![]() Its weapon to trap resistant audiences? Old-fashioned passion with red roses, blazing candelabra that magically rise from the water and an ending worthy of an entire Kleenex box. It is like opening up a gorgeous music box when you are 14.'' Emmy (Rossum, the trilling teen who stars as Christine) is so lovely, the music is so moving. ''It is so romantic,'' she fairly gushes about the story of a half-masked figure who haunts a cavernous opera house in 1870 Paris and holds sway over his songbird protegee, Christine. ![]() Judging by her just-released debut album, ''Everything I've Got in My Pocket,'' the 34-year-old actress and singer is more likely to honor requests for Springsteen than ''Memory'' from ''Cats.'' ''I've never been a great musical-theater person.''īut now that Driver has surrendered to ''The Music of the Night'' as the diva-licious comic relief Carlotta in the long-awaited film version of ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' she at least understands why 80 million theatergoers since its London premiere in 1986 have swooned over the lavish gothic fantasy about obsessive love. ![]() Minnie Driver isn't the type to go wild over every note that British tunesmith Andrew Lloyd Webber ever sent soaring into theater rafters like some runaway light fixture.
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