Day Seventeen: Phantom Of The Opera
Today's post is a musical with the best music, which I think is Phantom of the Opera. (This post is strictly for the score; the post with the best lyrics will be for the next post.)
So I will give the basics. It takes place to 1899 (modern day), then transports back in time a good 50 years or so in Paris. There's this creepy guy who has only half a mask (the Phantom) and he's lived in some secret part of the opera house and always prefers to have Box #5 empty ("Box" is a small section of seats that weren't up on the balcony but aren't as low to the floor level.)
Meanwhile, there's this girl in the Ensemble, Christine Daae, who has been taught how to sing by the "Angel of Music" (who was really the Phantom through the ducts in the opera house). The Phantom has been demanding that the house will be run his way or things go bad, which have. Some acts include Carlotta being given this elixir that causes her to not sing well, the chandelier falls onto the stage, one of the stagehands is murdered, etc.
Christine and her old childhood friend, Raoul, have been sprouting up this romance, to which the Phantom becomes extremely jealous of. The Phantom tries to claim Christine as his "girlfriend," and she does so, in fear he will cause more damage to the opera house. The owners of the house reluctantly agree to perform a show that the Phantom wrote, called Don Juan Triumphant, with Christine as the female lead. They agree under Raoul's idea that they will capture the Phantom on opening night.
Problem is, the Phantom ends up onstage with Christine and Raoul can't just stop the show and take him offstage, especially because he had Christine hostage. He kidnaps her (yet again) and brings her to his lair, where she would stay. Raoul goes after her, while following the advice of Madame Giry, the ballet instructor, to "keep [his] hand at the level of [his] eyes." (This is because the Phantom is an expert in killing people with the Punjab lasso, and the only way to stop it is to keep an arm there when it's tightened.)
Raoul finds the lair and falls into the Phantom's trap and is held captive. Christine begs Phantom to let him go and says she'll stay with the Phantom if Raoul is to be let free. The Phantom is so moved by this, he lets both Christine and Raoul go. Meanwhile, an angry mob has been finding their way to Phantom's lair, and when they get there, he's no where to be found.
At the end of the show, Christine is dead and every year there is a black rose on her grave (the Phantom's calling card to Christine was a black rose.) The End.
(Yes I know there are a LOT more characters, but this show is so well known, either people know it or they will look it up on WikiPedia.)
My personal favorite song of the show is "Phantom of the Opera," I think it's just very powerful and intense, you can't help but like it! (Plus, I think it really highlights just how good Christine is supposed to be, because of the Phantom.) I absolutely love listening to Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman!
(Fun fact: For anyone that has seen Wall-E, during the movie there's an old musical video that Wall-E plays a lot (the show is Hello Dolly!) and in the duet part that is shown, the guy singing is Michael Crawford!)
So I will give the basics. It takes place to 1899 (modern day), then transports back in time a good 50 years or so in Paris. There's this creepy guy who has only half a mask (the Phantom) and he's lived in some secret part of the opera house and always prefers to have Box #5 empty ("Box" is a small section of seats that weren't up on the balcony but aren't as low to the floor level.)
Meanwhile, there's this girl in the Ensemble, Christine Daae, who has been taught how to sing by the "Angel of Music" (who was really the Phantom through the ducts in the opera house). The Phantom has been demanding that the house will be run his way or things go bad, which have. Some acts include Carlotta being given this elixir that causes her to not sing well, the chandelier falls onto the stage, one of the stagehands is murdered, etc.
Christine and her old childhood friend, Raoul, have been sprouting up this romance, to which the Phantom becomes extremely jealous of. The Phantom tries to claim Christine as his "girlfriend," and she does so, in fear he will cause more damage to the opera house. The owners of the house reluctantly agree to perform a show that the Phantom wrote, called Don Juan Triumphant, with Christine as the female lead. They agree under Raoul's idea that they will capture the Phantom on opening night.
Problem is, the Phantom ends up onstage with Christine and Raoul can't just stop the show and take him offstage, especially because he had Christine hostage. He kidnaps her (yet again) and brings her to his lair, where she would stay. Raoul goes after her, while following the advice of Madame Giry, the ballet instructor, to "keep [his] hand at the level of [his] eyes." (This is because the Phantom is an expert in killing people with the Punjab lasso, and the only way to stop it is to keep an arm there when it's tightened.)
Raoul finds the lair and falls into the Phantom's trap and is held captive. Christine begs Phantom to let him go and says she'll stay with the Phantom if Raoul is to be let free. The Phantom is so moved by this, he lets both Christine and Raoul go. Meanwhile, an angry mob has been finding their way to Phantom's lair, and when they get there, he's no where to be found.
At the end of the show, Christine is dead and every year there is a black rose on her grave (the Phantom's calling card to Christine was a black rose.) The End.
(Yes I know there are a LOT more characters, but this show is so well known, either people know it or they will look it up on WikiPedia.)
My personal favorite song of the show is "Phantom of the Opera," I think it's just very powerful and intense, you can't help but like it! (Plus, I think it really highlights just how good Christine is supposed to be, because of the Phantom.) I absolutely love listening to Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman!
(Fun fact: For anyone that has seen Wall-E, during the movie there's an old musical video that Wall-E plays a lot (the show is Hello Dolly!) and in the duet part that is shown, the guy singing is Michael Crawford!)
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