TAKE TWO:
Schumacher, left, and Lloyd Webber, right, together on set
He shot 2002's
Phone Booth
in a mere 12 days. But Joel Schumacher knows that some dreams take longer than others. Back in 1988, after
St. Elmo's Fire
and
The Lost Boys
had introduced him as a promising if lightweight young American director (and before
Batman Forever
sealed his place in the upper reaches of the Hollywood hierarchy), Schumacher decided to see Broadway's newest hit,
The Phantom of the Opera.
Even before he got the chance, Andrew Lloyd Webber, its composer, called him and mentioned that he wanted to bring the play to the...
