The Phantom on Broadway

So you've heard the story of the Phantom of the Opera but have you heard of his other story? This one is set in the early 1950's and it starts with a rehearsal of the Broadway show Gigi, staring Audrey Hepburn…yes you read it right Audrey Hepburn. She had her début as the star of the play Gigi…and that my fellow readers is where our story begins.

Part I

Rehearsals were just getting under way. Audrey was in her dressing room going over lines when she heard a knock on her door. She opened her door and it was her best friend Eliza. She was frantically waving her hands and her face was red like she had run to Audrey.

"Audrey! Audrey! You need to come quickly, Gregory, he's been killed!"

Audrey rushed from her dressing room towards the stage. Her heart racing as she thought of her boyfriend…dead

As she ran on the stage her hands were shaking and she was very scared. There was a detective standing on stage as well as the director. She looked down and there lying on the ground was Gregory, her Gregory. Eliza ran over to her and held her hand as Audrey walked to the detective. He tipped his hat and offered his condolences.

"I am very sorry ma'am, I will be in charge of this case and I will work very hard to bring your boyfriend to justice." He said.

"What do you mean justice? Wasn't it an accident?" She asked confused.

"No ma'am," he said, "It wasn't. I have reason to believe that Gregory was murdered."

Then came a voice from the cat walks. Soft and comforting. Then Audrey heard no more as she fainted and fell to the ground in shock.

Part II

She woke up in her apartment bedroom in the middle of the night. She was shivering and she looked up and saw that her bedroom window was open and it was snowing. She got up and realized she was wearing pajamas, very nice silk ones. She got her robe from her closet and went and closed the window. She turned around and realized that her bathroom door was open as well and she closed that too.

She had all the doors in her room closed when the windows burst open. She hurried over to look out outside but there was nothing. There wasn't even any wind that could have blown them open. She breathed deeply to calm herself down then she closed the window and made sure it was locked properly. Audrey straightened her pajamas and turned around to get back in the bed. As she turned around she noticed something in the corner of her eye. She turned and there standing before her was a man with a mask covering half his face.

"Hello," she said nervously trying not to scream, "May I help you? and how did you get in here?"

"Hello, hope you had a nice rest. You slept for a very long time, I was watching you for most of the time. Now that you are awake we can go, get up and put something reasonably pretty on please." The man said to him.

"Go with you where? Excuse me but you need to get out of here immediately or I'll call the police!" Audrey said rushing to the phone lying on the nightstand next to her bed.

"That won't be necessary," the man said, "You will either come with me nicely or I will bring you with me using force." He took a step towards her and she rushed to the wall on the other side of the room.

He laughed and continued to walk towards her. She ran to the corner of the room very unsure of what to do because the phone was far away and she had no way to defend herself. She let out a glass breaking scream and the man ran towards her and gripped her on the shoulders.

"Shut it! Shut it now!" He said, "or there will be consequences!" He continued to grip her with one arm and with the other he reached up to the corner of the wall and pressed it in. A square of the wall dipped in and the wall slid open and the floor they were standing on angled down and she tripped and started tumbling down it.

and what happened next we will have to wait to find out...until next time my friends.