As someone who often feels like the ONLY person on this board who loves PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, it warms my heart to see even a few compliments amongst the critiques.
I have loved the show for almost 25 years, and it literally changed my life, most notably to you all, the number of musicals that I started attending per year after POTO.
Everything gloriously came together in POTO, the staging, the costumes, the story, the music... just everything came together to make a "unicorn" of a show in my humble opinion. It was just the perfect combo of talents on all ends.
I know theatre performers who refuse to see it, and even long-time fans who brush it off, but when I drag them or pay for them to see it in NY, they are always impressed by how much better it is than what they believed/remembered.
I hope that the original staging (and direction) will always play on Broadway. |
