Before the Performance

Lyrics by：Glenn Slater

Composed by：Andrew Lloyd Webber

Produced by：Andrew Lloyd Webber/Nigel Wright

Gustave will 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 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 awhile

But when's mother going to sing

I 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 Raoul

You have to know something's terribly wrong dear

But I have to do this

It's what we agreed to

That Hell-spawned demon

He's had us playing his game all along dear

Let me just get through this

Listen please I need to

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

But darling I'm due on stage in ten minutes

How can I possibly

I beg you please please

I have passage for three to

Schoenberg on the Atlantic Queen

It leaves tonight-let's be on it

For both our sakes and for Gustave

Leave this place behind

Go and find Gustave

Tell the stage manager to not to disturb me

I need some time

You know his love is not enough

You know it 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 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 whole

Seal our bond forevermore

Tonight for me embrace your destiny

Let me hear you sing

Once more

Five minutes Miss Daae

Twisted every way

What answer can I give

I know I can't refuse

And yet I wish I could

Oh God

Christine Christine

Don't think that I don't care

But every hope and every prayer

Rests on you now