Well, it's a convenient venue. It costs less than Broadway, you can watch it any time, and the sets are more elaborate. The only annoyance is when, because it was "the first", people start trash-talking the original or any other adaptation because their expectations were raised to a certain point and either not met or just went out in left field.
It's a gateway drug, so to speak, so in that sense it's good but not as good as the s**t you could smoke after getting into that world.
Personally I don't find Butler attractive but that may be because when I went to see a sneak peek of the film with a bunch of my mom's middle aged friends, I got two hours of dirty euphemisms and cloaked sexual commentary regarding Mr. Butler and what he could do to them. The most amusing one had to be, "he could be the phantom in MY opera any day!" But yeah, 14 years old and listening to dirty talk by women pushing 50 is a good way to make the internal organs responsible for attraction take a long smoke break.
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