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Music is said to soothe the savage breast but perhaps in this case the misquote is more apropos. Music does indeed soothe the savage beast in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. Based on Gaston Leroux's famous novel, Phantom tells the story of young Christine Daae (Patti Cohenour) whose career as an opera star is launched by the Phantom, a disfigured, masked composer who haunts the opera house. Their story reveals the tragedy and beauty of unrequited love...
...French soldiers, womanizer Gaston-Phillip (Misha Glouberman) and rock n' roll fan Phillip-Gaston (Scott Cole) wear identical uniforms and mustaches. Neither soldier realizes that the man who wears a soldier's shirt with an Arabic skirt and who periodically reveals his patriotism to the audience is an Algerian spy (Jonathan Fisher...
...fete" of the title refers to the perverse surprise party planned by the French imperialists for the Algerians--the surprise is that the "dark-skinned" guests will all be killed. After the massacre, Fofo and Gaston-Phillip (not to be confused with Phillip-Gaston) speak of un-P.C. goals such as having "hundreds of pale babies" and avoiding "ethnic foods" and "Negro music...
Tuesday: L'Age D'Or with Lya Lys, Gaston Modot and Max Ernst, at 5:15, 8 p.m. Simon of the Desert with Silvia Pinal, Claudio Brook...
...curse of a righteous witch: that he be a beast, confined to his castle, until he can love and be loved. Pretty Belle (Paige O'Hara) will be his cure -- if she can shake off her revulsion at % being his prisoner and shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot. In effect, she is trapped between two wolf men. She can see through Gaston's looking-glass ego, but it takes time for her to find the vulnerability within the Beast's barbaric, heroic grief. He must be feared, then pitied, and finally loved...