Over the years he surreptitiously trains a young chorus girl, Christine, who mistakes him for the "angel of music" that her late father promised would come along in his absence. This soulless exercise adds nothing to the recently resuscitated genre of the movie musical.įor those new to both the pulp horror novel and its campy stage incarnation, Phantom is the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts a Paris opera house in the 1870s. Banking heavily on audience familiarity with the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, it aims to please diehard fans at the expense of making new ones. The Phantom of the Opera is faithful to the hugely successful stage production in the same way the first Harry Potter movies were to their literary counterparts. Now playing at the Capitol 6, Esplanade 6, Silver City Riverport, and Varsity Cinemas
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