<Li> Finale: You Are Music (Reprise)--Christine </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (June 2010) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section needs expansion . You can help by adding to it . (June 2010) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Los Angeles Times review opined, "There is a lot more understanding of Erik than of Lloyd Webber's more furtive phantom, but also less mystique . Kopit puts in details Leroux never imagined . The humanity makes for a different kind of show that hasn't found a stylistic identity . The operetta thrust makes it an old - fashioned crowd - pleaser, but traps Yeston's music between the old and the new ." Peter Scott - Pressland found the London production "hum - drum", but wrote: "(A) sa piece of writing, Yeston's Phantom is altogether more engaging than ALW's . It is tighter, more intimate and informed by more human sympathy...While it doesn't produce the kind of melodic sweep and glamour of ALW, it rises...in the second act to genuine emotional fervour...Erik is altogether more engaging and believable than the Lloyd - Webber skulker ." He stated that this makes the Beauty and the Beast theme "credible and agonizing", and that the father - son theme is even more "moving in the agony of both loving and loathing the thing you have spawned ." </P>

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