The Phantom of the Opera

11th of May 2007 . Friday .

8.00 p.m.

Esplanade Singapore.

The Phantom of the Opera.

It was GREAT ! Spectacular ......

I've read the book (not only in school for literature) , watched the movie , heard the songs .... I finally got the chance to watch the musical live . I was 'forcing' my parents to bring me to the show... haha ... Was quite hard to find tickets for the show , especially on weekends . Fortunately .... my dad got free tickets from The American Express Bank in Singapore and YAY !!! finally get to watch it !!! There was a cocktail reception at 6.45 , so we get to have cocktails ... too bad there isn't Singapore Sling ....... Anyways .... had some finger food and cocktails. The show started at 8.15 , it started out like the movie with the auction in the Paris Opera House going on . 1911 , Raoul was sitting in a wheelchair and the auctioner auctioning stuff ... (obviously) . One of the things was the monkey music box thingy which Raoul buys ... after saying some stuff about it , the auctioner then tried to auction off the chandelier under an old cloth saying . haha ... same as the movie , the chandelier then was hung once more on top of the ceiling of the opera house , back to 1870 (Orchestra playing Overture). Nice. Right after the chandelier crashed ( which was quite scary because we were only 5 rows behind the stage, it seemed falling upon us), that it was the end of Act 1 . After a 15 minute break , we got souveniers (got it from the bank). then we got back to the show at 9.30. It ended about 11 , we went out to take some photos ... and went for supper with my brother and his girlfriend.