Who Wears the Phantoms Mask?
Las Vegas has an assortment of colorful shows to choose from. There are the classic singers like Wayne Newton, the creative story telling of Cirque du Soleil, or the blue, musical, three stooges of Blue Man Group, but a theatre type show is hard to come by. Sure you can argue that the Lion King fills this type, but portraying animals can never replace the acting of another person in another time. The Phantom at the Venetian Hotel and Resort fits the theatre role quite nicely. The Phantom of the Opera was originally written by Gaston Leroux in 1909. The author claims that the phantom was a really person, but this has never been truly confirmed. The novel was never a great success, but its predecessors, four films and a musical, have been. The musical was created in 1985 by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Harold Prince. The two were asked to recreate this musical into a 95 minute spectacular at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The show has a combination of a great story that has survived the ages and
