![]() ![]() I've heard better delivery from used-car commercials. Indeed, it isn't acting at all it's mere declamation. Missing from the production entirely is any hint of the music to the Phantom's grande-oeuvre, "Don Juan Triumphant". This accompanies the scène-ballet which follows the Phantom's unmasking. There is only one even remotely good musical number and that is a very bad arrangement of Camille St.Saëns' "Danse Macabre". There is no need to rehearse this, since those who don't already know it well, what can I say? The music for this production is, at best, kitschy and banal, more or less on a par with the alleged music Disney provides for their teeny-bopper programming. ![]() The story line of this production pretty much follows (if sketchily) that of the Gaston Leroux novel on which the whole "Phantom" phenomenon is based. At least, thank the gods, there are no zombie musicals. The Phantom exists in a number of celluloid versions, although inexplicably not so many as the endlessly dreary zombie films. ![]() ![]() The Phantom of the Opera is, like Dracula or Frankenstein (the monster's correct name since he would have the name of his father), an iconic figure from the lushly Romantic (as opposed to romantic) horror literature of the 19th Century. You will therefore understand that while it was a wrench I've 86d this little item from my collection. Collectors generally compulsively hang on to something once they've acquired it even if it turns out to be a piece of drek. I have always been a collector stamps, books, chess sets, music, and so on, 60-years of it. ![]()
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