PHANTOM

I gave you my music . . .

made your song take wing . . .

and now, how you've

repaid me:

denied me

and betrayed me . . .

He was bound to love you

when he heard you sing . . .

Christine ...

Christine ...

RAOUL/CHRISTINE (offstage)

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 . . .

PHANTOM

You will curse the day

you did not do

all that the Phantom asked

of you . . .!

(As the roof of the opera house disappears, the opera

curtain closes and the PRINCIPALS in 'Il Muto' appear

through it for their bows, CHRISTINE conspicuously

dressed in CARLOTTA'S costume. simultaneously, we

hear the maniacal laughter of the PHANTOM and see him

high above the stage, perilously rocking the chandelier.

The lights of the

chandelier begin flickering and, at a great cry from him,

it descends, swinging more and more madly over the

orchestra pit)

PHANTOM

Go! !

(The chandelier falls to the stage at CHRISTINE'S feet)

END OF ACT 1