Check out our Phantom of the Opera inspired art for sale on Red Bubble! Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was browsing a used bookstore in 1984 when he discovered a worn copy of The Phantom of the Opera, an out-of-print book by Gaston Leroux. He was inspired to write a Broadway musical about the haunting love story…and the rest is history! Here are 39 interesting facts about the Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical version of The Phantom of the Opera . Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera is one of the most popular works of entertainment of