I didn't see PHANTOM OF THE OPERA until the early '90's because it was such a hot and expensive ticket when it first opened and I was a poor high school/college student. But, I finally went in the early '90's because it was part of a rare Shubert subscription series at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia and the series was chock full of others things I also wanted to see. I saved up the money for that subscription and was rewarded with prime seats at PHANTOM, in the center within the first 10 rows.
What got me about the chandelier drop was not the drop itself, but that it dropped and then somehow, before landing on the stage, swung back out over the audience, right at me, in fact. I didn't know it did that and wasn't expecting it. And it scared the hell out of me, just for an instant. |
