May 6 - Gaston Leroux (The Musical Birthday Series, 6th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for May 6th may be found here: Carmen Cavallaro (2019), (2020),  George Perle (2021), Joseph Brackett (2022), and William Walker (2023)

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Gaston Leroux (6 May 1868 – 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author, best known in the English-speaking world for his novel The Phantom of the Opera.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Opposing Viewpoints

All I Ask of You (1)

If Gaston Leroux came back to find

  His Phantom as a Broadway show,

Would the dapper Frenchman mind?

  The answer, I suspect, is no.

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Too Late (2)

The Spirit of Gaston Leroux

Saw Phantom on Broadway with rue,

For he knew that the checks

That an author expects

Would never, no never, come through.

 

 

 

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