Songs

I composed this song, hope you guys like it, I'm only 13 so if you think it's good, thanx!
Sarah-Ann Lee

A Note

POTO Phans:

(spoken)

Gentleman, we have now sent you several notes of the most amiable nature,
detailing how the movie is to be run, you have not followed our
instructions, we will give you one last chance...

(sung)

Michael Crawford is now free for you,
and we are anxious his career should progress,
In the new production of "Phantom,"
You will therefore cast a Antonio as Buquet,
and put our Michael as the role of Phantom.
The role which our Michael plays calls for charm and appeal,
the role of Buquet is short which makes our casting,
in a word, ideal...

(spoken)

We will be watching from our normal seat when the news is on,
should these commands be ignored, a disaster beyond your imagination will
occur.

Your obedient servants, Phantom phans...

"Wishing You Were Somehow Sane Again"
by Audrey Aucott

You were once a great composer. Your music really mattered.....
You were once a friend to Michael. Did that friendship shatter?....
Wishing you were somehow sane again...
Wishing you could somehow hear...
Sometimes it seems, we have the means, we could help save your career!........
Wishing you would change your choice again, knowing that you always could.......
Writing to you, should help you to do, the changes you know you should...........
Casting calls and movie Moguls, cold and temperamental,
Seem for you the worst companions, don’t you know they’re “mental”?.................
Wishing you were somehow sane again, why must you so often lie?......
Too many years, proving fans fears. Why won’t you cast our guy?.................
No more movie stars, Michael has no Peers!.....
No more gazing past Michael like he isn’t here.....
Can’t you hear our cry? .............................

The Phantom of the Opera
By Lanie
(Sung to the tune of The Phantom of the Opera )

FANS

On CD
He sang to us
In the play
He came
That voice
Which calls to us
No other name

And in our
Hopes and dreams
Of the film
To be
The Phantom of the Opera
Would be
Michael C.

WB

Don’t listen
To his tapes
Or
His CD
For we are
Wiser than
You’ll ever be

And so
We say to you
No Michael C.
The Phantom of the Opera
Will be
Antonio B.

ALW

I won’t
Explain to you
Why this
Is so…
I think that
I know best

WB

As does the studio

ALW / WB

My/your genius
And your/our cash
In one
Combined
Means we decide who’ll be the Phantom
And who’ll
Be left behind

OFFSTAGE VOICES

We want our Michael
As the Phantom
We love our Michael
As the Phantom

FANS

In all
Our fantasies
We always
Knew
We wanted
Michael C.

ALW / WB

You’ll get
A.B.

FANS / ALW / WB

We want
A huge success
This film
To be
And so the Phantom of the Opera
Must be
Michael C./Antonio B.

FANS

We want OUR Angel of Music!

(ALW/WB begin to discuss the film…)

FANS

We want OUR Angel of Music!!

FANS

We want MICHAEL !!!!!!

New Members?
by Joy Chettle

Christine's Dressing Room

Raoul: Little Lotte let your mind wander..

Christine: I remember that time....

Raoul: Was he fonder of music or people or fame....

Christine: Or of money or duty...

Raoul: Those promises.....

Christine: Not kept....

Raoul: But we trusted his word!

Christine: What I loved best was the way that he sang. (turning to face Raoul)
Andrew once said, "When I'm a little older child, I will put the Angel of Music in a film version of our play." Well, he is older now......but he hasn't done it, he hasn't kept his promise.

Raoul: I know....I know.
I must leave you now Christine but I will return later.
Raoul leaves, stage left.

Christine: Goodbye Raoul, (aside) If only things were different now.....

Christine hears a voice from behind the mirror.

Phantom: Insolent boy, this slave of fashion, basking in his glory!
Ignorant fool, this confused composer, this was a shared triumph!

Christine: Angel, I hear you, speak, I listen I'm on your side believe me.
Angel his soul was weak, forgive him, maybe he'll soon realize.

Phantom: Flattering child you should know now, Michael should play my part.
He did well in the play then...and he promised him right from the start.

Christine: The Angel of Music, it's Michael Crawford, why can he not see this?
Angel of Music.....he's so perfect....who else can do this?

Phantom: I choose this man to play me, how dare he not listen to me!
Come with me now through the mirror, we must join with TMCPMC!!

Exit stage right

(Help Us Save) The Music of the Night
by Nana Kate

Night-mares sharpen,
Casting in contention...
Choices that Defy imagination...
How quickly do our senses
Call out to their defenses...

Have the execs,
every one, gone mental?
Sources say
The Phantom won't be Michael!

Turn your face away
From the rumours of the day,
Turn your thoughts away
from such a bitter plight!

And help us save the Music of the Night!

Close your eyes,
You can see who is the Phantom's soul!
Purge your thoughts of someone else
Cast in his role!

Close your eyes,
Yes, that's Michael's voice you hear!
How can you put
Someone else behind that mirror?

Softly, deftly,
Michael weaves his magic...
Without his soul,
The Phantom's just too tragic!

Open up your mind,
Let the fantasy unwind,
Save us from this darkness
Only you can fight!

Help us save the Music of the Night!

Please don't let the awesome power of this role turn farce!
No pale imitations in his place!

Please don't dub in the voice behind the Mask!
We are saddened that we've even had to ask...

Give us, once more,
Sweet intoxication!
Let us, once more,
savour each sensation!

Let the dream awaken,
Please tell us that you've taken
The power of the music that you write --

Give Michael back the Music of the Night!

You alone can make our dream take flight --

Give Michael back the Music of the Night!

And here is another version from Bryan Songy (spongey)

I'd love to see him win on Oscar Night!

Pencils sharpen
at Warner Bros. station
Lloyd Webber's brain
Must be on vacation
Silently he let's 'em
Destroy a play called "Phantom"
Starting to think this man is not so bright,
He won't let Michael sing "The Music of the Night"

Let Andrew's mind finally make a decision that is right,
Otherwise this movie surely it will bomb!
I really hope Michael Crawford wins this fight...
Cause I'd love to see him win on Oscar night.

And yet another from Amanda.....

Prima Donna for ALW
By Lanie

Andrew Lloyd Webber, first Lord of musicals
Your devotes are on their knees to implore you -
Can you back out when we're shouting his name -
Think of how we'll all, deplore you.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, first Lord of musicals
Think of the news, of all the queues round the theaters...
Think how you'll love all the cash register rings -
But only if Michael sings!!

Masquerade, Having Fun While Working on this Crusade!
By Diane F.

Masquerade! Campaigning soldiers on parade!
Masquerade! Hide the e-mails where the troops will never find them.
Masquerade! All their faces are the shade...
Of the red that shows dismay and ire inside them.

What a group!
What a crowd!
Makes you glad!
Makes you proud!
Of all the women and men,
Working hard defending him!

Take your turn!
Take a ride!
From the press you cannot hide.
On the merry-go-round,
Of this colossal crusade.

Eye that's foul.
Man not true.
He is false.
We all feel blue....

Curl your lip!
And you can name the face.

Masquerade! Burning glances, hurting heads....
Masquerade! Do not stop until the man will listen to you.

Masquerade! Seething fans at perceived lies....
Masquerade! You will never fool all those who can see through you.

Masquerade! Impassioned public, peering eyes....
Masquerade! Run and hide but all your fans will still pursue you.........

Ta da da da dum badda BOOM! (Laughing here.)  :)

Why so silent good Monsieur?
Did you think that we had given up for good?
Have you missed us good Monsieur?
We are fighting for your Opera....

When you finish up the score....
Will you be triumphant?

We advise you to comply,
All the fans have bent your ear,
Remember there are worse things
Than a shattered chandelier....

Just for Fun!  April 1, 2020
By Lanie

AUCTIONEER:

Sold. Your number, sir? Thank you.

Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen: The original playbook from the Broadway Staged Musical, "Phantom of the Opera", autographed by Michael Crawford, the Original, best loved Phantom. May I start at $100,000? Thank you. We have $150,000, thank you. Do I hear $200,000? I have $250,000. $300,000 - going, going, gone! Sold for $300,000 to the Michael Crawford fan.

FAN:

A collector's
piece indeed...
Signed right
Beside his photo.

What a
momento I now have
Of Michael's Phantom
That we all love and know.

The words exactly
As sung by him in POTO.

AUCTIONEER:

Lot 666 then, a script from the film version of "Phantom of the Opera". Some of you may recall the strange affair of the casting of the movie, a mystery never fully explained. We are told, ladies and genlemen, that this is the very script used by Antonio Banderas, as seen by the autograph showing here. May I start at $100,000? $50,00, do I hear $50,000? $25,00, then. $20,000? How about $15,000? Alright, ladies and gentlemen, what do I hear as the opening bid? A wooden nickel? I have a bid of one wooden nickel, do I hear more? Sold, for one wooden nickel! Perhaps this has shed a little illumination on the famous disaster of so many years ago ....

LOL & Love to M.C. and Phans! Lanie

The Movie Plea
by Diane F.

You gave him your music, he made your song take wing....
And now how you've repaid him, denied him and betrayed him.
We were bound to love him, when we heard him sing......

Say you'll share with us his song hereafter.
Say the word and we will follow you.
Say you'll return to us the dream forthcoming....
Or you may curse the day you did not do.....
All that your fans have asked of you......

The Point of No Return
By Maggie Birge

Past the point of no return -
The final casting
Will make or break the memory of your show.....
Give your loyal fans their wish -
No use resisting;
Give up A.B. and let our dream descend.

What passion flares
Upon the screen?
What ghostly voice
Enchants our souls?
What great success awaits
With Michael!

Now’s the chance to please your fans.
Fulfill their wishes.
Give them the film they’ve waited years to see....
This is the point of no return.

Think Of Us
by Audrey Aucott

Think of us
Who thought of you fondly,
'Til you made us cry.

We came to see
Your Phantom so often,
To swoon, to love, to sigh.

You always said,
You'd film it scene by scene,
Not changing anything we'd see.

Remember for a moment!
Who your Phantom
Must be!

Think of all the praise you've shared and seen.
Think about the film that should have been.

Think of us
Think of us waiting
Neither quiet nor resigned.
Remember who
Would buy the tickets
If you cast the right guy.

For it was Michael then,
And it is Crawford now,
And Michael it will always be.

He truly is the Phantom.

(Highpart) Yes he is!

Many Thousands know the score.

And They're telling thousands more.

Michael Crawford is the Phantom,
We refuse to do with out him.

Cast Him Now!!!

(With apologies to sopranos everywhere. :)

Turning ALW's own songs against him
by Laura S. Lane

Andrew, you must have been dreaming
Such betrayal can never prove true
Andrew, you've lost all your good sense
And it's not like you!

Turn your face away from the garish light of day,
Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light....
Listen to the Music of the Night!
Only Michael can make this character take flight - Let HIM make the music of the night!!

He gave you his music
Made your play take wing
And now how you've repaid him
Denied him and betrayed him
All the true Phans love him
When they heard him sing....
You will curse the day you did not do
All that MC's phans asked of you!!!!

MC WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

Little Lotte

Mystery
by Diane F.

Mystery!!
Until gala night,
It's a mystery
So Campaigner's fight.

Here, we have a note!
by Aliannah

Graphic by Romil Ilagan