{"product_id":"2940012605399","title":"The Phantom of the Opera","description":"Classic love story and Broadway's longest running play.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I  Is it the Ghost?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of\u003cbr\u003ethe Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their\u003cbr\u003eretirement.  Suddenly the dressing-room of La Sorelli, one of the\u003cbr\u003eprincipal dancers, was invaded by half-a-dozen young ladies of the\u003cbr\u003eballet, who had come up from the stage after \"dancing\" Polyeucte.  They\u003cbr\u003erushed in amid great confusion, some giving vent to forced and\u003cbr\u003eunnatural laughter, others to cries of terror.  Sorelli, who wished to\u003cbr\u003ebe alone for a moment to \"run through\" the speech which she was to make\u003cbr\u003eto the resigning managers, looked around angrily at the mad and\u003cbr\u003etumultuous crowd.  It was little Jammes--the girl with the tip-tilted\u003cbr\u003enose, the forget-me-not eyes, the rose-red cheeks and the lily-white\u003cbr\u003eneck and shoulders--who gave the explanation in a trembling voice:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's the ghost!\"  And she locked the door.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSorelli's dressing-room was fitted up with official, commonplace\u003cbr\u003eelegance.  A pier-glass, a sofa, a dressing-table and a cupboard or two\u003cbr\u003eprovided the necessary furniture.  On the walls hung a few engravings,\u003cbr\u003erelics of the mother, who had known the glories of the old Opera in the\u003cbr\u003eRue le Peletier; portraits of Vestris, Gardel, Dupont, Bigottini.  But\u003cbr\u003ethe room seemed a palace to the brats of the corps de ballet, who were\u003cbr\u003elodged in common dressing-rooms where they spent their time singing,\u003cbr\u003equarreling, smacking the dressers and hair-dressers and buying one\u003cbr\u003eanother glasses of cassis, beer, or even rhum, until the call-boy's\u003cbr\u003ebell rang.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSorelli was very superstitious.  She shuddered when she heard little\u003cbr\u003eJammes speak of the ghost, called her a \"silly little fool\" and then,\u003cbr\u003eas she was the first to believe in ghosts in general, and the Opera\u003cbr\u003eghost in particular, at once asked for details:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Have you seen him?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As plainly as I see you now!\" said little Jammes, whose legs were\u003cbr\u003egiving way beneath her, and she dropped with a moan into a chair.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThereupon little Giry--the girl with eyes black as sloes, hair black as\u003cbr\u003eink, a swarthy complexion and a poor little skin stretched over poor\u003cbr\u003elittle bones--little Giry added:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If that's the ghost, he's very ugly!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, yes!\" cried the chorus of ballet-girls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd they all began to talk together.  The ghost had appeared to them in\u003cbr\u003ethe shape of a gentleman in dress-clothes, who had suddenly stood\u003cbr\u003ebefore them in the passage, without their knowing where he came from.\u003cbr\u003eHe seemed to have come straight through the wall.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173346754800,"sku":"2940012605399","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012605399_p0.jpg?v=1763570825","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012605399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}