The Phantom of the Opera has the top spot on the list of longest-running Broadway shows for a reason – it remains a mystifyingly great musical nearly 40 years later.
However, when I heard about a YA adaptation of the property from High School Musical’s Kenny Ortega, I instantly had a lot of questions about it… with the most prominent one being the simple “Why?”
So, why not let Kenny Ortega have a blast making this property as his own?
As reported by Deadline on Friday, Disney+ is hard at work on a young adult reimagination of the original novel The Phantom of the Opera is based on.