![]() ![]() Her violinist father had told her he'd send an "Angel of Music" to guide and protect her after he died, she's taken this unseen tutor's training as a sign her father was watching over her. He's been secretly tutoring 16-year-old Christine (Emmy Rossum), an orphan who is living and working at the Opera as a chorister. For those 12 people in the world who haven't seen the stage show, The Phantom of the Opera is a musical based on Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel about a horribly disfigured genius/madman who lives beneath the Paris Opera House, here renamed the Opera Populaire. After watching this DVD and its featurettes a couple of times, my appraisal grew more charitable, though some criticisms remain. After seeing it in the theatre, I had a list of problems with the casting and limited vocal talents of some of the players and some of the story changes took away more than they added. The series will be around the build-up to a live event and each season will have to solve a new murder with a new cast of characters - think the Knives Out franchise from Rian Johnson, but for television and musical theater.While I'm not one of those "Phantom Phanatics", I have seen the show four times on tour and in Toronto and own the Original Cast Recording, so I went into this film adaptation with a favorable attitude about the source material and hoped to enjoy it. According to an exclusive from Deadline, the series is part dark comedy and part murder mystery and the premise for each episode actually sounds pretty fascinating. ![]() Joining Lloyd Webber in his journey is Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist creator Austin Winsberg, award-winning producer Robert Greenblatt, and Zoey’s producer The Tannenbaum Company, Richard Shepard, as well as Lionsgate Television and Universal Television. Peacock is giving fans of the Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber musical an hour-long murder mystery anthology titled The Show Must Go On and is the first time that the musical (which has been on Broadway since 1988) will be used as part of a television series. Ever wish that The Phantom of the Operawas a murder mystery? Well, your prayers have been answered. ![]()
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