Voldemort: The Mastermind of the Dark Mark

A front drop depicting the Dark Mark hangs before the scene. A cradle stands to the right of the drop. A hooded figure walks in.

At curtain time, the hooded figure flicks its wand at the cradle and there is a blinding flash of green light. The figure crumbles, pulling down the drop with it. The deafeningly shrill sound of a factory whistle. Blackout.

The lights come up to reveal a company of DEATH EATERS. One of them steps forward and sings.

A DEATH EATER
Attend the tale of Voldemort
His skin was pale and his patience short
He held the purebloods under his sway
And killed all the others who got in the way
He killed Muggles like it was sport
Did Voldemort
The Mastermind of the Dark Mark.

ANOTHER DEATH EATER
He always left his victims slain
Their faces frozen in looks of pain
He called them Muggle and Mudblood scum
And then he consigned them to a martyrdom.
Did Voldie
Did Voldemort
COMPANY
The Mastermind of the Dark Mark.

A blinding light cuts down the stage as an upstage iron door opens. Wormtail enters, carring a bundle. The company parts as he drops various articles into a cauldron centerstage, including his own hand. The ensemble sings as this happens.

CHORUS
Use your wand and kill, Voldie!
Win all of your fights!
Don't let live the ones who'd give the
Muggles rights.

Various members of the company step forward and sing

SOLOISTS:
With sorrow his young years were rife
He led an orphaned, abusive life.
He wore robes crusted with dirt and stained
While Slytherin's lineage churned in his veins.
To murder this made him resort.
Lord Voldemort
The Mastermind of the Dark Mark.

WOMEN
Quite a noticed one Voldie was
Quick, audacious and bold he was.
He made quite sure none ever lived.
Voldie cast curses no one could forgive.
Many thought that Lord Voldie won
With his murders so coldly done.
Voldie was quick, Voldie was vicious
Voldie was nasty and vastly malicious.

The men join in singing, voices overlapping, in a gradual crescendo

Voldie was quick, Voldie was vicious
Voldie was nasty and vastly malicious.
Quite a noticed one Voldie was
Quick, audacious and bold he was.
Murderous, dark and cold he was.
Was Voldie!
Voldie!
Voldie!
Voooooldiiiiiiieeee!

VOLDEMORT rises out of the cauldron and steps out, facing the audience.

VOLDEMORT and (CHORUS)
Attend the tale of Voldemort
(Attend the tale of Voldemort!)
His plans were the kind that none could thwart.
(His plans were the kind that none could thwart!)

VOLDEMORT
My motives I will here display
By telling my past in this long expose.
I, Lord V.

ALL
I/He, Voldemort.
The Mastermind of the Dark Mark!

The scene blacks out. The sound of a steam engine is heard. Late dusk light comes up.

Lights come up on the Hogwarts Express pulling into the Hogsmeade station. It is a typical English day, with rain falling everywhere and fog spread across the entire sky. RUBEUS HAGRID, a third year Gryffindor, gets off the train followed by a sullen, brooding dark-haired boy named TOM RIDDLE with a silver prefect badge pinned to his robe, which displays the Slytherin crest. A chilling air of lovelessness hangs around RIDDLE.