Despite the fact the Lloyd Webber musical's popularity would dominate Phantom fandom for the rest of time, other strains of the story were still percolating. Today we're looking at two directions the story was taken in on opposite sides of the world: into family melodrama by Arthur Kopit and Maury Yeston, and into a romantic revolutionary tale in China by Ma-Xu Weibang in Song at Midnight.

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