I have to say that I never liked "Phantom" either. There are some solo performers in my area who specialize in it, but when they go from playing standards to suddenly dropping into a medley of POTA tunes there's a split in the audience between those who are enthralled and those who figure the night is over and it's time to go. I like ALW's music generally, especially "Jesus Christ Superstar" and, believe it or not, "Starlight Express"... but "Phantom" strikes me as overly pretentious. Critics aren't being too kind on the movie so far either. The movie version of "Cats" didn't do much for me or the critics either. I may get around to learning "Music Of The Night" someday - maybe a reggae version .

A few years back a freind of mine was looking forward to the release of the George Clooney remake of "Ocean's Eleven" because he thought this would be the kick off for a Rat-Pack revival since the original movie starred Frank Sinatra. He was learning Rat-Pack music like mad in preparation. Turned out that the hit song from the second "Ocean's Eleven" was the remake of the obscure Elvis tune "A Little Less Conversation". I never got around to asking him if he went on an Elvis jag over that or not.