| re: Streaming PHANTOM — can we start a petition to fix Ramin Karimloo’s vowels? | |
| Posted by: GrumpyMorningBoy 06:11 pm EDT 04/18/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Streaming PHANTOM — can we start a petition to fix Ramin Karimloo’s vowels? - Michael_Portantiere 05:32 pm EDT 04/18/20 | |
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| This much I know. I’d never heard “Come to Me, Bend to Me” before I heard PHANTOM for the first time. Lloyd Webber, at his best, really doesn’t have to steal. He’s got a pop composer’s instinct, which — in this score — helps the title song just come on like a freight train. It was fun to watch this again and re discover what a gear change that is, albeit less so with the newer orchestrations and far less drum machine. Lloyd Webber really does have some very, very elegant compositional touches here. In that sequence in the middle of “Masquerade,” Raoul & Christine reprise “Think of Me” with a lyric that’s a pretty well written conflict scene. It ends with “let’s not argue, you will understand in time” set above some appropriately brooding foreshadowing in the music, which then blends into a few measures reprising the Phantom’s freaky “I have brought you...”sequence just after “Music of the Night,” before spinning into a swirling waltz time change for the melody of “Masquerade.” All in a matter of maybe 32 bars. That isn’t just deft composition, it’s deft scenework, and Lloyd Webber & co. deserve credit for it. To that end, I failed to mention above how masterful some of Prince’s staging is. The way he gets, what, 8 people(?) around the stage on the reprise of “Notes / Twisted Every Way” is just terrific. Looks effortless. Sooooo isn’t. This concert doesn’t have a proscenium stage, so obvi the scenery and staging is adapted, but Maria Björnson did excellent work here. At the end of the day, I think I’m fine with this being Broadway’s longest running show. I do think LION KING or HAMILTON have a chance to outlast it, but there really is a lot about this show that absolutely works. - GMB |
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