... We were going to be the first Irish school to stage an amateur performance of this magnitude. We were going to stage Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera." When we first heard this we did not think we had the talent in our Transition Year Group to perform such a spectacular show. "The ... though we were 150 students we seemed to develop into one big family, looking out for and helping one another in any way we could. The performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" needed a theatre that would do it justice; we had a boring and basic sports hall. With a week to go this hall went thro...

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Because of normal disbelief in ghosts and the paranormal, Gaston Leroux goes to great lengths to ensure that, in fact, "The Opera Ghost really existed."" In the prologue of The Phantom of the Opera, written with the feel of a gothic novel, Mr. Leroux says, "He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of ... about drug induced hallucinations or real phantoms for that matter. From when the words "flesh and blood- signal to the readers that Erik, an antagonist of many heads, exists as a phantom to the people around him instead of a real spect...

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... money than any theater composer had ever dreamed of. Nobody can deny his talent because it has circulated around the world from Broadway to Tokyo and back to London. "The Phantom of the Opera, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, Aspects of Love, Cats, Evita, and Jesus Christ Superstar," are minute examples of all the music he has created or recreated. His ... music with others. Using rock & roll, classical, country, and even jazz, he can combine that with theater music from the 20's, 30's, and 40's to create Broadway hits such as, "Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evi...

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