&#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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If Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical is a chestnut, Joel Schumacher's new film is a chestnut flamboyantly roasting on a backlot fire.
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Broadway invaded the Cannes Film Festival on Friday with a preview of the movie musical &quot;Dreamgirls,&quot; with stars Jamie Foxx and Beyonce Knowles on hand to help show off scenes from the stage adaptation.
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Emmy Rossum figures she was the least famous person going for the role of Christine in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera."
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Andrew Lloyd Webber&#39;s name is synonymous with musical theater. The prolific composer has helped create some of the most popular musicals of the past 35 years: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
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It&#39;s a rare show in the  legitimate theater when the performance is not preceded by a  sepulchral voice reminding you to turn off your cell phone.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Bombay Dreams," a hit musical in London which received mixed reviews on Broadway, could soon open in the city that inspired the story.
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Seventeen years after Andrew Lloyd Webber had last worked on his &quot;Phantom of the Opera,&quot; the hugely popular stage musical that the British impresario today admits will likely go down as the greatest
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The current wisdom in Hollywood tells us the musical biopic is a dead genre. With documentaries all the rage, there&#39;s just not much of an audience for an impersonation anymore, and dramatizations about the
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Ascending the throne has never been more of a struggle for the title character of &quot;Richard III&quot; than it is in the production that opened last night at the Public Theater.
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A once-maligned genre, retooled for a new generation, has yielded hits such as 'Once,' 'Sweeney Todd,' and 'Hairspray.'
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The drama of how Patti LuPone finally got to star as Rose in a New York production of âGypsyâ is almost a musical in itself.
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Rumors had been spreading among hard-core devotees of Andrew Lloyd Webber&#39;s musical &quot;The Phantom of the Opera&quot; that the famous chandelier scene would not appear in the lavish movie adaptation of the popular production.
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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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First came the books, then the television docudramas and feature-length films. And now ÂEnron: The MusicalÂ opens Friday on a stage way, way off Broadway.
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The quality of Martin  Short's musical revue is well encapsulated by what has become  his trademark pose. Hands on hips, staring off into the  distance, he embraces the adulation of his audience while at  the same time slyly mocking his need for it.
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The new movie-musical version of 'Hairspray' is bouncy enough, but the high jinks smudge an important history lesson.