Masquerade is one of the most coveted and expensive tickets in New York theater right now. It re-envisions The Phantom of the Opera as an immersive, romantic experience in a random building in midtown - with a secret password required to enter the venue to thwart interlopers. You're ushered from room to room as the performance unfolds, and, if you're lucky enough to avoid a rainy day, you also get a showstopper of a number on the roof.
Set to arrive on October 31st, the package is comprised of 139 songs; it features recordings conducted at soundchecks, Columbia Records outtakes, informal performances, renditions of songs from his club shows, impromptu jam sessions with fellow folk greats, and many more rarities, demos, and never-before-heard Dylan cuts. The box set also includes the entirety of Dylan's landmark show at Carnegie Hall on October 26th, 1963, another previously-unreleased recording capturing Dylan at a major turning point in his career.