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Phantom Of The Opera Miscellaneous Why So Silent (At the height of the activity a grotesque figure suddenly appears at the lop of the staircase. Dressed all in crimson, with a death's head visible inside the hood of his robe, the PHANTOM has come to the party. With dreadful wooden steps he descends the stairs and takes the centre of the stage) PHANTOM 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! (He takes from under his robe an enormous bound manuscript) Here I bring the finished score - "Don Juan Triumphant" ! (He throws it to ANDRE) I advise you to comply - my instructions should be clear - Remember there are worse things than a shattered chandelier . . . (CHRISTlNE, mesmerized, approaches as the PHANTOM beckons her. He reaches out, grasps the chain that holds the secret engagement ring, and rips it from her throat) Your chains are still mine - you will sing for me! (ALL cower in suspense as the music crescendos, until suddenly, his figure evaporates) BACKSTAGE (GIRY is hurrying across. RAOUL appears and calls after her) RAOUL Madame Giry. Madame Giry . . . GIRY Monsieur, don't ask me - I know no more than anyone else. (She moves off again. He stops her) RAOUL That's not true. You've seen something, haven't you ? GIRY (uneasily) I don't know what I've seen . . . Please don't ask me, monsieur . . . RAOUL (desperately) Madame, for all our sakes . . . GIRY (She has glanced nervously about her and suddenly deciding to trust him, cuts in): Very well. It was years ago. There was a travelling fair in the city. Tumblers, conjurors, human oddities . . . RAOUL Go on . . . GIRY (trance-like, as she retraces the past) And there was . . . I shall never forget him: a man . . Iocked in a cage . . . RAOUL In a cage . . ? GIRY A prodigy, monsieur! Scholar, architect, musician . RAOUL (piecing together the jigsaw) A composer . . . GIRY And an inventor too, monsieur. They boasted he had once built for the Shah of Persia, a maze of mirrors . . . RAOUL (mystified and impatient, cuts in) Who was this man . . .? GIRY (with a shudder) A freak of nature . . . more monster than man . . . RAOUL (a murmur) Deformed . . .? GIRY From birth, it seemed . . . RAOUL My God . . . GIRY And then . . . he went missing. He escaped. RAOUL Go on. GIRY They never found him it was said he had died . . . RAOUL (darkly) But he didn't die, did he? GIRY The world forgot him, but I never can . . . For in this darkness I have seen him again . . . RAOUL And so our Phantom's this man . . . GIRY (starts from her daze and turns to go) I have said too much, monsieur. (She moves off into the surrounding blackness) And there have been too many accidents . . . RAOUL (ironical) Accidents?! GIRY Too many . . . (And, before he can question her further, she has disappeared) RAOUL (running after her) Madame Giry . . .! |
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