RALEIGH - If Memorial Auditorium were inhabited by its own mercurial phantom of the opera, Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s musical “Phantom” would surely soothe him.
As for the more famous Andrew Lloyd Webber version of the story? He’d shut it down.
Yeston and Kopit’s little-known adaptation of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel about a disfigured man who lives beneath the Paris Opera House has been dubbed “the other ‘Phantom.’ ”
It’s also the better “Phantom.”
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Michael Minarik stars as The Phantom/Erik in the production.Photo Credit: Curtis Brown Photography
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