Despite being a rather dark and sexy character (think Simon Cowell with sex appeal), he is also violent and nasty it's difficult to feel any sympathy for a character so smothered in self-pity. But this is ruined by scenes such as the implied attempted rape of Christine, the Phantom wailing that his face has 'denied me the joys of the flesh'. The songs desperately want us to feel that if only the Phantom wasn't persecuted and mocked by society, he would be a rather nice chap. The peak of that great silent revival was Kevin Brownlows restoration of Abel Gances Napoleon, but other major successes include this handsome version of the 1925 Phantom of the Opera with a new. Born disfigured, a flashback shows him as a child being horribly abused in a freak show and escaping to the sewers. The Phantom of the Opera tells the story of a disfigured musical genius (Gerard. The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera debuted in 1988, winning seven Tony Awards including Best. Obviously this is supposed to be the story of a tragic genius tortured by his disability, unable to be loved by a beautiful young woman because of his hideous face. Musical Drama based on Andrew Lloyd Webbers celebrated musical phenomenon.

Down they go to his spooky habitat (as opposed to the branch of Habitat from which he presumably purchased those candles).

After Christine's successful debut, the Phantom reveals himself to her and takes her to his bachelor pad: this is only accessible via a boat ride across a foggy lagoon, where gold candles inexplicably rise fully lit from the murky waters. Phantom canвЂ™t be any worse than Love Never Dies, WebberвЂ™s queasy sequel to his hit musical, in which the phantom, now the owner of a Coney Island-esque theme park named Phantasma, weary of.

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