| [Opens on the Phantom lighting a match and then using it to light a candle. He sits down and looks at some sheet music then continues writing music at a piano. During the song, images of Phoenix, the Phantom, a clock and a calendar dated December 9th, 1974 are shown super-imposed on a black background.] | |
| Song :
{Beauty and the Beast (Phantom's Theme)} |
Half asleep I
hear a voice Is it only in my mind Is it someone calling me Someone I failed and left behind To work it out I let them in All the good guys and bad guys I've been All the devils that disturbed me And the angels that defeated them somehow Come together in me now |
| [The Phantom finishes writing on a sheet of music and Swan, standing in front of the piano, takes it from him and looks at it.] | |
| Swan : | Tasty, Winslow. Tasty. |
| [Two guards standing outside of the Phantom's room are shown, then the camera switches to showing Swan leaving the little room. Scene then switches to Swan and Philbin in an audition room. Swan sits in the centre of a table shaped like a gold record with Philbin sitting on the outside rim to Swan's left.] | |
| Philbin : | I know boss, but I thought you liked her. |
| Swan : | I do. She's perfect, but you know how I abhor perfection in anyone but myself. |
| Then Phoenix is out? | |
| No, not out. Just a backup singer. No, my cantata needs something really... heavy. | |
| [Swan presses a button on the table and a spotlight lights up a group of folksingers.] | |
| Singing
: -Group 1 |
Half asleep I
hear a voice I hear a voice I hear a voice Is it only in my mind |
| Swan : | No, no... |
| [Light turns off and another spotlight reveals twin women dressed in matching red and white outfits. As they sing, a lady is seen walking past behind them.] | |
| Singing
:
-Twins |
Or is there
someone calling me Someone I've failed and left behind |
| Swan : | Hm.. wrong again. |
| [Spotlight again turns off and another turns on revealing a country singer in jeans and a cowboy hat with an acoustic guitar and sheet music stuck in the upper tuning keys.] | |
| Singing
: -Country Singer |
To work it out
I let them in All the good guys and bad guys that I've been |
| Swan : | Pretty, but no. |
| [Spotlight transfers to three Black women.] | |
| Singing
: -Black Trio |
All the devils
that disturbed me And the angels that defeated them somehow |
| Swan : | No.. |
| [Spotlight turns off the women and another turns on to reveal Beef with his electric guitar.] | |
| Singing : -Beef |
Come together
in me now.... [Plays off-key, distorted chord to go with the note he ends on and then bends the strings on the guitar for extra discord.] |
| Swan : | There's something he'll like. |
| [Scene switches back to the Phantom, super-imposed with images of musical bars, stacks of sheet music, a clock and the calendar. Swan is then seen, watching the Phantom from a distance as he works on the music. Super-imposed images of a keyboard being played by the Phantom's hands, and then a shot of the Phantom playing.] | |
| Song :
{Beauty and the Beast (Phantom's Theme) cont.}
|
Like a circus
on parade Seldom close enough to see I wander through an angry crowd Wonder what's become of me To work it out I let them in All the good guys and bad guys that I've been All the devils that disturbed me And the angels that defeated them somehow Come together in me now |
| [A super-imposed images of Phoenix returns as the Phantom works, then lays his head down on his music to sleep. The candle shown being lit before has now burned down to almost nothing.] | |
| Chapter 15 |