madame giry wait please monsieur i know no more than anyone else that s not true monsieur don t ask there have been too many accidents accidents please madame giry for all our sakes very well it was years ago there was a traveling fair in the citygypsies i was very young studying to be a ballerina one of many living in the dormitories of the opera house see the wonder from the east come come come inside come and see the devil s child murder murder  which way that way i hid him from the world and its cruelties he has known nothing else of life since then except this opera house it was his playground and now his artistic domain he s a genius he s an architect and designer he s a composer and a magician a genius monsieur clearly madame giry genius has turned to madness