Her Majesty's Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera. A show so phantomoninal it wows audiences including myself with their astounding 25th anniversary performance at the Royal Albert Hall.
In addition to this, it still remains the most successful piece of entertainment of all time. The remarkable longest running show miraculously stuns thousands with Andrew Lloyd Webbers mind-blowing creation of a tale told about a mysterious masked man. From startling voices, actors and talent to magnificent costume and scenery design! The narrative follows the paranormal goings on inside a haunted troubled theatre. The musical, even more than the film cut, Christine’s personal triumph with her theatre performance lead by her angel. Christine Daaé, the daughter of a famous violinist, emotionally grips her audience with her alluring voice as she sings her way through the theatre - with the help of the great and powerful Phantom. The shows' success has often been discussed about what gives this musical such pulling power, my view is that Andrew Lloyd Webber has scored a high romantic tragic love story with such moving music and lyrics by Richard Stilgo & Charles Hart.
A cleverly written enormously enjoyably act and visually overwhelming.
Chronologically; beginning her journey as a typical backing dancer, Christine later gets assigned with a new role as the lead singer in which she doesn’t take with open arms because she is a quiet reserved woman. However after numerous attempts she rises to the role and earns the theatre a lot of money due to her gifted ability to sing. The thorough thought and time spent on the production entices audiences to become intertwined in the show and really understand how the characters feel because of how emotive and sensitive the story line is. It's emotive and sensitive because like mentioned earlier, the audience feel sympathetic towards the disfigured character and the portrayal of the show enforces the audience to feel emotional as the characters are in the show. The whole deformed human/ghost has the power to enhance the audiences view, although he is a rather aggressive, demanding and severely challenging man, the audience acquires the capability to absorb his frame of mind; later resulting in the audience sympathizing him and engrossing his individual view point.
The Phantom watchfully keeps mystical his eye on Christine as he is aware for her talent and wants to help, develop and improve her voice and confidence. He personally, is blissfully unaware that he is holding her captive in her own life and is now imprisoning her in his! A sturdy convincing oath has been generated and the rest of the theatre including Christine herself cannot fight escapism which is all she longs for. As he disturbingly plagues the performance of the actors, the theatre unfortunately takes a turn for the worst, it begins to lose money and its regular guests. Christine has an old love interest which the Phantom has a strong hatred too as he is in his mind stealing her love. The tension between The Phantom and Raoul gives the musical its drive and makes the audience feel uneasy about their relationship and wear as to what will happen. Raoul is unwillingly in love with Christine and does everything in his power to keep safe and protected in which the audience sympathises him, however, cannot keep her away from the Phantom and his dominant
A heartfelt
eerie atmosphere captures audiences into believing they are the characters
performing, as this insightful play forces the audience to physically and
emotionally sense the unnerving ghostly undertakings. Phantastically, the ‘music
of the night’ and other unnerving songs grind audiences minds and paranormally
assist the supernatural storyline. An extremely slick in terms of design and
functionality show which has the supremacy develop a strong metaphorical bond
with the audience and the characters. Hideously
deformed, he passes his time terrorizing the members of the Opera until he
falls in love with Christine Daae, a chorus girl who he teaches to sing
the 'Music of the Night'. Believing him
to be the 'Angel of Music' sent by her dead father, Chirstine is
transformed to sing centre stage, which sets in motion a series of events that
enrages the Phantom and brings calamity to the London Opera. The Phantoms
white enduring mask creates a veneer and a mysterious undertone on his life, it
strangely hides his peculiar background and later in the show we are revealed
to his melancholy past! A hugely inventive production almost overwhelming in
its sheer complexity, but magical and gratifying nonetheless
The current London cast including Earl Carpenter as "The Phantom" puts all the effort and enthusiasm and energy in performing this sensational show. The performances are all as good as I, a reporter have seen but the true star is the sheer spectacle of watching this show live! For those who have not seen "The Phantom Of The Opera" it is now billed as London's most haunting love story. The story revolves around a beautiful opera singer played this time by Celia Graham and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance, adapted from the novel by Gaston Leroux. So we were at the point of no return and the show was well underway, what can I say, the production is just as invigorating as the film if not better! The musical numbers are to me some of the finest ever written. The scenes seamlessly flow together from Christeen Diae's dressing room to the Phantom's layer. Celia Graham's performance was wonderful her voice was really sweet and she looked as if she was enjoying every minute on the stage.
There have been many incarnations
of the story many films and stage shows none of which come close to this
presentation of 'The Phantom of the Opera' it is indeed brilliant. Remarkable
kaleidoscope of magical shocks, surprises and sensations. A creature once
feared by many has enthralled audiences into sympathetically adoring and grow
fonder of his nature.
A show that touches the heart and mind with its glorious influence to seduce the ears.
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