Phantomania: the Phantom Phenomena

In this writing piece I shall share a personal journal of my acquaintanceship with a world of stage drama that was just there in the alleys of midtown Manhattan along with other passing commercial business enterprises. This is the side of arts and literature that remained producing and presenting theater shows to the urban public. I rarely thought that I could hardly relate to this realm of theatrics, especially being a twenty first century metro dweller. As I set off my expedition hunt for the literature rich Treasure Island through the city-borough into the Broadway box, little did I know that I would so to speak stumble upon and unlock the metaphorical Pandora’s Box. After opening the majestic vault I was as if in the midst of the gems and jewels that aroused from the 42nd street neighborhood entity. I got enlightened by encountering a gemstone from this collection of treasures and trinkets known as “The Phantom of The Opera.” It should be quite obvious by now the fact that the Phantom happens to be the cunning culprit responsible for the act of my Broadway musical ‘cherry popping’ exposure. I hope the reader would excuse my French simply because I mean no disrespect in any profane way to a long time next door rival production called “Mary Poppins”. In other words “The Phantom of the Opera” has comfortably secured the first spot in my list of viewing many other Broadway plays that are yet to come. I cannot help but emphasize this primo genial melancholy contact by quoting a title of a very popular pop song “First Cut is the Deepest” which I could now relate to very intimately. “The Phantom of The Opera” is an iconic bidirectional passionate tale that is converted into the longest running Broadway theater act so far for about two decades. It is adapted from a French novel by Gaston Leroux., an epic story of the menacing masked musical master called The Phantom who inhabits and prowls the underbelly of the eighteenth century Paris