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Aaiiee! Another `Phantom'; NBC Roasts the Hoary Old Chesnut

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19900317
Author:Tom Shales

You're lucky if you can walk down the street without running into that darn phantom of the opera. He's about as ubiquitous as the Energizer bunny. Since being unearthed for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical, the phantom has been harder to avoid than the Trumps.

Gaston Leroux's novel is in the public domain, so anyone can do an adaptation and use the title. Even before the musical opened in London in 1986, there had been no fewer than five movie versions, plus Brian De Palma's funny rock update, "Phantom of the Paradise."

And now tagging along at the absolute end of the pack comes ...

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