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You'll love it here,
when you get used to the dark.
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And you'll love the dark too. It's friendly.
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The music comes down
and the darkness distils it.
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And life here is like a resurrection.
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A ritual is re-enacted.
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And the finale was guaranteed
to bring down the house.
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A sneak preview went badly.
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Then, the first-night audience
in Chicago howled with laughter.
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Had the Phantom jinx struck again?
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Universal management prayed.
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Their prayers were answered,
just as Carl Laemmle's had been in 1925.
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Phantom of the Opera
was an immediate smash,
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breaking records around the country.
Box-office receipts poured in.
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The most they'd made. Even any Durbin
film never made the money it made.
:35:12
Phantom went on to win
two Academy Awards,
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for colour cinematography
and art direction.
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For audiences
who didn't see it in theatres,
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Basil Rathbone played the Phantom,
with Susanna Foster and Nelson Eddy,
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in a "ghost to ghost" broadcast
on the Lux Radio Theater.
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Take off the mask! Go on, take it off!
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Why did you do it?
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Now you've seen my face.
:35:37
The only real story that I have
about The Phantom of the Opera
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is that when I was about six or seven,
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one Hallowe'en, he called Universal
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and he borrowed the cape and the hat.
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And two of my friends and I dressed
as goblins and hid under this cape.