Love Never Dies Page #5

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 kill 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 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 Daa

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 Daa,

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

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