Meg Giry
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Meg Giry is one of the fictional characters from the Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera. In the story she is Christine Daae's best friend and Madame Giry's only daughter.
In the novel she is portrayed as having “eyes black as sloes, hair black as ink, a swarthy complexion and a poor little skin stretched over poor little bones.” In the 2004 film, however, Meg is much more beautiful and curvaceous, having blonde hair, blue eyes, and a rather buxom chest.
Madame Giry is compelled to work for the Phantom because he left her a letter that told her that Meg would become Empress.
In Susan Kay's Phantom (novel) she is mentioned briefly through Erik’s point of view as she is telling Christine of the Opera Ghost he listens to her story.
“Never you mind how I know I just do that’s all. We know a lot about the Opera Ghost, Ma and I, but it isn’t safe to talk about it here. And you’d better believe me for your own good- he doesn’t like people who don’t know how to show a proper respect, and when he’s angry terrible things happen.”
“What sort of things?” I heard real alarm enter the other voice now.
“Awful things!” said Meg cheerfully, “truly awful. The floor in our dressing room starts to run with blood...”
Up in box five I blinked in surprised amusement. That was a new one! Little Giry should be writing Gothic novels, not prancing around the stage dressed as a water nymph!
In the movie/play she is portrayed as having blonde hair and a healthy golden complexion. Meg was portrayed by Janet Devenish in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, and by Jennifer Ellison in the 2004' movie 'The Phantom of the Opera.
In the musical, Meg is the one who suggests to the theatre managers to put Christine in the leading role of the opera Hannibal once leading lady Carlotta Giudicelli is spooked by the Phantom's threats. Normally she and Christine would be part of the ballet ensemble led by Madame Giry. At the end of Christine's performance, Christine confides in Meg in the musical number "Angel of Music" that she has been coached by a mysterious tutor who is calling to her to him. Meg dismisses her claims, but after Christine's disappearance, comes to believe in the Phantom's powers, in part due to her mother's experiences with the Phantom as a young man.
At the end of the musical, Meg finds the Phantom's mask that he had used to cover his disfigured face resting on his chair in his abandoned underground lair.
[edit] External links
http://meg.hyuuga.nu/index.php (Fanlist)
