Cut songs from POTO

I heard that in the 2004 movie, the Phantom was originally supposed to sing a new song but that song was eventually cut out from the movie (and (I think) Learn to be Lonely was put in its place)...What song was the Phantom suppose to sing?

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"No One Would Listen" is the name of the song that was cut.

ALW and JS felt it slowed down the pace of things when it was inserted.

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well, i'm glad they didn't ADD anything to slow the plot down!

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The pace of the movie is still too slow. They need to cut the flashback, a verse of music of the night, the scene after where meg goes into the dressing room, and Christine working her way to the graveyard. The movie really really needs 15 minutes cut off.

I like it just the way it is. Not that it's perfect because it isn't. Especially the lines that are sung on stage that are spoken in rhyme on film, like the "Raoul it scares me. Don't make me do this." ect. first in each instance they deleted a beautiful melody and if they were just trying to add more dialogue having them speak in rhyme was not the way to go. but, obviously it wasn't going to come to us in any state of perfection. It would be nice to see the deleted song on the DVD but I really doubt they will let it out due to the fact the "Learn to Be Lonely" is the same as "No One Would Listen" just with different lyrics.

"Also Learn to Be Lonely was supposed to be sung by the Phantom during the movie as well, in place of No One Would Listen. But it didn't really fit anywhere. And they decided to give it to Minnie Briver instead of Gerry. "

I would have liked to have heard Gerard sing it.

I posted this in the Golden Globes thread but I don't know if anyone read it... They cut the title song "Phantom of the Opera"! Why did they do that??

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Updated On: 1/23/05 at 07:18 PM