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Podcast: The Goods: A Film Podcast
Episode: Phantom of the Opera (2004) / Cats (2019) - The Webbisode
Description: Dan and Brian continue Musical Decades Month with a look at two musicals written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Join as they discuss the influential and divisive career of Webber, his style and cinematic approach to stage production, and his legacy. Then, they discuss their own relationships with Phantom of the Opera, its contradictory view of romance, its high and low points as a story, and whether we'd want to live in a subterranean cave. Lastly, they give themselves a headache trying to make head or tail of the upsetting nonsense of the much-maligned Cats from 2019; Dan explains his philosophy...