But she must have been taken up with her intentions and I resolved not to disturb her. I was only surprised that she had not heard me walking behind her, for my footsteps were quite audible on the hard snow.
Daaé's curious action in going out at that hour had worried me at first but, as soon as I saw her go to the churchyard, I thought that she meant to fulfill some pious duty on her father's grave and I considered this so natural that I recovered all my calmness. Physically and mentally, I had scarred him for life.” The bandages on his hands and wrists showed white and eerie in the candle-light, as I eased my skirts from his grasp. With a sigh of resignation I sat back on the bed and began to sing softly and before I had finished the first verse, he was asleep. The darkness he feared was in his own mind and there was no light in the universe powerful enough to take that darkness from him. "īut I knew, as I looked at him, that it would have made no difference if I had left him fifty candles. "You are not in the dark," I said patiently. "Don't go! Don't leave me here in the dark."
But when I stood up to go, he reacted with panic and clutched at my grown. He was silent then and when I showed him the new mask he accepted it without question and put it on hastily with his clumsy, bandaged fingers. As long as you wear it, no mirror can ever show you the face again." "Yes." I bowed my head, so that our eyes no longer met.
Not surprisingly Phantom made it to the big screen in this adaptation but Starlight did not.“Is the mask magic?" he demanded with sudden, passionate interest. Andrew Lloyd Webber admits that although he does not regret doing the show he should have marketed it as a "Disney kiddie ride sort of a thing" a special effects extravaganza just for kids, to be performed at amusement parks exclusively, not a serious big budget Broadway musical for the masses where it would be compared to much more critically acclaimed Webber shows like Jesus Christ Superstar Evita Joseph and Phantom. But where Phantom got positive reviews and is mostly considered a classic Starlight was slammed by the critics some who say though it was a hit it is one of the worst Broadway and London theater productions of all time focusing as it does on people dressed up like trains and roller skating and featuring a sporting event like race replete with monitors. This theatrical production premiered in London in 1985-6, the same year Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber rolled out Starlight Express, an adaptation of the Thomas the Tank Engine novels (with all character and place names changed when the rights deal fell through).
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