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Less gaudy 'Phantom' needs editing Emotional love story nearly three hours.(Spotlight)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 20061103
Author:Bornstein, Lisa

Byline: Lisa Bornstein, Rocky Mountain News

There are those who look at Maury Yeston's Phantom as the true artistic musical based on Gaston LeRoux's novel, without all the gaudiness of that other show.

Then there are the fans of that other show, the one with the candles and the chandelier, who think the Holy Trinity is Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Me, I'm not really grooving on either one.

Yeston and Arthur Kopit wrote their version before The Phantom of the Opera made its splash in London, but once Lloyd Webber's hit, the first was quietly shelved, then brought out for ...

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