In the three decades since its 1986 London premiere, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lushly romantic 1986 pop-Puccini hybrid has phantomized the world, propelled on a jet stream of pure box-office high-test. With this opening gambit, and signature organ arpeggio, a 1911 beauty-and-the-beast potboiler by an obscure Parisian hack/bon vivant named Gaston Leroux turned into one of the monster entertainment success stories of our time.
“Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera, a mystery never fully explained….” Derrick Davis and Eva Tavares in The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway Across Canada.
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