prologue
Original Soundtrack Lyrics

Sold. Your number, sir? Thank you.
The auction starts with the auctioneer selling the first item and asking the buyer for their bidding number.

Lot 663, then, ladies and gentlemen: A poster for this house's production of Hannibal by Chalumeau. Showing here.
The first item on auction is a poster of the production Hannibal by Chalumeau.

Do I have ten francs? Five then. Five I am bid. Six, seven. Against you, sir, seven. Eight. Eight once. Selling twice. Sold, to Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.
The auctioneer goes through the normal auction process starting with an opening bid of five francs until the auction is won by Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.

Lot 664: a wooden pistol and three human skulls From the 1831 production of Robert le Diable by Meyerbeer. Ten francs for this. Ten, thank you. Ten francs still. Fifteen, thank you, sir Fifteen I am bid. Going at fifteen. Your number, sir?
The second lot, containing a wooden pistol and three human skulls from the 1831 production of Robert le Diable by Meyerbeer, is auctioned starting at ten francs and eventually selling for fifteen francs.

665, ladies and gentlemen: A papier-mache musical box, in the shape of a barrel-organ. Attached, the figure of a monkey in Persian robes playing the cymbals. This item, discovered in the vaults of the theatre, still in working order. Showing here. May I start at twenty francs? Fifteen, then? Fifteen I am bid. Sold, for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny. Thank you, sir.
The third item on auction is a working papier-mache musical box in the shape of a barrel-organ with a monkey playing cymbals, discovered in the vaults of the theatre, sold for thirty francs to the Vicomte de Chagny.

A collector's piece indeed Every detail exactly as she said She often spoke of you, my friend Your velvet lining, and your figurine of lead Will you still play, when all the rest of us are dead?
The lyrics shift to a song about the auction items, reflecting on the collector's piece quality of the items and the history they hold, asking the musical box if it will still function after its human collectors have died.

Lot 666, then, a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera: A mystery never fully explained. We are told, ladies and gentlemen, That this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have repaired it and wired parts of it for the new electric light, So that we may get a hint of how it may look when reassembled. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentlemen?
The final auction item is the chandelier from the famous disaster of the Phantom of the Opera, which has been repaired and wired for new electric light, with the auctioneer suggesting that reassembly of the chandelier may uncover the mystery of the ghost and possibly frighten it away with light.