| Question for 'Phantom' fans: Is this just the same 'new' tour from a few years ago? | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 01:30 pm EDT 09/09/18 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:21 pm EDT 09/09/18 | |
| In reply to: TB REGIONAL REVIEWS: "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" and "A CHORUS LINE" in SAN FRANCISCO/NORTH BAY - T.B._Admin. 11:04 am EDT 09/09/18 | |
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| This ''Phantom'' tour has been advertising that it's a spectacular new staging with ''brilliant new scenic design'' by Paul Brown. But a few years ago, another tour promised the same thing, and it was also directed by Laurence Connor with sets by Brown. Isn't this tour the same one? Or is it modified? Or is it truly new? Gotta say that I hated the 2015-16 revamp, and especially the sets. For instance, I missed the grand staircase in ''Masquerade'' and how the Phantom wore a Skull costume. And everyone talks about the chandelier, but I missed the giant candelabra rising up through the mist underground. And if memory serves, I missed the Angel basket that the Phantom sat in, high above the stage. (In the last ''Phantom'' tour I saw, the stage featured a giant mechanical drum onstage that rotated and opened up.) I'll take the magic and the mystery of Hal Prince's original staging and the grandeur of Maria Bjornsen's sets. (Both won Tonys for ''Phantom.'') Happily, those were still on display in New York the last time I saw ''Phantom'' about a year or two ago. In the tour, Chris Mann was the Phantom, and vocally, he was the wrong Mann for the job. But on Broadway, James Barbour's rich, robust vocals were as Majestic as the theater's name. |
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