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I liked the shape, but didn’t want to just copy one of them, and so looked to the original text for further inspiration.

Here you can see a picture of the costume design sketch, some images from the stage and a fan’s reproduction of the dress, and this forum post includes a discussion of the dress and links to pictures of it from different productions.

The stage outfit was rather more what I would prefer, for a masquerade ball - a blue and pink silver-starred ballet outfit, referred to as her “Star Princess” dress. The movie dress was a pink concoction I read somewhere it was supposed to represent the influence of the scarlet-garbed Phantom, but I personally didn’t think it quite worked that way - I thought it just looked too conventional, kind of like “Totally Ingenue Barbie!” although certainly it was very beautiful. Of course, for Halloween I must do a Masquerade dress, the first step of which was blithely breaking the “no research” rule once again. “Just be quiet and sing it,” I reply perfectly logically and reasonably.) He’s joined in with me a couple times as I trilled “Music of the Night” in the shower, scaring the living daylights out of me each time (“didn’t you ever see Psycho?” I asked) and gamely followed along with Raoul’s part to “All I Ask Of You.” (“How can anyone LISTEN to this? No one will FIND you? Your fears are far BEHIND you?” he asks. So since I got the soundtrack, I’ve been singing along - portions of my brain which went on strike during geometry class apparently devoted themselves thoroughly to memorizing the whole musical, it seems - even getting Brian in on the fun, singing Phantom duets along with him to which we make up the words.