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This 5 page paper provides a brief overview of the Lloyd Webber musical, discusses sets, costumes, and offers opening day reviews, as well as a short synopsis and notes on original development from novel to musical. Bibliography lists 3 MLA sources.
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own understanding of beauty and to search for beauty that lies beneath the trappings of society, whether he be beauty or beast....or a Phantom of the Opera. Since its debut
on Broadway in 1986, with Michael Crawford as the Phantom and Sarah Brightman as Christine, The Phantom of the Opera has never stopped touring. Somewhere in the world at
this very minute, a production of Phantom is being readied for the stage, or is being viewed on the silver screen to the joy and fascination of many. But what
is so fascinating about it, anyway? Why have theater goers continued to return to see the musical and the play year after year? The musical and consequent forays into both
television and movie were all based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, who wrote it around 1911 and claimed that the phantom was real. Whether the ghost was real or
not, the story has taken on a life of its own. Phantom tells the story of a strange, disfigured man who lives in the bowels of the Paris Opera House.
He becomes obsessed with Christine, a young singer, and takes it upon himself to further her career at any cost--even if it means murder. The Phantom of the Opera was
transferred to Broadway in 1988 with Crawford and Brightman repeating their roles. The show was a resounding success and gave Andrew Lloyd Webber the distinction of being the first composer
to have three musicals running simultaneously in London and New York(Harry 103). Though the intent and meaning are still the same in both the musical version and the text version,
Andrew Lloyd Webber, who wrote the musical version of Phantom, opted to reduce the amount of roles and thus the amount of characters on stage. In the original novel, there
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