Everything was so amazingly created and done with every detail. The music itself is amazing and the show was breathtaking and the costumes were absolutely gorgeous - I can not praise the costumes enough. And after the revealing came the magnificent overture which gave me chills. And then the item 666 was revealed and everyone knew it must be the legendary chandelier. The item numbers slowly got closer to 666 and the item before it was the monkey playing the cymbals. The musical started with an auction, selling away the opera house property. The first view at the hall and you saw a huge thing hanging from the ceiling, covered with fabric and numbers 666.
(Did you know that originally the Phantom’s whole face was covered up, but afterwards only half was covered so he could sing.) I was kind of pleased by how they had made the phantoms deformed face, it was still what everyone would tough was hidden beneath the mask but I found it somehow lovely theatrical with all that little shimmer of silver glitter without making it too gory to catch the eye without being able to concentrate on anything but the face. The show was not missing creative special effects and I was anxious to see how they did their way with the chandelier, because you can't drop it on the audience.
I saw that it was going to be as great if not even better in its own way. Right from the beginning I had this feeling that I should never doubt that. So I was at the same time extremely enthusiastic and anticipated to see what can be done without all those techniques and tricks of the movie industry, and how the same feeling would be created live on the stage (I knew it would be great, I hadn’t seen anything).
I had only seen the movie version many, many times. I knew the show was amazing but shamefully I had never seen it before.
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