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Phantom: The American Musical Sensation is a musical with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and stage play Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House written by Arthur Kopit. It was based on Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera and is frequently described as the most successful musical never to have played on Broadway.

Yeston and Kopit had just finished the musical Nine, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1982, when Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House they were approached by Geoffrey Holder to write an American musical based on Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel, The Phantom of the Opera. Holder had obtained the rights from the Leroux estate, making Phantom the first and only Phantom of the Opera musical to do so. The plans were for Holder to direct.

Yeston and Kopit's original problems with the storyline were the questions of: “Why did Erik, the Phantom, Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House love Christine?” and “How did they meet?”. Leroux's book offered no insight into these questions. In the Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House novel, Christine and the Phantom had already met and known each other for some time, and there was not an Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House explanation as to why he loved her. Yeston and Kopit decided to move the story to an earlier period to the Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House time of the actual meeting so that the audience could experience that moment. They also decided to place the Phantom in danger so that Christine could be his salvation. The Phantom's danger was that he had a life-sustaining need for beautiful music and could not exist without it.

The conflict in the story comes two-fold: firstly, when Gérard Carrière loses his position as head of the Opera house and therefore cannot protect Erik anymore; and secondly when Carlotta, the new diva and owner of Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House the Opera, starts to sing. She has such a terrible voice that the Phantom is in torment and his salvation must Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House eventually come through Christine, whose voice is so amazing that he falls in love with her. The story also Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House twists later on when it is revealed that Gérard Carrière, the previous owner of the Opera house, is actually Erik's father.

Erik's worst fear is that he would be captured and treated like an animal in a zoo because of his horrendous Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House face. The police surround him and the chief of police tells his men not to shoot because they "can take him Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House alive!" It is Erik's worst nightmare that he will be put on display like some circus freak, so he shouts out Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House to his father for help. Carriere understands and he grabs a policeman's gun and aims at his son. He can't Phantom of the Opera Washington DC tickets Kennedy Center Opera House bring himself to do it, but Erik begs him. Carrière fires and the Phantom falls, calling out Christine's name.

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