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From: Charleston Gazette
Date: 20070426
Author:Justin Wymer
Ghosts. An underground lake. Mysterious voices that permeate walls. These are the motifs of Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera," which was a tantalizing novel long before it was commissioned as a theater show.
The book begins with a death to introduce the mysterious villain whose identity unravels throughout the novel. Breathless and exasperated, a young dancer runs into the dressing room of one of her coworkers. "Joseph Buquet is dead!" she announces to the horror of many other dancers.
After some prodding, the dancer exclaims that "the Ghost" has killed the worker, Buquet. This response ...
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