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'Phantom' Menace? Don't Believe Your Eyes

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20070624
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As aging-mass-murderer-seduces- teenage-ingenue tales go, "The Phantom of the Opera" is tough to beat. The saga of Erik and Christine has been the basis of a best-selling book, several movies and, in its Andrew Lloyd Webber stage incarnation, has grossed more than $3 billion in worldwide ticket sales and become the longest- running musical in Broadway history. (It's now ensconced at the Kennedy Center Opera House through Aug. 12.)

If the story seems mythical, perhaps that is because the original French novel (Gaston Leroux, 1911) is a version of a French fairy tale ("Beauty and the Beast"). ...

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