This weekend the Hoogland Performing Arts Education Achievers (grades 9-12) present this classic musical. In The Phantom of the Opera. a mysterious, masked figure lurks beneath the Paris Opera House, exercising a reign of terror over all inside. He falls in love with a young soprano, Christine, and devotes himself to creating a new star by nurturing her talents and employing all of the methods at his command. The score, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, includes “Think of Me,” “Angel of Music,” “Music of the Night,” “All I Ask of You,” “Masquerade” and the title song. $21.
Fri., Jan. 23, 7 p.m., Sat., Jan. 24, 2 and 7 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 25, 2 p.m. | Hoogland Center for the Arts, LRS Theatre | 217-523-2787
This article appears in January 22 – 26, 2026.
