Meg
Meg Giry is the young teenage daughter of the opera's ballet mistress, Madame Giry. She is about sixteen or seventeen years old and is a wonderful dancer. She is also best friends with Christine Daae, another ballet girl who is the best singer in the opera and wins the leading role from the old prima donna, Carlotta. I don't know why I like Meg so much (her part isn't very big) - I just somehow became attatched to her when I first saw this show.
When the story begins, Meg and Christine are in rehersals for the opera Hannibal but things keep going wrong and everyone believes that the legendary "opera ghost" who haunts the theater is causing all the trouble. Whenever the leading soprano, Carlotta, tries to sing her solo, bad things happen, such as stage lights crashing down. But when Carlotta gives up and Christine takes over her role, everything goes extremely well. When Meg confronts Christine about her wonderful performance, Christine is very distant and only speaks of an "angel of music" that her father promised to send her before he died.
A man who works in the theater, Joseph Buquet, begins to scare Meg and the other ballet girls with stories of the opera ghost. No one, except for Madame Giry, believes he is doing anything wrong until he is found dead in the middle of a performance.
Many people in the theater keep getting notes from the phantom, telling them that he wants Christine Daae in all the lead roles. Every time a note is ignored, a "disaster upon their imaginations will occur." The only one who takes the notes seriously is Madame Giry, who appears to have some connections with the phantom.
Suddenly, everything stops. No more notes. No more murders. No more ghost. Everyone has a party - a masquerade, to be exact - to celebrate but then the phantom shows up at the party and announces that he has written a new opera for everyone to perform - Don Juan Triumphant.
The phantom asks that Christine is given the main role in the opera. When she isn't, the leading man, Piangi, is killed and the phantom whisks Christine away to his underground lair and tries to marry her, but Christine leaves him for her secret fiancee, Raoul. The phantom then disappears, never to be heard from again, and Meg is the last one to every see him.
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