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By Joanne Hilty
Special to the Rappahannock News
“The Phantom of the Opera,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s spectacular stage musical which opened in 1986 and is still running with box-office receipts of $3.2 billion, may be the biggest grossing theatrical event of all time. Webber fans will surely embrace this fabulous film production of “Phantom” starring Gerard Butler as the Phantom (previously in “Dear Frankie”); Emmy Rossum as Christine (daughter in “Mystic River”); and Patrick Wilson as Raoul. Brought to you by The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community, the film is showing at The Theatre in Washington, VA, Friday, July 1, 8:00 p.m.
Based on Gaston Leroux’s 1911 novel “The Phantom of the Opera,” Christine (Emmy Rossum) is an upand-coming opera star who has taken extensive voice lessons from the mysterious Phantom, who lurks in caves beneath the Opera House. The Phantom loves Christine, but will not allow her to see his scarred face for fear that she will reject him. His goal is to make her a star, but, when he achieves that, he loses her to Raoul, her childhood sweetheart who is now the Opera House’s patron. But, once he realizes Christine has slipped away, the Phantom’s jealousy has terrible consequences.
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