Andrew Lloyd
Weber's musical The Phantom of the Opera structurally consists of afollowed
by two acts.
The prologue is set in 1919,
thirty-eight years after the main events of the play, and presents the opera house in disrepair,
auctioning off all of their props and set pieces, including Christine's music box and a
chandelier which the auctioneer comments on as having been connected to the events surrounding
"the phantom of the opera." This opening serves as a kind of frame
tale for the musical. The audience knows that in the end the opera house fades to
disuse, and that there were apparently...
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