Practice English Speaking&Listening with: 大娛樂家 The Greatest Showman Stage Production (上半場) | 2019 北科英文系公演 | Engchant | First Part | 大娛樂家 現場版
♫ The Greatest Show ♫
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you’ve waited for
Been searching in the dark, your sweat soaking through the floor
And buried in your bones, there’s an ache that you can’t ignore
Takin’ your breath, stealing your mind
and all that was real is left behind
Don’t fight it, it’s coming for you, running atcha
It’s only this moment, don’t care what comes after
Your fever dream, can’t you see getting closer
Just surrender ‘cause you feel the feeling takin’ over
It’s fire, it’s freedom, it’s flooding open
It’s the preacher in the pulpit and your blind devotion
There’s something breaking the brick of every wall that’s holding all that you know...
So tell me do you wanna go!
Where it’s covered in all the colored lights
Where the runaways are running the night
Impossible comes true, it’s takin’ over you
Oh! This is the greatest show!
We light it up, we won’t come down
And the sun can’t stop us now
Watching it come true, it’s takin’ over you
Oh! This is the greatest show!
It’s everything you ever want
It’s everything you ever need
And it’s here right in front of you
This is where you wanna be
It’s everything you ever want
It’s everything you ever need
And it’s here right in front of you
This is where you wanna be
It’s everything you ever want
It’s everything you ever need
And it’s here right in front of you
This is where you wanna be
It’s everything you ever want
It’s everything you ever need
And it’s here right in front of you
Phineas, hurry up! We’re running late!
Dad, Where are we going?
We’re going to the Halette’s.
Phineas, stand up straight.
Wipe that muck off.
Behave yourself Phineas.
Arm extended.
Elbow out.
Sip, never slurp.
Pinky in the air.
Arm extended.
Elbow out.
Keep your cup level.
Gently lower your cup.
Shall we do it again?
Pinky in the air.
arm extended.
Elbow out.
Gracefully.
Charity, come here.
Your dress…
is this how we’ve taught you to behave?
It’s my fault, sir. I made her laugh…
Well, thank you for your honesty.
Stay away from my daughter.
Phineas...
How’d you get out?
The window.
Father is sending me to finish school…
I don’t know what my future will be.
I do.
♫ A Million Dreams ♫
I close my eyes and I can see
The world that's waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one's been before
But it feels like home
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I've lost my mind
I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
'Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
Charity! Charity!
Here you are.
We are going to your school, come on!
Phineas? Phineas!
Dad?
We’re leaving.
Dad? Dad?
Dad? Dad?
Are you alright, Dad?
Dad? Dad! Dad!
There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
on a rainy day
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we've lost our mind
I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you'll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
A million dreams, a million dreams
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
For the world we're gonna make
Sir, Phineas Taylor Barnum.
Uh, if I may, sir
I believe I have skills and ideas that go well beyond punching numbers into an adding machine!
Well, I’ve read about this German fellow who…
Gentlemen!
We are bankrupted.
You’re all dismissed.
Bankrupted?
I thought the company had a dozen trading ships!
Yes, at the bottom of the South China Sea.
A typhoon sank them all.
Oh, God.
Girls be careful!
Okay!
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!
Rock, paper, scissors, shoot!
Daddy is gonna be home soon!
One, two, three...
Helen, I'm coming!
Hey!
Oh, God! You’re home early.
And until further notice.
Well, I didn’t think you were long for that job anyways…
Hey, that’s what makes our life together so exciting.
Charity.
This isn’t the life I promised you.
But I have everything I want.
What about…
Come on Phineas!
Hey, you partners
Look who moseyed into the corral.
Daddy!
Daddy! Did you bring a present?
A present for what?
For my birthday!
Your what?
My birthday!
It’s not your birthday!
Okay, I do have a present.
But not just any present.
Oh, no. The most amazing birthday present ever.
This extraordinary machine was originally created by Leonardo Da Vinci 400 years ago.
But the blueprints had been lost for centuries until just last week.
A sunken pirate ship washed up,
the blueprints crossed my desk very briefly,
but I managed to commit them to memory.
And if I have remembered correctly…
Wow!
Happy Birthday, Caroline!
Daddy, what is this?
This is a wishing machine.
You tell it your wishes.
It keeps them safe until they come true.
Even if you forget them, they’re always there.
Can I tell a wish?
Go ahead.
I wish to marry Santa Claus.
That is a good wish.
I wish…for ballet slippers.
Wow, that’s .. That’s a good wish, too.
What’s your wish, mommy?
I wish…for happiness like this forever.
For you and you… and for your father.
Boring!
Okay girls, time to go to bed. Let’s go, daddy needs to rest.
Come on. Say good night to daddy!
Good night daddy!
Good night sweethearts.
Daddy! Daddy! Girls!
Phineas, where have you been?
The bank.
Come on girls, we are going out.
Daddy, where are we going?
Are we going to see Santa Claus?
Phineas, why would the bank loan us $10,000?
Because we put up collateral. Let’s go.
Wait.
But dear, we don’t have any collateral.
Sure we do. In the South China Seas.
In the South China Seas?
Deep in the South China Seas.
And what did we buy with this loan?
“Barnum’s American Museum of Curiosities?”
What kind of museum is it?
Come on, see for yourself.
Wow! Look at that!
What is this?
Wax figures?
Now… I know how it looks.
If you didn’t, I’d be worried.
I mean, it just needs a little work, but…
Daddy, can I climb on this?
Nope.
Phineas, the loan has to be paid back every month.
I know. We just need customers.
Hundreds of them. Phineas, I hate to say that, but this is not gonna work.
Daddy! Daddy! I think you have too many dead things in your museum.
She’s right. You need something alive.
Something sensational!
Woo, that’s... that's a big word.
It’s your word, daddy.
Like, mermaids!
Or a unicorn!
Unicorns aren’t real.
Well, mermaids aren’t real either.
Come on girls… Come on.
Phineas, people won’t come for something they’ve already seen before.
Sensational…
That’s it! I’m gonna put up a show.
A show that’s bizarre, intriguing, attractive!
Phineas, what are you doing?
Make copies of these, hundreds of them.
Daddy!
Do you want to join us?
Do you want to join us?
Come and play!
Come and join us!
Bye bye!
See you later!
♫ Come Alive ♫
You stumble through your days
Got your head hung low.
Your skies' a shade of grey
Like a zombie in a maze
You're asleep inside
But you can shake away
'Cause you're just a dead man walking
Thinking that's your only option
But you can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day
Sun is up and the color's blinding
Take the world and redefine it
Leave behind your narrow mind
You'll never be the same
Come alive, come alive
Go and ride your light
Let it burn so bright
Reaching up to the sky
And it's open wide
You're electrified
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And you know you can't go back again
To the world that you were living in
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
So, come alive!
I see it in your eyes
You believe that lie
That you need to hide your face
Afraid to step outside
So you lock the door
But don't you stay that way
No more living in those shadows
You and me we know how that goes
'Cause once you see it, oh you'll never, never be the same
We'll be the light that's turning
Bottle up and keep on shining
You cannot be afraid
Come alive, come alive
Go and ride your light
Let it burn so bright
Reaching up to the sky
And it's open wide
You're electrified
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And we know we can't be go back again
To the world that we were living in
'Cause we're dreaming with our eyes wide open
So, come alive!
Come one! Come all! Come in! Come on!
To anyone who's bursting with a dream
Come one! Come all! You hear! The call!
To anyone who's searching for a way to break free
Break free!
Break free!
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And you know you can't go back again
To the world that you were living in
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open
And we know we can't be go back again
To the world that we were living in
'Cause we're dreaming with our eyes wide open
'Cause we're dreaming with our eyes wide open
So come alive!
Barnum's American Museum. Hot peanuts.
Hot peanuts.
Tickets are sold out. Come earlier tomorrow.
Hot peanuts.
Ah, Mr. Bennett from the Newspaper.
Come to take in another show, huh?
Tell me, Mr. Barnum, does it bother you that everything you’re selling
is fake?
Do these smiles seem fake?
It doesn’t matter where they come from. The joy is real.
So, you are a philanthropist?
Huh. Well, hyperbole isn’t the worst crime.
The creed of a true fraud.
Mr. Bennett,
tell me,
when was the last time you smiled or had a good laugh?
A theater critic who can’t find joy in the theater.
Now who’s a fraud?
No miracle is going to make your circus a theater,
not even Phillip Carlyle.
Wow!
Don’t you think there’s enough blind trust in my life?
Well, isn’t that what makes it fun? Keep coming.
Okay. Are you ready?
Is it?
It is.
Come on in!
Helen, this is for you.
Thank you, daddy!
And Caroline, this is for you.
Thank you, daddy!
It’s beautiful, but you know, we don’t need all of this to be…
This is the life I promised you.
Welcome home Charity Barnum. Shall we?
Phineas, I have everything I want.
Hey. What is it? Tell me.
What is it that’s bothering you recently?
It’s nothing
The theater critic, Mr. Bennett,
mentioned this person called Phillip Carlyle.
Oh, the Carlyle family!
Phillip is the son, a famous playwright and actor.
His last play was a hit in London.
His show is staging tonight.
If you are interested, you can go for his play.
Perhaps you will be able to meet him in person.
Mr. Carlyle!
You produced this play?
Yes, I did indeed.
Refunds are available at the front box office.
P.T. Barnum.
From the circus?
Yes. You, you been?
God, no. But I have seen the crowds.
People leave your shows a great deal happier than when they came in,
which is much more than I can say for my play.
And yet, you have no trouble selling tickets.
That’s because I’m selling virtue.
Can I buy you a drink?
I wanna go after the carriage straight. Expand our appeal, go after the snobs.
Only if you knew how suffocating they are.
So come join the circus. You clearly have a flair for show business.
Teach me how to appeal to the highbrows.
Are you serious?
Mm-hmm.
Mr. Barnum, I can’t just run off and join the circus.
Why not? Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?
Let’s just say that I find it much more comfortable admiring your show from afar.
Comfort, the enemy of progress.
Do you understand that just associating with you could cost me my inheritance?
Oh, it could cost you more than that.
But, on the other hand, well.
You might just find yourself a free man.
♫ The Other Side ♫
Right here, right now, I put the offer out
I don't want to chase you down. I know you see it.
You run with me, and I can cut you free.
Out of the drudgery and walls you keep in
So trade that typical for something colorful
And if it's crazy, live a little crazy
You can play it sensible, a king of conventional
Or you can risk it all and see
Don't you wanna get away from the same old part you gotta play
'Cause I got what you need, so come with me and take the ride
It'll take you to the other side
'Cause you can do like you do, or you can do like me
Stay in the cage, or you'll finally take the key
Oh, damn! Suddenly you're free to fly
It'll take you to the other side
Okay, my friend, you want to cut me in
Well I hate to tell you, but it just won't happen
So thanks, but no. I think I'm good to go.
'Cause I quite enjoy the life you say I'm trapped in
Now I admire you, and that whole show you do
You're onto something, really it's something
But I live among the swells, and we don't pick up peanut shells
I'll have to leave that up to you
Don't you know that I'm okay with this uptown part I get to play
'Cause I got what I need and I don't want to take the ride
I don't need to see the other side
So go and do like you do. I'm good to do like me.
Ain't in a cage, so I don't need to take the key
Oh, damn! Can't you see I'm doing fine
I don't need to see the other side
Now is this really how you like to spend your days?
Whiskey and misery, and parties and plays
If I were mixed up with you, I'd be the talk of the town
Disgraced and disowned, another one of the clowns
But you would finally live a little, finally laugh a little
Just let me give you the freedom to dream
And it'll wake you up and cure your aching
Take your walls and start 'em breaking
Now that's a deal that seems worth taking
But I guess I'll leave that up to you
Well it's intriguing, but to go would cost me greatly
So what percentage of the show would I be taking?
Fair enough, you'd want a piece of all the action
I'd give you seven, we could shake and make it happen
I wasn't born this morning, eighteen would be just fine
Why not just go ahead and ask for nickels on the dime
Fifteen. I'd do eight.
Twelve. Maybe nine.
Ten.
Sir, it looks like you have yourself a junior partner.
All I have is an overcompensated apprentice.
Don't you wanna get away to a whole new part you're gonna play
'Cause I got what you need, so come with me and take the ride
To the other side
So if you do like I do. So if you do like me.
Forget the cage, 'cause we know how to make the key
Oh, damn! Suddenly we're free to fly
We're going to the other side
So if you do like I do (To the other side)
So if you do like me (To the other side)
'Cause if we do we're going to the other side
We're going to the other side
Guys, gather up.
May I introduce you, our new member in the family,
Phillip Carlyle.
Phillip, just Phillip.
The pleasure is mine.
So Mr. Carlyle what’s your act?
What…Me? I… I don’t have an act.
Well, everyone has an act.
Mr. Barnum, you better come and see this.
Phillip, keep up.
Get out of our town. Get out.
A little bit of a nasty element. The protestors are here again.
Protest?
Well, nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.
Sir, I’ll have to ask you to leave.
You see the sign? You think we're going?
We're coming back one day alright? Until you leave the town.
I'll see you again.
It’s getting worse day by day.
Well, you can’t satisfy people who just don’t get it.
Well, Mr. Barnum, I have an idea.
Yeah?
There will be an annual gathering in London next week.
All the elite artists and critics from around the world will be there.
And what’s your call?
Well, if you want society to accept you, Mr. Barnum,
you might as well start there, from the very top.
How am I invited?
These snobs take my show business as a joke,
“offensive and indecent” that’s what they call it.
Well, I had to pull a few strings.
Well, don’t mind Mr. Bennett, he is actually a pretty nice person.
Surprising enough, I don’t quite feel that way.
Who's that?
She? That’s Jenny Lind. She’s the most famous opera singer in all of Europe.
She’s sold out La Scala a dozen times. Not to mention the French Opera.
Ah. Introduce me to Miss Lind.
What? Introduce you? I don’t know her!
Everybody knows her. You just said so yourself.
Yeah, exactly. You don’t just march up to someone like this.
Why not? Miss Lind! (Because...)
My name is Phillip Carlyle.
And this extraordinary gentleman next to me…
Phineas Taylor Barnum.
The pleasure is mine.
Of course, you are the American. I believe I might have heard of you.
Well, if you’ve heard of me all the way over here,
I must be doing something right.
That, or something very wrong.
Well, in the world of publicity, there’s hardly a difference.
I believe those are the words of a scoundrel, Mr. Barnum.
Um, Mr. Barnum the best showman in America, one of the best.
Miss Lind… let me get to the point. I’d like to bring you to New York.
And if you agree, I’ll make you the most famous singer,
not in Europe, but in the entire world.
And have you heard me sing? Absolutely.
No.
But like mine,
your reputation precedes you,
and, well, I trust your reputation more than my own taste.
I’ve never been to America.
You will sing in the grandest theater with the finest orchestra in the greatest city on Earth.
“Jenny Lind. One night only.”
Or maybe two.
And at 20 percent of the gate, it’ll be a queen’s ransom for your efforts.
I give most of my earnings to charity, Mr. Barnum. To orphans and widows.
“Voice of a Nightingale, heart of an angel.”
That’s brilliant.
May I ask you something, Mr. Barnum?
Why me?
People come to my show for the pleasure of being hoodwinked.
Just once,
I’d love to give them something real.
(Miss Lind.)
Mr. Barnum, everyone is seated,
Miss is ready, we are all set.
Oh God, I hope she can sing.
Speaking of which. Yeah?
WD and Lettie, the others, they’ve just arrived.
What? Where should I put them? Your box?
My box? No, no, no, they are too visible.
What? Visible?
The acoustics are actually better at the back. That’s where they should be.
But Mr...
Ladies and gentlemen,
I recently had the privilege to hear the most divine voice I’ve ever heard,
and all the way from Europe to be here tonight.
May I introduce you,
the Swedish nightingale, Miss Jenny Lind.
♫ Never Enough ♫
I'm trying to hold my breath
Let it stay this way
Can't let this moment end
You set off a dream in me
Getting louder now
Can you hear it echoing?
Take my hand
Will you share this with me?
'Cause darling without you
All the shine of a thousand spotlights
All the stars we steal from the night sky
Will never be enough
Never be enough
Towers of gold are still too little
These hands could hold the world but it’ll
Never be enough
Never be enough
For me
Never, never
Never, never
Never, for me
For me
Never enough
Never enough
Never enough
For me
For me
For me
All the shine of a thousand spotlights
All the stars we steal from the night sky
Will never be enough
Never be enough
Towers of gold are still too little
These hands could hold the world but it’ll
Never be enough
Never be enough
For me
Never, never
Never, never
Never, for me
For me
Never enough
Never, never
Never enough
Never, never
Never enough
For me
For me
For me
For me
Miss Lind,
this is my wife, Charity, and our girls.
Of course, and I’ve heard so much about you! And your father tells me you’re a fan of ballet.
Yes, I’m studying ballet.
Are you? Of course, I am.
And what about you, Helen?
You look like a princess, ma’am
Hey.
I have to admit, Barnum…
she is... well.
She is remarkable.
Enough to bring joy to the most joyless critic, huh?
In the hands of a real purveyor of the arts,
she could be something in this Country.
Shame, she’s fallen in with you.
Mr. Bennett, you really are better on the paper.
Phineas.
You’ve...
done well.
Thank you.
This way.
Father…
Yes, yes, those are your granddaughters.
Phineas, not here…
Not here? You’re afraid I’m gonna embarrass your father in front of his fancy friends?
I… I really don’t think I have that power.
An insignificant man like me,
who was destined to live an insignificant life.
All that fortune and still just a tailor’s boy.
Get out.
Charity!
Look around you! We have everything.
You don’t understand. I do.
No, you don't.
How could you?
My father was treated like dirt, and I was treated like dirt!
But my children will not be.
You don’t need everyone to love you. Just a few good people.
Mr. Barnum!
Guys?
The lady can sing!
I know, I know...
Do you think she likes a man in uniform?
I’m sure she does.
Okay, what are you doing here?
You got a show in an hour, right?
That’s enough time for us to have at least three drinks, right?
Yeah!
No, no, no. Lettie! Guys!
I can’t have you.
What?
Who’s gonna pay admission if you’re out there for all the World to see?
Okay? Have a great show.
♫ This is Me ♫
I am not a stranger to the dark
Hide away, they say
'Cause we don't want your broken parts
I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars
Run away, they say
No one will love you as you are. But
I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
Another round of bullets hits my skin
Well, fire away 'cause today, I won't let the shame sink in
We are bursting through the barricades and reaching for the sun
We are warriors!
Yeah, that's what we've become
I won't let them break me down to dust
I know that there's a place for us
For we are glorious
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
This is me
and I know that I deserve your love
'cause there's nothing I'm not worthy of
When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
This is brave, this is proof, this is who I'm meant to be.
This is me
Look out 'cause here I come
(look out 'cause here I come)
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
(marching on, marching, marching on)
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me
I'm gonna send a flood,
gonna drown them out
This is me
(Intermission)
