Raoul POV
Backstage/Corridors - Night
I continue searching for Christine or Jamila.
"Jamila spoke of an angel..." I sing.
Backstage/Carlotta's Dressing Room
Carlotta POV
"Prima Donna, your song shall live again!" I sing in triumph.
"Think of your public!" Andre, Piangi, and Firmin sing.
"You took a snub, but there's a public who needs you!" I sing.
"She has heard the voice of the angel of music..." Madame Giry sings, referring to Jamila, but the Managers care for money, and they would drain her of her talent.
"Those who hear your voice liken you to an angel!" Andre, Firmin, and Piangi sing, Piangi as he's concerned as well.
"Think of their cry of undying support!" I sing.
Backstage - Dressing Room Corridor
Raoul POV
I am making my way to Box Five.
Backstage
Carlotta POV
I am followed by my retinue and Andre and Firmin, Piangi now carrying two little dogs, is now moving toward the wings. I travel past the costume and prop shops, the scenery docks, while Andre and Firmin encourage other Singers and Dancers to follow and sing my praises. I am continuously spraying my mouth with the little crystal bottle.
Stage - Pit - Flies
Shots which show the theatre coming to life for the evening performance; musicians arriving in the pit; Buquet directing operations up in the Flies; the huge bed of Il Muto being wheeled on stage.
"We get our opera..." Andre sings to Firmin.
"She gets her limelight!" Firmin sings to Andre.
Backstage
Jamila POV
Ballet Girls, including Christine and the chorus dress. Props are readied. Meg and Madame Giry attend me.
"Follow where the limelight leads you!" Carlotta sings.
"Leading ladies are a trial!" Andre and Firmin sing.
"Prima Donna, your song shall never die!" Carlotta sings.
"When she sing, we see heaven!' Piangi sings.
"You'll sing again, and to unending ovation!" Lotta sings.
"Orders! Warnings! Lunatic demands!" Raoul sings.
"Lunatic demands are regular occurrences." the managers sing.
"Think how you'll shine in that final encore!" Lotta sings.
"Surely there'll be further scenes - worse than this!" the managers sing.
"... I must see these demands are rejected!" Raoul sings. I scoff. Of course, he would.
"Who'd believe a diva happy to relieve a chorus girl, who's gone and slept with the patron? Raoul and the soubrette, entwined in love's duet! Although he may demur, he must have been with her!" the managers sing. I growl at that I would never stoop so low.
"You'd never get away with all this in a play, but if it's loudly sung, and in a foreign tongue, it's just the sort of story audiences adore, in fact, a perfect opera!" they sing.
"For, if his curse is on the opera..." Madame Giry sings.
"But if his curse is on this opera..." Meg sings.
"Prima Donna the world is at your feet! A nation waits, and how it hates to be cheated!" the managers sing.
"Light up the stage with that age old rapport! Sing, Prima Donna, once more!" they all sing.
Wings/Stage
Carlotta and her Retinue, Andre and Firmin, have arrived on the edge of the opera stage. They are now accompanied by other singers, dancers, stagehands. The huge set beckons as the music rises and everyone's eye are on Carlotta.
The Overture to Il Muto.
Auditorium
I see the stage of the opera house. The red house curtains are in. The house is packed.
Third Person POV
Wings/Stage
The performers waiting for the opera to begin. Meanwhile, in the wings, the Phantom's hand comes into shot. Unseen by all, it reaches for Carlotta's throat spray and swaps it for an identical crystal flask. The overture comes to an end...
Jamila POV
Auditorium
The curtains rise for the beginning of the opera.
A performance of Il Muto
Stage
The set is an eighteenth-century salon, a canopied bed centre stage. The countess is played by Carlotta. Serafimo, the pageboy, is disguised as her maid and is played by me. At this point, we are hidden behind the drapes of the bed, which are drawn. We see them waiting for their cue. Carlotta yanks the cap on her head, trying to cover part of my face. In the room are two epicene men: one a hairdresser and one a jeweller. The jeweller is attended by Meg dressed as a maid as Christine attends the hairdresser. There is also an older woman, the countess's confidante. All, apart from Meg and Christine, are gossiping with relish about the countess's current liaison with Serafimo err me.
"They say that this youth has set my lady's heart aflame!" the confidante sings.
"His Lordship, sure, would die of shock!" the first fop sings.
"His Lordship is a laughing-stock!" the second fop sings.
"Should he suspect her, God protect her!" the confidante sings.
"Shame! Shame! Shame! This faithless lady's bound for Hades! Shame! Shame! Shame!" all three sing.
The audience is amused as the canopy drapes part and we see the countess kissing me passionately. As the recitative begins, the lights and the music dim on stage, and our attention turns to the managers in their box.
Auditorium/Managers' Box
"Serafimo! Your disguise is perfect!" Carlotta sings as the Countess.
There's a knock on the door
"Why, who can this be?" Carlotta acts.
"Gentle wife, admit your loving husband." Piangi sings as Don Attilio.
Andre and Firmin chuckle and nod to Raoul in the opposite box. He acknowledges them.
"Now that's exactly something the public loves." Andre tells Firmin.
Stage
The Countess admits Piangi as Don Attilio, an old fool.
"My love - I am called to England on affairs of state, and must leave you with your new maid.'' Piangi sings.
"Though I'd happily take the maid with me." Piangi says, to the audience.
"The old fool is leaving!" Carlotta tells the audience.
"It's the Countess de Cherbourg! She's invited us to her salon, you know." Andre tells Firmin.
"Nothing like that ever happened to us in the junk business." Firmin tells Andre.
"Scrap metal." Andre says.
"Serafimo - away with this pretense!" Carlotta sings. She rips off my skirt to reveal my manly breeches.
"You cannot speak but kiss me in my husband's absence! Poor fool, he makes me laugh! Hahaha haha! Time, I tried to get a better half!" Carlotta sings.
"Poor fool, he doesn't know! Hoho, hoho, ho! If he knew the truth, he'd never, ever go!" Carlotta and the chorus sing.
Suddenly, from nowhere, I hear the voice of the Phantom.
"Did I not instruct that Box Five was to be kept empty?" Erik asks everyone.
"He's here, the Phantom of the Opera..." Meg says.
And high above the stage, on a catwalk running along the top of the proscenium arch, we can make out the shadowy figure of the Phantom. General reaction of bewilderment. Everyone stops. Audience reaction. I look excitedly about me.
"It's him." I say, excited.
"Your part is silent, little sister! Your such a toad half the time." Lotta tells me, teasingly.
She walks off stage into the wings. There, her maid hands her throat spray. Carlotta sprays herself liberally. But the Phantom has heard her last remark.
"A toad, madame? Perhaps it is you who are the toad..." Erik says and I know Erik's done something and I cry, knowing it's my fault.
Again, general unease, this time turning to alarm. Lotta comes back on stage.
"Why you spray on my chin all the time, huh?" Lotta asks her maid.
"Maestro... da capo... Per favor... Serafimo, away with this pretense! You cannot speak, but kiss me in my husband's croak..." Lotta starts to sing and I cry, this is my fault.
Instead of singing, she emits a great croak, like a toad. A stunned silence. Carlotta is as amazed as anyone but regains herself and continues. More perturbing, however, is a new sound: the Phantom is laughing - quietly at first, then more and more hysterically. The entire audience howls.
"Gentlemen, please, please. Now, come along." Reyer tells the orchestra.
"Poor fool, he makes me laugh! Haha, haha, croak, croak, croak." Carlotta tries to sing.
"She's lost her voice." a stagehand says.
As before, the Phantom's laughter rises. The croaking continues as the chandelier's lights flicker on and off. The Phantom's laughter, by this time overpowering, now crescendos into a great cry.
Erik POV
Auditorium Dome
Unseen by the audience, the Phantom is in the dark belfry of the opera house dome.
And with this, he toys perilously with the chandelier.
Auditorium
The audience gasps.
Auditorium Dome
Buquet appears from a trap door. He sees the Phantom. The Phantom sees him. Buquet disappears in terror.
Stage
Carlotta looks tearfully up at the manager's box and shakes her head.
Andre and Firmin hurry onto the stage. Piangi ushers the now sobbing Carlotta off stage, while the managers tackle the audience, the chandelier still swaying wildly.
"Er Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize. Er, the performance will continue in ten minutes' time..." Firmin says.
He addresses Box Five which is now empty, keeping one eye on the chandelier as it returns to normal.
"When the role of the Countess will be played by Miss Jamila Daae. Thank you." Firmin tells the audience.
"Go, go, hurry up, hurry up." He tells Jamila.
"Until then, we would crave your indulgence for a few moments." Firmin says.
Meanwhile, we see Backstage the Stagehand working frantically lowering the curtain and changing the set.
"Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, we shall be giving you the ballet from Act Three of tonight's opera." Andre says.
"What?!" Reyer says.
"Er, maestro..." Andre stutters. "...the, the, the ballet - bring it forward please." Andre pleads.
The managers leave, the stage is cleared fast and the music starts up again. The ballet girls enter as a sylvan glade flies in. They begin the Dance of the Country shepherdesses complete with swings, a shepherd and a real sheep.
Third Person POV
Stage - Flies
The flats from the previous scene continue to move up. Buquet is supervising from the main ramp. As one flat rise out of shot, he sees the Phantom on another ramp. The Phantom grabs a rope and leaps across towards Buquet. We see this from both the stage below and through POV's of the stage way below us. Buquet runs down his ramp chased by the Phantom who has used the ropes to swing across from ramp to ramp.
Jamila POV
Carlotta's Dressing Room
Madame Giry helps me into Carlotta's costume.
Stage -
Meg is aware of the events above her head and dances out of step.
Carlotta's Dressing Room
I notice the single red rose with the black ribbon. And it seems he sent me a present too.
Stage - Flies
Finally, Buquet turns to run from the Phantom but a rope like a flash catches him by the neck. Then very fast, we see the Phantom leap off the ramp holding a rope. Buquet is suddenly raised straight off his feet, the noose around his neck; a pulley whirls madly; the Phantom lands on a lower ramp, releases the rope. Buquet plummets.
Stage
The garroted body of Joseph Boquet falls on the stage with a sickening thud (or stays suspended on centre stage) causing the sylvan glade to fly out. Pandemonium.
Backstage/Wings
Christine takes my arm and is running through the backstage terrified. Raoul runs towards her, she grabs him. I still grasps the Phantom's rose and present as I notice my cousin getting all lovey dovey.
Stage
Firmin is attempting the impossible. Firmin is trying to placate the audience. "Ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats. Er, do not panic. It is simply an accident... an accident..." Firmin says.
Backstage/Iron Staircase
Christine is leading me and Raoul up a spiraling iron staircase which leads vertiginously out onto the roof. Christine is racing up, in a frenzy of terror.
"Why have you brought us here?" Raoul sing.
"Yes. Why bring me anywhere with him Christie?" I ask.
"We can't go back there!" Christie sings.
"We must return!" Raoul sings.
"He'll kill you! His eyes will find us there!" Christie sings and I smack her.
"Christine, don't say that..." Raoul sings.
"Those eyes that burn for me." I sing.
"Don't even think it..." Raoul sings
"And if he has to kill a thousand men to protect me-" I sing.
"Forget this waking nightmare of mine..." Raoul sings.
Roof
We all emerge onto the roof. The huge statue of "La Victoire Ailee", vast gargoyles dominate and look out over a surreal panorama of Paris.
"Raoul, I've been there - to his world of unending night... to a world with the daylight dissolves into beautiful darkness... Darkness... Raoul, I've seen him! I never want to forget that sight...? Can I ever escape from that face? So angelic, beautiful, it was wasn't hardly a face, in that beautiful darkness... darkness..." I sing to my tormentor.
And we realize the Phantom is right there with them on the roof. He watches from the top of a statue.
"But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound... In that night there was music in my mind... And through music my soul began to soar! And I heard as I'd never heard before..." I sing.
"What you heard was a dream and nothing more..." Raoul sings.
"Yet in his eyes all the sadness of the world, those pleading eyes that both threaten and adore..." I sing.
I am spellbound by the Phantom's rose. The Phantom sees and hears this. He leans back, moved.
"Jamila... Jamila..." Raoul sings.
"Jamila..." the phantom sings unseen, a ghostly echo of love
Raoul tries to take the rose from me but I stomp on his foot.
"No more talk of darkness, forget these wide-eyed fears. I'm here: nothing can harm you - my words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom, let daylight dry your tears." Raoul sings to me.
Snowflakes begin to fall on the opera roof. And, as the snow slowly covers the roof and the statues,
"I'm here with you, beside you, to guard you and to guide you..." Raoul sings to me.
"Never will I love you any waking moment, never will you turn my head with talk of summertime... You will never say you need me with you, now and always... You will never promise me that all you say is true - that's all I know of you..." I sing, staying on the roof
A shadow. Perhaps the Phantom will send them to their deaths?
Raoul goes in, dejected, Christie, broken hearted that Raoul picked me but once I told her I wasn't interested and why, she was very mad.
The Phantom silently comes out of hiding, shocked that I didn't pick Raoul.
"I only want one man in my life. And I am staring at him." I tell Erik.
"I gave you my music... made your song take wing... And now, how you've repaid me: loved me and stayed by me... I was bound to love you when I heard you sing... Jamila..." Erik sings.
He kisses me as he attaches the golden pendant with a rose on it.
Roof
The Phantom hears the Christie and Raoul fight below.
He holds me in his arms as he doesn't want me near Raoul.