Masquerade Ball: Difference between revisions

 

 

in an inhuman race!|''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', "Masquerade"}}

 

* In ''[[Amadeus]]'', Salieri follows Mozart to a masked ball, at which Mozart ridicules Salieri to the delight of the crowd.

* In the musical number/flashback "Poor Thing" in ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (film)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', Lucy Barker, the wife of the title character, is lured to the house of Judge Turpin by Beadle Bamford, who tells her that the Judge is remorseful about what he did to her husband and wants to see her at his mansion. Unknown to Lucy, the Judge has thrown a wild masked ball at the mansion that is well underway when Lucy arrives. Lucy, confused and disoriented by the sights and sounds of the party and from the number of drinks she has at the place, winds up in the hands of Judge Turpin himself, who is anything but remorseful and has used this party as a means to trap and rape her:

Poor thing! }}

* In creepy parallel to Judge Turpin above, ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' has the lead nerd use his college-fair [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] costume to trick the heroine into sex.

* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' has a masquerade scene where the Phantom tributes Poe's story.

* Very obliquely mentioned in an excerpt from a scene of the eponymous [[Brown Note]] [[Show Within a Show|playscript-within-the-book]] ''[[The King in Yellow]]'':

STRANGER: [[Not a Mask|I wear no mask.]] <br />

CAMILLA: ''(Terrified, aside to Cassilda.)'' No mask? No mask! }}

** Francois Auber also wrote an [[Opera]] about the same incident, called ''Gustav le troisieme, ou le bal masque''

* [[The Phantom of the Opera]] has one turned [[Up to Eleven]] - the song is simply called "Masquerade," and gets used repeatedly throughout the remainder of the play.

Hide your face so the world can never find you!'' }}

** As in the book, the Phantom attends dressed up as Red Death. He's much more blatant about crashing the party in this version, though.