One in the Same?
Most of my readers know I have an identical twin sister. There are no words to describe how close we are, and she is one of the best gifts of my life.
But being a twin hasn’t always been easy. Imagine being mistaken for someone else. Imagine being constantly compared to someone else. Imagine people assuming you are one in the same, instead of seeing you for who you really are.
Living with this took time… establishing my own voice took even longer.
So imagine my confusion when I stumbled upon Phantom of The Opera! I mean, Baron Webber is already on his sequel out this year in London…
I haven’t seen this new Phantom, but I already feel like I saw the definitive version years ago… which, by the way, is still on Broadway.
The Broadway original is called “The Phantom of the Opera”. This new version is called “Phantom of The Opera”… a smart way of getting around infringement, I guess. But my question is, why not just do a show about something else… something we haven’t seen before? Because I know from experience, the comparisons are inevitable… and the one who gets the short end of the stick is never the happy one.
–Sue
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