| re: Fran Lebowitz did not have a... great time at The Phantom of the Opera's premiere | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:41 am EST 01/25/21 | |
| In reply to: Fran Lebowitz did not have a... great time at The Phantom of the Opera's premiere - DistantDrumming 12:44 am EST 01/25/21 | |
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| I guess what I'm about to write could be perceived as a spoiler about Lebowitz's PHANTOM story, so if you're a stickler about such things, you might want to stop reading now.... ******************** Anyway, I was enjoying her story very much -- she's quite hilarious, and I love her speech inflections and cadences -- until she got to the payoff about how she supposedly was honestly shocked by the falling chandelier, as she had read nothing about the show and thought the chandelier was actually falling directly down onto the audience. First of all, the way that moment is set-up in the show, I don't see how anyone could not realize it's part of the plot even if they had never read or seen or heard of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA in any form. And secondly, as anyone who has seen PHANTOM knows, the chandelier does not fall in a quick, realistic, scary way, it just sort of drifts down rather slowly -- and, for obvious reasons, it drifts down at an angle and lights onto the stage, rather than ever really looking like it's going to fall on the audience. |
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