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`Phantom of the Opera' // The magic of stagecraft

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19900520
Author:HEDY WEISS

The phenomenal success of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera" cannot be explained simply in terms of the power of hype.

Much of the credit must go directly to the story - the seductive tale of Erik, a physically scarred and psychically warped musical and architectural genius who leads Christine Daae, a beautiful young opera singer, through a chilling artistic and sexual initiation.

Based on the 1911 novel by Gaston Leroux, a colorful Parisian journalist and failed playwright, the scenario is so awash in Freudian undercurrents that it seems as if the author peered ...

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