&#39;Phantom&#39; Film Puts Stage Musical in New Spotlight
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It may be hard to believe that anybody has not seen &quot;The Phantom of the Opera&quot; after more than 65,000 performances in 18 countries since 1988, but on Wednesday the
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You probably can&#39;t brag to your friends with much satisfaction that you saw &quot;The Phantom of the Opera&quot; for eight bucks at the mall.
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The stunningly staged, bizarrely ambivalent new musical is a sentimental yet sinister show steeped in Jungian shadows as seen at the Prince Edward Theater in London.
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For Michael Crawford fans, the long-awaited film version of the stage musical &quot;The Phantom of the Opera&quot; definitely will ring a false note or two.
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If Andrew Lloyd Webber&#39;s florid version of &quot;The Phantom of the Opera,&quot; with its lush &quot;music of the night,&quot; is your idea of romance, you&#39;re getting an early Valentine&#39;s Day gift for Christmas.
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The Broadway show sees its first significant cast change.
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There is a  magical spot here, just a short crow&#39;s flight from Milwaukee,  that is now designated a national historical landmark and  hallowed ground to anyone with a reverence for the theater&#39;s  past, i.e., those days before Broadway ticket prices zoomed up  past the $450 mark (as we&#39;ve just been informed Mel Brooks&#39;  &quot;Young Frankenstein&quot; is going to cost us per ticket).
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&quot;The history of the Broadway musical is the history of surprises,&quot; Michael Kantor says. &quot;Every single great, long-running show was not anticipated: Cats, a show about people pretending to be
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"The Little Mermaid" could struggle to  find legs in the transition from screen to stage after critics  on Friday panned the latest musical offering from the Walt  Disney Co. a day after its debut on Broadway.
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Movie musicals haven't caught on with mass audiences since Grease. But a crop of new releases like Hairspray and Once hope to hit the right notes
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Stars turn out in London's Leicester Square or the film version of the hit musical The Phantom of the Opera.
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Fashion Wire Daily - Fashion Wire Daily December 24, 2004 - LOS ANGELES - When teenager Emmy Rossum snagged the plum role of Christine in the big screen adaptation of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera," she already knew how to impress the important inhabitants in whatever world she finds herself. Her ability to impress started young, and one particular experience made an audition with a British peer seem like a snap.
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Some actors become legends with one defining role. Some win awards year after year. And some reach greatness through sheer sweat. Over a career that spanned the off-off-Broadway musical &quot;The Fantasticks&quot; to
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com. (New York City) Why turn one of the most successful Broadway musicals in history - seen by over 80 million people worldwide, since its debut in Londonâs West End in 1986 - into a big screen spectacle?
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Thereâsa magic in the Broadway musical that seems to transcend cultural styles and circumstances and generations. Whether breaking new ground or reviving a classic
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Since its premiere in 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber&#39;s megamusical &quot;The Phantom of the Opera&quot; has become the most frequently performed stage show in the world.
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&quot;Shrek&quot;, the CGI animated feature film that broke box office records worldwide and spawned an even more successful sequel, is coming to Broadway as a stage musical.