UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 16, Page 2
January 7, 1993
Phantom and Phish scheduled to perform on campus

     A musical monster and an up-and-coming rock band have been booked in
the University's Bob Carpenter Center in early February.
     Ken Hill's The Phantom of the Opera, a comic alternative to Andrew
Lloyd Webber's production of the same name, is scheduled at 8 p.m.,
Thursday, Feb. 11; and alternative rock band Phish will perform at 8 p.m.,
Saturday, Feb. 13.
     Tickets to The Phantom of the Opera go on sale at the Bob Carpenter
Center box office and through Ticketmaster on Monday, Jan. 11. Prices are
$28.50, $25 and $22.50, depending on seat location. This program is
sponsored by Electric Factory Concerts.
     Phish tickets, which go on sale Jan. 8, are $14 for U.D. students, $16
for members of the University community and $18 for the general public.
This concert is sponsored by the University.
     Hill's version of The Phantom of the Opera, which uses classic music
by Verdi, Gounod, Offenbach, Mozart, Weber and Donizetti, predates Lloyd
Webber's. After staging an early version of the phantom's story in 1976,
Hill organized a 1984 production, which played in Newcastle, Wolverhampton
and London. After seeing it, Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh approached
Hill about a further production in London's West End, but after a few
months, Hill was informed that Lloyd Webber had decided to do his own
version.
     Hill's version, which he describes as a "comedy thriller," was
presented by the St. Louis Repertory Theatre in 1986 and garnered
outstanding reviews. As a result, a company was formed, and the show had a
nine-month run in San Francisco. Since then a national touring company has
presented this version of the famous phantom across the United States and
in Europe.