The Phantom of the Opera

Originally shown on the NBC television network, presents Leroux’s tortured anti-hero not as a terrifying madman or a closet romantic, but as an angry young man who vents his rage at being born disfigured not with murder but by playing practical jokes within the Paris Opera House, beneath which he has fashioned a magical world of his own, a world to which he brings the terrified singer Christine., Paris locations enhance this lavish production, which transforms the 1911 melodrama into a tragic romance. Phantom: Charles Dance. Gerard: Burt Lancaster. Christine: Teri Polo. Cholet: Ian Richardson. Philippe: Adam Storke. Carlotta: Andrea Ferreol. Ledoux: Jean-Pierre Cassell. Jean-Claude: Jean Rougerie. Directed by Tony Richardson (“Tom Jones”).