Phantom of the Opera
The “best known” tune from my all time favourite musical.
Jeg rett og slett bare elsker denne musikalen. Den ble skrevet av Andrew Lloyd Webber. Første gangen den ble spilt, var på Her Majesty’s theatre den 9 oktober i 1986. Rollen som Christine, den foreldreløse sangeren og danseren ble spilt av Sarah Brightmann, mens Michael Crawford spilte rollen som Eric, operafantomet.
Den har vunnet Laurence Olicier og Evening Standard prisen for Best Musical og syv Tony Awards. Den ble filmatisert i 2004, av Joel Schumacher.
Some quick facts:
- The Broadway production became the longest running show every on Broadway when it overtook Cats with its 7,486th performance on January 6th 2006.
- It is estimated that Phantom has been seen by more than 80 million people worldwide, with total ticket sales of more than $3.2 billion.
- The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string. It is 3 metres wide and weighs one ton. The touring version falls at 2.5 metres per second. The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks.
- The Phantom’s make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. The face is moisturized, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio mics and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed.
- There are 130 cast, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance.
- Each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 250 kg of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines.
