Walter Kerr
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• Average score: 3.00/10
Reviews by Walter Kerr
The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway
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STAGE VIEW; Now, About That Chandelier That Goes Crashing
From: New York Times | Date: 2/14/1988
In the end, The Phantom of the Opera can be no more than the sum of its pictorial effects. It's no opera (not with those bland melodies, not with lyric phrases like 'Be My Guest' and 'Make My Night'), it's not a display case of serious acting, it's not humor (not even self-mockery). It's pyschologically lightweight, long on melodramatic grotesquerie, and it can only on its visual chills. Will three chills, plus candles that swarm like fireflies, do you?
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