Love Never Dies Script

Act 2
Raoul
One more

Bartender
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 anyways
So let’s settle the bill
Jeez, you’re in a bad way
Worse than most who come here
Hey, look, it’s the morning shift
Maybe he’ll know what to do with you

Raoul
Yes, what to do with me
That has 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

Meg
Morning Bernie, coffee please
Hurry up before I freeze
I’ll just take it black
Vicomte, fancy meeting you here
Drowning out your sorrows?

Raoul
On the contrary,
Celebrating a reunion with old friends
Friends I long thought dead and buried
And you?

Meg
I’ve been for a swim
This town is coarse and cruel 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

Raoul
Miss Giry?

Meg
What do you think will happen, Vicomte
At the concert?
Have you thought
When he hears her sing again
When she sings

Raoul
Ah, Miss Giry, I wish I knew
But I’m afraid her music has always been somewhat of a mystery to me

Meg
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
Leave the past behind
Raoul
What do you mean
What are you talking about

Meg
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

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 (Raoul)
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)

Raoul
And if she won't, if I win

Phantom
All your debt's wiped away

Raoul
Very well, let's begin

Both
Devil take the hindmost

Raoul (Phantom)
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)

Phantom
Fate has redesigned those

Raoul (Phantom)
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

Phantom
Either way

Both
Devil take the hindmost
Now Christine shall choose at last
Is she yours or mine?

Raoul
We've a son, our bond's secure

Phantom
Are you sure?

Raoul
What?

Phantom
Are you so sure?

Raoul
What do you mean?

Phantom
Such a child, strange to see, talented, musical

Raoul
Huh?
Phantom
Is he more you or me?
Which one do you find most?

Raoul
You lie

Phantom (Raoul)
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

Phantom (Raoul)
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
Phantom
She walks, you leave together
Pockets full, debts paid
She sings, you leave alone
Devil take the Hindmost

Raoul
Good heavens, what have I done
I could loose her forever
My Christine

Squelch
Ladies, Gents

Dr. d
For you, good sir

Ms. F
And you my friends

All
Everyone, time for fun
Starting soon upon our stage
The performance
Of the age
Wonders and astonishments
For your delectation
Phantoms and automotons
For your fascination

Squelch
It will sweep you away

All
Brought from Paris to perform just one day
The beautiful, breathtaking
Christine Daae

Ms. F
But first, for those of you whose taste is a little more earthbound

Squelch
It’s coney Island’s Oh la la girl

Dr. D
The incomparable

All
Meg Giry

Meg
I took a little trip to Coney Island
To get awy from all the city sprawls
I couldn’t bear to choose
Which bathing suit to use
So goodness me, I guess I brought em all
But whe at last I got to Coney Island
And found myself a spot upon the sand
I noticed something strange
There ws no place to change
And so I asked my friends to lend a hand

Dancers
Ah
Ooh

Dancers
Bathing beauty take a look at me
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 you call a real spectacle
Prim and proper with classic poise
But she's got the boys at the plaque to call
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

Meg
Checks

Dancers
Ooh

Male Chorus
What a cutie, what a peach
Meg
Stripes

All
Bathing Beauty
Bathing Beauty

Meg
Dots

Dancers
Dots, Dots, dots, dots

Meg
Dots

All
Bathing Beauty on the beach
See her practically glow
Takin’ a sunnin’

Meg
See all the boys running

All
Rollin’ in clover

Meg
And getting’ tan all over
All
Wearing a smile

Meg
and giving coney Island

All
A bathing beaut of the show
Bathing beauty
Say

Meg
Hello

Dr. D
Meg Giry
In just a few moments
Christine Daae
Will be making her American debut

Meg
Mother, did you watch
Everything is solved
Mother did you see
The new routine
It went so well
I was worried just a touch
That it might have been too much
Just abit, well, rather free
But just listen to the crowd
Why, they’ve neve been so loud
Screaming only for me
And the master must have heard
Every note and every word
Tell me, mother, did he see

Antoinette
Meg, stop it
Meg
Even he will now concede
I’m th only one he’ll need

Antoinette
Meg, sweet fool
You did all that you could
Charming, bright
Yet still not enough
How you dance
They’re all entranced
All but the one whose enchantment we seek

Meg
He wasn’t even there

Antoinette
Where, poor child, do you think that he was
Yes, that’s right
In with her all along

Meg
Christine

Antoinette
Dreamin of their son
Their love
Too smitten to spare you a moment of thought

Meg
Their son
You’re wrong

Antoinette
All that you gave him has all been a waste
All that you gave him has now been erased

Meg
Stop it

Antoinette
Now he has them
As for us
We have both been replaced

Meg
NO
No

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Christine
Gustave, could you pass me those earrings
The sapphire ones
How do I look

Gustave
You look so beautiful
So very beautiful
Like a queen in a book

Christine
You to are beautiful
So very beautiful
Once this performance is through
We’ll spend some time
Just us two
Won’t that be fun

Gustave
Father, doesn’t mother look lovely tonight

Raoul
Indeed she does
As beautiful as the first time I came to her dressing room

Christine
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
Could you wait outside awhile

Gustave
But when’s mother going to sing
We don’t want to miss it

Christine
Go and waith backstage, my dear
Soon, papa will fetch you there
You can both watch from the wings

Raoul
Since our wedding day
Things have gone astray

Christine
Raoul

Raoul
I’m not proud of the way that I’ve acted

Christine
We’ve both been

Raoul
The demands I’ve made
All our hopes mislaid
I’m aware of the price they’ve exacted
Though I’ve no right to ast you to
There’s one thing more I’d have you do
If you love me as I love you

Christine
Anything, Darling

Raoul
Don’t sing the song, dear

Christine
But, Raoul
Raoul
You’ve got to know
Something’s terribly wrong, dear

Christine
But I have to do this
It’s what we agreed to

Raoul
That Hell-spawned 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
Do you mean it, Raoul, truly

Raoul
I booked a passage for three to Carbary
On the “atlantic queen”
Let’s be on it for both our sakes
And the boy
Leave this place behind

Christine
Go and find Gustave
Tell the stage manager not to disturb me
I need some time
Phantom
You know his love is not enough
You know he 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 as 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
Fufill us, complete us
Make us whole
Seal our bond for ever more
Tonight, for me
Embrace your destiny
Let me hear you sing
Once more

Christine
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

Raoul
Will she sing
Will she flee
What is she
Thinking now
Is it him
Is it me
Devil take the hindmost
Does she stay
Does she go
Does she know even now
Please, Christine, stop the show
Devil take the Hindmost

Phantom
Obey your heart
Sing for me
You want it so
Stay and be mine
Eternally
Devil take the hindmost

Both
Now it’s time, so make your choice
Do it for our son
Use your head
No time to waste
Hesitate, we’re all undone

Antoinette
(Perhaps she wont go on
Perhaps she’ll loose 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
Devil take the hindmost)

Raoul
(Will she stay
will she go
Does she know
Even now
Please, Christine, stop the show
Devil take the hindmost)

Phantom
(Obey your heart and
sing for me
sing for me
give me the child eternally
Devil take the hindmost)

(Repeat once)

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

Antoinette
I hope Christine is worthy of you
I hope her singing makes up for what your blindness ahs done to meg and
me

Meg
Devil take the hindmost

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 sieses full control
Try to deny it and try to protent
But love wont 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
The love takes on a life
Much bigger than your own
It uses you at will
And drives you to despair
And forces you to feel
More joy than you can bear
Love brings 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
Phanom
Ah, Christine
My Christine
What a triumph you gave me tonight
Ah, Christine
All those 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

Both
Lost in the music once more
Hearing 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

Both
Long ago in our youth

Christine
In paris, at the opera
Raoul
Romantic Idiots

Christine
Those two people are gone

Both
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

Phantom
What is it?

Christine
Gustave

Phantom
What’s wrong

Christine
I told him to wait for Raoul
Before he asked me to
Surely he wouldn’t

Phantom
It’s that idiot Raoul
I will kill that drunken fool
If he dare take a child
A child that isn’t his
Squelch
Sir, the Vicomte De Chagny left here alone
Saw with my own eyes, sir
There was no one with him
Was there anyone else here backstage

Phantom
Madame Giry, she was here
With her vicious little sneer
And the comments she made
That ungrateful backbiting snake
Go now quickly
Bring her round
Bring the boy back safe and sound
Then I’ll make that vixen pay

Antoinette
What is the meaning of this

Phantom
The child, woman, what have you done with him

Antoinette
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

Ms. F
I just past Meg’s dressing room
It was silent as a tomb
But her mirror was smashed
All in pieces on the floor

Antoinette
Could I have left her so distraught
God knows what she must have thought
Foolish child she must be caught

Christine
My poor Gustave
Antoinette
She won’t hurt him
Meg would never hurt him

Phantom
I know where she’s going but we must hury

Christine
Gustave
Gustave

Gustave
Miss Giry, I can’t swim
I want my mother

Meg
The sea is calm
The sea is grey
It washes everything away

Gustave
Please, you’re hurting me
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

Phantom
Let go of the boy
Meg
Not another step
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

Antoinette
Meg, child

Meg
And who kept singing
Deperate 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

Antoinette
No, Meg, don’t

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
You’ve been robbed of love and pride
Been ignored and cast aside
Even so, I still know
There is beauty underneath
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
*Shoots*

Phantom
Madame Giry, get help
Quickly

Gustave
Father, where’s father

Christine
Gustave
Your father
Phantom
Christine
No

Christine
I know I promised
But you’re all he has now
He has to know the truth

Phantom
Christine

Christine
Gustave, your father
Your real father
He’s here

Gustave
No, no

Christine
Look with your heart
And not with your eyes
The heart understands
The heart never lies

Gustave
No

Phantom
Gustave, wait! Gustave! Please!
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
Just give what you can give
And take the love that you deserve

Both
Just love
Just live

Phantom
I’ll 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

(Kiss)
(Christine Dies)

Phantom
NO
Love never dies
Love never falters
Once it has spoken
Love is yours
Love never dies
Love will continue