Lot 665, then ladies and gentlemen, a poster for Vox.com's production of today explained,

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Lot 666, then, a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange phenomenon

of the phantom of the opera. A musical never fully explained. We are told ladies and gentlemen

that it ran longer than any other Broadway production. Perhaps we may frighten away the ghost

of so many years with a little explanation. Gentlemen?

The phantom of the opera is closing. For people who have not had the pleasure or the horror,

Andrea Longchew, writer at Vulture, what is this show about?

The phantom of the opera is a Gothic romance about a beautiful young soprano at a Paris opera house

who is being trained by a disembodied voice that she initially believes to be an angel sent by her father.

Bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo, bravo.

In fact, it turns out to be the titular phantom of the opera who is not a ghost, but is a man

who lives in the bowels of the opera house who has fallen in love with her and who goes

to extraordinary and often violent lengths to try and install her as the new star of the opera house.

Your days at the opera popular are numbered. Christine Diere will be singing on your behalf tonight.

Be prepared for a great misfortune. Should you attempt to take place?

So, she has on the one hand the love of this terrifying but beautifully voiced musical genius

and on the other hand, the love of a childhood friend, upstanding aristocratic lover.

And so, it is about the way this love triangle works out.

Only then can you be long to me.

You describe it as a Gothic romance and I remember that there was definitely... there was a vibe in this play.

There was an atmosphere is what I should say. What is the atmosphere of phantom?

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