Arrival Of The Trio / Are You Ready To Begin? - Andrew Lloyd Webber

SQUELCH:

Are you ready to begin?

Are you ready to get on?

You’re about to start out

On the journey of your lives

RAOUL:

(Is this some kind of joke?)

ONLOOKER 1:

(Nah, it’s a publicity stunt for that freak show on Coney!)

REPORTER 1:

(It's a front page feature, is what it is!

You gettin' this, Smitty?)

PHOTOGRAPHER:

(You bet’cha.)

GANGLE:

If you’re ready then get in

Once you’re in then we’ll get gone

And who knows once it goes

Where you’ll be when it arrives?

RAOUL:

(This is outrageous!)

VARIOUS:

It’s amazing!

(It's brilliant!)

I’m telling you, that Mr. Y is an absolute genius

FLECK:

It’s a fun house where the mirrors

All reflect what’s real

FLECK/GANGLE:

And reality’s as twisted

As the mirrors reveal

FLECK/GANGLE/SQUELCH:

And the fun is finding out what the mirrors show…

RAOUL:

(This is unacceptable! Do you hear me?! I will be taking this up with your

employer, whoever he is!)

GUSTAVE:

Everything and everyone

It’s all just how I dreamed

All the freaks and all the fun

Exactly how I dreamed!

And Phantasma still awaits…

Wonder what’s behind its gates?

REPORTER 1:

(That was somethin', wasn’t it?)

ONLOOKER 2:

(Meh, I was hoping she’d sing. Caruso sang half of Pagliacci for us when he got

off the boat.)

ONLOOKER 3:

(Eh, I bet she ain’t got it no more, not like the old days. Oh sure,

she’s pitch-perfect, but empty, inside, like the flame went out of somethin'.)

ONLOOKER 4:

(Oh, look, it’s The Rockefellers!)