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When Andrew Lloyd Webber created the musical, there started to be disagreements over whether it was "inspired by" or "based on" Gaston Leroux's article. Bill O'Connell, an assistant to film producers in New York, contended for the original author's name to be included with the book that the musical is "based on" rather than "inspired by" because he viewed the latter as a minimization of Gaston Leroux's connection with the story.

"The strongest element is the narrator's voice (thought to be Leroux's own voice) unveiling a quest to find evidence of a French opera house ghost. The narrative delves into research with the reader in tow, introducing printed police interviews and eyewitness accounts from the players and the public alike.The novel was popular among readers and some critics. Public interest was generated through seemed to be through the serialization of the story in French, English, and American newspapers. A researcher for Universal Pictures read the serial, which set in motion the 1925 silent film, starring Lon Chaney, Sr." "Leroux did not live to see the success his novel created due to his death in April 1927."

Gaston Leroux found inspiration for The Phantom of the Opera from an accident in the Palais Garnier, the opera house in Paris, on May 20, 1896. Act one of the opera Helle had just finished when a fire in the roof of the opera house had melted through a wire holding a counterweight for the chandelier, causing a crash that injured several and killed one. Using this accident paired with rumors of a ghost in that same opera house, Leroux wrote Le Fantôme de l'Opéra and published it in 1910, which was later published in English as The Phantom of the Opera.
 * https://search.proquest.com/docview/110511283/BE5AD08637E448BFPQ/14?accountid=4488 (not access restricted, same article: https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/11/theater/old-novel-returns-to-haunt-a-current-musical.html)


 * https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/history-of-the-phantom/


 * https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/today-in-history/gaston-leroux-was-inspired-to-write-phantom-of-the-opera-after-palais-garnier-accident/news-story/3f826736f3a8a30a61edeaf7c9685e8d
 * https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera.html?id=TNecPpBfGeUC

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"Music by Frank Wildhorn Book and Lyrics by Jack Murphy Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas

From the Tony Award-nominated composer of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Jekyll & Hyde comes this swashbuckling musical adventure of vengeance, mercy, and the redemptive power of love.

Falsely accused of colluding with the exiled Napoleon Bonaparte in 19th century France, newlywed seaman Edmond Dantès suddenly finds himself thrown into a Mediterranean island prison without a trial. At the brink of despair after many hopeless years of confinement, his fortunes change when a fellow prisoner helps him escape and bequeaths a substantial fortune on him. Money in hand, Dantès transforms himself into the powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo and embarks upon a quest to avenge those who stole the heart of his beloved bride, Mercedes, and conspired to destroy him. In the process, the man who was once imprisoned discovers the only true path to freedom comes by embracing love, mercy, and forgiveness."

The Count of Monte Cristo musical premiered in Switzerland in 2009. In 2010, the musical premiered in Seoul, Korea, directed by Robert Johanson.

"The opportunity for BYU to stage “The Count of Monte Cristo” came after Wildhorn visited BYU to perform and teach master classes to some of the students. After Wildhorn spent some quality time coaching students on their vocals, Wildhorn was so impressed with their level of talent that he approached Jeff Martin. It was then that he asked if BYU would like to present the U.S. premiere of his musical." The musical then made it's US premier at BYU in 2015.
 * https://search.proquest.com/globalnews/docview/1991071713/E04C40DC248C43BFPQ/20?accountid=4488 (not access restricted, same article: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2012/05/145_60634.html)
 * https://www.tuacahn.org/show/the-count-of-monte-cristo/
 * https://universe.byu.edu/2014/12/08/count-of-monte-cristo-musical-makes-us-premiere-at-byu/