The Phantom of the Opera ( Royal Albert Hall ) PART 1
Added 2023-06-02 06:34:34 +0000 UTCBreaking This up into 2 Parts so I can finish a song for my friend tonight! BUT MY GOD! Part one was insane!!! So much better than I was expecting and I love it so far!
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If you want an opera recommendation I suggest The marriage of Figaro. I’m pretty sure you would find it both entertaining and the music great. Give it a go.
Bec Nolan
2024-03-09 12:29:10 +0000 UTCIf you guys have never seen the Las Vegas chandelier coming together and falling, I highly recommend looking into it. The chandelier has three different pieces that seem to float and put themselves together above the audience. And then the fall is so fast and real that many audience members tend to get scared and get up to run away.
PhoenixWing513
2023-06-27 02:15:22 +0000 UTCAh yes he did so well playing Gleb in Anastasia. I absolutely adore his voice. They really do a nice job of messing up his face with makeup because he's a really good looking guy lmfao.
PhoenixWing513
2023-06-27 02:13:22 +0000 UTCHere's a link, if it doesn't post, I'm sorry! https://youtu.be/oqyXEIomFbM
Darsy Smith
2023-06-12 15:19:34 +0000 UTCI just want to say, I'm SO pleased that you're reacting to this! I want to suggest, when you have time, to see an amazing concert performance of the West End original Raoul (and all-around musical POWERHOUSE) Michael Ball singing All I Ask of You with Sierra Boggess. It's a performance for the ages (their chemistry is unreal, despite the age difference !!!), meant to honor Andrew Lloyd Webber, who, depending on which recording you find, says before they sing that she's his favorite Christine! I LOVED this reaction and resubbed to you in order to access it (I spread my Patreon money around but you're one of my very favorites!). On to watch that performance and then part II!
Darsy Smith
2023-06-12 15:18:45 +0000 UTCI get why from a cost side of things and safety side... but not dropping the chandelier right at intermission like it's supposed to... *downer* at least they ramped up the fx to make up for it.
Wolfie Randolf
2023-06-09 03:53:35 +0000 UTCNow, imagine doing this eight times a week when it was running. Except Christine- she did 6 with an alternate taking the other two. I worked with the tour (actually was in Nashville at TPAC with several shows I worked with), so even though this is a one off special production, feel free to ask any questions. I know tons of useless info about Phantom lol
SueBee
2023-06-06 03:41:27 +0000 UTCActually, fall is exactly right for the chandelier. It gets pulled up from the stage on a winch in the ceiling and then it literally is let go (unspools) when it’s time for the fall. It’s pretty cool how they did a lot of things with the show. I worked with the tour when it would go to one of “my” cities and did site surveys for theatre modifications with the crew. Modifications because they literally had to install the winch platform and additional steel for the show proscenium.
SueBee
2023-06-06 03:35:03 +0000 UTCCan't wait for part 2!
Ginny
2023-06-04 20:02:55 +0000 UTCMy favorite musical of all time. Shaped my teenage years
thde16mw
2023-06-04 15:40:53 +0000 UTCAlso - the rock element is not accidental. Phantom's score was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with Tim Rice on lyrics. A Broadway 70s-80s Power Couple if ever there was one. They were both no stranger to rock operas, hitting hard and heavy with Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, both amazing rock operas in their own right, with Evita also having a more musical rendition, as well as the movie which wasn't half bad. Phantom was Rice and Webber's 1980s synth rock opera.
Adam Pacio
2023-06-04 00:03:50 +0000 UTCHey man. Glad you're liking it. In the original West End and Broadway proudctions, the spectacle of the show was that the Chandelier rose and fell. In the beginning we see it on the stage for the auction and when the auctioneer turns it on and the music drops for the intro, the chandelier sparks off all the lights, starts the flashback which is the show, and then lights up, rises off the stage and out over the audience, as it rises slowly on its hoist up to the ceiling. And then at the end of Act I, when Phantom yells 'go', the chandelier sparks and splutters and drops in a controlled but still rapid way over the audience and at the bottom swings in to land on the stage and be removed. Because in the book, that was how Phantom punished everyone - he dropped the chandelier on the House and killed the folks sitting underneath it. They used to be Premium Priced orchestra seats for the eperience of being under the Chandelier. When Phantom first came out it was sold out for years in advance, so at first it was just being able to say you saw it. After it had been out a couple more years it was being able to say you saw it under the Chandelier.
Adam Pacio
2023-06-03 23:57:50 +0000 UTCYaaaaaay I'm so happy you chose this version
Ana
2023-06-03 02:28:54 +0000 UTCThis has been a trip back in time for me! I love POTO, with its haunting and beautiful music. The type of music that plays and replays in the recesses of your mind. A very old story that is always hound again. Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman come to my mind, they are iconic. But these are such meaty parts to play that any good actor or actress could make it their own too. Looking forward to Act 2!
Jamie M
2023-06-02 17:17:11 +0000 UTCSpeaking of Disney princesses, Sierra (Christine) was the first Ariel in the Little Mermaid on Broadway and Ramin Karimloo (the Phantom) was in Anastasia on Broadway (and Les Miserables)
Joyelizabeth
2023-06-02 16:26:20 +0000 UTCRamin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess are immortals in the POTO history!!!!
Joyelizabeth
2023-06-02 16:00:50 +0000 UTCThis was the obsession of my middle school and high school years! I was in multiple choirs (flex) and we sang medley after medley of Phantom songs, at local and state level competitions. I was watching this and singing along, like DAMN these harmonies are now fully etched in my soul I think?? Saw it on Broadway which was mind boggling and saw it at my local theater which also has a banging chandelier so it gave it that something special. So glad you are enjoying it! And even though I am a purist with Broadway shows and usually the movie version does not compare.... the actors in the movie KILL IT even if the story is not fully encapsulated due to time. Gerard Butler as the unhinged phantom? Yes please!
NotCaseyKasem
2023-06-02 14:36:40 +0000 UTCWhat a wonderful treat for a Friday morning! I'm glad you are digging the musicals. I love that you were open to reacting to these because you were skeptical at first. This one in particular I think people steer clear from because of the word 'opera', but the music and tone make it very digestible and enjoyable. I'm going to hold off on answering some the questions you asked because you may get the answers in Act 2. I've heard different things about what happened to the Phantom's face, but I think in the original novel, he was born deformed. I loved how you expressed the conflicting emotions at the end of Act 1. Yes, the Phantom is part sympathetic and loved-starved, but he goes about trying to get love in the wrong way and does not react well to not getting his way (kidnapping/murder, not good). That last song by the Phantom perfectly shows it - he is crying and you feel bad for him but then he explodes with rage. In most stage productions, the chandelier is literally thrown onto the stage. It's fantastic. Your blind reaction is phenomenal. "They just killed a dude!" LOL! I saw this musical for the first time when I was a teenager and it started my love of musical theater, so it holds a special place in my heart. The original Phantom and Christine - Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman - are iconic, and Ramin & Sierra match their icon status. I actually haven't heard many covers of The Phantom of the Opera. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes do a fun one. Sorry for rambling. Can't wait for Act 2!
Sarah Metzger
2023-06-02 13:32:51 +0000 UTCI miss them together so much. They were such a goofy and wholesome duo, such great friends with such great chemistry. Forever linked together in my mind.
Jenny V
2023-06-02 10:24:29 +0000 UTCSierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo are both musical theatre icons and are incredible performers. Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the show for his then wife but has since come out and said Sierra is the perfect Christine.
Vicky Cosgrove
2023-06-02 08:40:09 +0000 UTC
