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THEATER; `Pinchpenny Phantom' Offers Fast-Paced Fun

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910516
Author:Barbara Gross

The Montgomery Playhouse is offering a treat - a rambunctious, fast-paced production of a David Reiser and Jack Sharkey satire, "The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera."

The show is not to be confused with the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical extravaganza scheduled to rattle the chandeliers at the Kennedy Center this month.

"The Pinchpenny Phantom of the Opera," loosely based on the novel by Gaston Leroux, is a shoestring undertaking ideal for community theater. Its locale is not the Paris Opera House but a ramshackle 1890s establishment known as "il Sparso Valore Opera Theatre" - translated "Of ...

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