


(The ENSEMBLE activity becomes background, as ANDRE, FIRMIN, MEG, GIRY, PIANGI and CARLOTTA come to the fore, glasses in hand) Among the GUESTS are four carrying strange percussion instruments: a monkey with cymbals, a toy soldier with a drum, a triangle, bells. (The gauze lifts fully to reveal the staircase of the opera house. The two skeletons see each other and approach nervously) FIRMIN arrives.He is also dressed as a skeleton in an opera cape. He is dressed as a skeleton in an opera cape. The guests (whom we cannot yet see clearly) are in fancy dress, a peacock, a lion, a dragon, Mephistopheles, a highwayman, a clown, knights, ladies, an executioner. (A gauze half conceals the tableau of guests at the opera ball. THE STAIRCASE OF THE OPERA HOUSE, Six Months Later SCENE EIGHT - Down Once More Track Down This Murderer SCENE FIVE - Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again Wandering Child Bravo, Monsieur Phantom of the Opera, with some modifications to match my copy of the libretto. 'The Phantom of the Opera' Lyrics - Act II
