WBT offers an extensive dinner menu, and here, I stuck to the theme and ordered the “Chicken Christine.” I was a little worried that I might find myself as at an all-inclusive resort-needing to order one of every entrée just to feel full-but this was not the case. We were seated promptly and even though we were seeing Phantom, I ordered the Sweeny Todd cocktail from their list of musical-inspired concoctions.

Dinner service at the theater begins at 6:00 p.m. Westchester Broadway Theatre is so much more than just a theater. Like in a true opera, this one is a tragedy, but our evening was anything but. His plan is thwarted by the new Opera’s manager and his tenacious wife. The story is the one you know a disfigured man living in the bowels of the Paris Opera House becomes obsessed with a young singer-her voice is untrained and her gives her lessons in the hopes of making her a star. This is a completely different musical, from the same source material as that Phantom, a French novel by Gaston Laroux called Le Fantom de l’Opera, (film buffs may also remember the 1925 film starring Bela Lugosi). Not The Phantom of The Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber. That’s Phantom, the book by Arthur Kopit, and music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Last Friday night I had the privilege of attending the season-opening of Phantom at The Westchester Broadway Theatre. This post was sponsored by the Westchester Broadway Theatre, but the opinions are my own.

Phantom of the opera book monologue