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...survivor of incest long past. Somehow it is all too easy to forget those things that traumatized the soul. The phantom woman in the night reminds me. Everything I do in life revolves around working out the problems created by that woman in the night who long ago terrorized an innocent child...
Where was my father while all this was going on? you may ask. He was always away on business. To me he was as much a phantom as the woman who visits me in the night. My mother wept and wailed over his sexual dalliances, but then she turned to me. I became the sexual replacement for my father, who deprived my mother of affection. My mother spent much of my childhood in bed, horribly depressed and trancelike. The only thing about me she was interested in was my bodily functions. Cleaning my genitals became an obsession. I remember lying...
Melville injects these environs with a superstitious aura. Frequently, it is explicit--a fake phantom in "I Do Not Take Take Messages from Dead People," or the black magic of an obeah man in "The Conversion of Millicent Vernon." More often, she only hints at spectral shadows--voodoo, zombies and the occult in general--to supply that uniquely West Indian flavor...
Imagine a duet of dueling megastars: the chandelier from Phantom of the Opera and the helicopter from Miss Saigon. Or a dance number that redubs Tommy Tune's somber, doomy Grand Hotel as Grim Hotel. Or a patter song to the tune of Brush Up Your Shakespeare, in which I Hate Hamlet star Nicol Williamson celebrates the joys of humbling his co-stars. This sort of humor -- a cunning blend of insiderish wit and broad clowning -- has made Forbidden Broadway an institution. Since 1982 it has played off-Broadway, enjoying the goodwill and legal cooperation of the very creators...
...Line (6,137 performances), the revival of Oh! Calcutta! (5,959), Cats (3,709 through last week) and 42nd Street (3,486) -- attained all or most of their runs during the '80s. If Mackintosh's projections prove right (and others in the industry believe they will), Les Miz and Phantom will outstrip Hello, Dolly! and My Fair Lady for the ninth and 10th spots among all-time long- runners...