Phantom of the Opera

IceCreamMan

Montecasino Teatro.

My wife an I enjoy the occasional live show and we go a couple of times a year. My wife is quite a fundi when it comes to these productions having gone to many productions in London and has played in amateur shows. Me, i enjoy going and watching.

Phantom of the opera is absolutely mind boggingly brilliant .... a top class production. i was gobsmacked just how good this is. so if you can get tickets GO GO GO !!

anyone else seen this production, thoughts?

http://www.phantomsa.co.za/index.asp

Lord-Fraquart

Booked for the 18th of March. ?

Norman86

I saw it when it was at the Pretoria State Theater!

The best show i have ever seen!!!

Ray

Well, my bokkie wants to go. So I have booked some tickets. I dont enjoy the oke so much though but anyway. Some people here at work say it's still worth every penny for the production.

Svengali

ALW is one of those guys I love to hate or rather hate to love.
While I think he's at least as much of a clever businessman as he is good at music and he undeniably ripped off some other composers ('I Don't No How To Love Him' from Evita is clearly too much like the second mvmt from Mendelssohn's Violin Concert for comfort), he has some talent.
It has been said also, and I agree, a pronounced sence of the theatrical is evident in his work.
I rescently gave another listen to his show, Sunset Boulevard, and just realized how much better (musically speaking)and worthy of success IMO is than Phantom (which is beginning to bore me to tears just from keeping appearing around every proverbial corner (on every bill-board in every major city in the world and concequently getting way too much airtime from whence its tedious tunes bombard unsuspecting listener - moi in spite of a concerted effort to avoid).
It (Sunset Blvd.) is REALLY atmospheric in a nostalgic by-gone heyday of Holiwood kind of sense complete with luuush orchestrations and kinda gritty storyline.
If you're new to his work, don't let Phantom put you of completely, is what I'm trying to say.

IceCreamMan

Lord Farquart wrote: Booked for the 18th of March. ?

What u reckon?

guidothepimmp

Taking the mrs on wednesday. She's looking forward to it, I'm looking forward to the epic rare steak I'm going to eat before the show..

Lord-Fraquart

IceCreamMan wrote:
Lord Farquart wrote: Booked for the 18th of March. ?
What u reckon?

If this is the level to what South Africans can take an international production, bring it on. ? I have no idea what it is like in the UK or States, but this was absolutely brilliant. My only point of reference was watching Richard Lorring's production of Josep back in the '70s. The sound, the song, the stage, the everything.........brilliant. I sommer get goosebumps thinking about last night. Wish they would do Cats, Chess etc like that there. I saw people with tears in their eyes last night. I would go watch it again.

IceCreamMan

Lord Farquart wrote:
IceCreamMan wrote:
Lord Farquart wrote: Booked for the 18th of March. ?
What u reckon?
If this is the level to what South Africans can take an international production, bring it on. ? I have no idea what it is like in the UK or States, but this was absolutely brilliant. My only point of reference was watching Richard Lorring's production of Josep back in the '70s. The sound, the song, the stage, the everything.........brilliant. I sommer get goosebumps thinking about last night. Wish they would do Cats, Chess etc like that there. I saw people with tears in their eyes last night. I would go watch it again.

Basically echo my thoughts then ..... i would go watch it again too

deefstes

We're going on Thursday evening, can't wait.

guidothepimmp

I saw it with the mrs..

Great costumes, great backdrops, great singing.. So from a production perspective, solid, I particularly thoguht the dancers were superb

I however did not enjoy it, the soprano hitting those notes had me cringing (did not go down well with my tinnitus)
The flashing lights were psycho, felt like hurling everytime they went off..
I had the (bad) luck of some arse sitting behind me that constantly kicked my chair..
And, it was looong.. Sore arse long.. Looked like I was sitting on a carrot the way I was walking..

Lol

Not the shows fault, just grumpy old me is getting old and (more) full of it ?

Lord-Fraquart

Went to see it again last night. ?