Stranger Than We Dreamt It: Phantom Gets Small Screen Treatment With Help From First Date Team

The Phantom of the Opera is here....inside your screen. ABC has picked up a Phantom of the Opera-themed pilot set in (wait for it) the modern-day music business. Yes, Christine Daae is going Platinum. According to TVLine, First Date composers Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner will pen the screenplay, with Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry executive producing alongside Sabrina Wind.

The show will not be a tuner, but rather a one-hour scripted drama based on Gaston Leroux’s novel. Rest assured, it will still contain musical elements. Think ABC’s other music drama, Nashville, but with less country and presumably more chandeliers. And maybe organs.

No timeline has been announced for the potential series, but while you wait, you can check out The Phantom of the Opera—the musical, that is—at the Majestic Theatre, where it has been playing on Broadway for over 26 years. The current cast includes Norm Lewis and Mary Michael Patterson.