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Leroux's novel had quite a few film adaptations long before the musical arrived in 1986. (The musical finally finished its run in April 2023.) The first was a Russian production, which is only known due to surviving publicity material and the film is lost. The second, most famous, and more faithful excluding some minor quips (the titular Phatom's and Ledoux's backgrounds and the whole final act) was the 1925 silent film with [[Lon Chaney]] as Erik (which has since fallen in the public domain and may be watched [http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhantomoftheOpera here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120924054906/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5224364451553593147 here]. And [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera/854375?trkid=2361637 on Netflix]{{Dead link}}, if you have it.). While the novel and many films saw the Phantom as pitiable, the image of him as an outright romantic figure is one established by the musical and its fanbase.
There are also multiple musical adaptations apart from Andrew Lloyd Webber's. The one most frequently performed—developed at around the same time as the Lloyd Webber show but unstaged until several years after it—was written by Maury Yeston (''Nine'') and Arthur Kopit and is simply called ''Phantom.'' The story is also spoofed in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Maskerade]]''.
''[[Love Never Dies]]'' is the sequel to the [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] musical and has its own page; for the [[Frederick Forsyth]] novel that was based on early plans for it, see ''[[The Phantom of Manhattan]]''.
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