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THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

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From: The Village Voice
Date: 20041222
Author:Morales, Jorge

The saddest musical in the world: A Lloyd Webber revival that proves the show musn't go on

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Directed by Joel Schumacher

Warner Bros.

Opens December 22

THE PHANTOM MENACE

Charles Garnier's Paris Opéra stands as a monument to second Empire excess: cherubs, caryatids, mosaics, 10 kinds of marble, six types of limestone, gold, onyx, turquoise, bronze-and that's just the foyer. Rumors of an underground lake (nothing as mundane as a flooded basement) inspired Gaston Leroux's novel TAe Phantom of the Opera, which begat that other monument to excess, Andrew Lloyd Webber's ...

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