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Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Phantom' comes to the Hippodrome

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From: Baltimore Afro-American
Date: 20040820
Author:Culbertson, D.C.

Culbertson, D.C.
Baltimore Afro-American
08-20-2004
Of all the blockbuster musicals on Broadway in the past few decades, one of
the most successful is Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera."

In addition to playing on Broadway, it's been presented on stages all over
the world arid will soon be a motion picture. And this week, after months
of negotiation, it opens at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theater.

Gaston Leroux's 19th century novel, Le FantUme de l'OpEra, the story of a
hideously deformed man with a beautiful voice who lives in the catacombs of
the Paris Opera House and becomes obsessed ...

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