Prologue (The Stage of Paris Opera House, 1905) - Original London Cast

Sold your number sir

Thank you

Lot 665 ladies and gentlemen:

A papier-mache 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

Showing here

May I start at twenty francs

Fifteen then

Fifteen I am bid

20 sir

Thank you

20 25

Thank you mendom

30

Saling at 30 then

30 once tiwce

Sold

For thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny

Thank you sir

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

Which figures in the famous disaster

Our workshops have repaired it

And wired parts of it

For the new electric light

So that we may get a hint

Of how it may look when reassembled

Perhaps we may frighten away

The ghost of so many years ago

With a little illumination gentlemen