The disfigured monster that haunts the opera house and seduces sopranos is back! But it’s not Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s overblown version that people think is wonderful, but isn’t. This Phantom is a better-written, deeper version of Gaston Laroux’s 1911 potboiler novel by the American team of Arthur Kopit (book) and Maury Yeston (music and lyrics). In Chicago, the Kopit/Yeston Phantom has been staged at the old Candlelight Dinner Playhouse and will be staged next spring at Theatre at the Center. Meantime, the reliably excellent Porchlight Music Theatre offers an intimate production of Phantom at Theatre Building Chicago, 1225 W. Belmont, through Nov. 1; 773-327-5252; $34-$35. Photo of Lara Filip and Peter Oyloe by Paul Grigonis