloaked under the night

with nothing to suppress

a woman and a man

no more and yet no less

And I kissed you

And caressed you

And the world around us fell away

We said things in the dark

we never dared to say

And I caught you

And I kissed you

And I took you And I begged you

With a need too urgent to deny

And nothing mattered then

except for you and I

Again and then again

beneath the moonless sky

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 goodbye

And slipped into the dark

beneath the moonless sky

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

And I loved you!

I loved you!

And I left you!
How I loved you!

And I had to, both of us knew why

We both knew why

And yet I won't regret

from now until I die

the night I can't forget

beneath a moonless sky

And now?

How can you talk of now?

For us...

There is no now.

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

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

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

(PANTING)

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.

Here, in my concert hall.
No.

Just one night, Christine.
One song.

That is all I ask.

Why should I?

For 10 years, you've let
me believe you were dead,

and now you lure us here and
expect me to do your bidding,

submit to you again.

I won't do it.
I owe you nothing.

Mother, please, I'm scared!
What a dream, an awful dream!

Someone strange and mad
Seizing me and drowning me

Gustave, it's all right, darling.

Come and meet a friend of mine

Welcome to my world, young friend

Your world?
Where are we?

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

Madam, please, I insist

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?

You shall see it all tomorrow.

In fact, I myself will show you.

I promise.

CHRISTINE: Back to sleep
now, Gustave.

Why does he wear a mask,
Mother? Is he a magician?

Yes, darling.
In his way.

What a child.
Full of life.

Full of you, my Christine.

Help me through this 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

What are you saying?
How could you?

After all that we've been.

Who are you?

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.

No, no, you can't!

Oh, but I can.

A man as hideous as this, believe
me, is capable of anything.

And what am I to sing?

One song composed by me

And then we're free to leave?

And will, of course, receive a princely fee

Is it on with the show?

Does he stay, does he go?

(SOBBING)

(HUMMING)

He's nowhere to be seen.

Insolence!

Who?

Hammerstein.

What the devil is going on in this place?

Darling.

Christine?

Things have changed, Raoul.

Bathing beauty on the beach

see her practically glow!

Takin' the sun in,
till all the boys are runnin'!

Rollin' in clover,
and gettin' tan all over!

Wearing a smile and giving Coney Island

a bathing beaut

of a show!

Bathing beauty, say hello

Gentlemen, gentlemen, you must take care.

Go spend some time working with Meg.

Ladies, come, let's go
over the port de bras.

Gentlemen, remember to
plié before the lift.

Then some control, gentlemen, please.

(GUSTAVE LAUGHING)

Slow down, Gustave. There are
people working here, be careful.

But I want to find Mr. Y,
and go see the island.

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

Who is this Mr. Y?
What does he do?

Apart from spend ludicrous amounts of money

on light entertainment?

Father, look over there!

Gustave, slow down!

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

Sorry, do I...

Yes, I think you do!

Have we...
Go on, take a guess!

Wait, it can't be! Is it...
Yes!

Oh, my God, I can't believe it's you!

Look at you, Christine! Regal
as a queen and beautiful!

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

My dear old friend!

Can't believe you're here, old friend!

After all this time!

Christine, you came!

You look sublime!

You look the same!

My sweet old friend

never thought we'd meet, old friend!

What of your career?

Everything's great

And isn't fate a splendid thing!

It brought me here...

To see the sights?

And sing!

(GIRLS LAUGHING)

Oh, my goodness!

You!
My God, it's you!

It can't be true Is this a dream?

It's been 10 years

What brings you here?

Who do you think?
Christine

She's here to sing

I read the news.
For Hammerstein?

No, plans have changed.
He's been outbid

Outbid by whom?

The contract's here.
It's rather strange

Sorry, did I hear you right?

Here to sing?
Tomorrow night

That seems odd, there must be some
mistake That's the leading lady's slot

I've been booked No, surely not

This was meant to be my lucky break

Look, I hardly sing

Just one little thing, an aria

Christine, it's a thrill just
to share the bill with you

My dear old friend

it's becoming clear, old friend

someone's overlooked his leading act

Well, double booked to be exact

Now, my old friend
Can you clarify, old friend

this Mr. Y
with whom we've signed

who hides behind the pseudonym?

You haven't guessed?

I've no idea

It's him!

Him?

That's what I said

You work for him!

Now you do, too

And my poor wife, we thought him dead!

She'll be appalled!

Unless she knew

Darling, please, are you all right?

Tell me now, this music!
Who was its creator?

Darling, please, don't squeeze so tight

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

What's this about?

I wish I knew

The truth will out before we're through

My dear old friend

Can't believe you're here, old friend

My dear Christine

My dear vicomte

What does this mean?

What does he want?

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

Maybe it's a joke!
Some silly game!

And what his aim is in the end

I couldn't claim to comprehend

Old friend!

It isn't fair!

We need to think

I need some air

I need a drink

My poor old friend
Isn't this a bore, old friend?

I'm still amazed

I'm still confused

I'm feeling dazed

I'm feeling used

And yet, old friends let's
not get upset, old friends

We can sort this out

I'm sure we will

Without a doubt

Because we're still

such grand old friends

such devoted, grand old friends

Back again at last with everyone

Isn't it great?
Won't this be so much fun?

With two old friends trustable
and true, old friends!

Let us raise a glass

To times gone by

To Mr. Y

To happy ends

To such sincere

and very dear

old friends

Old friends

No offense, but I need
something stronger. Raoul!

Madame, I shall see you
tomorrow night at the concert,

where I am sure you will
both surpass yourselves.

Good day.

Raoul! Please.

I can explain!

I'm sorry.

Meg, I wonder would
you mind... Gustave?

What's wrong? My son. He was with...

Gustave! Gustave!

MEG: Christine, wait!

Come along and follow us

Come and follow faster

Come along and follow us

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

What is this place?

This is my realm, illusion's domain

where music and beauty and artifice reign

One moment, little vicomte,
while I prepare our adventure.

May I?

Does the young vicomte play?

(PIANO PLAYING)

What's this?

Just a song in my head

Go on.

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

This boy...

So very beautiful!

This music...

Music that comes uncontrolled

He plays like me...

Haunting and lovely and bold

He's just 10 years old

Ten years

old!

My God!

Come with me.
I need to show you something.

Follow me. I want to
know what you think!

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?

Yes!

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 surrendered to the urge?

And been hooked as you looked
at the beauty underneath?

When you stare behind the night

can you glimpse its primal might?

Might you hunger to possess

hunger that you can't repress?

Yes!

It seems so beautiful!

So strange yet beautiful!

Everything's just as you say!

And he's so beautiful

Perhaps too beautiful

What I suspect cannot be

And yet somehow we both see

the very same way!

Is there music in your head?

Have you followed where it led

and been graced with a 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!

When it lifts its voice and sings

don't you feel amazing things?

Things you know you can't confess?

Things you thirst for nonetheless?

It's all so beautiful!

PHANTOM: Can it be?

Almost too beautiful!

Do you see what I see?

Heavenly!

To him, it's beautiful!

My world is beautiful!

How can this be what it seems?

All of my most secret dreams

somehow set free!

You can feel it?

Yes!

Come closer

Yes!

You've no fear of the beauty underneath?

You can face it?

Yes!

You can take it?

Yes!

You see through to the beauty underneath?

To the splendor?

And the splendor!

And the glory?
Glory!

To the truth of the beauty underneath?

The beauty underneath!

You'll accept it!

GUSTAVE: Yes!

PHANTOM:
You'll embrace it!

GUSTAVE: Yes!

Let me show you the beauty underneath!

To the splendor!
Splendor!

And the glory!
And the glory!

To the truth of the beauty underneath!

The beauty underneath!

You'll accept it!

Yes!

You'll embrace it!

Yes!

Let me show you the beauty under...

(GUSTAVE SCREAMS)

MEG: Gustave!

CHRISTINE: Gustave! Gustave!

Gustave. It's all right!
It's me!

It's horrible, horrible!

Shh. Don't be frightened.

PHANTOM: How could you
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!

Listen, darling, I want
you to go with Miss Giry

back to the hotel.

All right?

I have to talk
to Mr. Y alone.

Meg, do you mind?

Please? Please.

Once upon another time

you loved 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

A son!

Just live

My son!

Just give what I could give

and take

what little I deserve

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!

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!

One last time

just as I swore!

BOTH: And soul to soul

we will once more be whole

when I hear you sing

once more

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!

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 foresworn!

All would be ours

if that b*stard had never been born!

One more.

Ah, buddy, don't you think you had enough?

It's practically morning already.

One more, I said!

All right.
All right.

My shift is over anyway, so
let's settle the bill, okay?

Jeez, you're in a bad way, ain't ya?

Worse than most that wind up here.

Here's the morning shift. Maybe
he'll know what to do with you.

(SCOFFS)

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

Morning, Bernie Coffee, please

Hurry up before I freeze

I'll just take it black

Vicomte.
Fancy meeting you here.

Miss Giry.

Drowning your sorrows, are you?

On the contrary, I'm celebrating
a reunion with old friends.

Friends I had long thought dead and buried.

And you?
Me?

I've been 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

Miss Giry?

What do you think will happen, Vicomte?

At the concert.
Have you thought?

When he hears her sing
again? When she sings...

Miss Giry, I wish I knew.

But I'm afraid her music has always
been somewhat of a mystery to me.

But there's more to this
than the music, monsieur.

Believe me. I saw it.

There's something...
I don't know.

Just take her away. Now.

For all our sakes.

Sail across the sea

Put us out of mind

Close your eyes and flee

Let yourself stay blind

What do you mean?
What are you talking about?

Trust me, monsieur.
Don't let her sing.

Once he gets into her soul, there's
nothing she won't do for him.

Leave this place behind

Miss Giry! 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.

No. It can't be!

Not afraid of me, you say?

Stay back! Or I'll k*ll you, I promise you.

Insolent boy.

You think you own more
of her soul than I do?

She is my wife!

Your music may speak to her,

but her heart will always follow me.

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?

Look at you, foul as sin

Hideous, horrible

Call the stakes, deal me in

Devil take the hindmost

Our Christine shall choose
tonight Let her choose

Is she yours or mine?
Draw the line

If she sings, you lose tonight I won't lose

You leave from here?
Fine

Disappear?
Fine

And if she won't?
If I win?

All your debts wiped away

Very well, let's begin

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost

Our old game You think you have the odds

It's been changed
You think you're in control

Every throw... You think
you've fixed the dice

...riskier
Well, I will gladly roll

All the rules...
I'll bet against the house

...rearranged
I'll even double down

Fate has redesigned most
Fortune's on my side

Cut the deck I won her long ago

Let us play I won her from you then

You and I I wager even now

Once again I'll win her back again

In the end And when the game is done

Either way

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost

Now Christine shall choose at last

Is she yours or mine?

We've a son Our bond's secure

Are you sure?
What?

Are you so sure?
What do you mean?

Such a child Strange to see

Talented, musical

Is he more you or me?

Which one do you find most?

You lie!

Yet you doubt No woman could

Doubt your wife Or ever would

Doubt your son Love such a man

Everything You're insane

Now we play...
So now I play...

...for your life
... for my life

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost

Deal the cards I call your bluff

Let them fall The game is on

Choose your hand And we will see...

Try your best
... who wins out

He who wins...
Once and for all...

BOTH: Wins it all

Devil take the hindmost

(GROANS)

She walks, you leave together

Pockets full, debts paid

She sings...

You leave alone

Devil take the hindmost

Dear God, what have I done?

I could lose her forever.
My Christine!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

Ladies, gents

You, good sir

And you, my friend

ALL: Everyone

Time for fun

Starting soon upon our stage

The performance of the age

Wonders and astonishments
for your delectation

Phantoms and automatons
for your fascination

Plus a finale to sweep you away

BOTH: Brought from Paree
to perform just one day

The beautiful, breathtaking Christine Daaé

But first, for those of you whose taste

is a little
more earth-bound...

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

The incomparable...

ALL: Meg Giry!

(AUDIENCE CHEERING)

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

Ooh!

There was no place to change

And so I asked my friends to lend a hand

Girls?

(VOCALIZING)

GIRLS: Bathing beauty

Take a look at you

Bathing beauty on the beach

Bathing beauty, say hello

What a cutie!
What a peach!

Bathing beauty, watch her go

Posing under her parasol

She is what ya call a real spectacle

Prim and proper with class and poise

But she's got the boys apoplectical

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

Checks.

MEN: What a cutie!
What a peach!

Stripes.

ALL: Bathing beauty

Bathing beauty

Dots?

GIRLS: Dots?

Dots? Dots?

MEN: Dots?
Dots?

ALL: Dots!

Bathing beauty on the beach

See her practically glow

Taking the sun in

Till all the boys go running

ALL: Rolling in clover

And getting tan all over

ALL: Wearing a smile

And giving Coney Island

ALL: A bathing beaut

Of a show

Bathing beauty, say...

Hello!

Whoo!

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Meg
Giry, the Ooh-La-La Girl!

In just a few moments, Christine Daaé,

the world's most celebrated songbird,

will be making her American debut.

Mother, did you watch?
Everything is solved

Mother, can you tell? The
new routine it went so well

I was worried just a touch

That it might've 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

Meg...

And the master must have heard
Every note and every word

Mother, tell me, did he see?

Meg, stop it.

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

Meg, sweet fool You did all that you could

Charming, bright And yet still not enough

What do you mean?

How you danced!
They're all entranced

Yes, all but the one whose
entrancement we sought

He wasn't even there?

Where, poor girl, do you think that he was?

Yes, that's right, in with her all along

With Christine?

Dreaming of their son, their love

Too smitten to spare you
one moment of thought

Their son?

All that you gave him has all been a waste

No, you're wrong!

All that you've done It has all been erased

Don't say that!

Now he has them

As for us We have both been replaced

No! No!

Gustave, could you hand me those earrings?
The sapphires on the left.

There!

How do I look?

You look so beautiful

So very beautiful

Like a queen in a book

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?

Father! Doesn't Mother look lovely tonight?

Indeed she does.

As lovely as she looked the very first time

I came to her
dressing-room door.

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.

Please, Gustave If you don't mind

Would you wait outside a while?

But when's Mother going to sing?
We don't want to miss it.

Go and wait backstage, my dear

Soon Papa will fetch you there

You can both watch from the wings.

Since our wedding day

Things have gone astray

Raoul...

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

We've both been...

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

Anything, darling.

Don't sing the song, dear

What? But...

You have to know something's
terribly wrong, dear

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

That hell-spawned demon

He's had us playing
his game all along, dear

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

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

But, darling, I'm due
on stage in 10 minutes.

How can I possibly...
I beg you please. Please.

I have a passage for three to
Cherbourg on the Atlantic Queen.

It leaves tonight. Let's be
on it, for both our sakes.

And for Gustave.

Leave this place behind

Go and find Gustave.

Tell the stage manager not to disturb me.
I need some time.

You know his love is not enough

You know it 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

STAGE MANAGER:
Five minutes, Miss Daaé.

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

(VOCALIZING)

Ready on the rail?

STAGE HAND 1:
Ready on the rail.

(CONTINUES VOCALIZING)

Will she sing?
Will she flee?

What is she thinking now?

Is it him?
Is it me?

Devil take the hindmost

STAGE MANAGER:
Ready on the floor?

STAGE HAND 2:
Ready on the floor!

RAOUL: Will she stay?
PHANTOM: Obey your heart

Will she go?
And sing for me

Does she know even now? You
want it so, stay and be mine

Please, Christine, stop the show Eternally

BOTH: Devil take the hindmost

Now it's time So make your choice

Do it for our son

PHANTOM: Use your head

RAOUL: No time to wait

Hesitate We're all undone!

STAGE MANAGER:
Ready in the pit?

STAGE HAND 3:
Ready in the pit!

Perhaps she won't go on
Perhaps she'll lose her nerve

Perhaps her voice won't serve
And she will fail him now

And then my child and I
We'll get what we deserve

ALL: Devil take the hindmost

Perhaps she won't go on
Perhaps she'll lose her nerve

Perhaps her voice won't serve
And she will fail him now

And then my child and I
We'll get what we deserve

ALL: Devil take the hindmost

Now it's time No turning back

All is on the line

Here it is The final dance

One last chance To get what's mine

I hope Christine is worthy of you.

I hope her singing makes
up for what your blindness

has done to Meg and me.

Devil take the hindmost

STAGE MANAGER: And curtain.

Who knows when love begins?

Who knows what makes it start?

One day it's simply there

Alive inside in your heart

It slips into your thoughts

It infiltrates your soul

It takes you by surprise

Then seizes full control

Try to deny it And try to protest

But love won't let you go

Once you've been possessed

Love never dies

Love never falters

Once it has spoken

Love is yours

Love never fades

Love never alters

Hearts may get broken

Love endures

Hearts may get broken

Love endures

And soon as you submit
Surrender flesh and bone

That love takes on a life
Far greater than your own

It uses you at whim
And drives you to despair

And forces you to feel
More joy than you can bear

Love gives you pleasure
And love brings you pain

And yet, when both are gone

Love will still remain

Once it has spoken

Love is yours

Love never dies

Love never alters

Hearts may get broken

Love endures

Hearts may get broken

Love never dies

Love will continue

Love keeps on beating

When you're gone

Love never dies

Once it is in you

Life may be fleeting

Love lives on

Life may be fleeting

(GASPS)

Love lives on

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

Ah, Christine My Christine

What a triumph you gave me tonight

My Christine

All the dark, silent years now put right

Ah, Christine

The song was beautiful

It sounded beautiful

Every note Every word

And it felt beautiful

And I felt beautiful

BOTH: Lost in
the music once more

Feeling it rise up and soar

Alive once again

(GASPING)

"My dearest wife."

Little Lotte, I beg you, forgive me

Raoul, no!

RAOUL: Little Lotte Ah,
what fools we once were

BOTH: Long ago, in our youth

"In Paris, at the opera"

Romantic idiots.

"Those two people
are gone."

BOTH: Now I must go
Our choices are made

The opera is done The last
notes have been played

May your angel of music Watch over you now

And give you what I wish I gave you somehow

Yours, in regret...

"Raoul."

Gustave.
What is it?

Gustave.
What's wrong?

I told him to wait for Raoul.
Before he asked me to...

Surely he wouldn't...

That perfidious Raoul I
will k*ll that drunken fool

That he'd dare take this
child A child that isn't his

SQUELCH: Sir.

The Vicomte de Chagny left here alone, sir

Saw with my own eyes, sir

There was no one with him

Was there anyone else here backstage?

Madame Giry, she was here

With that vicious little sneer

And that comment she made The
ungrateful, back-biting snake

Go now, quickly Bring her round

Bring the boy back safe and sound

Then I'll make that vixen pay

What is the meaning of this?
How dare your circus ghouls

manhandle me in this fashion?
The boy, woman!

What have you done with him?

The boy? You think I took the boy?

Why would I do such a thing?

Do you think I don't know who he is?

FLECK: Sir?

I just passed Meg's dressing
room It was silent as a tomb

But her mirror was smashed
All in pieces on the floor

God, I left her so distraught

God knows what she must have thought

Foolish child, she must be caught

My poor Gustave!

But she won't hurt him!

Meg would never hurt him

I know where she's going.
But we must hurry!

(OMINOUS CARNIVAL
MUSIC PLAYING)

(ROARING)

Please, Miss Giry I want to go back

Gustave!

GUSTAVE: Miss Giry,
I can't swim.

I want my mother

The sea is calm The sea is gray

It washes everything away

Please. You're hurting me. I can't swim.

Don't worry.
It's almost over.

Sink into the deep

Blue and cool and kind

Then drift off to sleep

Let the past unwind

Leave the hurt behind

CHRISTINE: Gustave!
Mother?

PHANTOM:
Let go of the boy, now!

Not another step

Let go of him, girl.

Not another word

Always wondered how to make you watch

Well, watch me now

I took a little trip to Coney Island

I took a little trip because of you

I did as Mother said And
followed where you led

And tried to do what little I could do

But here's the way it works on Coney Island

They make you pay for every little crumb

I gave what they would take

I gave it for your sake

Now look at me

And see what I've become

Bathing beauty on the beach

Bathing beauty in her dressing room

Bathing beauty in the dark

On their laps In their arms

In their beds

Meg. My little Meg!

And who kept singing

Desperate for your favor?

Who kept dancing

Hoping you would save her?

Who kept dying?

And this is all you gave her

CHRISTINE: Gustave! PHANTOM: No,
don't do that, girl. Please.

(PHANTOM WEEPS)

Now that I've got your attention at last

(SOBBING) Here's the big
finish And then you can go

No, Meg, don't!

Give me the g*n, Meg

Give me the hurt and the
pain And the g*n, Meg

Give me the blame for not seeing
the things That you've done, Meg

Give me the g*n, Meg

Give me the chance to see you clear at last

See me clear at last

You feel ugly You feel used

You feel broken You feel bruised

Ah, but me I can see
all the beauty underneath

Yes.

You've been robbed of love and pride

Been ignored and cast aside

Even so, I still know
There is beauty underneath

Yes.

Diamonds never sparkle bright

If they aren't set just right

Beauty sometimes goes unseen

We can't all be like Christine

Christine? Christine!
Always Christine!

(g*n FIRES)
(SHRIEKING)

(GASPING)

No! No! Madame Giry, get help.

Quickly!

Meg!

Meg!
No!

Father!
Where's Father?

Gustave!
Your father...

Christine, no!

I know. I promised.

But you are all he has now.
He has to know the truth.

Christine, please.
Gustave.

Your father, your real father

is here.

No. No.

Look with your heart

And not with your eyes

The heart understands

The heart never lies

No!

Gustave!

Once upon another time

Our story had only begun

I had a taste of joy

The most I ever knew

Now there isn't any time

And somehow our story is done

And what about the boy?

What am I to do?

Just love

Just live

Just give what you can give

And take the love that you deserve

BOTH: Just love

Just live

And give...
I'll give all that I have

And take what little I deserve

Come closer I beg you

Closer still

Remember

Love never dies

Kiss me one last time

No!

(SOBBING)

Love never dies

Love never falters

Once it has spoken

Love is yours

Love never dies

Love will continue

(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)

(AUDIENCE WHOOPING)

(AUDIENCE CLAPPING
RHYTHMICALLY)

(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)