Saturday, May 19, 2012

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

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On this day in 1896 the famous chandelier of Paris’ Palais Garnier opera house fell onto the audience crushing many and killing at least one person. Think that seems familiar from somewhere? Well, Gaston Leroux used the incident in his 1911 novel “The Phantom of the Opera” (you can get the novel for free on your kindle and I highly recommend it) which he had set in the Palais Garnier, and it is also recreated, just before the interval, in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation.

And now the news:

Wait for it… wait for it… wait some more… (nice song isn’t it?)…wait… CRASH:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d44nfmPjVV0

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