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ON THE STAGE: Phantom of the Opera or the Good, the Bad and the Chandelier

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From: Boise Weekly
Date: 20020924
Author:Anonymous

On September 20, Prairie Dog Productions opens a play whose title also serves as a good diction exercise (repeat it thrice quickly, enunciating each word)--Phantom of the Opera or the Good, the Bad and the Chandelier by Peter Van Slyke. Phantom ... is a parody (parodies being a PDP trademark) of the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. For those of you who have seen or read Phantom, the chain of events remain the same; it is the characters and the tunes that have been re-invented.

Directed by Cammie Pavesic, this scripted take-off on Phantom (note: no real knowledge of the original ...

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