The Phantom of the Opera It is now the longest running Broadway show in history and also the most lucrative entertainment enterprise of all time, with its worldwide box office over the past 20 years out-grossing even the highest grossing film in history, Titanic. The story is about a man named Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris, France. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.
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