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'Phantom' star reflects on progress of Blacks in theatre

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From: Call & Post
Date: 20050804
Author:Anonymous

African-American actor John Whitney is among the cast of the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "The Phantom of the Opera," which returns to the Ohio Theatre for a four-week engagement Wednesday, Aug. 3-Sunday, Aug. 28.

With worldwide box office of more than $3 billion, "Phantom" is the most successful entertainment venture of the past two decades, surpassing such blockbuster films as "Titanic," "E.T." and "Star Wars."

Based on the classic novel by Gaston Leroux, "Phantom" tells the story of a masked figure who lurks beneath the catacombs of the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of ...

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