I don't even know where to start on this one.
Without even getting into the fact the Webber's music is ridiculously repetitive and his lyrics make a 14-year-old's love poetry look good, I'll just say: West Side Story? Fiddler on the Roof? Sweeney Todd?
I'm no great fan of musical theatre, but there's certainly a lot out there better than Phantom.
P.S. No music right now-- at work. Last night I was listening to Dexter Gordon's "Doin' Allright" (album), mostly for the title track.
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West Side Story had the most annoying songs I have ever heard and a Romeo and Juliet ripoff.