This weekend, Andrew Lloyd Webber will release a filmed version of "The Phantom of the Opera"--for the quarantined world. Not the Hollywood movie version. A filmed version of the stage musical.
So, to prepare you, some notes:
*"Phantom of the Opera" is, obviously, a huge and startling commercial success. There can't even be a Broadway revival--as there have been revivals of "Evita," "Cats," "Jesus Christ Superstar," and even "Sunset Boulevard"--because the damned original production has never, never closed.
*Judy Kaye won the Best Supporting Actress Tony--as the diva--and of course Michael Crawford won for the title role. But the big scandal was that Christine--the iconic Christine--wasn't even nominated. (Best Actress that year went to Joanna Gleason, for "Into the Woods.")
*I don't really fully remember the plot of "Phantom"; I'm not sure I ever totally digested it, even as I listened, and listened, in childhood. Christine is a sort of talentless chorus girl, but a crazy phantom--victim of an acid-on-face mishap? or something dating all the way back to childbirth?--falls in love with Christine and, via supernatural powers, changes Christine's destiny. Christine becomes a superstar. The resident diva--Carlotta--discovers a permanent frog in her throat. But then the phantom feels sad because Christine has another boyfriend, and this naturally leads to the phantom contemplating homicide, but then he changes his mind and just disappears into the mist. Maybe? He comes back for a sequel, a treat I haven't (yet) viewed.
To a prosperous year! To a new chandelier!
I'm excited?
GET READY!!!!!
https://broadwaydirect.com/the-shows-must-go-on-to-air-the-phantom-of-the-opera/
So, to prepare you, some notes:
*"Phantom of the Opera" is, obviously, a huge and startling commercial success. There can't even be a Broadway revival--as there have been revivals of "Evita," "Cats," "Jesus Christ Superstar," and even "Sunset Boulevard"--because the damned original production has never, never closed.
*Judy Kaye won the Best Supporting Actress Tony--as the diva--and of course Michael Crawford won for the title role. But the big scandal was that Christine--the iconic Christine--wasn't even nominated. (Best Actress that year went to Joanna Gleason, for "Into the Woods.")
*I don't really fully remember the plot of "Phantom"; I'm not sure I ever totally digested it, even as I listened, and listened, in childhood. Christine is a sort of talentless chorus girl, but a crazy phantom--victim of an acid-on-face mishap? or something dating all the way back to childbirth?--falls in love with Christine and, via supernatural powers, changes Christine's destiny. Christine becomes a superstar. The resident diva--Carlotta--discovers a permanent frog in her throat. But then the phantom feels sad because Christine has another boyfriend, and this naturally leads to the phantom contemplating homicide, but then he changes his mind and just disappears into the mist. Maybe? He comes back for a sequel, a treat I haven't (yet) viewed.
To a prosperous year! To a new chandelier!
I'm excited?
GET READY!!!!!
https://broadwaydirect.com/the-shows-must-go-on-to-air-the-phantom-of-the-opera/
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