How anyone can claim this better than Andrew Lloyd Webber's version is beyond me. The lead female is good-I would have liked to have seen her in Andrew Lloyd Webber's version. The songs are unmemorable, the acting is sub-par, and the sets are some of the worst I've ever seen. One a positive note, the actors who play the managers are quite good, but don't but the video because of them. Don't buy it for any reason.