In a second bonus menu, find out everything you need to know about the history of the stage musical.
Instead, a focus on editing provides the last piece of the moviemaking puzzle. Of course what we really want to see are the actors suffering through a Hollywood version of Fame Academy, but there's none of that. Separate breakdowns of production design and costuming will have disciples of Laurence Llewelyn Bowen in frilly French rapture and there's a fly-on-the-wall look at orchestral sessions at Abbey Road studios. Two blokes and a mouse also show you how CG played a part in depicting the transitions from old to new, like the opening scene of the Paris Opera House that's presented as a living postcard. You're even invited inside the Austrian HQ of crystal designers Swarovski who provided the chandelier which is promptly smashed to bits in another featurette on special effects. Seven behind-the-scenes featurettes provide a nuts-and-bolts study in the creation of this huge baroque spectacle. Soon afterwards, the project hit a wall "for Andrew's personal reasons", as Schumacher so tactfully puts it (ie Brightman and Webber split up). In the course of 45 minutes, Webber and Schumacher are also on hand to guide you through a journey that began 15 years ago when Webber first pitched the idea to Schumacher as a vehicle for Michael Crawford and Webber's then wife-to-be Sarah Brightman. "I killed myself making it!" says Butler at the film's London premiere, which kicks off an intriguing investigation into The Making Of The Phantom Of The Opera. Still, newcomer Rossum emerged unscathed and even bagged a Golden Globe nomination for her efforts, because as this two-disc DVD proves, it takes a lot of hard graft to make a movie this tacky. Gerard Butler stars as the disfigured musical genius obsessed with Emmy Rossum's opera-singing novice, but their combined charms couldn't save this from bombing at the box office. West End impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber talked director Joel Schumacher into a " frankly obnoxious" movie version of The Phantom Of The Opera.
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