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The Phantom of the Opera

by SecretsAdmin   ::   posted on Jun. 24, 2004 - 11:00pm

Antiques Roadshow fans beware: The Orpheum’s production of Phantom contains graphic scenes depicting violence against excessive ornament. Broadway’s most beloved romantic tragedy moves to Minneapolis, along with its ten-story, half-ton chandelier, which, during the performance, crashes onto the stage and shatters to bits. And you thought Prince smashing his nonsensical symbol-shaped guitar was dramatic! For a play that is known far and wide, with every song memorized by many a teenage girl (or middle-aged housewife), the only way to go out is to go big. So it is that Phantom arrives with the full array of accoutrements from the New York set, including that ill-fated chandelier, to give Minnesota audiences an affair to remember. (612) 339-7007; www.hennepintheatredistrict.com