Somehow, through all the flash, fury and falling chandeliers, I completely overlooked this minor detail.
Here are some discoveries after having nearly two decades between viewings of this megamusical.ġ) Christine’s an orphan. Yup.Īnyway, the lavishly produced 25th anniversary concert staging at Royal Albert Hall recently aired on PBS, and I forced my partner to watch the thing with me. But I felt like doing so would somehow be lame, so I opted for Ghost: The Musical.
It’s been 18 years since I’ve seen the show, and I was thisclose to catching it when I was in London in January. For their Phantoms, we had Colm Wilkinson (the *original* Jean ValJean) and Peter Karrie (who’s essentially Colm Wilkinson) twice. For Christine, I had Rebecca Caine, Melissa Dye and some other woman. I saw it three times in Toronto during my formative theatre queen years. Yes, the music is repetitive and the characters are pretty one-dimensional, but the whole package is delivered so well (thanks to director Hal Prince and designer Maria Bjornson), who cares. It’s the longest running show on Broadway, has generated roughly 4,678,980 katillion dollars, and your beer guzzling brother-in-law can probably hum out a few bars of “Music of the Night.” Or not. Inspired by the original staging by Hal Prince and Gillian Lynne, this lavish, fully-staged production set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour of London’s legendary Royal Albert Hall features a cast and orchestra of over 200, plus some very special guest appearances.Can you believe it? Phantom is a quarter of a century old. In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Cameron Mackintosh produced a unique, spectacular staging of the musical on a scale which had never been seen before. Theatre fans will be able to access the show from 7.00pm this Friday 9th October, totally free of charge, however in the UK the show will only be available via the channel for 24hrs (so a Friday night viewing/Saturday matinee is advised!).
To celebrate the first-ever performance of the show on 9th October 1986, the next show to stream via Universal’s free YouTube channel, ‘The Shows Must Go On’, will be the 25th Anniversary version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, filmed at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011. Ramin Karimloo and Sierra Boggess in the curtain call of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall.
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