It's over now, the music of the night... Well, not quite!

Things you want at the final performance of Phantom of the Opera in Sydney before it moves on:

1. Great atmosphere - Check
2. The main cast - Check
3. An awesome and receptive audience - Check
4. Nothing to go wrong...

Things you don't want at the final performance but got anyway:

1. The Phantom's microphone cutting in and out for the last 5 minutes of the show, when he does a lot of singing. We almost didn't get the very last line sung in the show: "It's over now, the music of the night."

We think Anthony Warlow's microphone must've broken, we could see him fiddling with it. When Christine went to kiss him, I'm thinking, "Don't touch his head!" Lost Christine for one line, but think that was because they were playing with the sound board trying to get Anthony back. Felt so sorry for them. I've seen 15-20 performances of various shows, and that's the first time I've ever seen something like that happen.

*Carlotta voice* These things do happen.

Overall, other than that problem in the last 5 minutes, it was wonderful. The most magical performance we've had this version. For the first time, we got the main Christine, Ana Marina. Unlike the other two that we've had playing that role she could really act and gave a performance with nuances. We were starting to wonder whether she'd bowed out after Melbourne, as out of about 8 performances that we and other friends had seen, none of us had seen her until my sister's friend saw her last week. We're sorry she wasn't doing more shows. She's a tiny thing!

At the end during the bows, Anthony came out wearing a sparkly silver mask. It was very awesome and they got a standing ovation.

When we came out of the theatre, there was a full rainbow over the city.

As I said to my sister, it was O.G. (Opera Ghost) having the last word...

It's over now, the music of the night... Well, not quite!

Things you want at the final performance of Phantom of the Opera in Sydney before it moves on:

1. Great atmosphere - Check
2. The main cast - Check
3. An awesome and receptive audience - Check
4. Nothing to go wrong...

Things you don't want at the final performance but got anyway:

1. The Phantom's microphone cutting in and out for the last 5 minutes of the show, when he does a lot of singing. We almost didn't get the very last line sung in the show: "It's over now, the music of the night."

We think Anthony Warlow's microphone must've broken, we could see him fiddling with it. When Christine went to kiss him, I'm thinking, "Don't touch his head!" Lost Christine for one line, but think that was because they were playing with the sound board trying to get Anthony back. Felt so sorry for them. I've seen 15-20 performances of various shows, and that's the first time I've ever seen something like that happen.

*Carlotta voice* These things do happen.

Overall, other than that problem in the last 5 minutes, it was wonderful. The most magical performance we've had this version. For the first time, we got the main Christine, Ana Marina. Unlike the other two that we've had playing that role she could really act and gave a performance with nuances. We were starting to wonder whether she'd bowed out after Melbourne, as out of about 8 performances that we and other friends had seen, none of us had seen her until my sister's friend saw her last week. We're sorry she wasn't doing more shows. She's a tiny thing!

At the end during the bows, Anthony came out wearing a sparkly silver mask. It was very awesome and they got a standing ovation.

When we came out of the theatre, there was a full rainbow over the city.

As I said to my sister, it was O.G. (Opera Ghost) having the last word...