Coney Island, 1891

Entr' Acte

Why Does She Love Me?

Devil Take the Hindmost

RAOUL:

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!

PHANTOM:

Not afraid of me, you say?

RAOUL:

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

PHANTOM:

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 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

PHANTOM & RAOUL:

Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL (in counterpoint):

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

PHANTOM (in counterpoint):

Our whole game, it's been changed

Every throw, riskier

All the rules, rearranged

Fate has re-designed most

RAOUL (in counterpoint):

Fortune's on my side

I won her long ago!

I won her from you then

I'll wager even now

I'll win her back again

And when the game is done

PHANTOM (in counterpoint):

Cut the deck, let us play

Roll the die, once again

In the end

Either way!

PHANTOM & RAOUL:

Devil take the hindmost!

Now Christine shall choose at last

Is she yours or mine?

RAOUL:

We've a son, a 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

Different, musical

RAOUL:

Huh?

PHANTOM:

Is he more you or me?

Which one do you find most?

RAOUL (in counterpoint):

You lie!

I call your bluff, the game is on

And we will see, who wins out

Once and for all

PHANTOM (in counterpoint):

Deal the cards, let them fall

Choose your hand, try your best

He who wins

PHANTOM & RAOUL:

Wins it all!

Devil take the hindmost

RAOUL (in counterpoint):

You lie!

I call your bluff, the game is on

And we will see, who wins out

Once and for all

PHANTOM (in counterpoint):

Deal the cards, let them fall

Choose your hand, try your best

He who wins

Phantom & Raoul:

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:

My God, what have I done? Look at me, the concert's only hours away...

Heaven by the Sea (Reprise)

ALL:

It's the last day of the season

And there ain't a single cloud

What a day to leave the city on a spree

Away from all the hustle and the bustle and the crowd

On a little slice of heaven by the sea

It's the last day of the season to indulge

(Forget the factory and the scrum)

To be rested and relaxed and fancy free

(One day more then back to work)

To flee from all the bother and the hassle and the noise

MAN:

With your lady

WOMAN:

And your fella

COUPLE:

And your kids and your umbrella

ALL:

On a little slice of heaven by the sea

The surf, the sand, the breeze, the food,

The peace and calm, the restful mood,

Amid the sea and spray

The city falls away

The sun (the sun), the sea (the sea), the salty air,

The miles (the miles) of beach (of beach) with room to spare,

MAN:

And the pretzels

WOMAN:

And the custard

MAN 1:

And the girls!

MAN 2:

The francs!

MAN 3:

The mustard!

WOMAN 1:

And the tanning!

WOMAN 2:

And the lotion!

WOMAN 3:

And the pier,

MAN 1:

The beer,

MAN 2:

The ocean,

WOMAN:

And the oysters,

MAN:

And the pickles,

MAN 2:

And the knockers,

MAN 3:

And the steamers,

ALL:

It's a little slice of heaven by the sea

What a treat to get away

From the frantic and the fray

All the cluster and the fuss

To this placid little beach

Far beyond the city's reach

And it's only for us

What a joy to convalesce

From the city's wild excess

And forget it all like thus

On this sheltered little slice

Of a seaside paradise...

It's the last day of the season

So relax and have a beer

Hurry up, the summer's almost over... 

Ladies...Gents!/The Coney Island Waltz (Reprise) 

Bathing Beauty

SQUELCH:

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Mr. Y is pleased to present to you, his final surprise of the season!

GANGLE:

A command performance by Christine Daaé, the most heavenly diva of this, or any, age!

FLECK:

But first for those of you whose taste is a little more earth bound!

SQUELCH:

The sweet heart of the mid way!

GANGLE:

The Ooh-La-La girl!

FLECK:

The incomparable!

ALL THREE:

Meg Giry!

MEG:

I took a little trip to Coney Island,

To get away from all the city sprawl,

I couldn't bare 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

GIRLS:

Uh oh!

MEG:

And so I asked my friends to lend a hand. Girls?

GIRLS:

Ahhhh, ooooooh,

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,

Hosing under her parasol she is what you call a real spectacle,

Prim and proper with class and poise

She's got the boys apoplectical.

Bathing beauty on the beach see her practically glow

Wearing a smile and givin' Coney Island

A bathing beaut of the show!

Bathing beauty on the beach

MEG:

Stripes!

GIRLS:

Ohhhhhh! What a cutie?! What a peach?!

MEG:

Spots!

GIRLS:

Ohhhhhh! Bathing beauty (laughing) Bathing beauty (ohhhh!)

MEG & GIRLS:

Checks? Checks! Checks? Checks! Checks? CHECKS!

MEG:

Oops!

GIRLS:

Bathing beauty on the beach see her practically glow!

Taking in sun and send the boys a-runnin'

Rollin' in clover and gettin' tan all over

Wearing a smile and givin' Coney Island

A bathing beaut of the show!

Bathing beauty say...

MEG:

Hello!

(applause)

GANGLE:

Lady and gents, Meg Giry, the Ooh-La-La Girl!

In just a few moments Christine Daae the world's most celebrated song bird will be making her American debut here at Phantasma! But first performing fits of fantastic muscular strengths the Mighty Squelch.

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 the crowd

Why they've never been so loud

Screaming only for me.

MADAME GIRY:

Meg-

MEG:

And the Master must have heard

Every note and every word

Mother, tell me, did he see?

MADAME GIRY:

Meg, stop it-

MEG:

Even he will now concede

I'm the only one he'll need.

Mother what's wrong?

MADAME GIRY:

Meg, sweet fool, you did all that you could

Charming, bright and yet still not enough

Meg: What? What do you mean?

MADAME GIRY:

How you danced

They're all entranced

Yes

All but the one whose entrancement we sought

MEG:

He wasn't there?

MADAME GIRY:

Where poor girl, do you think that he was?

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

MEG:

With Christine?

MADAME GIRY:

Dreaming of their child, they're love

Too smitten to give you one moment of thought-

MEG:

But you said-

MADAME GIRY:

All that you gave him, it's all been a waste-

MEG:

You're wrong!

MADAME GIRY:

All that you've done it has all been erased

MEG:

Don't say that!

MADAME GIRY:

Now he has them,

As for us,

We have both been replaced

MEG:

No!

Before the Performance

CHRISTINE (spoken):

Gustave, could you hand me those earrings? The diamond ones 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 (spoken):

Father! Doesn't Mother look lovely tonight?

RAOUL (spoken):

Indeed she does. As lovely as she looked the very first time I came to her dressing room door.

CHRISTINE (spoken):

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 a while?

GUSTAVE (spoken):

May I go exploring? By myself?

CHRISTINE:

Yes, but stay back stage my dear.

When I'm finished meet me here.

GUSTAVE (spoken):

I will.

RAOUL:

Since our wedding day

Things have gone astray

CHRISTINE (spoken):

Raoul-

RAOUL:

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

CHRISTINE (spoken):

We've both been-

RAOUL:

The demands I've made

All the hopes mislaid

I'm aware of the price they've exacted.

Though I have 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 (spoken):

Anything, darling

RAOUL:

Don't sing the song, dear

CHRISTINE (spoken):

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 spawn 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 (spoken):

Do you mean it Raoul? Truly?

RAOUL (spoken):

I've booked a passage for three on the Atlantic Queen. It leaves in an hour, we'll have just enough time. I beg you. Let's be on it. For both our sakes and the child's.

(sung)

Leave this place behind.

PHANTOM:

He knows his love is not enough

He knows he isn't what you need

He knows 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'll you 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 full

Seal our bond forever more

Tonight, for me,

Embrace your destiny.

Let me hear you sing

Once more.

(spoken)

STAGEHAND:

Miss Daaé, it´s time

CHRISTINE (sung):

Twisted in every way

What answer can I give?

I know I can't refuse

And yet I wish I could

Oh God

RAOUL (offstage):

Christine, Christine

Don't think that I don´t care

PHANTOM:

But every hope and every prayer

Rests on you now.

Devil Take the Hindmost (Quartet)

RAOUL:

Will she sing?

Will she flee?

What is she

thinking now?

Is it him?

Is it me?

Devil take the hindmost.

STAGEHAND 1 (spoken):

Ready on the floor?

STAGEHAND 2 (spoken):

Ready on the floor!

(Overlapping)

RAOUL (in counterpoint):

Will she stay?

Will she go?

Does she know

Even know?

Please Christine

Stop the show

PHANTOM (in counterpoint):

Obey your heart

And sing for me

You want it so

Stay and be mine

Eternally

BOTH:

Devil take the hindmost.

Now it's time

To make your choice

Do it for our son

PHANTOM:

Use your head

RAOUL:

No time to wait

BOTH:

Hesitate

We're all undone

STAGEHAND 1 (spoken):

Ready in the pit?

STAGEHAND 2 (spoken):

Ready in the pit!

(Overlapping)

MADAME GIRY (in counterpoint):

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

Will get what we deserve

RAOUL (in counterpoint):

Will she stay?

Will she go?

Does she know

Even know?

Please Christine

Stop the show

PHANTOM (in counterpoint):

Obey your heart

And sing for me

And sing for me

Give me the child

Eternally

ALL:

Devil take the hindmost.

(Repeat)

ALL:

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.

MADAME GIRY (spoken):

I hope Christine is worthy of you. I hope her singing makes up for what your blindness has done to Meg and me.

MEG:

Devil take the hindmost.

Love Never Dies

CHRISTINE:

Who knows when love begins

Who knows what makes it start

One day it's simply there

Alive inside 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

Much bigger 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!

Love lives on!

Ah, Christine...!

PHANTOM:

Ah, Christine, my Christine,

What a triumph you gave me tonight

My Christine, all the dark silent years now set right, ah Christine

CHRISTINE:

The song was beautiful, it sounded beautiful

Every note, every word

And it felt beautiful, and I felt beautiful

PHANTOM & CHRISTINE:

Lost in the music once more

Feeling it rise up and soar

Alive once again!

CHRISTINE:

My dearest wife...

RAOUL:

Little Lotte, I beg you, forgive me

CHRISTINE:

Raoul, no!

RAOUL:

Little Lotte, ah, what fools we once were

CHRISTINE & RAOUL:

Long ago in our youth

CHRISTINE:

In Paris, at the opera

RAOUL:

Romantic idiot...

CHRISTINE:

Those two people are gone

RAOUL & CHRISTINE:

Now I must go, our choices are made

The opera is done; the last notes have been played

RAOUL:

May your angel of music watch over you now

And give you what I wish I gave you somehow

Yours, in regret

CHRISTINE:

Raoul.

Gustave! Gustave!

CHRISTINE:

Gustave...

PHANTOM:

What is it?

CHRISTINE:

Gustave

PHANTOM:

What's wrong?

CHRISTINE:

Gustave!

PHANTOM:

What's wrong?!

CHRISTINE:

He should be here, he was meant to be here!

PHANTOM:

It's that idiot Raoul,

Why I'll kill that drunken fool!

That he dare take this child

A child that isn't his

Mr. Squelch!

SQUELCH:

Sir?

PHANTOM:

Seal the port, blockade each road

Call in every favour that I'm owed

I'll be damned if he leaves this isle!

SQUELCH:

The Vicomte de Chagney left here in a carriage

Saw with my own eyes, sir

There was no one with him

PHANTOM:

Are you quite certain he left here alone?

SQUELCH:

Sir, was there anyone else here backstage?

PHANTOM:

Yes. Yes...

Madame Giry, she was here, with her vicious little sneer

And that comment she made

The ungrateful back-biting snake!

She's been greedy, yes indeed,

She'll get hers now guaranteed!

Go now, quickly, bring her round

Bring the boy back safe and sound

Then I'll tear her limb from limb!

MADAME GIRY:

What is the meaning of this? How dare your minions manhandle me in this fashion? I demand an answer.

PHANTOM:

The boy woman! What have you done with him?

MADAME GIRY:

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?

All these years,

Who has been faithful more than I? No one!

PHANTOM:

Giry!

MADAME GIRY:

All these years,

How can you think I'd hurt that child?

PHANTOM:

My patience is running dry!

MADAME GIRY:

All these years, I've been mother to you and Christine as much as my daughter

PHANTOM:

Enough!

MADAME GIRY:

Do you think I don't know it hurts to see one's own child brought to harm?

PHANTOM:

Gustave! Gustave! Gustave!

FLECK:

Sir

I just passed Meg's dressing room

It was empty as a tomb

But her mirror was smashed all in pieces on the floor

PHANTOM:

Meg!

MADAME GIRY:

My god...

FLECK:

And I saw her down the hall

Pulling someone pale and small

And she looked all about

And then scurried out the door

MADAME GIRY:

God, I left her so distraught

Please, who knows just what she thought

I'm afraid she's come undone

But she won't hurt him

Meg would never hurt him

How could she hurt him?

PHANTOM:

I know where they've gone. But we must hurry!

MADAME GIRY:

In that crowd? There are millions of people out there!

CHRISTINE:

Gustave...my poor Gustave...

PHANTOM:

There's no time to waste!

CHRISTINE:

Gustave! Gustave! Gustave!

PHANTOM:

You there! Stop!

CHRISTINE:

That's not him!

MADAME GIRY:

Meg!

PHANTOM:

I think I see them; this way!

CHRISTINE:

Gustave is that -- I'm so sorry!

MADAME GIRY:

Meg, please! It's okay!

PHANTOM:

To the pier, now! Hurry!

Please, Miss Giry, I Want to Go Back!.../Finale

GUSTAVE:

Please, Miss Giry

I want to go back!

I want my mother!

MEG:

The world is hard

The world is mean

It's hard to keep

Your conscience clean

GUSTAVE:

(Please, you're hurting me!)

MEG:

The sea is calm

The sea is gray

It washes everything away

GUSTAVE:

(I can't swim!)

MEG:

(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!)

GUSTAVE:

(Mother!)

MEG:

(No, I'm not done yet!)

PHANTOM:

(Let go of the boy, now!)

MEG:

Not another step

PHANTOM:

(Let go of him, girl, or I promise you - !)

MEG:

(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

MADAME GIRY:

Meg, my little Meg...

PHANTOM:

(What are you saying?)

MEG:

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 your favor?

Who kept dancing, hoping you would save her?

Who kept dying?

And this is what you gave her?

Now that I've got your attention at last

Here's the big finish, and then you can go!

PHANTOM:

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

MEG:

See me clear at last

PHANTOM:

You feel ugly, you feel used

You feel broken, you feel bruised

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

MEG:

(Yes...)

PHANTOM:

You've been robbed of love and pride

Been ignored and pushed aside

Even so, I still know there is beauty underneath

MEG:

(Yes...)

PHANTOM:

Diamonds never sparkle bright

If they aren't set just right

Beauty sometimes goes unseen

We can't all be like Christine

MEG:

(Christine, Christine... Always Christine!)

(Meg fires the gun and shoots Christine)

(No, I didn't mean to!)

GUSTAVE:

(Mother dear! Say something!

Say anything!)

PHANTOM:

(Giry, go get help! Go!)

GUSTAVE:

(Where's Papa? He should be here! Where's Papa?)

CHRISTINE:

(Gustave!)

(she turns to Phantom)

(Forgive me!)

PHANTOM:

(No!)

CHRISTINE:

Your father, your real father...

Look with your heart,
And not with your eyes.
The heart understands
A heart never lies.
Believe what it feels,
And trust what it shows.
Look with your heart,
The heart always knows.
Love's not always beautiful
Not at the start
So open your heart,
And close your eyes tight.
Look with your heart,
And when you find love...

GUSTAVE:

No!

CHRISTINE:

Gustave!

PHANTOM:

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?

CHRISTINE:

Just love, just live

And give what we can give

And take the love that you deserve

CHRISTINE & PHANTOM:

Just love, just live

PHANTOM:

And give all that I have

And take what little I deserve

CHRISTINE:

Come closer, I beg you

Closer still

Remember love never dies

Kiss me one last time...