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18 unusual facts about The Phantom of the Opera


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The presentation of the character Virgil Incanto also went through several permutations, initially conceived as a creepy Phantom of the Opera-like recluse, and as a butcher who would be able to cut the fat from his victims, before the final "fairly normal-looking" version was decided upon.

André Castaigne

He is often recalled as the original illustrator of the first edition of The Phantom of the Opera.

Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music

In 2007, Baldwin Wallace was selected to perform one of six pre-release pilot productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera.

Barbara Ingram School for the Arts

The all school musical The Phantom of the Opera was performed during the 2010 to 2011 school year.

Civic Center of Greater Des Moines

In 1997, a staging of The Phantom of the Opera in 1997 welcomed more than 100,000 visitors during a five-week run, proving to many that Des Moines could support bigger shows.

George Lee Andrews

He made his Broadway debut as Frid in the original production of A Little Night Music, and later appeared in the original productions of On the Twentieth Century; Merlin, and The Phantom of the Opera, and in the revival of Evita.

Andrews hold the record because he has appeared in the musical Phantom of the Opera on 9,382 occasions, over a period of 23 years.

Kindaichi Case Files

Miyuki corrals Kindaichi into assisting the school drama club in rehearsing The Phantom of the Opera at an isolated island hotel.

Leonard Wolf

He is known for his authoritative annotated editions of classic gothic horror novels, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Phantom of the Opera, and critical works on the topic, as well as Yiddish translations of works ranging from those of Isaac Bashevis Singer to Winnie the Pooh.

Madame Giry

In Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Madame Giry's role is changed to become a slightly younger woman who now works as a choreographer of the corps de ballet.

Meg Giry

Meg Giry is one of the fictional characters from Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera.

Model figure

Horizon focused primarily on classic horror film characters (like Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera) and comic book characters (like Captain America and Iron Man).

Perros-Guirec

Perros-Guirec is where, in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, a teenage Vicomte de Chagny retrieves young Christine Daaé's scarf from the sea.

Phantom of the Megaplex

With a title and concept very loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera, the film concerns strange happenings at a monstrous megaplex on the night of a major movie premiere gala, Midnight Mayhem.

Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright

DVD Verdict offered that the plot was an unoriginal "rip off rip-off of the classic The Phantom of the Opera" mixed with "overtones of American Idol" as well as other "reality based music shows".

The Canary Trainer

The bulk of the novel is a first-person narrative, in which Holmes recounts a visit to Paris, where he played violin for the Palais Garnier and became entangled with a mysterious "Phantom".

In the novel's afterword, Meyer acknowledges the two most obvious influences, Conan Doyle's vast Sherlockian opus and Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera, which Meyer terms an "absurdist masterpiece".

The Phantom of the Opera

The most notable of these are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney, Sr and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.


3642

3642 made a trip to Melbourne for The Phantom of the Opera which included a parallel run with Victorian locomotive R 766.

50 Ways to Say Goodbye

The melody of the song has also been compared with "The Phantom of the Opera" theme from the musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Alen Hodzovic

He played Raoul in the Stuttgart production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera and Ken in a German-language production of John Logan's play Red.

Arthur Edmund Carewe

Seen in many classic offerings such as Trilby (1923), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927), The Cat and the Canary (1927), Doctor X (1932), and Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), Carewe completed nearly 50 films, mostly during the silent film era.

Carl Schmehl

Schmehl has assisted Broadway director and choreographer Gillian Lynne -- choreographer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- on new productions in New York, San Diego, London and Vienna.

Cécilia Cara

Cécilia was also given the task in 2004 of vocally dubbing the role Christine Daaé for the French cinema release of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera".

Combined sewer

Famous examples of sewer dwelling are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stephen King's It, Les Miserables, The Third Man, Ladyhawke, Mimic, The Phantom of the Opera, Beauty and the Beast, and Jet Set Radio Future.

David Grindrod

His West End theatre credits include Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story, Saturday Night Fever and Starlight Express.

Dina Richardson

Richardson has written with recording artists Daryl Hall, Adam Joseph and Hugh Panaro from Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera; and collaborated with songwriters including David Lai.

Emily Friendship

At the age of nineteen, she was offered a place in the cast of Cameron Mackintosh's The Phantom of the Opera.

Gaston Leroux

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1911), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon Chaney; and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.

Hal Mohr

In 1944, Mohr became the first person to win an Oscar for both Black-and-White and Color cinematography when he won his second Academy Award, this time with W. Howard Greene for Best Cinematography in a Color Film, for their work on The Phantom of the Opera (1943).

Jenny Lee-Wright

By the late 1980s, she had switched completely to Foley work, including such films as My Left Foot (1989), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004) based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.

John Stewart Wynne aka John Wynne

Wynne has also produced and directed over one hundred audio books, including The Phantom of the Opera performed by F. Murray Abraham, William Styron reading his Darkness Visible (memoir), Christopher Reeve performing F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and John F. Kennedy, Jr. reading his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Profiles in Courage.

Kiara Sasso

Mainly working on stage, she played "Christine" in The Phantom of the Opera, "Belle" in Beauty and the Beast, Ellen in Miss Saigon and "Maria" in The Sound of Music.

Kingsmead Technology College

Chris Overton played the Young Phantom in Joel Schumacher's 2004 The Phantom of the Opera.

Livent

In 1989, after an internal struggle within the company, Cineplex executives Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb negotiated to buy the division, which then included the Pantages Theatre, Toronto, and rights to Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Mammon in popular culture

Mammon is a character in The Phantom of Manhattan by Frederick Forsyth, where he is the god that the Phantom of the Opera worships.

Mark Jacoby

He has achieved fame from his leading roles on Broadway in Show Boat, The Phantom of the Opera and Ragtime, among others.

North Raleigh Christian Academy

In the fall of 2010, the theatre department put on You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and, in the spring of 2010, was among the nation's first high schools to produce Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera.

Phyllida Crowley Smith

Theatre credits include Heathcliff, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (playing the role of Victoria the White Cat), Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Phantom of the Opera.

Rat-catcher

Ratcatchers also appear in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and make a major appearance in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera.

Rosemary Ashe

She can be heard on the cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera, The Boy Friend, Bitter Sweet, Kismet, The Student Prince, Song of Norway, Oliver, The Killer Soprano, The Witches of Eastwick, Serious Cabaret, Mary Poppins amongst others.

St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick

In the area of Performing Arts, the school has brought a number of productions to fruition over the years, the most recent being Philadelphia, Here I Come! and The Phantom of the Opera.

Tener Brown

She was best known for the role of Meg Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, The Phantom of the Opera.

The Original Soundtrack

Its melody can also be heard in the overture to Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Toronto Phantoms

The name came from The Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that played at the Canon Theatre (then Pantages Theatre) in Toronto for nine years.

Vivian Ellis

Ellis gave all the writers the same advice: "Try and put at least one hit song in every musical you write." Several of the promising writers featured in the competition went on to success, including Charles Hart who wrote lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of The Phantom of the Opera, and Philip Glassborow whose comedy musical The Great Big Radio Show! was a personal favourite.