I don't believe (from what we hear on the original London cast recording) that a complete master of that production can ever have existed: it appears to have been arranged for studio recording in a continuous cut-down version. In Scene One, for example, it cuts straight from "He's here, the Phantom of the Opera!" to André's "Good Heavens! Will you show a little courtesy?", excising Buquet altogether, and then cuts off the end of Carlotta's ensuing "These things do happen" speech, jumping to Meg and "Christine Daaé could sing it" (removing Box Five and the first mentions of Raoul's existence) and then jumping again to "She has been well taught" (omitting Christine's unknown teacher) and skipping Reyer's single line before Christine starts to sing. That's a complete jigsaw bearing all the hallmarks of an 'abridged' scene rather than a cut one...
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I don't believe (from what we hear on the original London cast recording) that a complete master of that production can ever have existed: it appears to have been arranged for studio recording in a continuous cut-down version. In Scene One, for example, it cuts straight from "He's here, the Phantom of the Opera!" to André's "Good Heavens! Will you show a little courtesy?", excising Buquet altogether, and then cuts off the end of Carlotta's ensuing "These things do happen" speech, jumping to Meg and "Christine Daaé could sing it" (removing Box Five and the first mentions of Raoul's existence) and then jumping again to "She has been well taught" (omitting Christine's unknown teacher) and skipping Reyer's single line before Christine starts to sing. That's a complete jigsaw bearing all the hallmarks of an 'abridged' scene rather than a cut one...