The past couple weeks I listened to score of The Phantom of the Opera several times. As a young girl, I lived and breathed this musical, this story. I love it! I love everything about it.
The music is beautiful, accessible. The characters are engaging. Relative. Even funny. As are their songs. And the story? The story, though fictional, is factual. For the facts of our lives are these: We are born. We live. We die. Everything else is uncertain. All lives are filled with heartstoppers, heartbreaks and hope. PTO is no exception. It is the story of life. Of love and the many different forms, and distortions, that love can take. Of disappointed hopes, dreams, expectations. But shows that what ultimately lies in store is far greater than what we can imagine for ourselves.
To illustrate why I love this story, I will give you my favorite moment. Christine decides to let go of all that she has to lose, forgive all that this man has done and realize that this monster is nothing more than a forgotten child who has never known love. So she shows him love. She gives him but one kiss and her touch makes all the difference in his world.
When mercy is offered before judgment, miracles occur.
The story of the Phantom is about the miracle of the heart. One moment, one small act of love can change the world forever. It already has.
There are angels of music. For where there is love, music will abound.
List of some of these favorite stories:
- The Phantom of the Opera. (my first broadway)
- Les Miserables.
- The Secret Garden.
- Jane Eyre.
- A Tale of Two Cities. (charles dickens in general)
- The Lord of the Rings.
- Persuasion. (jane austen in general)
- The Lion. The Witch. And the Wardrobe. (c.s. lewis...)
- Harry Potter.
- Turandot. (my first opera)
- (lists can go on forever if allowed....so...)
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