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AUCTIONEER
Sold. Your number, sir? Thank you. 665, ladies and gentlemen: a papier-mache musical box, in the shape of a barrel-organ. Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals. This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre, still in working order. PORTER (holding it up) Showing here. (He sets it in motion) AUCTIONEER My I start at twenty francs? Fifteen, then? Fifteen I am bid. (the bidding continues. RAOUL. eventually buys the box for thirty francs) Sold, for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny. Thank you, sir. (The box is handed across to RAOUL. He studies it, as attention focuses on him for a moment) RAOUL (quietly, half to himself, half to the box) A collector's piece indeed . . . every detail exactly as she said . . . She often spoke of you, my friend .... Your velvet lining, and your figurine of lead... Will you still play, when all the rest of us are dead? (Attention returns to the AUCTIONEER, as he resumes) AUCTIONEER Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: a mystery never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted up parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of what it may look like when re- assembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen? |
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| 3. |
| 0:38 |
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| 4. |
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| 3:54 |
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| 6. |
| 1:44 |
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| 4:20 |
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| 4:33 |
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| 2:28 |
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| 10. |
| 1:50 |
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| 11. |
| 2:29 |
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| 12. |
| 4:33 |
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Love's a curious thing
It often comes disguised Look at love the wrong way It goes un-recognized So look with your heart And not with your eyes A heart understands A 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 Mother 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 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 |
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| 13. |
| 7:33 |
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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? 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 That night Once there was a night beneath a moonless sky Too dark to see a thing, too dark to even try 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 And I felt you And I heard those ravishing refrains The music of the past 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 At last our feelings bared Beneath a 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 just 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 caressed you With a need too blatant to deny And nothing mattered then Except for you and I Again and then again Beneath a 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 a moonless sky 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 And I loved you (How I loved you) And I left you (And I loved you) And I had you, 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 |
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| 2:51 |
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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 Worried 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 |
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| 1:16 |
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| 16. |
| 6:12 |
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5, 6, a-5, 6, 7, 8
Bathing beauty, on the beach Bathing beauty, say hello What a cutie, what a peach Bathing beauty, watch her go (Alright, Meg, take 5, girls, take it one more time) Bathing beauty, on the beach Very nice, Meg Do you think so, mother, really? You've come a long way since the beginning of the season Does he agree? It's been three months, he never comes to see the show Even a word from him, just one You may get more than that He has been composing again, late at night Not this cheap Vaudeville trash, something glorious For, for me? Continue to work hard Make yourself useful to him Mother Patience, Gustave, first I must find the stage manager My dressing room, the musical director Then we'll go look for our friend and go see the island? I'm sure he'll send for you when he's ready Well, excuse me, miss, would you mind? 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 So glad you came You look sublime You look the same My sweet old friend Never thought we'd meet, old friend Look at you, a star And you, a wife And isn't life a splendid thing? And here we are To see the sights And sing To sing? And of course, as a treat for my son Meg, meet Gustave Who hired you to sing here? You It can't be you Is this a jest? How can this be? We've come to work At whose request? The contract's here I want to see My God, the price It's rather high Why, it's absurd Oh, yes, I know Inform your boss That by the by The fee goes up Or else we go My dear old friend Here's how things appear, old friend He who pays the bill Times two or three Be sure he will And handsomely And dear old friend Now that we are clear, old friend That's all very well but till you're gone You'll wait upon my boss' whim Ah, yes, your boss and who is that? It's him Sorry, did I hear you right? Here to sing Tomorrow night? I'm afraid there must be some mistake You can't be performing Why? Mainly, dear 'cause so am I I'm in fact the star, for heaven's sake What are you to sing? Just one little thing, an aria Please you needn't fret I'm sure you will get your due Him? That's what I said You work for him? Now so do you And my poor wife We thought him dead She'll be appalled Unless she knew Darling, please, are you alright? (Tell me now, that music, who was its creator?) Darling, please don't squeeze so tight (Something's going on here, I'll deal with you later) Did you know? How could I know Why would they come? Why won't they go? My dear old friend Can't believe you're here, old friend Speaking as your host As an artist What a surprise To say the least 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 You mustn't stay Why would I leave? Why are we here? Don't play naive What dear old friends Don't we all live here, old friends? Nothing has been changed And never will Just rearranged And yet we're still Such grand old friends Such devoted and old friends Words cannot suggest What's in my heart And for the rest Why even start? My dear old friends So much longer near, old friends Back again at last When everyone Is doing great Won't this be fun? With dear old friends Utterly sincere old friends Honey, break a leg Madame, good day Enjoy your stay Hope it extends So glad you're here A lovely dear old friend Old friend Gustave, Gustave, Gustave? Must we always be chasing after the boy? I promise you, when I find him No, I will look for him Break's over, mate, back to work A-5, 6, 7, 8 Bathing beauty, on the beach Bathing beauty, say hello What a cutie, what a peach Bathing beauty, watch her go |
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| 3:32 |
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Who are you, where are you taking me?
I'm Miss Fleck The Mighty Squelch Doctor Gangle At your service And his 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 Is this where Mr. Y lives? This is where he works Step lively, child He is waiting What is this place? This is my realm, illusion's domain Where music and beauty and art are first rate Go look around while I finish my work May I? What's this? Just a song I have made Go on I think it's beautiful Beautiful, beautiful notes Beautiful, beautiful sounds Don't you agree? It's beautiful This boy So very beautiful This music Music that comes on control He plays like me Floating and lovely and bold He's just 10 years old 10 years old My God, my God |
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| 4:36 |
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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 served And surrendered to the urge? Have been hooked as you looked at the 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 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 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 all so beautiful Can it be? Almost too beautiful Do you see what I see? 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 the lift (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 (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 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 |
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Gustave, it's alright, it's me
Gustave, please take him away I'm so sorry Please forgive him, he meant no harm How could you think I wouldn't guess? What do you mean? How could you think I wouldn't know? Oh, no Do you have something to confess? Please don't make me I want the truth right now, if so 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 time 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 Our son Just live My son Just give what I could give And take what little I deserve My own flesh and blood And even he recoils in horror from me Just like his mother Forgive me, I beg you, if you can I've brought you nothing but woe Tomorrow night, I'll sing with all my might Sing for you again, then we'll go 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 our boy 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 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 is now torn All of the love that we gave him was worn All would be ours If that bastard had never been born |
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Monsieur Firmin
Monsieur Andre Dear Andre, what a splendid party The prelude to a bright new year Quite a night, I'm impressed Well, one does one's best Here's to us I must say all the same, that it's a shame That Phantom fellow isn't here |
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| 6:39 |
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One more
Oh, buddy, don't you think you've had enough? It's practically morning already One more, I said Alright, alright My shift is over anyway, so let's settle the bill, okay? Jeez, you're in a bad way ain't you? Worse than most that end up here Here's the morning shift, maybe he'll know what to do with you 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 off 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 Do 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 Mother said, I'd find you here Miss Giry Do you know where you are? Hell, I imagine 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 The good place to step off the side Of the pier and quietly vanish You seem to be a regular 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 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 Leave? What about tonight? The concert, the money? Am I to just run away from him? 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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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 Not afraid of me, you say? Stay back or I'll kill you, I promise you 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 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 debt's wiped away Very well, let's begin Devil take the hindmost You think you have the odds (Our old game) You think you're in control (It's been changed) You think you've fixed the dice (Every throw) Well, I will gladly roll (Risking her) I'll bet against the house (All the rules) I'll even double down (Rearranged) (Fate has redesigned those) Fortune's on my side I won her long ago (Cut the deck) I won her from you then (Let us play) I beat you even now (Roll your die) I'll win her back again (Once again) (In the end) And when the game is done Either way 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, different, musical Huh? Is he more you or me? Which one do you find most? You lie 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) Wins it all 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) Wins it all Devil take the hindmost She walks, you leave together Pockets full, debts paid She sings, you leave alone Devil take the hindmost Oh, my God What have I done? Look at me The concert's only hours away |
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| 2:28 |
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| 2:55 |
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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 Not afraid of me, you say? Stay back or I'll kill you, I promise you 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 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 debt's wiped away Very well, let's begin Devil take the hindmost You think you have the odds (Our old game) You think you're in control (It's been changed) You think you've fixed the dice (Every throw) Well, I will gladly roll (Risking her) I'll bet against the house (All the rules) I'll even double down (Rearranged) (Fate has redesigned those) Fortune's on my side I won her long ago (Cut the deck) I won her from you then (Let us play) I beat you even now (Roll your die) I'll win her back again (Once again) (In the end) And when the game is done Either way 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, different, musical Huh? Is he more you or me? Which one do you find most? You lie 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) Wins it all 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) Wins it all Devil take the hindmost She walks, you leave together Pockets full, debts paid She sings, you leave alone Devil take the hindmost Oh, my God What have I done? Look at me The concert's only hours away |
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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 Love may be fleeting Love lives on Love may be fleeting Love lives on |
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