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Loose Canon: Phantom of the Opera (Part 1) - Before Broadway

2016-03-01

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Phantom of the Opera, the horror classic, based on the not-so-classic book that was okay, I guess, and then Hollywood-ified into a string of increasingly out-there adaptations, and all before the Broadway musical. Andrew Lloyd Webber changed the game, but here is a look at poor Erik before Lord Andy.


"The Phantom of the Opera" (1911) Gaston Leroux
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"The Phantom of the Opera" 1925 Universal Pictures
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"Phantom of the Opera" (1943) Universal Pictures
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"Phantom of the Paradise" (1974) 20th Century Fox
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