# Lot 666, then: a chandelier in pieces. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lot-666-then-a-chandelier-in-pieces/62310 "2001-04-17T19:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beefymeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@beefymeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beefymeg)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lot-666-then-a-chandelier-in-pieces/62310/1 "2001-04-17T19:19:50Z")
I’m an idiot! When Phantom of the Opera (the ALW musical, not the book, I’m not THAT old) first came out, I was immediately hooked on the music. I read the books, I studied the libretto, I skipped my 8th grade field trip to see the show. And now, it hits me that the chandelier was Lot #666! I mean, c’mon, that’s no coincidence. Yet I don’t really see the Satanic connection… sure, the plot’s about good and evil, but so is the plot of every other movie/book/play ever created. Just wanted to point that out. I just noticed it. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lot-666-then-a-chandelier-in-pieces/62310/2 "2001-04-17T19:36:52Z")
And as soon as I saw the thread title, the theme for the show started going through my head. Guess I know which CD I’m playing tonight… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lot-666-then-a-chandelier-in-pieces/62310/3 "2001-04-17T23:47:22Z")
Who would have the gall to send this? Someone with a puerile brain! These are both signed ‘O.G.’! Who the hell is he?! _Opera ghost!_ It’s really not amusing when he’s abusing our position in addition he wants money he’s a funny sort of spectre to expect a large retainer nothing plainer _he is clearly quite insane!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lot-666-then-a-chandelier-in-pieces/62310/4 "2001-04-18T01:32:32Z")
Dear Firmin, just a brief reminder my salary has not been paid. Send it care of the ghost by return of post P.T.O. no one like a debtor so it’s better my orders are obeyed. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lot-666-then-a-chandelier-in-pieces/62310/5 "2001-04-18T08:56:58Z")
Dear André what a charming gala! Christine enjoyed a great success! We were hardly bereft when Carlotta left. Otherwise the chorus was entrancing but the dancing was a lamentable mess! When I was in CA, **KKBattousai** and I went down to Universal City Walk, where we found a shop that sold little brass hand-crank music boxes. I got one that plays ‘The Music of the Night’. What I would have been absolutely tickled to find, though, was one that plays ‘Masquerade’, like the one the Phantom plays in the end. The melancholy verse he sings to that tune is one of my favourite parts of TPOTO: Masquerade Paper faces on parade Masquerade Hide your face so the world will never find you.