The Phantom of the Opera

Favorite Phantom?

  • 1925 Silent Film starring Lon Chaney Sr

    Votes: 2 3.4%
  • 1943 version starring Claude Rains

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • 1962 Hammer version starring Herbert Lom

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • 1974 The Phantom of the Paradise starring William Finley

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Andrew Lloyd Weber version, either a stage version or the 2004 film

    Votes: 51 86.4%
  • Gaston Leroux's original novel

    Votes: 3 5.1%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 10.2%

  • Total voters
    59
I am unfamiliar with all versions except what I presume is the ALW version that I saw a couple of years ago. It knocked my socks off! I used to think Les Mis was the tops, but I really disliked the last production I saw in San Francisco. I found it boring, and Eponine's voice was so nasally, I thought we were being pranked.

I would love to see Norm Lewis be the phantom again. I fell in love with him on the anniversary production that plays on PBS on occasion. He was such an awesome Javert!
 

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version, and saw it live a couple times at the Wharton Theater in Lansing. Love it, and the soundtrack music. Also loved David Cook singing Music of the Night on American Idol.
 
Saw the ALW version three times, have also read the book and seen the TV movie with Charles Dance.

Really wish they would have gone ahead and made the movie version they were planning with the original cast. I think Webber's divorce from Sarah Brightman ended any chance of that. The movie version made a lot of wrong choices.
 












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