The staging and filming of this production were beautiful and I suspect in person the staging is breathtaking. The music was of course fabulous. Lloyd Webber even worked in snippets of music from the Phantom. I hated the plot, I listened to the soundtrack when it first came out and didn't buy the plot. I was hoping it would make more sense in the production, but it didn't. I'm not sure why Lloyd Webber had to make Raoul such a terrible character, it doesn't fit with the beginning or end of Phantom. I think this could have been a great show if the writers would have stayed with Christine & Raoul vs Phantom.