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Phantom of the Opera?

questions. 1) Why is it so famous of all musical? anyone know why? 2) which is best / most successful version. acted by whom? and thats now available in stores. didn't watch it before and I want. 3)''the music nuit''la the song. What the words mean. I checked it was the ghost singing to Christine. Is this a bit like a love song? 4) According to Wikipedia, I saw the end, when left Christine, the Phantom crie''Toi alone can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night! "I kinda know what it meant I think. Just think, if someone can have a explanation clearer and better than mine. 5) is the ghost of the man or as a ghost? I read the sypnosis, im not too sure ABT. 6) Finally, it right fiction. not a true story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_ (1986_musical) Synopsis # 's I went to the site. Thank you to answer correctly.

1.) She is famous because it is a memorable show. Chandilier the crash, the boat adrift on stage with candles, opening haunting thunder is a show you can not ignore nor forget. 2.) I like the movie version with Gerard Butler, Phantom, Emmy Rossum as Christine and Patrick Wilson as Raoul. I like them better than CBO because the voice of Butler is more in tune with the emotions of the Phantom at this time (or a song. As he changes his tone from music of the night Down Again); Rossum is more understandable, and Wilson is just really good (CBO Raoul was really good too) 3.) The music of the night, the ghost tries to convince Christine to leave the life she knows and stay with him and love and make music with him. (Yes in both cases the real music and making love) 4.) Christine chose Raoul in the Phantom so that love is in the opportunity to work on music together disappeared. Five.) The Phantom is a human being. He is a man who was born (in the musical) with a deformed face (in the book with a skin bad incurable disorder) 6.) The book that sets up as something that could happen. to the opera Leroux used for inspiration in this story, it is actually a labinryth and a lake under the Opera so it would have been possible but in this case it is fiction.

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