The Opera Populaire
Adapted from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago" written about the setting created in The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, and used in Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit 1980's Broadway musical, "The Phantom of the Opera", now a major motion picture starring Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson
Paris's sweetest sound
Dancer, Singer
Players of opera and France's foremost playhouse
Grand, Golden, Shining
Stage of Masterful Performance
They tell me you are dangerous, and I believe them. For I have seen La Carlotta avoid falling sets and your patrons avoid murderous chandeliers.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes it is true. I have seen the Phantom of the Opera kill and go unhindered to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal, and my reply is: on the faces of the dancers I have seen a painful longing for a glass of water.
And having answered so, I turn once more to those who sneer at this, The Phantom's Opera House, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another opera house where costumed heads sing, so proud to be great and beautiful and mysterious, and cunning.
Flinging insanely high notes amid the toil of piling song on song, here is a tall, handsome pillar set vivid against small, only mildly engaging opera houses.
Enduring as an evergreen during a long winter, subtle as a drop of lemon juice on a delicious filet,
Wig-headed
Singing
Dancing
Playing
Taking scenes and rebuilding them from scratch
And under the stage, scars all over his face, the Phantom smiles with white teeth to hear such beautiful music.
Under the terrible burden of his life, his face, and his rival the Vicomte de Chagny who ever seeks his demise, he smiles as a happy child.
Smiling even as ignorant managers smile who never ran a haunted business
Reveling and smiling that above him, his angel of music sings for him and him alone and under his feet, Don Juan Triumphant, his own ingenious opera waits to be unveiled.
Smiling
Smiling the soft, innocent smile of sweet music, clad in mask and cape, proud to be behind Paris's sweetest sound, Dancer, Singer, Players of opera and France's foremost playhouse, Grand, Golden, Shining, and to be beneath the stage where his angel Christine gave her masterful performance.
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