david sikorski

I first was fortunate to see the travelling Broadway play , the Phantom of the Opera live in 1996. I lucked into a new copy of Susan Kay's life story of the Phantom approx a year later. This helped create a fascination that has lead me to reading the original Leroux novel, watching 4 versions of the movie, reading Susan's book 3 more times and attending the play 3 more times. A keener will always see something new or re-adjust a perspective. Indeed Susan's imaginative tale is the most gut wrenching , well told tale of inner power , that I , as an avid reader for 50 years , have ever read ! The story is 418 pages long, but yet has content that seems would require 800 pages to tell such a tale. How would a child who could never indulge in normal activities in the mid 1800's possibly find his way in a cruel world , and attain vast knowledge in so many fields and grow to be a man that would end up in the sub cellars of the famous Paris Opera house several decades later? Not a tale for the faint of heart ... has there ever been a more powerful quote than ''None of us can choose where we will love? "