ABSTRACT
The history of Phantom of the Opera offers data like a thirty-three-year run, broken box office records, tours, cast recordings, merchandise, videos, films, and billions of dollars in profit for Phantom’s producers Cameron Macintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Within Phantom’s quantitative story there are thousands of human stories, stories from inside the data, and these qualitative stories offer a view of human beings inside Phantom’s history. Although live theatre and film intersect at storytelling, a film actor’s performance never changes because the performance has become quantitative data from the past. Although a live theatre event has a specific story to tell, the live actors are real human beings who have their own qualitative stories “happening” during the performance.
