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GRAND ILLUSION DRAMA OF STAGE MUSICAL PROVES ELUSIVE FOR LAVISH 'PHANTOM'.(Spotlight)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 20041222
Author:Denerstein, Robert

Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News

If you think that The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber's much-loved musical based on Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, has been around forever, you're close to right. That's an exaggeration, of course, but Webber's lavish musical has been playing in London for 18 years and has had an equally big impact in the United States.

Show me a person who can't hum Music of the Night - the play's showcase tune - and I'll show you someone who has been vaccinated against Broadway.

The film version, first discussed in 1986, arrives ...

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