Minnie Driver credited as playing...
Carlotta
- The Phantom: Did I NOT instruct that Box 5 was to be left empty?
- Meg Giry: He's here, the phantom of the opera!
- Christine: It's him!
- Carlotta: Your part is silent, little toad!
- The Phantom: A toad, madam? Perhaps it is you who are the toad...
- [as she attempts to leave the first time]
- Carlotta: Andiamo. Tutti. No, es finito. Is finished. Get my doggy, bring my doggy. Bye-bye. Bye-bye, dancing girls. Bye-bye. See you later, because I'm going now. It is finished. See you later.
- [the Phantom drops a backdrop on Carlotta]
- Andre: Signora, these things do happen.
- Carlotta: For the past three years, these things do happen!
- [to LeFevre]
- Carlotta: And did you stop them from happening? No!
- [to Firmin and Andre]
- Carlotta: And you two - you're as bad as him! "These things do happen!" Ma... until you stop these things from happening, this thing does not happen! Ubaldo! Andiamo! Bring my doggy and my boxy!
- [Carlotta storms out with her maid, seamstress, and hairdresser]
- Piangi: [to Firmin and Andre] Amateurs!
- Carlotta: Bye-bye and ciao! Now you see. Bye-bye, I'm really leaving!
- Andre: [trying to convince Carlotta to come back and sing] Your public needs you!
- Firmin: We need you, too!
- Carlotta: Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue?
- Andre, Firmin: Signora, no! The world wants you! Prima donna, first lady of the stage! Your devotees are on their knees to implore you!
- Andre: Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?
- Firmin: Think of how they all adore you!
- Andre, Firmin: Prima donna, enchant us once again!
- Andre: Think of your muse...
- Firmin: And of the queues round the theatre!
- Andre, Firmin: Can you deny us the triumph in store? Sing, prima donna, once more!
- Carlotta: I hope he as excited by dancing girls as your new managers, because *I* WILL NOT BE SINGING!
- Lefevre: As you know, for some weeks there have been rumors of my imminent retirement. I can now tell you that these were all true...
- Carlotta: Ah ha!
- Lefevre: ...and it is my pleasure to introduce you to the two gentlemen who now own the Opera Populaire: monsieur Richard Firmin and monsieur Gilles Andre.
- [polite applause]
- Lefevre: I'm sure you've read of their recent fortune amassed in the junk business.
- Andre: Scrap metal, actually.
- Andre, Firmin: Far too many notes for my taste, and all of them about Christine. All we've heard since we came is Ms. Daaé's name.
- Madame Giry: Ms. Daaé has returned.
- Firmin: I hope no worse for wear, as far as we're concerned.
- Andre: Where precisely is she now?
- Madame Giry: I thought it best she was alone.
- Meg Giry: She needed rest.
- Raoul: May I see her?
- Madame Giry: No, monsieur, she will see no one.
- Carlotta, Piangi: Will she sing? Will she sing?
- Madame Giry: Here, I have a note.
- Andre, Firmin, Raoul, Carlotta, Piangi: Let me see it!