This was not a big threat to Holder, Kopit and Yeston, since their musical was intended to play on Broadway. In 1984, British producer Ken Hill produced a melodrama musical of The Phantom of the Opera in England. Don't all of us feel, despite outward imperfections, that deep inside we're good? And that is a character you cry for."
would be a Quasimodo character, an Elephant Man. And then it occurred to me that the story could be somewhat changed. That's the worst idea in the world! Why would you want to write a musical based on a horror story?. Initially, Yeston was skeptical of the project. Holder had obtained the rights to musicalize the novel in America from the Leroux estate, making Phantom the only Phantom of the Opera musical to do so. Yeston and Kopit had just finished the musical Nine, winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1982, when they were approached by actor/director Geoffrey Holder to write a musical based on Leroux's novel.
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