Prologue

Prologue(The Stage Of Paris Opéra House, 1905) - Andrew Lloyd Webber (安德魯·勞埃德·韋伯)/Original London Cast

Sold 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 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