I already have a synopsis of the show typed out, but this is a little different. This is a poem I wrote shortly after seeing the show for the first time…it was my way of making a synopsis for it. So I’m going to share that, along with pictures from the show. I hope you like it!!
A man, without a face, condemned by all from birth
Locked in a circus cage, and travelled ’round the earth
Although he was a genuis of music and song the same
His face was all they thought of when they heard his name
There for people to gawk and stare, hatred building inside
So soon the horror of his mind was all the mask would hide
He escaped from them and ran away, to hide deep underground
The Paris Opera was his home so he would never be found
Until, one day, he fell in love, with a singer young and shy
Gave her his gift of song, and for her heart he’d try
But like the others she turned away from the grotesque, inhuman sight
Leaving him all alone to stay in his dungeon of the night
No gentle words were turned his way, no compassion ever shown
And so, he turned to the only emotion that he had ever known
He killed for her, and kidnapped her to try to force her love
But all that was in her mind was her fiance up above
And so, he gave her her freedom, and she swore to never tell
How he would live down there for all his life, in his despair, his hell.