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| re: First vs Second National Tours | |
| Posted by: bowtie7 06:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| In reply to: First vs Second National Tours - ablankpage 12:00 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| Using the original tour of Phantom of the Opera as an example. Los Angeles got a sit down run which then took a little time off and moved to San Francisco where it ran a very long time. Toronto and Las Vegas (much later in a short version with a specially designed theatre) also got sit down runs--these productions were not designed to easily move. The first national tour started in Chicago (I believe for 9 or more months) and initially played longer runs--this company's set was about 36 feet deep. The second national tour's set was about 30 feet deep--this tour played just about everywhere and forever. The first may have had a short run because in wouldn't fit in many theatres. I know at least the Fox Theatre in St Louis after having the 2nd national tour play a run--moved the back wall of the theatre back about 20 additional feet in order to be able to book a return of the first national tour (also well as in anticipation of additional upcoming blockbuster tours. | |
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| re: First vs Second National Tours | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 05:50 pm EDT 05/21/23 | |
| In reply to: re: First vs Second National Tours - bowtie7 06:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| If memory serves the sit down run in Toronto was a licensed production so it doesn't really count, I think, in the exploration of national tours. Whereas all of the others you mentioned were tours of the Cameron Mackintosh production. Vegas was its own animal too. | |
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| San Fran orpheum theater | |
| Posted by: dramedy 10:11 am EDT 05/21/23 | |
| In reply to: re: First vs Second National Tours - bowtie7 06:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| Stage was expanded to accommodate bigger shows around 2000. | |
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| Toronto Phantom. | |
| Last Edit: portenopete 03:07 am EDT 05/21/23 | |
| Posted by: portenopete 03:03 am EDT 05/21/23 | |
| In reply to: re: First vs Second National Tours - bowtie7 06:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| Shocked to realise it's been 24 years since Phantom CLOSED! (34 years since it opened.) Colm Wilkinson opened it and was it Paul Stanley who closed it? [Just checked OVRTUR and it was Paul Stanley who closed it, but he is listed as having only done a few months but I thought I remembered him being in it for at least a year or two? And the only other actor listed is Peter Karrie. Curious if anyone remembers when Colm Wilkinson left and did Peter Karrie play the majority of the run?] |
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| re: Toronto Phantom. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:40 pm EDT 05/21/23 | |
| In reply to: Toronto Phantom. - portenopete 03:03 am EDT 05/21/23 | |
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| The info I'm finding in a fairly cursory search of the ProQuest database is that Stanley played it for only ten weeks at the end of the run. | |
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