Post by Meg on Jul 31, 2008 16:17:52 GMT -5
"Masquerade! Paper Faces on Parade! Masquerade, Hide your face so the world will never find you..."
Paris 1870. The world renowned Opera Populaire is flourishing every day with it's various plays and operas. However, things start to take a turn when the owner, Monsieur Lefevre, decides to retire, the two who buy the famous opera house are the Monsieurs André and Firmin, along with a new patron, the Viscount de Chagny, Raoul. However, there is a dark and mysterious story that blazes through the opera house. Some say it's true, others say it isn't, and some just shrug it off as a child's story....
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"The Phantom of the Opera is there... inside my mind..."
The Phantom of the Opera is a supposed legend that has been told to generations of workers. Only a few know of his orgins, including the Ballet Mistress, Madame Giry. For years, he has plagued the Opera Populaire with mishaps and accidents, all to get the resident diva, Carlotta Giudicelli, off the stage and out of the lime light. He wants someone new, someone with more talent than the stuck up singer, and he knows who that person is...
"Her Father promised to send her the Angel of Music..."
Christine Daae, daughter of the violinist Gustave Daae, has been training at the Ballet of the Opera Populaire since she was orphaned at 7. And ever since then, she has heard a voice, from above, in the shadows, and even in her dreams. It has trained her to become a great and accomplished singer, even though she hasn't had the line light just yet... She believes it to be her Angel of Music, the same that her father promised to her when he died. However, her best friend, Meg Giry, believes it is the Phantom who has trained her, rather than the make-believe angel.
"Let your mind start a journey to a strange new world, leave all thought of the life you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...!"
So in the darkness of the theatre world, what kind of things will happen on and off, and even underneath the stage!? Take your mask, join the Masquerade! and find out!!!
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