Love never dies

Arrival of the Trio

GFS = Gangle, Fleck, Squelch, or some combination. I can't tell which is which.

Sp = Spectator (member of the crowd)

R = Raoul

Gu = Gustave (I think?)

GFS: Are you ready to begin? Are you ready to get on?

You're about to start out on the journey of your life.

R: Is this some kind of joke?

Sp: Nah, it's a publicity stunt for that freak show on Coney.

Sp: It's a front-page feature is what it is. You gettin' this, [name]?

Sp: You betcha.

GFS: If you're ready then get in, once you're in then we'll get gone

And who knows once it goes where you'll be when it arrives?

R: This is outrageous!

[crowd noises]

Sp: It's amazing!

Sp: Brilliant!

Sp: I'm telling you, that Mr. Y chap's an absolute genius.

GFS: It's a funhouse where the mirrors all reflect what's real

And reality's as twisted as the mirrors reveal

And the fun is finding out what the mirrors show

R: This is unacceptable! Do you hear me? I will be taking this up with your employer, whoever he is.

Gu: Everything and everyone, it's so just how I dreamed

All the freaks and all the fun, exactly how I dreamed

And Phantasma still awaits

I wonder what's behind its gates

Sp: That was somethin', wasn't it?

Sp: Eh, I was hopin' she'd sing. Caruso sang half of Pagliacci for us when he got off the boat.

Sp: Eh, I bet she ain't got it no more. Not like the old days. Oh sure, she's pitch-perfect, but empty inside. Like a plane[?]

without a [?]

Sp: Look! It's the Rockefellers!

[crowd noises]

Company

Name of report 3

Look With Your Heart

Christine:

Love's a curious thing

It often comes disguised

Look at love the wrong way

It goes unrecognised.

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

Gustave:

(Spoken) Mother...

(sung)

Look with your heart

And not with your eyes

The heart can't be fooled

Christine:

The heart is too wise

Gustave:

Forget what you think

Christine:

Ignore what you hear

Both:

Look with your heart

It always Sees clear

Gustave:

Love is not always beautiful

Not at the start

Christine:

But open your arms

Company

Name of report 5

and close your eyes tight

Look with your heart

And when it finds love

Your heart will be right.

Company

Name of report 6

Beneath a Moonless Sky

P is Phantom, C is Christine, and B is both.

C: I should have known that you’d be here

I should have known it all along

This whole arrangement bears your stamp

You’re in each measure of that song.

How dare you try and claim me now?

How dare you come invade my life?

P: Oh, Christine. My Christine.

In that time when the world thought me dead

My Christine, on that night just before you were wed

Ah, Christine. You came and found where I hid

Don’t you deny that you did, that long ago night

C: That night...

P: Once there was a night, beneath a moonless sky

Too dark to see a thing, too dark to even try

C: I strode to your side to tell you I must go

I couldn’t see your face, but sensed you even so

And I touched you,

P: And I felt you

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B: And I heard those ravishing refrains

C: The music of the past

P: The singing of your veins

C: And I held you

P: And I touched you

C: And embraced you

P: And I felt you

B: And with every breath and every sigh

C: I felt no longer scared

P: I felt no longer shy

Both: At last our feelings bared beneath a moonless sky

C: And blind in the dark, as soul gazed into soul

I looked into your heart and saw you pure and whole

P: Cloaked under the night with nothing to suppress

A woman and a man

No more, and yet no less

And I kissed you

C: And caressed you

Both: And the world around just fell way.

We said things in the dark we never dared to say.

P: And I caught you

C: And I kissed you

P: And I took you

C: And caressed you

Both: With a need to blatant to deny

And nothing mattered then

Except for you and I

Again and then again beneath a moonless sky

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P: 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 a moonless sky

C: And I loved you, yes I loved you

I’d have followed anywhere you left

I woke to swear my love

and found you gone instead

P: And I loved you and I left you

C: How I loved you!

P: And I had you, both of us knew why

C: We both knew why

Both: And yet I won’t regret from now until I die

The night I can’t forget

Beneath a moonless sky

P: And now

C: How can you talk of now?

For us, there is no now.

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Dear Old Friend

*Bathing Beauty rehearsal*

*Meg and Mme Giry talk about Meg getting better parts*

G: Mother

C: Patience, Gustave. First I must find the stage manager, my dressing room, the musical director

G: Then we'll go look for our friend? And go see the island?

C: I'm sure he'll send for you when he's ready. Excuse me, miss, would you mind?

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

C: Sorry, do I?

M: Yes, I think you do

C: Have we?

M: Go on, take a guess!

C: Wait it can't be, is it?

M: Yes!

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

M: Look at you Christine, regal as a queen and beautiful!

C: Meg, and you as well - I couldn't hardly tell it's you!

Both: My dear old friend,

can't believe you're here old friend

C: After all this time

M: So glad you came

C: You look sublime

M: You look the same

Both: My sweet old friend never thought we'd meet old friend

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C: Look at you, a star

M: And you a wife!

Both: And isn't life a splendid thing!

C: And here we are

M: To see the sights

C: And sing!

M: sing?

C: and of course as a treat for my son. Meg, meet Gustave.

M: Who hired you to sing here?

R: You.

Giry: It can't be you

R: Is this a jest?

Giry: How can this be?

R: We've come to work

Giry: At whose request?

R: The contract's here

Giry: I want to see. My God, the price

R: It's rather high

Giry: Why, it's absurd!

R: Why yes, I know. Inform your boss, that by the by, the fee goes up or else we go

Both: My dear old friend, yet how things appear old friend

Giry: He who pays the bill

R: Times two or three

Giry: Be sure he will

R: And handsomely

Both: And dear old friend, now tat we are clear old friend

Giry: That's all very well, but till you're gone you'll wait upon my boss' whim

R: Ah yes, your boss. And who is that?

Giry: It's HIM.

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M: Sorry, did I hear you right? Here to sing tomorrow night? I'm afraid there must be some mistake. You can't be

performing-

C: Why?

M: Mainly, dear, 'cause so am I. I'm in fact the star for heaven's sake. What are you to sing?

C: Just one little thing, an aria. Please you needn't fret, I'm sure you will get your due.

R: Him?

Giry: That's what I said

R: You work for him?

Giry: Now so do you

R: My poor wife. We thought him dead. She'll be appalled.

Giry: Unless she knew.

C: Darling, please are you alright?

R: That music - who was its creator?

C: Darling, please don't squeeze so tight

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

M: Did you know?

Giry: How could I know? Why would they come?

M: Why won't they go?

All: My dear old friend, can't believe you're here old friend

Giry: Speaking as your host

M: As an artist

C: What a surprise!

R: To say the least

All: Yes dear old friend, that's a happy tear old friend. I can't conceal, try though I may the way I feel, so I pretend. I'm sure

it's clear to such a dear old friend

Giry: You mustn't stay

C: Why would I leave?

R: Why are we here?

M: Don't play naive.

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All: What dear old friends, don't we all live here old friends

R: Nothing has been changed

M: And never will

Giry: Just rearranged, and yet we're still

All: Such grand old friends, such devoted and old friends. Words can not suggest what's in my heart, and for the rest why

even start?

My dear old friends, so much longer near

Back again at last

When everyone is doing great

Won't this be fun?

With dear old friends, utterly sincere old friends

M: Honey, break a leg

R: Madame good day

Giry: Enjoy your stay

C: Hope it extends

All: So glad you're here, a lovely dear old friend - old friend!

C: Gustave? Gustave?

R: Must we always be chasing after the boy? I promise you, when I find him

C: No! I'll find him

*more bathing beauty rehearsals*

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Beautiful

G= Gustave

F= Fleck

S= Squelch

P= Phantom

G: Who are you? Where are you taking me?

F: I'm miss Fleck

S: The mighty Squelch

Gangle: Doctor Gangle

All: At your service.

F: And his.

(I can't tell them all apart, so here's what they say)

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.

G: Is this where Mr. Y lives?

S: This is where he woks.

F: Step lively, child.

Gangle: He is waiting.

*Don Juan theme plays*

G: What is this place?

P: This is my realm, illusion's domain. Where music and beauty and art are for-swain. Go look around while I finish my work.

G: May I? *plays piano*

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P: What's this?

G: Just a song I have made

P: Go on.

G: I think it's beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful notes. Beautiful beautiful sounds. Don't you agree? It's beautiful

P: This boy...

G: So very beautiful

P: This music...

G: Music that (can't understand)

P: He plays like me

G: Floating and lovely and all

P: He's just 10 years old. 10 years old! My God. My GOD!

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The Beauty Underneath

P= Phantom

G= Gustave

badass guitar intro

P: 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 he beauty underneath?

When the night unfolds its wings

Do you sense the strangest things?

Things no one would ever guess

Things mere words can not express?

Gustave: Yes!

P: 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 served

And surrendered to the urge?

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Have been hooked as you looked at the

When you stare behind the night

Can you glimpse its primal might?

Might you hunger to possess

Hunger that you can't repress

G: Yes!

It seems so beautiful

So strange yet beautiful

Everything's just as you say

P: And he's so beautiful

Perhaps too beautiful

What I suspect can not be

And yet somehow, we both see

The very same thing

G: It's the 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

Both: 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

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G: It seems so beautiful

P: Can it be?

G: Almost too beautiful

Both: Do you see what I see?

P: To him it's beautiful. My world is beautiful

G: How can this be what it seems?

B: All of my most secret dreams somehow set free!

P: You can feel the lift, (yes) come closer (yes)

Have 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 (yes), and the glory (yes)

To the truth of the beauty underneath

You'll accept it (yes), you'll embrace it (yes)

Let me show you the beauty underneath

To the splendor and the glory

To the truth of the beauty underneath

You'll accept it (yes) you'll embrace it (yes)

Let me show you the beauty under -

SCREAM as Gustave takes off the Phantom's mask

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The Phantom Confronts Christine

C: GUSTAVE! It's alright, it's me! Gustave... please take him away. I'm so sorry... Please forgive him, he meant no harm...

P: How could you think I wouldn't guess?

C: What do you mean?

P: How could you think I wouldn't know?

C: Oh no...

P: Do you have something to confess?

C: Don't make me!

P: I want the truth, right now, if so!

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C: Once upon another time, you went off and left me alone... but that's not all you did... You left me with a son. / Ever since

that other night, I wished, how I wished you'd have known! I kept the secret hid... the secret my marriage forbid! What else

could I have done? Just live,

P: A son...

C: Just live

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P: A son...

C: Just give what I could give... and take what little I deserve...

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P: (spoken) My own flesh and blood... and even he recoils in horror from me... ... ... just like his mother.

C: Forgive me, I beg you, if you can. I've brought you nothing but war(?)! Tomorrow night, I'll sing with all my might! Sing for

you again!

(spoken) And we'll go.

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P: 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

shall he be my saving grace!

Oh Christine, my Christine, if it's true, I've no reason to live... then Christine, then the boy shall have I all I can give! Ah,

Christine! All I create on this earth... all I that I'll never be worth... all shall be his!

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And then there's Mme. Giry's part

Anyone correct me if I made a mistake, this is just what I heard and I typed down the lyrics.

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And DAMMIT, Ramin has a good voice. And so does Sierra.

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WHY DOES SHE LOVE ME

Raoul: One more.

Bartender: Oh, buddy, don't you think you've had enough? It's practically morning already.

Raoul: One more, I said!

Bartender: All, right, all right. My shift is over anyway, so let's settle the bill, ok? Jeez, you're in a bad way aren't you? Worse

than most that end up here. Here's the morning shift - maybe he'll know what to do with you.

Raoul: 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

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Why does she love me?

One more drink, sir. That's what I need don't you think, sir? Leave the hurt behind.

Do you hear me? Another drink!

She wants the man I was

Husband and father

At least she thinks 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. Mother said I'd find you here.

Raoul: Miss Giry...

Meg: Do you know where you are?

R: Hell, I imagine

M: Around here they call it suicide hall. It's where people end up when they don't know where else to go. The hopeless, the

desperate. Good place to step off the side of the pier and quietly vanish.

R: You seem to be a regular.

M: Me? I come here to swim

This town is coarse and cold and mean

It's hard to keep your conscience clean

Faceless in the crowd

Anything's allowed

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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

You should never have come to America. It's not a place for people like you and Christine. It's too easy to forget who you

are and where you belong. That's why Mother says you must leave here. Now. Take your wife and the boy and go.

R: Leave? What about tonight? The concert, the money? Am I to just run away from him?

M: When the sun rises tomorrow we can all start again. Clean.

Sail across the sea

Put us out of mind

Close your eyes and flee

Let yourself stay blind

Leave this place behind

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Devil Take the Hindmost

P= Phantom

R= Raoul

R: Miss Giry, I'm not afraid of him. I've bested him before and if he ever had the courage to meet me face to face, man to

man...

No, no it can't be.

P: Not afraid of me, you say?

R: Stay back or I'll kill you, I promise you!

P: Of course. As you say, you've beaten me before, but that was a long time ago, Vicomte. And we were playing a different

game.

Look at you, deep in debt

Stinking drunk - pitiful

Shall we two make a bet?

Devil take he hindmost

R: Look at you, foul as sin

Hideous - horrible

Call the stakes, deal me in

Devil take the hindmost

P: Our Christine shall choose tonight

R: Let her choose

P: Is she yours or mine?

R: Draw the line

P: If she sings you lose tonight

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R: I won't lose

P: You leave from here

R: Fine!

P: Disappear

R: Fine! And if she won't, if I win

P: All your debts wiped away

R: Very well, let's begin

Both: Devil take the hindmost

(simultaneously)

R: You think you have the odds

You think you're in control

You think you've fixed the dice

Well I will gladly roll

I'll bet against the house

I'll even double down

P: Our game, it's been changed

Evey throw risking her

All the rules rearranged

Fate has redesigned those

R: Fortune's on my side

I won her long ago, I won her from you then

I beat you even now, I'll win her back again

P: Cut the deck, let us play

Roll your die once again

Both: And when the game is done, either way,

Devil take the hindmost

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Now Christine shall choose at last

Is she yours or mine?

R: We've a son - our bond's secure

P: Are you sure?

R: What?

P: Are you so sure?

R: What do you mean?

P: Such a child, strange to see

Different, musical

R: Huh?

P: Is he more you or me?

Which one do you find most?

R: You lie.

(simultaneously)

P: Deal the cards, let them fall

Choose your hand, try your best

He who wins, wins it all

R: I call your bluff - the game is on

And we will see who wins

He who runs it out wins it all

Both: Devil take he hindmost

P: Deal the cards, let them fall

Choose your hand, try your best

He who wins wins it all

R: I call your bluff - the game is on

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And we will see who wins out

Both:

He who runs it out wins it all

Devil take the hindmost!

P: She walks, you leave together

Pockets full

Debts paid.

She sings - you leave alone.

Devil take the hindmost.

R: Oh, God. What have I done? Look at me - the concert's only hours away.

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Please, Miss Giry, I want to go back

P= Phantom

C= Christine

G= Gustave

M= Meg

G: Please, Miss Giry, I want to go back. I want my mother.

M: The world is hard, the world is mean. It's hard to keep your conscience clean.

G: Please, you're hurting me!

M: The sea is calm, the sea is gray. It washes everything away.

G: I can't swim!

M: 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...

C: Gustave!

G: Mother!

M: No, I'm not done yet!

P: Let go of the boy now!

M: Not another step.

P: Let go of him, girl, or I promise you -

M: 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

Well, 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

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Giry: Meg, my little Meg

P: What are you saying?

M: Who helped you raise the money?

who helped the permits come through

Who greased the wheels of your high flying deals

Bought you time when the bills came due

Who swayed the local bosses

Curried favor with the press

No, not her

And who kept singing, desperate for you favor

Who kept dancing, hoping you would save her

Who kept dying and this is what you gave her?

Now that I've got you attention at last

Here's the big finish and then you can go

P: Give me the gun, Meg

Give me the hurt and the pain and the gun Meg

Give me the blame for not seeing the things that you've done, Meg. Give me the gun, Meg

Give me the chance to see you clear at last

M: See me clear at last...

P: You feel ugly, you feel used, you feel broken, you feel bruised.

Ah, but me, I can see all the beauty underneath

M: Yes...

P: You've been robbed of love and pride

Been ignored and pushed aside

Even so, I still know thee is beauty underneath

M: Yes...

P: Diamonds never sparkle right

If they aren't set just right

Beauty sometimes goes unseen

We can't all be like Christine

M: Christine. CHRISTINE. Always Christine!

*gun shot*

M: No! I didn't mean to! Mother, there! Say something! Say anything!

P: Giry! Go get help! NOW!

G: Where's Papa? He should be here? Where's Papa?

C: Your father... your real father...

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

G: So open your arms

C: And close your eyes tight

G: Look with your heart

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C: And when you find love (she's starting to struggle to talk)

G: NOOOOOOOO!

P: 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?

C: Just love, just live

And give what we can give

And take the love that you deserve

Both: Just love, just live

And give...

P: All that I have

And take what little I deserve

C: Come closer, I beg you

Closer still

Remember love never dies

Kiss me one last time

*Christine dies, TIHYS melody plays*

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