Saturday, July 11, 2009

Phantom of the Opera

Phantom of the Opera is one of my favorite plays of all time alongside Spring Awakening. This play consists of Opera style music, incredible scene changes, grandeur sets, Profitable props and amazing costumes. This has to also be one of the highest musically oriented plays that exist. The set alone was a great part of helping to establish the fact that you are in 18th century France. This also was used very well in that of the costumes and helping bring the aroma of the theatrical performances to the audience. My source of http://www.thephantomoftheopera.com/new_york/ is a great place to learn more. The different sets and scene changes stand to be the one of the most difficult in the business. Not to mention that you can only do this show justice with a full fly system not a half such as our SFCC has. Even the make-up for the Phantom and the other main role characters need to be flawless including some of the masks and costuming for the onstage production of the Phantom's last request. Thus said it is a very expensive production which was later turned into a movie in the 21st century, 2004 to be exact. I think that without the grandeur set and palpable scene changes, this play would have lost out on alot of its amazing technical elements and therefore later lost the audience's attention entirely. Overall though, it stands as one of the most AMAZING shows of all time!! =)

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