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First close encounter with musicals
Anahi 2022-04-19 09:01:53
Last winter vacation, I experienced the enduring Broadway musical "The Phantom of the Opera" with my classmates. I don't know how many people around me have watched it, and I don't know how many people have been touched. But this show took my tears away without hesitation. The man behind the mask will never come to the real world, even if he loves his human woman very much, after all, he is a ghost, a phantom with a beautiful voice. I like Phantom, like his sincerity, like his true love, like his mournful voice, but I can't see his face, what's behind the mask? To be able to make me so fascinated. Maybe it was the music in it that moved me, maybe it was their love that moved me. At the curtain call, my palms were red and numb for all the performances of the Phantom.
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The Phantom of the Opera quotes
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Christine: I remember... there was mist. Swirling mist upon a vast glassy lake... There were candles all around, and on the lake there was a boat... And in the boat, there was a man.
[walks over to the Phantom, at his organ]
Christine: Who was that shape in the shadows? Whose is that face in the mask?
[touches his face and rips of mask]
The Phantom: [covers face] Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon! Is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little *viper*! Now you cannot ever be free! Damn you! Curse you!
[now sad]
The Phantom: Stranger than you dreamt it, can you even bear to look, or dare to think of me?... This lonesome gargoyle who burns in hell but secretly yearns for heaven secretly, secretly but Christine... fear can turn to love you'll learn to see to find the man behind the monster this... repulsive carcass that seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly, secretly...
[crying]
The Phantom: Oh, Christine.
[Christine hands him the mask]
The Phantom: Come. We must return. Those two fools who run my theater will be missing you.
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The Phantom: [sung] Christine Daae has returned to you, and I am anxious her career should progress. In the new production of "Il Muto", you will therefore cast Carlotta... as the Pageboy, and put Ms. Daae in the role of Countess. The role which Ms. Daae plays calls for charm and appeal. The role of the Pageboy is silent, which makes my casting- in a word... ideal.
[spoken]
The Phantom: I shall watch the performance from my normal seat in Box Five, which *will* be kept empty for me. Should these commands be ignored, a disaster beyond your imaginations will occur. I remain, gentlemen, you obedient servant. O. G.