1.5 Christine Disembarks / Are You Ready To Begin? (исполнитель: Мюзикл Love Never Dies (Мельбурн))
REPORTER Hey! have the passengers disembarked yet? MAN Yeah! They're going through customs now! WOMAN Here [bad word] MAN Hey it's Mrs Aster! Mrs Aster over here! MRS ASTER Over there Lucille! WOMAN Is that the latest Paris style? MAN Look! It's Colonel Vanderbilt! Thanks Colonel! REPORTER Hey Colonel, is Christine Daae still on board? VANDERBILT I believe so, young man! WOMAN What's she doing? MAN Hey! Christine! Where are you? Yodel-ay-hee-hoo! MAN2 Look! There she is! (Various people try to get her attention) RAOUL Her name- Her name is Madame de Changy! Stand Aside! [bad word] here! No pictures please! No pictures of the boy! MAN Hey Christine! sing something! MAN2 Your first performance in years, why ain't you singing at the Met? RAOUL The Viscountess has been engaged by the well-known impresario, Mr. Oscar Hammerstein, to open his new Manhattan opera house. MAN How'd he lure the great Christine Daae over here anyway? MAN2 Ah, it's the money, right? All that American moolah! RAOUL My wife is an artist! MAN Yeah and it's her art that's payin off your gambing debts is what they're saying in France! MAN2 Is it [bad word] you left your entire fortune on a roulette table in Monte Carlo? RAOUL Insolent Jackals! How dare you? REPORTER Hey kid! How does it feel to have a famous mother? MAN It this your first time to America? MAN2 2 weeks til the opera house opens, what are you gonna do? MAN3 You gonna go see the statue of Liberty? MAN4 You gonna ride the new subway? MAN5 Are you gonna go to the baseball GUSTAVE I want to go to Coney Island! And learn how to swim! Mother look, right over there! Across the square, that carriage! MAN Look at that! No Horses! MAN2 That's the darnedest thing I've ever seen! WOMAN How does it work? GANGLE Honored friends [bad word] to America! GANGLE/SQUELCH/FLECK Take a seat Rest your feet SQUELCH Honored friends Mr. Hammerstein's expecting you TRIO Climb aboard Fledgling lord CHRISTINE Gustave! RAOUL Where is Hammerstein? We were assured he'd be here to greet us in person! GUSTAVE Here my dreams can wonder free Tell me what we're going to see GANGLE This way prima donna We three will escort you SQUELCH We assure Mr. Hammerstein Sent us to transport you RAOUL I give up! Take us to Hammerstein! GUSTAVE Mysteries and melodies Play inside my mind Fairy tales and fantasies Silently unwind TRIO Ask no questions Have no fear Anything can happen here