1925 Silent Film
This actor portrayed the Phantom, using self-applied makeup so shocking audiences reportedly fainted.
Who is Lon Chaney?
This actress originated Christine Daaé on the West End and Broadway.
Who is Sarah Brightman?
The novel was first published in 1909–1910 as a serialized story in this French newspaper.
What is Le Gaulois?
This 2004 film adaptation starred Gerard Butler as the Phantom.
What is the Joel Schumacher film?
This item becomes Christine’s symbolic connection to her late father.
What is the violin / the “Angel of Music” promise?
In the film, the Phantom’s lair is located beneath this famous Paris landmark.
What is the Paris Opera House?
This chandelier is famous for doing this at the end of Act 1.
What is falling / crashing?
Erik (the Phantom) was born with this condition, giving him his skull-like appearance.
What is being born disfigured / having a congenital deformity?
This 1986 novel retelling reimagines Christine as a viola prodigy and Erik as a tragic composer.
What is Susan Kay’s Phantom?
This Persian character helps Raoul navigate the Opera’s traps in the novel.
Who is the Daroga? / The Persian?
This mask design—different from the half-mask musical version—covered the Phantom’s entire face.
What is the full-face mask?
ALW based the Phantom’s vocal writing on this classical voice type to portray both power and vulnerability.
What is a baritone (sometimes “baritenor”)?
This character is Christine’s childhood sweetheart and ultimate love in the novel.
Who is Raoul (de Chagny)?
This animated studio once nearly produced a Phantom musical film but instead recycled elements for Beauty and the Beast.
What is Disney?
In most adaptations, this is Erik’s greatest weakness—Christine exploits it to escape.
What is compassion / love for Christine?
This iconic unmasking location appears in both novel and film: the Phantom sits at this instrument.
What is the organ?
This character sings “Notes/Prima Donna” with the cast but has almost no solos.
Who is Firmin or André?
Erik previously worked in this country as an architect and executioner before arriving in Paris.
What is Persia?
This 1990 TV miniseries starred Charles Dance as a very romanticized Phantom.
What is the Tony Richardson miniseries?
This animal motif appears in the novel and several adaptations, symbolizing Erik’s loneliness.
What is the swan?
Originally, the film included a Technicolor sequence of this event, later restored in modern versions.
What is the Bal Masqué / the Red Death scene?
The musical’s famous descending boat scene was inspired by this original stage direction in the novel.
What is Christine being led through the underground lake?
In the novel, the final line consists of the narrator declaring this distinctive fact about Erik’s remains.
What is “Erik is dead”?
In this horror-comedy adaptation, the Phantom is reimagined as Winslow Leach, and the opera becomes a rock palace.
What is Phantom of the Paradise?
In the ALW musical, the Phantom gives Christine this symbolic object at the end of “The Point of No Return.”
What is the engagement ring?