| re: I saw the Vegas Version |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 02:02 pm EDT 04/20/20 |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 01:53 pm EDT 04/20/20 |
| In reply to: I saw the Vegas Version - LynnO 01:35 am EDT 04/20/20 |
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Thanks, LynnO, for your delightfully detailed account of the ''Phantom'' in Las Vegas. I've read that their chandelier effect was amazing and always wondered how it looked. I also was curious about the cuts. (If I were cutting, I'd excise ''Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again.'' Ha-ha!)
I just looked up video of Andrew Ragone at YouTube, and you're so right. Any idea why he's never done Raoul on Broadway?
Finally, ''Phantom'' is such a showcase for Andrew Lloyd Webber's melodies, but why do we almost never hear about the show's lyricist, Charles Hart? Wikipedia says that Richard Stilgoe (''Starlight Express'') wrote most of the original lyrics to the show, but Hart came in and rewrote many of them. (And reportedly some of Stilgoe's contributions are still there uncredited. Do you know which ones?) How did Hart's lyrics differ from Stilgoe's? Wikipedia even says Alan Jay Lerner worked briefly on an early version of ''Phantom's'' lyrics, too. Does Lloyd Webber address this in ''Unmasked''? |
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