(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
Sold! Your number, sir?
Thank you.
Lot 663, then. Ladies and gentlemen,
a poster for this house's production of Hannibal by Chalumeau.
Showing here.
Do I have 10 francs?
Five, then? Five I am bid.
Six? Six. Do I see seven? Seven.
Against you, sir, seven. Eight? Eight.
Eight once.
Selling twice.
Sold, to Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.
Thank you very much.
Lot 664. Ladies and gentlemen,
a wooden pistol and three human skulls
from the 1831 production of Robert le Diable by Meyerbeer.
Ten francs for this.
Ten, thank you.
Ten I am bid.
Ten francs still.
Fifteen, thank you, sir.
Fifteen I am bid.
Going for 15.
Your number, sir? Thank you.
Lot 665. Ladies and gentlemen,
a papier-mâché musical box in the shape of a barrel organ.
Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes, playing the cymbals.
This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre,
still in working order, ladies and gentlemen.
Showing here.
(PLAYING MASQUERADE)
May I commence at 20 francs?
Oh, come, come, ladies and gentlemen. Fifteen, then?
Fifteen I am bid. Thank you very much.
Yes, 20 from you, sir. Thank you very much.
- Twenty-five. - Twenty-five on my right.
Thank you, madam.
Twenty-five I am bid.
Thirty? 30.
Selling at 30 francs, then.
Thirty once, 30 twice...
Sold for 30 francs
to the Vicomte de Chagny.
Thank you very much, sir.
Boy.
♪ A collector's piece indeed
♪ Every detail exactly as she said
♪ She often spoke of you, my friend
♪ Your velvet lining and your figurine of lead
♪ Will you still play when all the rest of us are dead? ♪
Lot 666, then.
A chandelier in pieces.
Some of you may recall the strange affair of The Phantom of the Opera,
a mystery never fully explained.
We are told, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier
that figures in that famous disaster.
Our workshops have restored it
and fitted parts of it with wiring for the new electric light,
so that we may get a hint of how it may look when reassembled.
(CHUCKLES)
Perhaps we may even frighten away the ghost of so many years ago
with a little illumination, gentlemen!
(ORGAN PLAYING THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA)
♪ This
♪ Trophy
♪ From our saviours
♪ From the enslaving force
♪ Of Rome
CHORUS: ♪ With feasting and dancing and song
♪ Tonight in celebration
♪ We greet the victorious throng
♪ Returned to bring salvation
♪ The trumpets of Carthage resound
♪ Hear Romans now and tremble
♪ Hark to our step on the ground
♪ Hear the drums, Hannibal comes
♪ Sad to return to find the land we love
♪ Threatened once more by Roma's far-reaching grasp... ♪
No, no, no, no!
Signor, if you please.
- "Rome". We say "Rome", not "Roma". - (ALL MURMURING)
"Rome"? "Rome" is very hard for me.
Well, once again, if you please, signor, "Sad to return..."
- It's very, very hard. I am from Italy. - Just get it right, please.
PIANGI: Rome. Signor...
♪ Sad to return to find the land we love
♪ Threatened once more by Rome's far-reaching grasp
♪ Tomorrow we shall break the chains of Rome
♪ Tonight, rejoice
♪ Your army
♪ Has come home
♪ Bid welcome to Hannibal's guests
♪ The elephants of Carthage
♪ As guides on our conquering quests
♪ Dido sends
♪ Hannibal's friends
♪ Once more to my welcoming arms
♪ My love returns in splendour
♪ Once more to the sweetest of charms
♪ My heart and soul surrender
♪ The trumpeting elephants sound
♪ Hear Romans now and tremble
♪ Hark to their step on the ground
♪ Hear the drums
♪ Hannibal comes ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
REYER: Hey! Hey! We're doing that all again!
Thank you very much.
You were very good. This song is marvellous. Thank you.
LEFEVRE: This way, gentlemen, this way. REYER: Girls!
Rehearsals, as you see, are underway
for a new production of Chalumeau's Hannibal.
Ladies and gentlemen...
(CLEARING THROAT) Ladies and gentlemen, please...
Ladies and...
Madame Giry.
(BANGS STAFF)
Thank you.
May I have your attention, please?
As you know, for some weeks there have been rumours
about my imminent retirement.
I can now tell you, these were all true,
and it is now my pleasure to introduce you to the two gentlemen
who now own the Opera Populaire,
Monsieur Richard Firmin and Monsieur Giles André.
- (ALL APPLAUDING) - ANDRÉ: Oh, no, please.
Gentlemen, Signora Carlotta Giudicelli,
our leading soprano for 19 seasons now.
Of course, of course, I have experienced all your greatest roles, signora.
And Signor Ubaldo Piangi.
An honour, signor.
(CHUCKLES) If I remember rightly, Elissa has a rather fine aria
in Act Three of Hannibal.
I wonder, signora, if, as a personal favour, you would oblige us with a private rendition?
Unless, of course, Monsieur Reyer objects...
No, my manager commands. Monsieur Reyer!
My diva commands. Would two bars be sufficient introduction?
Two bars will be quite sufficient.
(VOCALISING)
REYER: Signora?
(PIANO PLAYING)
♪ Think of me
♪ Think of me fondly
♪ When we've said goodbye
♪ Remember me
♪ Every so often
♪ Promise me you'll try
♪ On that day, that not so distant day
♪ When you are far away and free
♪ If you ever find a moment
♪ Spare a thought for me
♪ Think of me
♪ Think of me warmly... ♪
(MAN EXCLAIMS)
(ALL SCREAMING)
♪ He's here, The Phantom of the Opera
♪ He's there, The Phantom of the Opera
CHORUS: ♪ He is with us It's the ghost ♪
Good heavens, will you show a little courtesy!
Mademoiselle, please!
LEFEVRE: Signora! Are you all right? Buquet! Where is Buquet?
Get that man down here!
Buquet, chief of the flys. He's responsible for this.
Buquet! For God's sake, man, what's going on up there?
♪ Please, monsieur, don't look at me
♪ As God's my witness, I was not at my post
♪ Please, monsieur, there's no one there
♪ And if there is, well, then, it must be a ghost ♪
- (WOMAN SCREAMING) - (ALL MURMURING)
♪ He's there, The Phantom of the Opera ♪
Good heavens! I have never known such insolence.
Signora, please.
(SCOFFS) These things do happen.
"These things do happen"?
(CHUCKLES)
You have been here five minutes! What do you know?
(SNIFFLING) Si, these things do happen, all the time!
For the past three years, these things do happen.
And did you stop them happening? No!
And you... You're as bad as him.
"These things do happen."
Well, until you stop these things happening,
this thing does not happen!
Ubaldo, andiamo!
(SOBBING)
Amateurs!
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
I don't think there's much more I can do to assist you, gentlemen. Good luck.
If you need me, I shall be in Frankfurt.
(EXCLAIMING) But, monsieur...
LEFEVRE: Move, please. Out of the way.
Oh... (SIGHS)
La Carlotta will be back.
You think so, monsieur?
Yes.
I have a message, sir, from the Opera Ghost.
Oh, God in heaven, you're all obsessed!
He merely welcomes you to his opera house.
Commands that you continue to leave Box Five empty for his use,
and reminds you that his salary is due.
(MANAGERS LAUGHING)
His salary?
Monsieur Lefevre paid him 20,000 francs a month.
Perhaps you could afford more, with the Vicomte de Chagny as your patron.
Madame, I had hoped to have made that announcement myself.
Will the Vicomte be at the performance this evening, monsieur?
In our box.
Madame, who is the understudy for the role?
There is no understudy, monsieur. The production is new.
Christine Daaé could sing it, sir.
A ballet girl?
Well, she's been taking lessons from a great teacher.
Oh, from whom?
I don't know, sir.
Oh, not you as well. Can you believe it?
A full house, and we have to cancel!
Daaé? That's a curious name.
Any relation to the violinist?
My father, sir.
Let her sing for you, monsieur.
She has been well taught.
Very well.
Oh, from the beginning of the aria then, mam'selle.
Gentlemen, please.
(WHISPERING)
(PIANO PLAYING)
(HESITANTLY) ♪ Think of me
♪ Think of me fondly
♪ When we've said goodbye
(BANGS STAFF)
♪ Remember me
♪ Every so often
♪ Promise me you'll try
André, this is doing nothing for my nerves.
Don't fret, Firmin.
♪ On that day, that not so distant day
♪ When you are far away and free
♪ If you ever find a moment
♪ Spare a thought for me
REYER: Madame! Monsieur!
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
Thank you. Thank you so much.
♪ And though it's clear
♪ Though it was always clear
♪ That this was never meant to be
♪ If you happen to remember
♪ Stop and think of me
♪ Think of August
♪ When the world was green
♪ Don't think about the way
♪ Things might have been
♪ Think of me
♪ Think of me waking
♪ Silent and resigned
♪ Imagine me
♪ Trying too hard
♪ To put you from my mind
♪ Think of me
♪ Please say you'll think of me
♪ Whatever else you choose to do
♪ There will never be a day
♪ When I won't think of you
(SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
♪ Can it be?
♪ Can it be Christine?
Brava! Brava!
♪ Long ago
♪ It seems so long ago
♪ How young and innocent we were
♪ She may not remember me
♪ But I remember her
♪ Flowers fade
♪ The fruits of summer fade
♪ They have their seasons
♪ So do we
♪ But please promise me
♪ That sometimes
♪ You will think
(VOCALISING)
♪ Of me ♪
MAN: Brava! Brava!
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(MEN LAUGHING)
(ALL APPLAUDING)
Christine Daaé, that was unbelievable.
(ALL CLAMOURING)
- (STAFF BANGS) - (GIRLS GASP)
Yes, you did well.
He will be pleased.
(GIRLS MURMURING EXCITEDLY)
And, you! You were a disgrace!
Such ronds de jambes! Such temps de cuisse!
Come! We rehearse. Now!
PHANTOM: ♪ Brava
♪ Brava
♪ Bravissima
MEG: ♪ Christine
♪ Christine
PHANTOM: ♪ Christine
♪ Where in the world have you been hiding?
♪ Really, you were perfect
♪ I only wish I knew your secret
♪ Who is this new tutor?
♪ Father once spoke of an angel
♪ I used to dream he'd appear
♪ Now as I sing I can sense him
♪ And I know he's here
♪ Here in this room, he calls me softly
♪ Somewhere inside, hiding
♪ Somehow I know he's always with me
♪ He, the unseen genius
♪ I watched your face from the shadows
♪ Distant through all the applause
♪ I hear your voice in the darkness
♪ Yet the words aren't yours
♪ Angel of Music, guide and guardian
♪ Grant to me your glory ♪ Who is this angel?
BOTH: ♪ This Angel of Music hide no longer
♪ Secret and strange angel
♪ He's with me even now ♪ Your hands are cold
♪ All around ♪ Your face, Christine, it's white
♪ It frightens me ♪ ♪ Don't be frightened ♪
(STAFF BANGS)
Meg Giry. Are you a dancer?
Then go and practise.
(SIGHS)
My dear, I was asked to give you this.
Thank you.
"A red scarf. The attic. Little Lotte."
(MEN LAUGHING)
ANDRÉ: A tour de force! There's no other way to describe it!
What a relief! Not a single refund!
Greedy.
Richard, I think we've made quite a discovery with Miss Daaé!
FIRMIN: Here we are, Monsieur le Vicomte.
Gentlemen, if you wouldn't mind.
This is one visit I should prefer to make unaccompanied.
As you wish, monsieur.
- They appear to have met before. - (MEN LAUGHING)
Christine Daaé, where is your red scarf?
- Monsieur? - Well, you can't have lost it.
After all the trouble I took.
I was just 14 and soaked to the skin...
Because you had run into the sea to fetch my scarf.
- Oh, Raoul. So it is you. - Christine.
♪ Little Lotte, let her mind wander
You remember that, too?
♪ Little Lotte thought, am I fonder of dolls
BOTH: ♪ Or of goblins, of shoes
♪ Or of riddles, of frocks
Those picnics in the attic.
♪ Or of chocolates?
Father playing the violin.
As we read to each other dark stories of the north. (LAUGHS)
♪ "No, what I love best," Lotte said
♪ "Is when I'm asleep in my bed
♪ "And the Angel of Music sings songs in my head
BOTH: ♪ "The Angel of Music sings songs in my head"♪
Father said, "When I'm in heaven, child,
"I will send the Angel of Music to you."
Well, Father is dead, Raoul,
and I have been visited by the Angel of Music.
No doubt of it. And now, we go to supper.
No, Raoul, the Angel of Music is very strict.
- I shan't keep you up late. - No...
You must change. I must get my hat.
Two minutes... Little Lotte.
(CHUCKLING)
Raoul!
Things have changed, Raoul.
PHANTOM: ♪ Insolent boy, the slave of fashion
♪ Basking in your glory
♪ Ignorant fool, this brave young suitor
♪ Sharing in my triumph
♪ Angel, I hear you Speak, I listen
♪ Stay by my side, guide me
♪ Angel, my soul was weak, forgive me
♪ Enter at last, master
PHANTOM: ♪ Flattering child, you shall know me
♪ See why in shadow I hide
♪ Look at your face in the mirror
♪ I am there inside
♪ Angel of Music, guide and guardian
♪ Grant to me your glory
♪ Angel of Music, hide no longer
♪ Come to me, strange angel
♪ I am your Angel of Music
♪ Come to me, Angel of Music
♪ I am your Angel of Music
♪ Come to me, Angel of Music ♪
Christine!
(THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA PLAYING)
CHRISTINE: ♪ In sleep he sang to me
♪ In dreams he came
♪ That voice which calls to me
♪ And speaks my name
♪ And do I dream again
♪ For now I find
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside my mind
PHANTOM: ♪ Sing once again with me
♪ Our strange duet
♪ My power over you
♪ Grows stronger yet
♪ And though you turn from me
♪ To glance behind
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside your mind
♪ Those who have seen your face
♪ Draw back in fear
♪ I am the mask you wear
♪ It's me they hear
CHRISTINE: ♪ My spirit and my voice PHANTOM: ♪ Your spirit and your voice
BOTH: ♪ In one combined
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
CHRISTINE: ♪ Inside my mind PHANTOM: ♪ Inside your mind
CHORUS: ♪ He's there, The Phantom of the Opera
♪ Beware, The Phantom of the Opera
♪ In all your fantasies
♪ You always knew
♪ That man and mystery
♪ Were both in you
BOTH: ♪ And in this labyrinth
♪ Where night is blind
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside my mind ♪ Inside your mind
Sing for me.
My Angel of Music!
♪ He's there, The Phantom of the Opera ♪
- Sing! - (VOCALISING)
Sing!
Sing for me!
♪ I have brought you
♪ To the seat of sweet music's throne
♪ To this kingdom where all must pay homage to music
♪ Music
♪ You have come here
♪ For one purpose and one alone
♪ Since the moment I first heard you sing
♪ I have needed you with me to serve me
♪ To sing for my music
♪ My music
♪ Night-time sharpens
♪ Heightens each sensation
♪ Darkness stirs
♪ And wakes imagination
♪ Silently the senses
♪ Abandon their defences
♪ Slowly, gently
♪ Night unfurls its splendour
♪ Grasp it, sense it
♪ Tremulous and tender
♪ Turn your face away
♪ From the garish light of day
♪ Turn your thoughts away
♪ From cold, unfeeling light
♪ And listen to the music
♪ Of the night
♪ Close your eyes and surrender
♪ To your darkest dreams
♪ Purge your thoughts
♪ Of the life you knew before
♪ Close your eyes
♪ Let your spirit start to soar
♪ And you'll live
♪ As you've never lived before
♪ Softly, deftly
♪ Music shall surround you
♪ Hear it, feel it
♪ Closing in around you
♪ Open up your mind
♪ Let your fantasies unwind
♪ In this darkness
♪ Which you know you cannot fight
♪ The darkness of the music
♪ Of the night
♪ Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world
♪ Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before
♪ Let your soul
♪ Take you where you long to be
♪ Only then
♪ Can you belong
♪ To me
♪ Floating, falling
♪ Sweet intoxication
♪ Touch me, trust me
♪ Savour each sensation
♪ Let the dream begin
♪ Let your darker side give in
♪ To the power of the music
♪ That I write
♪ The power of the music
♪ Of the night
♪ You alone can make
♪ My song take flight
♪ Help me make the music
♪ Of the
♪ Night ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(PLAYING ORGAN AGGRESSIVELY)
(PLAYING MASQUERADE)
♪ I remember there was mist
♪ Swirling mist upon a vast, glassy lake
♪ There were candles all around
♪ And on the lake there was a boat
♪ And in the boat there was a man
♪ Who was that shape in the shadows?
♪ Whose is that face in the mask? ♪
(SCREAMS)
♪ Damn you! You little prying Pandora
♪ You little demon Is this what you wanted to see?
♪ Curse you! - (YELLS)
♪ You little lying Delilah!
♪ You little viper
♪ Now you cannot ever be free
♪ Damn you!
♪ Curse you!
(PANTING)
♪ Stranger than you dreamt it
♪ Can you even dare to look
♪ Or bear to think of me
♪ This loathsome gargoyle who burns in hell
♪ But secretly yearns for heaven
♪ Secretly, secretly
♪ But, Christine
♪ Fear can turn to love
♪ You'll learn to see
♪ To find the man behind the monster
♪ This repulsive carcass
♪ Who seems a beast
♪ But secretly dreams of beauty
♪ Secretly, secretly
Oh, Christine...
No.
♪ Come, we must return
♪ Those two fools who run my theatre will be missing you ♪
- GIRL: Let's go this way. - (GIRLS GIGGLING)
(ALL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
- Quick! Come this way! - (GIRLS WHISPERING)
(SCREAMS)
(GIRLS SCREAMING)
(BUQUET CHUCKLES)
♪ Like yellow parchment is his skin
(GIRLS MURMURING)
♪ A great black hole serves as the nose which never grew
(LAUGHS)
♪ You must be always on your guard
♪ Or he will catch you with his magical lasso
- (SCREAMS) - (GIRLS SCREAMING)
(BUQUET LAUGHING MANIACALLY)
GIRY: ♪ Those who speak of what they know
♪ Find too late that prudent silence is wise
♪ Joseph Buquet hold your tongue
♪ He will burn you with the heat of his eyes ♪
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY)
♪ "Mystery after gala night"
♪ It says, "Mystery of soprano's flight"
♪ "Mystified," baffled Sûreté say
♪ "We are mystified We suspect foul play"
♪ Bad news on soprano scene
♪ First Carlotta, now Christine
♪ Still, at least the seats get sold
♪ Gossip's worth its weight in gold
(KISSES)
♪ Diva tenders resignation
(LAUGHING)
♪ Cover does a moonlight flit
♪ Half your cast disappears, but the crowd still cheers
♪ Opera, to hell with Gluck and Handel
♪ Have a scandal and you're sure to have a hit
♪ Damnable, will they all walk out?
♪ This is damnable
♪ André, please don't shout It's publicity
♪ And the take is vast Free publicity
♪ But we have no cast
♪ But, André, have you seen the queue?
♪ Oh, it seems you've got one, too
Hmm.
♪ "Dear André, what a charming gala
♪ "Christine enjoyed a great success
♪ "We were hardly bereft when Carlotta left
♪ "Otherwise, the chorus was entrancing
♪ "But the dancing was a lamentable mess"
♪ "Dear Firmin, just a brief reminder
♪ "My salary has not been paid
♪ "Send it care of the Ghost by return of post
♪ "PTO, no one likes a debtor
♪ "So it's better if my orders are obeyed"
BOTH: ♪ Who would have the gall to send this?
♪ Someone with a puerile brain
♪ These are both signed "O.G." ♪ Who the hell is he?
BOTH: ♪ Opera Ghost
♪ It's really not amusing ♪ He's abusing our position
♪ In addition he wants money ♪ He's a funny sort of spectre
BOTH: ♪ To expect a large retainer Nothing plainer
♪ He is clearly quite insane
♪ Where is she? ♪ You mean Carlotta?
♪ I mean Miss Daaé Where is she?
♪ Well, how should we know? ♪ I want an answer
♪ I take it that you sent me this note ♪ What's all this nonsense?
♪ Of course not ♪ Don't look at us
♪ She's not with you then? ♪ Of course not
♪ We're in the dark ♪ Monsieur, don't argue
♪ Isn't this the letter you wrote?
♪ And what is it that we're meant to have wrote?
♪ Written?
♪ "Do not fear for Miss Daaé
♪ "The Angel of Music has her under his wing
♪ "Make no attempt to see her again"
Well, if you didn't write it, who did?
♪ Where is he?
♪ Ah, welcome back ♪ Your precious patron
♪ Where is he? ♪ What is it now?
♪ I have your letter A letter which I rather resent
♪ Did you send it? ♪ Of course not
ANDRÉ: ♪ As if he would ♪ You didn't send it?
♪ Of course not ♪ What's going on?
♪ You dare to tell me that this is not the letter you sent?
♪ And what is it that I'm meant to have sent?
(GASPS)
(CLEARS THROAT)
♪ "Your days at the Opera Populaire are numbered
♪ "Christine Daaé will be singing on your behalf tonight
♪ "Be prepared for a great misfortune
♪ "Should you attempt to take her place"
BOTH: ♪ Far too many notes for my taste
♪ And most of them about Christine
♪ All we've heard since we came is Miss Daaé's name
(BANGS STAFF)
♪ Miss Daaé has returned
♪ In which case I think our meeting is adjourned
♪ Where precisely is she now?
♪ I thought it best that she went home
♪ She needed rest
♪ May I see her?
♪ No, monsieur, she will see no one
♪ Will she sing? ♪ Will she sing?
♪ Here, I have a note
ALL: ♪ Let me see it ♪ ♪ Please! ♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
"Gentlemen, I have now sent you several notes of the most amiable nature,
"detailing how my theatre is to be run."
Hmm.
"You have not followed my instructions.
- "I shall give you one last chance." - PHANTOM: I shall give you one last chance.
♪ Christine Daaé has returned to you
♪ And I am anxious her career should progress
♪ In the new production of II Muto
♪ You will therefore cast Carlotta as the pageboy
♪ And put Miss Daaé in the role of Countess
♪ The role which Miss Daaé plays calls for charm and appeal
♪ The role of the pageboy is silent
♪ Which makes my casting, in a word, ideal ♪
I shall watch the performance from my normal seat in Box Five,
which will be kept empty for me.
- Should these commands be ignored... - "Should these commands be ignored,
"a disaster beyond your imagination will occur.
"I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, O.G."
♪ Christine, Christine
♪ Christine! ♪ Whatever next
♪ It's all a ploy to help Christine
♪ This is insane ♪ I know who sent this
♪ The Vicomte, her lover
♪ Indeed? Can you believe this?
♪ Signora! ♪ How can you do this?
♪ O traditori O mentitori
♪ Signora! ♪ You are our star
♪ And always will be
♪ Signora! ♪ The man is mad
♪ We don't take orders ♪ Miss Daaé will be playing the pageboy
♪ The silent role
♪ Carlotta will be playing the lead
♪ You don't deserve her!
♪ It's useless trying to appease me ♪ Appease her
♪ You're only saying this to please me ♪ To please her
♪ Signori, è vero?
BOTH: ♪ No, no, non voglio udire! Lasciatemi morire!
♪ O Padre mio! Dio!
♪ Who scorn his word, beware to those
♪ The Angel sees ♪ Why did Christine fly from my arms?
♪ The Angel knows ♪ You have rebuked me
MANAGERS: ♪ Signora, pardon us
♪ You have replaced me
BOTH: ♪ Please, signora, we beseech you
GIRY: ♪ This hour shall see your darkest fears ♪ I must see her
♪ The Angel knows The Angel hears
♪ Abbandonata, desiderata O, sventura, disgraziata
♪ Signora, sing for us
♪ Abbandonata ♪ Don't be unfeeling
♪ What new surprises are in store? ♪ Our star
(FIRMIN GRUMBLING)
♪ Your public needs you
♪ We need you, too
♪ Would you not rather have your precious little ingénue?
BOTH: ♪ Signora, no
♪ The world wants you
♪ Prima donna, first lady of the stage
♪ Your devotees are on their knees to implore you
♪ Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?
♪ Think of how they all adore you
♪ Prima donna, enchant us once again
♪ Think of your muse
♪ And of the queues round the theatre
♪ Can you deny us the triumph in store?
♪ Sing, prima donna, once more
RAOUL: ♪ Christine spoke of an angel
♪ Prima donna, your song shall live again
♪ You took a snub ♪ Think of your public
♪ But there's a public who needs you
♪ Those who hear your voice liken you to an angel
♪ Think of their cry of undying support RAOUL: ♪ Is this the Angel of Music?
♪ We get our opera
♪ She gets her limelight ♪ Follow where the limelight leads you
♪ Leading ladies are a trial
♪ Prima donna, your song will never die
♪ You'll sing again and to an unending ovation
♪ Think how you'll shine in that final encore
♪ Sing, prima donna, once more
ALL: ♪...demands are rejected
♪ Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl
♪ Who's gone and slept with the patron?
♪ Raoul and the soubrette entwined in love's duet
♪ Although he may demur He must have been with her
♪ You'd never get away with all this in a play
♪ But if it's loudly sung and in a foreign tongue
♪ It's just the sort of story audiences adore
♪ In fact a perfect opera ♪ For if his curse is on this opera
♪ Prima donna, the world is at your feet
♪ A nation waits and how it hates to be cheated
♪ Light up the stage with that age-old rapport
♪ Sing, prima donna
♪ Once more
PHANTOM: So, it is to be war between us.
If these demands are not met,
a disaster beyond imagination will occur.
ALL: ♪ Once more ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
RAOUL: Gentlemen, if you would care to take your seats? We shall be sitting in Box Five.
ANDRÉ: Do you really think that's wise, monsieur?
RAOUL: My dear André, there would appear to be no seats available other than Box Five.
(PEOPLE LAUGHING RAUCOUSLY)
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
♪ They say that this youth has set my lady's heart aflame
♪ His Lordship sure would die of shock
♪ His Lordship is a laughing stock
♪ Should he suspect her, God protect her
ALL: ♪ Shame, shame, shame
♪ This faithless lady's bound for Hades
♪ Shame, shame, shame
♪ Serafimo, your disguise is perfect
(KNOCKING)
♪ Why, who can this be?
♪ Gentle wife, admit your loving husband
ANDRÉ: Every seat sold!
FIRMIN: Hardly a disaster beyond imagination.
(MEN LAUGHING)
♪ My love, I am called to England on affairs of State
♪ And must leave you with your new maid
(COUGHS)
Though I'd happily take the maid with me. (LAUGHS MISCHIEVOUSLY)
The old fool's leaving. (LAUGHS)
♪ I suspect my young bride is untrue to me
♪ I shall not leave but shall hide over there
♪ To observe her
(CLEARS THROAT)
♪ Addio
BOTH: ♪ Addio
♪ Serafimo, away with this pretence
♪ You cannot speak
♪ But kiss me in my husband's absence
♪ Poor fool, he makes me laugh Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
♪ Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
♪ Time I tried to get a better, better half
ALL: ♪ Poor fool, he doesn't know Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
♪ Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
♪ If he knew the truth he'd never ever go ♪
PHANTOM: (ANGRILY) Did I not instruct that Box Five was to be kept empty?
♪ He's here, The Phantom of the Opera ♪
It's him, I know it. It's him.
- (MURMURING) - Calm down.
Your part is silent, little toad!
PHANTOM: A toad, madame?
Perhaps it is you who are the toad.
Maestro, da capo, per piacere.
(CLEARS THROAT)
♪ Serafimo, away with this pretence
♪ You cannot speak, but kiss me in my...
(CROAKS)
(PHANTOM LAUGHING)
♪ Poor fool, he makes me laugh Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ♪
(CROAKING)
(PHANTOM LAUGHING MENACINGLY)
PIANGI: Maestro! Maestro, no!
PHANTOM: Behold! She is singing to bring down the chandelier!
FIRMIN: Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise.
The performance will continue in 10 minutes' time,
when the role of the Countess will be sung by Miss Christine Daaé.
Ladies and gentlemen! (PANTING)
Oh. (LAUGHS NERVOUSLY) In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen,
we shall be giving you the ballet...
(STAMMERING) Uh, from Act...
...Three of tonight's opera.
Maestro, bring the ballet forward.
(LAUGHING SHEEPISHLY)
(AUDIENCE LAUGHING)
The ballet. Now!
(ORCHESTRA PLAYING CLASSICAL MUSIC)
(GROANS)
(CHOKING)
(ALL SCREAMING)
(PHANTOM LAUGHING)
Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats.
Do not panic. It was an accident.
Simply an accident.
(EXCLAIMS)
♪ Why have you brought us here? ♪ Don't take me back there
♪ We must return ♪ He'll kill me
♪ His eyes will find me there ♪ Christine, don't say that
♪ Those eyes that burn ♪ Don't even think it
♪ And if he has to kill a thousand men ♪ Forget this waking nightmare
♪ The Phantom of the Opera will kill again ♪ The Phantom is a fable
♪ Believe me, there is no Phantom of the Opera
♪ My God, who is this man? ♪ My God, who is this man?
♪ Who hunts to kill ♪ This mask of death
♪ I can't escape from him ♪ Whose is this voice you hear
♪ I never will ♪ With every breath?
BOTH: ♪ And in this labyrinth where night is blind
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is here ♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside my mind ♪ Inside your mind
♪ There is no Phantom of the Opera
♪ Raoul, I've been there
♪ To his world of unending night
♪ To a world where the daylight dissolves into darkness
♪ Darkness
♪ Raoul, I've seen him
♪ Can I ever forget that sight?
♪ Can I ever escape from that face?
♪ So distorted, deformed
♪ It was hardly a face in that darkness
♪ Darkness
♪ But his voice filled my spirit
♪ With a strange, sweet sound
♪ In that night there was music
♪ In my mind
♪ And through music
♪ My soul began to soar
♪ And I heard
♪ As I'd never heard before ♪ What you heard was
♪ A dream and nothing more
♪ Yet in his eyes
♪ All the sadness of the world
♪ Those pleading eyes
♪ That both threaten
♪ And adore
♪ Christine, Christine
PHANTOM: ♪ Christine ♪
What was that?
Christine, come here.
♪ No more talk of darkness
♪ Forget these wide-eyed fears
♪ I'm here, nothing will harm you
♪ My words will warm and calm you
♪ Let me be your freedom
♪ Let daylight dry your tears
♪ I'm here, with you, beside you
♪ To guard you and to guide you
♪ Say you'll love me every waking moment
♪ Turn my head with talk of summertime
♪ Say you need me with you, now and always
♪ Promise me that all you say is true
♪ That's all I ask of you
♪ Let me be your shelter
♪ Let me be your light
♪ You're safe, no one can find you
♪ Your fears are far behind you
♪ All I want is freedom
♪ A world with no more night
♪ And you always beside me
♪ To hold me and to hide me
♪ Then say you'll share with me one love
♪ One lifetime
♪ Let me lead you from your solitude
♪ Say you need me with you Here beside you
♪ Anywhere you go, let me go, too
♪ Christine, that's all I ask of you
♪ Say you'll share with me one love
♪ One lifetime
♪ Say the word and I will follow you
♪ Share each day with me
♪ Each night, each morning
♪ Say you love me
♪ You know I do
BOTH: ♪ Love me
♪ That's all I ask of you
♪ Anywhere you go, let me go, too
♪ Love me
♪ That's all I ask
♪ Of you ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(RAOUL LAUGHING)
♪ I must go
♪ They'll wonder where I am Wait for me, Raoul
♪ Christine, I love you
♪ Order your fine horses
♪ Be with them at the door
♪ And soon you'll be beside me
♪ You'll guard me and you'll guide me ♪
♪ I gave you my music
♪ Made your song take wing
♪ And now
♪ How you've repaid me
♪ Denied me and betrayed me
♪ He was bound to love you
♪ When he heard you sing ♪
(CRYING)
Christine...
CHRISTINE AND RAOUL: ♪ Say you'll share with me one love
♪ One lifetime
♪ Say the word
♪ And I will follow you
♪ Share each day with me
♪ Each night, each morning
♪ You will curse the day you did not do
♪ All that the Phantom
♪ Asked of you ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(PHANTOM SCREAMS)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
(PLAYING ANGEL OF MUSIC)
(PLAYING THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT)
(PLAYING ALL I ASK OF YOU)
(BOTH EXCLAIM)
Monsieur Firmin?
Monsieur André?
(BOTH EXCLAIM)
(BOTH LAUGHING)
♪ Dear André, what a splendid party
♪ The prologue to a bright new year
♪ Quite a night, I'm impressed
♪ Well, one does one's best
BOTH: ♪ Here's to us
♪ A toast to all the city
♪ Such a pity that The Phantom can't be here ♪
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(MASQUERADE PLAYING)
ALL: ♪ Masquerade
♪ Paper faces on parade
♪ Masquerade
♪ Hide your face so the world will never find you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Every face a different shade
♪ Masquerade
♪ Look around There's another mask behind you
♪ Flash of mauve Splash of puce
♪ Fool and king Ghoul and goose
♪ Green and black Queen and priest
♪ Trace of rouge Face of beast
♪ Faces
♪ Take your turn Take a ride
♪ On the merry-go-round In an inhuman race
♪ Thigh of blue ♪ True is false
♪ Who is who ♪ Curl of lip
♪ Swirl of gown ♪ Ace of hearts
♪ Face of clown
ALL: ♪ Faces
♪ Drink it in Drink it up
♪ Till you've drowned in the light
♪ In the sound BOTH: ♪ But who can name the face?
ALL: ♪ Masquerade
♪ Grinning yellows Spinning reds
♪ Masquerade
♪ Take your fill
♪ Let the spectacle astound you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Burning glances Turning heads
♪ Masquerade
♪ Stop and stare
♪ At the sea of smiles around you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Seething shadows Breathing lies
♪ Masquerade You can fool
♪ Any friend who ever knew you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Leering satyrs Peering eyes
♪ Masquerade Run and hide
♪ But the face will still pursue you
♪ What a night MEG: ♪ What a crowd
ANDRÉ: ♪ Makes you glad ♪ Makes you proud
♪ All the crème de la crème ♪ Watching us
♪ And watching them ♪ And all our fears are in the past
ANDRÉ: ♪ Six months PIANGI: ♪ Of relief
CARLOTTA: ♪ Of delight ANDRÉ: ♪ Of Elysian peace
♪ And we can breathe at last
♪ No more notes ♪ No more ghost
♪ Here's a health ♪ Here's a toast
♪ To a prosperous year ♪ To the new chandelier
♪ And may its splendour never fade
♪ What a change ♪ What a blessed release
♪ And what a masquerade
♪ Think of it A secret engagement
♪ Look, your future bride
♪ Just think of it
♪ But why is it secret? What have we to hide?
♪ You promised me ♪ You promised me
♪ No, Raoul, please don't They'll see
♪ Well, let them see It's an engagement, not a crime
♪ Christine, what are you afraid of?
♪ Let's not argue ♪ Let's not argue
♪ Please pretend ♪ I can only hope
♪ You will understand in time ♪ I'll understand in time
♪ Masquerade
♪ Paper faces on parade
♪ Masquerade Hide your face
♪ So the world will never find you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Every face a different shade
♪ Masquerade
♪ Look around There's another mask behind you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Burning glances Turning heads
♪ Masquerade
♪ Stop and stare
♪ At the sea of smiles around you
♪ Masquerade
♪ Grinning yellows Spinning reds
♪ Masquerade
♪ Take your fill
♪ Let the spectacle astound you ♪
♪ Why so silent, good messieurs?
♪ Did you think that I had left you for good?
♪ Have you missed me, good messieurs?
♪ I have written you an opera
♪ Here I bring the finished score
♪ Don Juan Triumphant
♪ I advise you to comply
♪ My instructions should be clear
♪ Remember there are worse things than a shattered chandelier
♪ Your chains are still mine You will sing for me ♪
(ALL SCREAMING)
Madame Giry?
- Madame Giry! - Monsieur, don't ask me.
I know no more than anyone else.
That's not true. You know something, don't you?
I know nothing!
Please, monsieur, don't ask me.
Madame, for all our sakes.
Very well.
It was years ago.
There was a travelling fair in the city.
Tumblers, conjurers, human oddities.
- Go on. - And there was...
I shall never forget him.
A man locked in a cage.
- In a cage? - A prodigy, monsieur.
Scholar, architect, musician.
- A composer. - And an inventor, too, monsieur.
They boasted he had once built for the Shah of Persia
- a maze of mirrors. - Who was this man?
♪ A freak of nature
♪ More monster than man
- Deformed? - From birth it seemed.
- My God. - Then he went missing.
- He escaped. - Go on.
♪ They never found him It was said he had died
But he didn't die, did he?
♪ The world forgot him But I never can
♪ For in this darkness
♪ I have seen him again ♪ And so our phantom's this man? ♪
I have said too much, monsieur, too much.
- No! Wait! - And there have been too many accidents.
Accidents? Madame Giry!
♪ Ludicrous
♪ Have you seen the score?
♪ Simply ludicrous
♪ It's the final straw
♪ This is lunacy
♪ Well, you know my views
♪ Utter lunacy
♪ But we daren't refuse
♪ Not another chandelier
♪ Look, my friend, what we have here
♪ "Dear André, Re my orchestrations
♪ "We need another first bassoon
♪ "Every note's overblown
♪ "And that third trombone has to go
♪ "The man could not be deafer
♪ "So please preferably one who plays in tune"
♪ "Dear Firmin, Vis-à-vis my opera
♪ "Some chorus members must be sacked
♪ "If you could find out which has a sense of pitch
♪ "Wisely though
♪ "I've managed to assign a rather minor role
♪ "To those who cannot act" ♪ Outrage!
♪ What is it now? ♪ This whole affair
♪ Is an outrage ♪ Signora, please
♪ Now what's the matter? ♪ Have you seen the size of my part?
♪ Signora, listen ♪ It's an insult
♪ Not you as well ♪ Just look at this
♪ It's an insult
♪ Please understand ♪ Signor, Signora
♪ The things I have to do for my art
(GROANS)
♪ If you can call this gibberish "art"!
♪ Ah, here's our little flower
♪ Ah, Miss Daaé Quite the lady of the hour
♪ You have secured the largest role in this Don Juan
♪ Christine Daaé She doesn't have the voice
♪ Signora, please
♪ Then I take it you're agreeing ♪ She's behind this
♪ It appears we have no choice
♪ She's the one behind this Christine Daaé
♪ How dare you? ♪ I'm not a fool
♪ You evil woman How dare you?
♪ You think I'm blind? ♪ This isn't my fault
♪ I don't want any part in this plot
♪ Miss Daaé, surely... ♪ But why not?
PIANGI: ♪ What does she say? ♪ It's your decision
♪ But why not? ♪ She's backing out
ANDRÉ: ♪ You have a duty
♪ I cannot sing it, duty or not
♪ Christine, Christine
♪ You don't have to They can't make you ♪
Please, monsieur. Another note.
(ALL GROAN)
♪ "Fondest greetings to you all
♪ "A few instructions just before rehearsal starts
♪ "Carlotta must be taught to act
♪ "Not her normal trick of..." PHANTOM: ♪ Not her normal trick of
♪ Strutting round the stage
♪ Our Don Juan must lose some weight
♪ It's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age
♪ And my managers must learn
♪ That their place is in an office Not the arts
♪ As for Miss Christine Daaé
♪ No doubt she'll do her best
♪ It's true her voice is good She knows
♪ Though should she wish to excel
♪ She has much still to learn
♪ If pride will let her return to me
♪ Her teacher, her teacher ♪
- Your obedient friend. - "...and Angel."
I can't. I won't do it.
♪ We have all been blind
♪ And yet the answer is staring us in the face
♪ This could be the chance
♪ To ensnare our clever friend
♪ We're listening ♪ Go on
♪ We shall play his game
♪ Perform his work But remember we hold the ace
♪ For if Miss Daaé sings
♪ He is certain to attend
♪ We make certain the doors are barred
♪ We make certain our men are there
RAOUL: ♪ We make certain they're armed
♪ The curtain falls
♪ His reign will end
♪ Madness! ♪ I'm not so sure
♪ Not if it works ♪ This is madness
♪ The tide will turn
♪ Monsieur, believe me There is no way of turning the tide
♪ You stick to ballet ♪ Then help us
♪ Monsieur, I can't ♪ Instead of warning us
ALL: ♪ Help us!
♪ I wish I could MANAGERS: ♪ Don't make excuses
♪ Or could it be that you're on his side?
♪ She's his accomplice
♪ Monsieur, believe me, I intend no ill
♪ But, messieurs, be careful We have seen him kill
MANAGERS: ♪ We'll say he'll fall And fall he will
♪ She's the one behind this Christine
♪ This is the truth ♪ This is all her doing
PIANGI: ♪ Christine Daaé ♪ This is his undoing
MANAGERS: ♪ If you succeed, you free us all ♪ Angel of Music, fear my fury
♪ This so-called "Angel" has to fall GIRY: ♪ Hear my warning
♪ Hear his fury
(ALL OVERLAPPING)
♪ Please don't
♪ If you don't stop this, I'll go mad!
♪ Raoul, I'm frightened Don't make me do this
♪ Raoul, it scares me Don't put me through this ordeal by fire
♪ He'll take me, I know
♪ We'll be parted forever He won't let me go
♪ What I once used to dream, I now dread
♪ If he finds me, it won't ever end
♪ And he'll always be there Singing songs in my head
♪ He'll always be there
♪ Singing songs in my head
She's mad.
♪ You said yourself
♪ He was nothing but a man
♪ Yet while he lives
♪ He will haunt us till we're dead
♪ Twisted every way What answer can I give?
♪ Am I to risk my life to win the chance to live?
♪ Can I betray the man who once inspired my voice?
♪ Do I become his prey?
♪ Do I have any choice?
♪ He kills without a thought
♪ He murders all that's good
♪ I know I can't refuse
♪ And yet I wish I could
♪ Oh, God, if I agree
♪ What horrors wait for me?
♪ In this, The Phantom's opera
♪ Christine, Christine
♪ Don't think that I don't care
♪ But every hope and every prayer
♪ Rests on you now ♪
(ALL TALKING INDISTINCTLY)
I can't!
Christine!
So, it is to be war between us!
But this time, my clever friend,
the disaster will be yours!
ALL: ♪ Hide your sword now, wounded knight
♪ Your vainglorious gasconade
♪ Brought you to your final fight
♪ For your pride, high price you've paid
♪ Silken couch and hay-filled barn
♪ Both have been his battlefield
(SINGING OFF-KEY) ♪ Those who tangle with Don Juan
No, no, no!
Chorus, rest, please.
Don Juan. Signor Piangi.
- Si. - REYER: This is the phrase.
♪ Those who tangle with Don Juan
If you please.
(SINGING OFF-KEY) ♪ Those who tangle with Don Juan
(LAUGHING)
Nearly, but no.
♪ Those who tang! Tang! Tang! ♪ Those who tang! Tang! Tang!
His way is better. At least he makes it sound like music.
(ALL LAUGHING)
Signora, would you speak that way in the presence of the composer?
The composer is not here.
- And if he were here, I would... - Can you be certain of that,
signora?
(WHIMPERS)
Once again, if you please, Signor Piangi. After seven.
(REYER PLAYS NOTE ON PIANO)
Five, six, seven...
(SINGING OFF-KEY) ♪ Those who have been tangling with Don Juan
What does it matter what notes we sing?
No one will know if it is right or wrong.
No one will care.
(VOCALISING)
(PIANO PLAYING BY ITSELF)
ALL: ♪ Poor young maiden
♪ For the thrill on your tongue of stolen sweets
♪ You will have to pay the bill
♪ Tangled in the winding sheets
(VIOLIN PLAYING)
♪ In sleep he sang to me
♪ In dreams he came
♪ That voice which calls to me
♪ And speaks my name
♪ Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing
♪ Her father promised her that he would send her the Angel of Music
♪ Her father promised her
♪ Her father promised her ♪
♪ You were once
♪ My one companion
♪ You were all that mattered
♪ You were once a friend and father
♪ Then my world was shattered
♪ Wishing you were somehow here again
♪ Wishing you were somehow near
♪ Sometimes it seemed If I just dreamed
♪ Somehow you would be here
♪ Wishing I could hear your voice again
♪ Knowing that I never would
♪ Dreaming of you won't help me to do
♪ All that you dreamed I could
♪ Passing bells and sculpted angels
♪ Cold and monumental
♪ Seemed for you the wrong companions
♪ You were warm and gentle
♪ Too many years, fighting back tears
♪ Why can't the past just die?
♪ Wishing you were somehow here again
♪ Knowing we must say goodbye
♪ Try to forgive, teach me to live
♪ Give me the strength to try
♪ No more memories
♪ No more silent tears
♪ No more gazing across
♪ The wasted years
♪ Help me say
♪ Goodbye
♪ Help me say
♪ Goodbye ♪
♪ Wandering child So lost, so helpless
♪ Yearning for my guidance
♪ Angel or father Friend or phantom
♪ Who is it there, staring?
♪ Have you forgotten your angel?
♪ Angel, oh, speak What endless longings
♪ Echo in this whisper
♪ Too long you've wandered in winter
♪ Once again she is his
♪ Far from my fathering gaze
♪ Once again she returns
♪ Wildly my mind beats against you
♪ You resist yet your soul obeys ♪ Yet my soul obeys
♪ Into the arms of her...
♪ Angel of Music, I denied you ♪ Angel of Music, you denied me
♪ Angel or demon, still he calls her
♪ Turning from true beauty ♪ Turning from true beauty
♪ Luring her back from the grave
♪ Angel of Music, my protector ♪ Angel of Music, do not shun me
RAOUL: ♪ Angel or dark seducer Who are you strange angel?
♪ Come to me strange angel ♪ Come to me strange angel
♪ I am your Angel of Music
♪ Come to me, Angel of Music
Angel of darkness, cease this torment!
♪ I am your Angel of Music
Christine! Christine!
Listen to me, whatever you may believe, this man...
This... This thing is not your father.
♪ I am your Angel of Music
Let her go. For God's sake, let her go!
♪ Come to me, Angel of Music ♪
- Christine! - Raoul!
Bravo, monsieur, such spirited words.
- More tricks, monsieur? - Let's see, monsieur, how far you dare go.
- More deception, more violence? - That's right, that's right,
keep walking this way.
You can't win her love by making her your prisoner.
I'm here. I'm here, monsieur. The angel of death.
Come on. Come on. Don't stop. Don't stop.
So be it.
Now, let it be war upon you both!
(EXCLAIMS)
(WHISTLES BLOWING)
You understand your instructions?
When you hear the whistle, take up your positions.
I shall then instruct you to secure the doors.
It is essential that all doors are properly secured.
André, are we doing the right thing?
Well, have you got a better idea?
Monsieur le Vicomte, am I to give the order?
Give the order.
(BLOWS WHISTLE)
You, in the pit, do you have a clear view of that box?
Yes, sir.
Remember, when the time comes, shoot.
Only if you have to, but shoot to kill.
- How will I know, sir? - You'll know.
Monsieur le Vicomte, are you confident this will work?
- Will Miss Daaé sing? - Don't worry, Firmin. André?
We're in your hands, monsieur.
My men are now in position, sir.
Go ahead, then.
(SHOUTING) Are the doors secure?
- (DOORS CLOSING) - MAN 1: Secure!
MAN 2: Secure! MAN 3: Secure!
MAN 4: Secure! MAN 5: Secure!
PHANTOM: ♪ I'm here, The Phantom of the Opera
♪ I'm here, The Phantom of the Opera
I'm here. I'm here. I'm here!
- (FIRMIN EXCLAIMS) - Idiot! I said only when the time comes!
- But, Monsieur le Vicomte... - PHANTOM: No "buts"!
For once, Monsieur le Vicomte is right.
♪ Seal my fate tonight
♪ I hate to have to cut the fun short
♪ But the joke's wearing thin
♪ Let my opera begin ♪
ALL: ♪ Here the sire may serve the dam
♪ Here the master takes his meat
♪ Here the sacrificial lamb
♪ Utters one despairing bleat
♪ Poor young maiden
♪ For the thrill on your tongue of stolen sweets
♪ You will have to pay the bill
♪ Tangled in the winding sheets
♪ Serve the meal and serve the maid ♪ Serve the meal and serve the maid
♪ Serve the master so that
(VOCALISING)
♪ When tables, plans and maids are laid
♪ Don Juan triumphs
♪ Once again
- (ALL LAUGHING) - (SHUSHING) Shoo!
♪ Passarino, faithful friend
♪ Once again recite the plan
♪ Your young guest believes I'm you
♪ I the master, you the man
♪ When you met, you wore my cloak
♪ She could not have seen your face
♪ She believes she dines with me
♪ In her master's borrowed place
♪ Furtively we'll scoff and quaff
♪ Stealing what in truth is mine
♪ When it's late and modesty
♪ Starts to mellow with the wine
♪ You come home I use your voice
♪ Slam the door like crack of doom
♪ I will say, "Come hide with me
♪ "Where, oh, where? Of course, my room"
♪ Poor thing hasn't got a chance
♪ Here's my hat, my cloak and sword
♪ Conquest is assured if I do not forget myself and laugh
Ha! Ha! Ha!
♪ No thoughts within her head
♪ But thoughts of joy
♪ No dreams within her heart
♪ But dreams of love
PASSARINO: ♪ Master? PHANTOM: ♪ Passarino
♪ Go away, for the trap is set
♪ And waits for its prey
♪ You have come here
♪ In pursuit of your deepest urge
♪ In pursuit of that wish
♪ Which till now has been silent, silent
♪ I have brought you
♪ That our passion may fuse and merge
♪ In your mind you've already succumbed to me
♪ Dropped all defences Completely succumbed to me
♪ Now you are here with me
♪ No second thoughts
♪ You've decided
♪ Decided
♪ Past the point of no return
♪ No backward glances
♪ Our games of make believe
♪ Are at an end
♪ Past all thought of "if" or "when"
♪ No use resisting
♪ Abandon thought
♪ And let the dream descend
♪ What raging fire shall flood the soul
♪ What rich desire unlocks its door
♪ What sweet seduction lies before us
♪ Past the point of no return
♪ The final threshold
♪ What warm unspoken secrets
♪ Will we learn?
♪ Beyond the point
♪ Of no return
♪ You have brought me
♪ To that moment when words run dry
♪ To that moment when speech
♪ Disappears into silence
♪ Silence
♪ I have come here
♪ Hardly knowing the reason why
♪ In my mind I've already imagined our bodies entwining
♪ Defenceless and silent
♪ And now I am here with you
♪ No second thoughts
♪ I've decided
♪ Decided
♪ Past the point of no return
♪ No going back now
♪ Our passion play has now
♪ At last begun
♪ Past all thought of right or wrong
♪ One final question
♪ How long should we two wait
♪ Before we're one?
♪ When will the blood begin to race?
♪ The sleeping bud burst into bloom?
♪ When will the flames at last
♪ Consume us?
BOTH: ♪ Past the point of no return
♪ The final threshold
♪ The bridge is crossed
♪ So stand and watch it burn
♪ We've passed the point
♪ Of no return ♪
♪ Say you'll share with me
♪ One love, one lifetime
♪ Lead me, save me
♪ From my solitude
♪ Say you want me
♪ With you here
♪ Beside you
♪ Anywhere you go
♪ Let me go, too
♪ Christine
♪ That's all I ask of... ♪
No!
(SCREAMING)
RAOUL: No! Don't shoot!
No! What are you doing there?
(YELLS)
(ALL SCREAMING)
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
Give me this, monsieur. Get water, monsieur!
Upstairs, monsieur! Come!
Monsieur Firmin, come! Open the doors, monsieur!
Monsieur le Vicomte, come with me! I know where they are!
- Can I trust you? - You must.
But remember, keep your hand at the level of your eyes.
- But why? - The Punjab lasso, monsieur.
First Buquet, now Piangi.
Like this, monsieur. Look, I'll go with you.
No, Meg! No. You stay here.
Come with me, monsieur, do as I say.
But hurry, or we shall be too late.
♪ Down once more
♪ To the dungeon of my black despair
♪ Down we plunge to the prison of my mind
♪ Down that path into darkness
♪ Deep as hell!
♪ Why, you ask, was I bound and chained
♪ In this cold and dismal place?
♪ Not for any mortal sin
♪ But the wickedness of my abhorrent face!
CHORUS: ♪ Track down this murderer
♪ He must be found
♪ Hounded out by everyone
♪ Met with hatred everywhere
♪ No kind word from anyone
♪ No compassion anywhere
Christine. (PANTING)
Christine, why? Why?
♪ Your hand at the level of your eyes
♪ At the level of your eyes
CHORUS: ♪ At the level of your eyes
♪ Level of your eyes
He lives across the lake, monsieur.
This is as far as I dare go.
Madame Giry,
thank you.
CHORUS: ♪ Track down this murderer He must be found
♪ Track down this murderer He must be found
♪ Hunt down this animal who runs to ground
♪ Too long he's preyed on us
♪ But now we know
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is here Deep down below
♪ He's here, The Phantom of the Opera
(PHANTOM GRUNTING)
♪ Have you gorged yourself at last in your lust for blood?
♪ Am I now to be prey to your lust for flesh?
♪ That fate which condemns me to wallow in blood
♪ Has also denied me the joys of the flesh
♪ This face
♪ The infection which poisons our love
♪ This face
♪ Which earned a mother's fear and loathing
♪ A mask, my first
♪ Unfeeling scrap of clothing
♪ Pity comes too late
♪ Turn around and face your fate
♪ An eternity of this
♪ Before your eyes
♪ This haunted face
♪ Holds no horror for me now
♪ It's in your soul
♪ That the true distortion lies
Wait. I think, my dear, we have a guest.
- CHRISTINE: Raoul! - Sir, this is indeed an unparalleled delight.
♪ I had rather hoped that you would come
No!
♪ And now, my wish comes true
♪ You have truly made my night
- ♪ Free her! - (LAUGHING)
♪ Do what you will, only free her!
Have you no pity?
♪ Your lover makes a passionate plea
Please, Raoul, it's useless!
♪ I love her
♪ Does that mean nothing?
♪ I love her
Show some compassion!
The world showed no compassion to me!
♪ Christine, Christine ♪
Let me see her!
Be my guest,
sir.
Christine.
♪ Monsieur, I bid you welcome
♪ Did you think that I would harm her?
♪ Why should I make her pay
♪ For the sins which are yours?
- No! - (GASPS)
♪ Order your fine horses now
♪ Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes
♪ Nothing can save you now
♪ Except perhaps Christine
♪ Start a new life with me
♪ Buy his freedom with your love
♪ Refuse me and you send your lover to his death
♪ This is the choice
♪ This is the point of no return!
♪ The tears I might have shed
♪ For your dark fate
♪ Grow cold
♪ And turn to tears of hate
♪ Christine, forgive me Please, forgive me
♪ I did it all for you and all for nothing
♪ Farewell my fallen idol and false friend
♪ Too late for turning back ♪ We had such hopes
♪ Too late for prayers and useless pity ♪ And now such hopes are shattered
♪ Say you love him and my life is over ♪ Past all hopes of cries for help
♪ No point in fighting
♪ Either way you choose he has to win ♪ Either way you choose you cannot win
♪ So, do you end your days with me
♪ Or do you send him to his grave?
♪ Why make her lie to you to save me?
♪ Past the point of no return ♪ Angel of Music
♪ Who deserves this? ♪ The final threshold
RAOUL: ♪ For pity's sake, Christine, say no!
♪ His life is now the prize which you must earn
♪ Why do you curse mercy?
♪ I fought so hard to free you
♪ You've past the point of no return ♪ Angel of Music
♪ You deceived me
♪ I gave my mind blindly
Blindly.
(PANTING)
You try my patience.
Make your choice.
♪ Pitiful creature of darkness
♪ What kind of life have you known?
♪ God give me courage to show you
♪ You are not alone
(DRUMS BEATING SOFTLY)
(DRUMS CONTINUE BEATING)
(SCREAMS)
CHORUS: ♪ Track down this murderer
♪ He must be found
Take her, forget me, forget all of this!
CHORUS: ♪ Who is this monster?
Leave me alone! Forget all you've seen.
Go now, don't let them find you!
CHORUS: ♪ Revenge for Piangi Revenge for Buquet
Take the boat.
Swear to me never to tell of the secret you know...
CHORUS: ♪ This creature must never go free
♪ The Phantom of the Opera
...of this Angel of Hell!
Go!
Go now, and leave me!
(MUSIC BOX PLAYING MASQUERADE)
(SOBBING)
♪ Masquerade
♪ Paper faces on parade
♪ Masquerade
♪ Hide your face
♪ So the world
♪ Will never find you
♪ Christine
♪ I love
♪ You ♪
♪ Say you'll share with me
♪ One love, one lifetime
♪ Say the word
♪ And I will follow you
♪ Share each day with me
♪ Each night, each morning
♪ You alone can make
♪ My song take flight
♪ It's over now
♪ The music
♪ Of the night ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
(APPLAUSE CONTINUES)
(AUDIENCE CONTINUES CHEERING)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
(CHEERING CONTINUES)
(ORCHESTRA PLAYING MASQUERADE)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING LOUDLY)
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER: Thank you.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Gosh, uh, do sit down, for goodness' sake. I might talk for too long.
Gosh, when I was a little boy and I was first brought here by my mother
when I was five, I think, to a Promenade concert,
I think I heard Beethoven's Third Symphony,
and I don't think I could have ever, ever believed,
sitting somewhere up there,
that anything like this would ever happen to my music.
And I have to thank, immediately, Cameron Mackintosh.
What an extraordinary production he's put together.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Thank you, Cameron. We'll meet him in a moment.
(STAMMERS) But before I go any further,
the wonderful thing about musicals is that
something has to happen that brings them all together.
I mean, you can have a really great musical and one aspect of it could be wrong,
whether it be the production,
whether it be something to do with how it's staged or anything,
and it might get buried and then take years to find again.
But what happened so extraordinarily with this is that everything came together
with Cameron as the producer.
Before we go any further, I have to say that
it would have never happened without Maria Björnson, and of course...
- (AUDIENCE CHEERING) - Maria Björnson
was, as all of you know, the incredible designer of the show.
It was her vision combined, I think, with everything else
that really brought us along. She tragically died some years ago.
One of the greatest sadnesses is that she's not here tonight,
but I hope we've honoured her spirit in every way.
- So... Maria, thank you. - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
And I ought to say, tonight's rather extraordinary
because I know that there are many companies of The Phantom of the Opera
watching this performance around the world
because it's being beamed around the world tonight.
And none, I suppose, more important than the director who made it possible,
who's in New York at the moment with the New York Broadway company,
Hal Prince. So, hello, Hal!
And thank you for everything, Hal.
So without any more ado, let's bring on the original creative team from London.
Here they come, led by Sir Cameron Mackintosh.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Charles Hart, our lyricist, of course.
Andy Bridge, our lighting, and above all Gillian Lynne, who staged tonight.
Thank you, Gillian.
And the creative team from the Albert Hall tonight.
Here they all are.
Laurence, the director, in the middle.
(EXCLAIMS)
Now...
Next, I have to thank our fantastic company. What a fantastic show.
Ramin, Sierra, you couldn't have done me more proud.
And Anthony Inglis and the fantastic orchestra.
Just before we move on,
I'm going to introduce you in a second to the original London company,
but I just would like you to remember John Aron,
Steve Barton, who of course played Raoul, and Mary Millar,
who sadly are no longer with us, but they were wonderful members of our original team.
So, a small appreciation to them, please.
And here is our original London company.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
We have one other member of the company tonight
who has hotfooted it from the London Palladium,
Michael Crawford.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING WILDLY)
Finally.
And I suppose this is very special for me.
It is a great joy for me to welcome tonight
my Angel of Music, Sarah Brightman.
(AUDIENCE CHEERING WILDLY)
But...
Without these two, we would not be here.
Uh, we have one slight additional surprise.
Sarah has agreed to sing.
- (AUDIENCE CHEERS) - So, I'm going to leave you
in the hands of the Angel of Music.
Maestro, take it away.
(ORCHESTRA PLAYING THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA)
♪ In sleep he sang to me
♪ In dreams he came
♪ That voice which calls to me
♪ And speaks my name
♪ And do I dream again
♪ For now I find
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside my mind
♪ Sing once again with me
♪ Our strange duet
♪ My power over you
♪ Grows stronger yet
♪ And though you turn from me
♪ To glance behind
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside your mind
♪ Those who have seen your face
♪ Draw back in fear
♪ I am the mask you wear
MEN: ♪ It's me they hear
♪ My spirit and your voice ♪ Your spirit and my voice
ALL: ♪ In one combined
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
MEN: ♪ Inside your mind BRIGHTMAN: ♪ Inside my mind
CHORUS: ♪ He's there The Phantom of the Opera
♪ Beware, The Phantom of the Opera
BOTH: ♪ In all your fantasies
♪ You always knew
♪ That man and mystery
♪ Were both in you
ALL: ♪ And in this labyrinth
♪ Where night is blind
♪ The Phantom of the Opera is there
♪ Inside your mind
Sing! Sing, my Angel of Music!
♪ He's there
♪ The Phantom of the Opera ♪
Sing for me!
(VOCALIZING)
Sing for me!
MEN: Sing for me!
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
ALL: ♪ We have brought you
♪ To the seat of sweet music's throne
♪ To this kingdom where all must pay homage to music
♪ Music
♪ We have come here
♪ For one purpose and one alone
♪ Since the moment you first heard us sing
♪ We have needed you with us to serve him
♪ To sing for his music
♪ His music
♪ Night-time sharpens
♪ Heightens each sensation
♪ Darkness stirs
♪ And wakes imagination
♪ Silently the senses
♪ Abandon their defences
♪ Slowly, gently
♪ Night unfurls its splendour
♪ Grasp it, sense it
♪ Tremulous and tender
♪ Turn your face away
♪ From the garish light of day
♪ Turn your thoughts away
♪ From cold, unfeeling light
♪ And listen to the music of the night
♪ Close your eyes and surrender
♪ To your darkest dreams
♪ Purge your thoughts of the life
♪ You knew before
♪ Close your eyes, let your spirit
♪ Start to soar
♪ And you'll live
♪ As you've never lived before
ALL: ♪ Softly, deftly
♪ Music shall caress you
♪ Hear it, feel it
♪ Secretly posses you
♪ Open up your mind
♪ Let your fantasies unwind
♪ In this darkness that you know you cannot fight
♪ The darkness of the music
♪ Of the night
♪ Let you mind start a journey
♪ To a strange new world
♪ Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before
BOTH: ♪ Let you soul take you where
♪ You long to be
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
♪ Only then
♪ Can you belong
♪ To me
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
♪ Floating, falling
♪ Sweet intoxication
♪ Touch me, trust me
♪ Savour each sensation
BOTH: ♪ Let the dream begin
MEN: ♪ Let your darker side give in
♪ To the power of the music
♪ That I write
♪ The power of the music
♪ Of the night
♪ You alone can make
♪ Our song take flight
ALL: ♪ It's over now
♪ The music of
♪ The night ♪
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING THUNDEROUSLY)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING WILDLY)