Theater Review: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (2016 North American Tour; Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago)
DROPPING THE DROPPINGÂ CHANDELIER Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega-musical wants to be an opera about opera to end opera. Ironically, "Hannibal," its first-act spoof of a 19th-century grand opera of the Meyerbeer persuasion, is no more overwrought or grandiloquent than the show that surrounds it, beloved as it is by countless legions. Like Webber's early hit Joseph […]