Hi. I'm Christopher Rokosz actor/director of both stage and screen. And I want to share
with you some information about the characters in The Phantom of the Opera. Whether you're
watching the Andrew LLoyd Weber stage show or the Joel Schumacher adaptation of the Andrew
Lloyd Weber stage show or the original book by Gaston LaRoux. The characters for the most
part remain the same. I will start with the first The Phantom of the Opera. The title
character Erik a tragic character disfigured when he was young and ends up living in the
catacombs beneath the Paris Opera house. In the story he falls in love with Christine
Daae and allow us to go into Christine Daae. Christine Daae is a chorus girl an ingenue
if you will. Her father a famous musician who passed away. She's trying to come up through
the ranks in the Paris Opera house and he takes her under his wing and helps develop
her voice. Through that he falls in love with her. Now he develops her, he helps develop
her voice through her mirror or through just a voice that comes to her. Then there's Raoul
her, the love interest of Christine which creates the triangle between the Phantom,
Christine and Raoul. Then you also have Andre one of the new managers of the Paris Opera
house. Madame Giry. She is the dance core mistress. You have Joseph Buquet who is the
master of the flies which means he works the fly system up there. Meg, Madame Giry's daughter.
Then you also have some of the lesser characters or some of the bigger characters like Carlotta,
I should say, who is the prima donna or the first lady of the stage of the main soprano
inside of it until the Phantom starts to take over. So those are a few of the characters
to get you familiar with who you're going to see inside of the Phantom of the Opera.
I encourage you to see the movie, see the stage show, read the book. The characters
are rich and pretty well developed. It will give you a little bit of a fright and a good
love story all wrapped up into one. It's good date situation. I'm Chris Rokosz.