Phantom of the Opera

So for this six weeks, I saw the Phantom of the Opera at, again, the Pantages. I keep feeling like I should go somewhere else to watch things because I'm only seeing one type of production. It's probably not going to happen though, I love the Pantages and my mom's been taking me there since such a long time ago I can't even remember. Anyways, this is probably my absolute favorite musical ever. I love all of the music for this, Andrew Lloyd Webber is such a genius. I still cannot get over how great the music was, this is the one musical where I have a CD of all the songs because I love them so much, even though it's so opera-sounding. The music is seriously perfect. And it sounded even better hearing it live. Sorry I keep going on about the music but I guess since I have been playing piano since forever ago as well as violin, viola, and clarinet, it has more priority over everything else. Sorry, I will focus on theatre aspects now. After two Youtube videos.



This is some weird piecing together of pictures and stuff, but it's my favorite song so I will deal with it.



I couldn't decide between this one and Think of Me, but there are just too many random people singing into their webcam and this looks more performance-y. Also because Claire Moore is amazing.

I still loved the set. Pantages never ceases to amaze me. Especially when they used the lighting and they lit up the back with that screen still there. I could obviously tell that it was the same stage and everything but I just felt like my brain was tricked into believing that they weren't in the same place, the effect that they achieved was similar to that of movie editting except it was more amazing because they could not change anything since everything was directly seen by the audience. The actors were obviously awesome, they always are. Getting onto Broadway must be so hard since there's so much competition and you need to be absolutely amazing. I'm kind of sad because I heard this is the last tour that they're doing of Phantom of the Opera? I'm not sure, but someone said that's why Andrew Lloyd Webber and some people from the original cast(?) were there.