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Music of the night drives Phantom film

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From: The Nelson Mail
Date: 20050111
Author:MANNING, David

The Phantom of the Opera (Starring Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson. Directed by Joel Schumacher. PG. State Cinema)

The play's the thing, said Shakespeare in Hamlet, but it's the music - the music of the night - that drives Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.

The context of Shakespeare's play reference was to catch the conscience of a king; Webber's music is to grip and sustain moviegoers, as it has done theatregoers, despite whatever weaknesses they also confront.

And all of Webber's music from his stage musical - which was based on Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel and ...

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