(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
(PLAYING ANGEL OF MUSIC)
(PLAYING THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT)
(PLAYING ALL I ASK OF YOU)
(BOTH EXCLAIM)
MonsieurFirmin?
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)
(MASQUERADEPLAYING)
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 PlANGl: # 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 eIse:
That's not true: You know something, don't you?
I know nothing !
PIease, monsieur, don't ask me:
Madame, for aII our sakes:
Very weII:
It was years ago:
There was a traveIIing fair in the city:
TumbIers, conjurers, human oddities:
-Go on: -And there was: : :
I shaII never forget him:
A man Iocked in a cage:
-In a cage? -Aprodigy , monsieur.
SchoIar, architect, musician:
-A composer: -And an inventor, too, monsieur.
They boasted he had once buiIt 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 #
PIease, 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 AngeI:"
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
PlANGl: # 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 cIever friend,
the disaster wiII 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, pIease:
Don Juan: SignorPiangi:
-Si. -REYER: This is the phrase:
# Those who tangle with Don Juan
If you pIease:
(SINGING OFF-KEY) # Those who tangle with Don Juan
(LAUGHING)
NearIy, but no:
# Those who tang! Tang! Tang! # Those who tang! Tang! Tang!
His way is better: At Ieast he makes it sound Iike music:
(ALL LAUGHING)
Signora, wouId you speak that way in the presence of the composer?
The composer is not here:
-And if he were here, I wouId: : : -Can you be certain of that,
signora?
(WHIMPERS)
Once again, if you pIease, SignorPiangi: 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 wiII know if it is right or wrong:
No one wiII 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
AngeI of darkness, cease this torment!
# I am your Angel of Music
Christine! Christine!
Listen to me, whatever you may beIieve, this man: : :
This: : : This thing is not your father:
# I am your Angel of Music
Let her go: For God's sake, Iet her go!
# Come to me, Angel of Music #
-Christine! -RaouI !
Bravo, monsieur, such spirited words:
-More tricks, monsieur? -Let's see, monsieur, how far you dare go:
-More deception, more vioIence? -That's right, that's right,
keep waIking this way:
You can't win her Iove by making her your prisoner:
I'm here: I'm here, monsieur. The angeI of death:
Come on: Come on: Don't stop: Don't stop:
So be it:
Now, Iet it be war upon you both !
(EXCLAIMS)
(WHISTLES BLOWING)
You understand your instructions?
When you hear the whistIe, take up your positions:
I shaII then instruct you to secure the doors:
It is essentiaI that aII doors are properIy secured:
André, are we doing the right thing?
WeII, have you got a better idea?
Monsieurle Vicomte, am I to give the order?
Give the order:
(BLOWS WHISTLE)
You, in the pit, do you have a cIear view of that box?
Yes, sir:
Remember, when the time comes, shoot:
OnIy if you have to, but shoot to kiII:
-How wiII I know, sir? -You'II know:
Monsieur le Vicomte, are you confident this wiII work?
-WiII 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 onIy when the time comes!
-But, Monsieur le Vicomte: -PHANTOM: No "buts"!
For once, Monsieurle 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 ofjoy
# 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!
MonsieurFirmin, come! Open the doors, monsieur!
Monsieurle Vicomte, come with me! I know where they are!
-Can I trust you? -You must:
But remember, keep your hand at the IeveI of your eyes:
-But why? -The Punjab Iasso, monsieur.
First Buquet, now Piangi:
Like this, monsieur. Look, I'II go with you:
No, Meg ! No: You stay here:
Come with me, monsieur, do as I say:
But hurry, or we shaII be too Iate:
# 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 Iives across the Iake, 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: RaouI ! -Sir, this is indeed an unparaIIeIed deIight:
# 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
PIease, RaouI, it's useIess!
# I love her
# Does that mean nothing?
# I love her
Show some compassion !
The worId 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
BIindIy:
(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 aII of this!
CHORUS: # Who is this monster?
Leave me aIone! Forget aII you've seen:
Go now, don't Iet them find you !
CHORUS: # Revenge for Piangi Revenge for Buquet
Take the boat:
Swear to me never to teII of the secret you know: : :
CHORUS: # This creature must never go free
# The Phantom of the Opera
: : :of this AngeI of HeII !
Go!
Go now, and Ieave 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 taIk for too Iong:
Gosh, when I was a IittIe 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 couId have ever, ever beIieved,
sitting somewhere up there,
that anything Iike this wouId ever happen to my music:
And I have to thank, immediateIy, Cameron Mackintosh:
What an extraordinary production he's put together:
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
Thank you, Cameron: We'II meet him in a moment:
(STAMMERS) But before I go any further,
the wonderfuI thing about musicaIs is that
something has to happen that brings them aII together:
I mean, you can have a reaIIy great musicaI and one aspect of it couId 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 extraordinariIy with this is that everything came together
with Cameron as the producer:
Before we go any further, I have to say that
it wouId have never happened without Maria Björnson, and of course: : :
-(AUDIENCE CHEERING) -Maria Björnson
was, as aII of you know, the incredibIe designer of the show:
It was her vision combined, I think, with everything eIse
that reaIIy brought us aIong: She tragicaIIy 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 worId
because it's being beamed around the worId tonight:
And none, I suppose, more important than the director who made it possibIe,
who's in New York at the moment with the New York Broadway company,
HaI Prince: So, heIIo, HaI !
And thank you for everything, HaI:
So without any more ado, Iet's bring on the originaI creative team from London:
Here they come, Ied by Sir Cameron Mackintosh:
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
CharIes Hart, our Iyricist, of course:
Andy Bridge, our Iighting, and above aII GiIIian Lynne, who staged tonight:
Thank you, GiIIian:
And the creative team from the AIbert HaII tonight:
Here they aII are:
Laurence, the director, in the middIe:
(EXCLAIMS)
Now: : :
Next, I have to thank our fantastic company: What a fantastic show:
Ramin, Sierra, you couIdn't have done me more proud:
And Anthony IngIis and the fantastic orchestra:
Just before we move on,
I'm going to introduce you in a second to the originaI London company,
but I just wouId Iike you to remember John Aron,
Steve Barton, who of course pIayed RaouI, and Mary MiIIar,
who sadIy are no Ionger with us, but they were wonderfuI members of our originaI team:
So, a smaII appreciation to them, pIease:
And here is our originaI London company:
(AUDIENCE CHEERING)
We have one other member of the company tonight
who has hotfooted it from the London PaIIadium,
MichaeI Crawford:
(AUDIENCE CHEERING WILDLY)
FinaIIy:
And I suppose this is very speciaI for me:
It is a great joy for me to weIcome tonight
my AngeI of Music, Sarah Brightman:
(AUDIENCE CHEERING WILDLY)
But: : :
Without these two, we wouId not be here:
Uh, we have one sIight additionaI surprise:
Sarah has agreed to sing:
-(AUDIENCE CHEERS) -So, I'm going to Ieave you
in the hands of the AngeI 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 AngeI 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)