The Phantom of the Opera closes this year after a 35-year run.

I'm rather a theatre aficionado, as are my five daughters. Two of them had never seen Phantom (though they knew the story), so I wanted them to have a chance to do so before the final curtain fell. Hence our weekend getaway we just returned from last night.

Sarah, 8, has a scale she uses -- from 1 to 5 Sarahs -- to indicate how much she enjoys a movie or a book. (She got the idea when we told her our friend Gene Epstein uses a scale of 1 to 5 Genes.) After the show she ranked Phantom one million Sarahs.

She genuinely loved it. She was on her feet for the standing ovation before any cast member had come out for the curtain call.

Now why is Phantom closing after 35 years? How can we not conclude Covid did it?

New York authorities made the public psychotically afraid of doing ordinary things, and maybe it wasn't so easy to get them back to normal.

More likely, though, since the ongoing success of Phantom had much to do with domestic and international tourism, is that Covid simply made New York tourism impossible.

Who's going to visit a place where their five-year-old child can't even sit down for a pizza?

And even after that nonsense was lifted, the United States remains one of a handful of countries that won't allow international visitors unless they've received the shots. That's a massive group of people who simply cannot enter the country.

It's a shame, therefore, what happened to Phantom, though at the same time it's pretty much what the entire theatre industry asked for. They've been psychotic hypochondriacs through the whole ordeal.

Well, this is the result.

At any rate, last week I introduced you to John Thornhill, the automobile assembly-line worker turned massively successful vendor and marketer.

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No need to deal with wacko "public health" officials and their useless decrees. He can just carry on as before.

Not bad for a guy who used to repeat the same task every 90 seconds for eight hours a day.

No special training, no fancy degrees, nothing. Just a burning desire to break free from an existence he barely considered human.

He just wrote a short but info-packed, no-fluff book on what he did and does, and how you can do it also.

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