Текст песни Maury Yeston - Dressing For The Night

Actors
Dressing for the night,
For the ball, for the dance
Dressing for the show
At the Paris Opera!

First Niters
Dressing for the pride,
For the "Gloire de la France"
Dressing up to go
To the Paris Opera!

Actors
Paris Opera!

First Niters
It's a new season
And that's the reason
We but these clothes by the row...

Actors:
Dressing for the fun, for the lights,
For the glare...

First Niters
Dressing up to preen at the Paris Opera!

Actors:
Dressing to descend on a cloud on a stair..

First Niters
Dressing to be seen at the Paris Opera!
Paris Opera!
Everyone will be there

All
Everyone will be there
Everyone....!

Actors
The corps de ballet!
We actors will play!
Our set so spectacular and grand!

First Niters
Arrive somewhat late
Make sure that you ate
Expect everyone to understand!

Actors
With breathless surprise
The curtain will rise
Step out with a gesture of the hand

First Niters
Look through the lorgnette
And do not forget
Jamais! Never listen to the band!

All
Dressing for the night
For the ball, for the show
Dressing up to go to the
Paris Opera! Paris Opera!
Paris!

(Continuing, as the actors raise masks to their faces,
the First Niters hold up champagne glasses,
lorgnettes, open fans, and in one case affect a monocle)

Paris is a mask
Whatever you ask she'll be for you
Paris!

Carlotta
A night at maxims
A glorious dream, a rendezvous!

All
A night at the Opera, trip to the ballet
Evening of theatre, all in a day...
Paris!

Carriere
One view in the mist,
And you have been kissed from far away

All
Dressing for the night
For the ball, for the show
Dressing up to go to the
Paris Opera! Paris Opera!

Christine
(still in the streets)
Paris is the rain...

First Niters
Paris is a mask

Phantom
Paris is the night--for me...

Actors/First Niters
Dressing for the night,
For the ball, for the show,
For the ball
For the night
For the show...
Paris...
(spoken)
Paris!