As in many children’s stories, there is entertainment for older readers with abundant modern references, often found in footnotes, as in a tidbit about Beaker’s burial alongside Oscar Wilde, Molière, and Jim Morrison. This puntastic tale is full of beloved faces, such as the grouchy pranksters Statler and Waldorf. This may cause older readers mild confusion at first, but children will likely read without inhibition, as the experience of coming across names and objects they recognize and some things they may not is a familiar one. The main difference between this book and the classic (other than the cast) is the conglomeration of time periods, with a mix of details drawn from both the 21st and the 19th centuries. As in the classic, Piggy Daaé rises as a star of the Paris Opera House due to training from an Angel of Music, who in this tale is a Koozebanian of Music from the planet Koozebane (or is he?). Vicomte Kermit de Chagny and Mademoiselle Piggy Daaé are the main characters and love interests in this tragic tale. The plot is much the same as the original, with Muppets filling in for the original characters. Indeed, each new iteration of the story adds new depth to the mystique surrounding Leroux’s original work, and serves to capture the imagination in a new way.The Muppets put a humorous spin on the classic tragedy The Phantom of the Opera.

The love triangle between disfigured Erik, beautiful Christine and noble Raoul has been told and re-told many times, notably in the 1925 Universal movie starring Lon Chaney, the 1943 Universal production starring Claude Rains, and the 1962 Hammer version with Herbert Lom.Īlthough no adaptation is completely faithful to the novel, changing the Phantom’s motivations and the ramifications of the protagonists’ choices, the core story of The Phantom of the Opera remains as haunting as ever. The first serialised part of the novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, which would become The Phantom of the Opera, was published in Le Gaulois on the 23rd of September, 1909, later to be published in volume form in April of the following year.Ĭreated by French writer Gaston Leroux, the now-familiar story tells the timeless tale of the Paris Opera House’s many denizens.

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