You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
'Thirteen' was really hard on my family. I wrote this movie about them and their flaws and imperfections and what it was like growing up. It was from one kid's perspective and not a well rounded one. You get older, and it's like, 'How dare I portray my father as being a totally vacant, careless schmuck?'
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.
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