A West End revival concert starring Norm Lewis and Celinde Schoenmaker at Theatre Royal Drury Lane ran August 21 and 22, 2023. At the after-party, we shared a table and got to know the charming Tim Jerome, who played Monsieur Firmin for several seasons, and a former Piangi, Christian Šebek, stopped by to say hello.

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In the musical, this bit of backstory is given to Madame Giry to deliver: “And an inventor too, monsieur. We have to talk about the staging, from director Hal Prince and choreographer Gillian Lynne, both of whom have sadly left us.Sometimes I can’t help but think that he trained Christine to sing in the same way that his mom sung.

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The Music Box Tour (third US national tour) played dates across Canada in 2006–2007 including Calgary, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Saskatoon and Ottawa. Cameron Mackintosh: Phantom of the Opera has been 'permanently' shut down, but we are determined to bring it back". A scheduled Broadway opening in November 2010 was postponed until Spring 2011 [206] and later cancelled.Switzerland: Opened and co-produced by the Really Useful Group on 12 October 1995 at the Musical Theater Basel, the play was performed until 27 July 1997. The song ends on the lyric, “Help me say goodbye” (oof) with her in the downstage left corner, arms outstretched. Germany: Das Phantom der Oper played at the musical theatre Neue Flora (later renamed to Stage Theater Neue Flora) in Hamburg from 29 June 1990 to 30 June 2001, the Palladium Theatre in Stuttgart from 1 November 2002 to 23 May 2004, and at the Colosseum Theater in Essen from 2005 to 2007.

The Phantom of the Opera Music Box - Etsy

I had expected a more excited buzzy atmosphere, I think largely based on what I was seeing on social media surrounding the other weekend performances.There were lots of moments like that, where performances were clearly getting applause from the people in the audience who had played that role, that ensemble track, before.

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So he might as well address the elephant in the room, or in this case, the monkey sitting on the music box. She was then only the second woman to have won a Tony for Scenic Design, following Heidi Landesman-Ettinger’s historic 1985 win for Big River. The world tour had their sixth season at the Culture Plaza Theatre at Shanghai Culture Square from 3 December 2013 to 26 January 2014. When Crawford, Brightman, and Barton left the cast to open the Broadway production they were replaced by Dave Willetts, Claire Moore, and Michael Ball respectively. The role is a tricky one in terms of gender politics as we all know, and I think Kouatchou does a lot of work to minimize that as much as possible, making her Christine markedly less helpless than what I’m used to seeing.

Of course, the show will come back at some point in some way, as Cameron Mackintosh teased during the curtain speech. It won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, with Crawford winning the Olivier and Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.