Prologue (From 'The Phantom Of The Opera' Motion Picture / Deluxe Version)

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, ladies and gentlemen PORTER, spoken Showing here AUCTIONEER, spoken May I commence at fifteen francs Fifteen, thank you Yes, twenty from you sir, thank you very much Madame Giry, twenty-five Thank you, Madame Twenty-five, I'm bid Do I hear thirty Thirty And thirty-five Selling at thirty francs then Thirty once, thirty twice Sold, for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny Thank you, sir RAOUL in his mind A collector's piece, indeed Every detail exactly as she said Will you still play, when all the rest of us are dead AUCTIONEER, spoken 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 may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination Gentlemen