The "Phantom" Menace
Patrick Healy's lede for today's front-page NYT story on the 10,000th(!) performance of Phantom says a lot: "The Phantom of the Opera" will make show business history on Saturday with the 10,000th Broadway performance of an $8 million production that became an $845 million hit. But it is also something much more. It is the musical that has come to define modern Broadway by proving the purchasing power of women and…