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Candlelight's cardboard `Phantom' falls flat

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19970131
Author:LUCIA MAURO

Phantom Through April 20

Candlelight Dinner Playhouse 5620 S. Harlem, Summit Tickets, $23.50-$47.50 (708) 496-3000 Somewhat recommended Spurts of gracious vocal fireworks fail to illuminate this shaky remount. There's a fine line between earnestly embellished theatrics and spoof. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse's revival of "Phantom," the Arthur Kopit-Maury Yeston musical based on the Gaston Leroux novel set in the bowels of the Paris Opera House, hovers precariously above both styles. Director William Pullinsi and his able-to-grand cast take this rather disjointed version a tad too ...

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