Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off Broadway Debut

Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off Broadway Debut

Off Broadway’s ‘Masquerade’ is an interactive and opulent retelling of ‘The Phantom of the Opera.’ Also, if you look closely, it features new artwork by Bob Dylan. Here’s how the show got to commission a piece from the Bard himself.

Bob Dylan's Artwork Is Featured in MASQUERADE Off-Broadway

While many aspects of Off-Broadway's immersive Phantom of the Opera production, Masquerade, have been kept from the general public, one piece of artwork has a surprising backstory. Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was commissioned to weld ironwork gates specifically for the production. Masquerade’s creative director, Shai Baitel, revealed to Vulture that he approached Dylan to create the piece, citing his consistent inspiration of Paris to be a large…

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