phantom of the opera

Prologue 1919

The Auctioneer said" Sold! Your number, sir? Thank you. Lot 665, ladies and gentlemen. A musical box in the shape of a barrel organ. Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals. This item was discovered in the vaults of the theater. Still in working order, ladies and gentlemen." Showing here." May I commence at fifteen franks. Fifteen thank you. Yes, twenty from you, Sir, thank you very much. Madam Giry, twenty-five, thank you madam. Twenty five I'm bid, do I hear thirty? Thirty! And thirty-five...? Selling at thirty franks then. Thirty once, thirty twice, Sold! For thirty franks to the Vicomte De Chagny. Thank you sir." Raoul said" A collector's piece indeed... every detail, exactly as she said... 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're 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. Perhaps we can frighten away the ghost of so many years ago... with a little illumination. Gentlemen!" the music stared.