Back in the mid-1980’s, Andrew Lloyd Weber seemed to have a Midas touch that would never fade. Just looking at my own history of musical viewing reveals a giant Lloyd Weber fingerprint: Joseph was the first professional show I even saw (at the Marriott Lincolnshire), and not long after Cats was my first big-budget, downtown musical. Soon enough, Phantom arrived at the Auditorium with a massive traveling show, and it stands in my memory as the first show I left disappointed following tremendous hype.
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