#THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA MOVIE TV#
Mason, presently the CEO of the Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys, is a songwriter and music producer who has been involved in the music production for a range of TV and film projects, from Sing and the upcoming Sing 2 to Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Straight Outta Compton and the Pitch Perfect movies. The last few years have seen the studio try more auteur-driven and creative approaches to its monster universe, with a Wolfman project from Ryan Gosling and Derek Cianfrance among the current crop in development. Phantom follows in Universal’s storied tradition of monster movies, which have famously included beloved takes on Dracula and Frankenstein and characters such as the Mummy, the Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. New Orleans is not only known as America’s most haunted city, but the music, Creole culture, voodoo mystique and the pageantry of Mardi Gras, inspire a natural adaptation of the original Paris setting,” said Fusco, whose credits include the 2019 Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson crime drama The Highwaymen, in a statement. “I have long wanted to explore The Phantom of the Opera in a contemporary and new way and in a French Quarter setting. The new tale is set in New Orleans and will take in all of the city’s mystique. While many a modern audience will know the story via the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, it was also one of the first hit movies for Universal, which adapted it in 1925 as a silent horror film starring Lon Chaney. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Go big or go home, as they say.īooking at Her Majesty’s theatre, London, until 13 February.John Legend's Get Lifted Inks Overall Deal With UCP Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. But the late Maria Björnson’s maximalist designs, from vivid masquerade ball to Degas-style ballet dancers, set the tone for old-school fantasy. The Budapest Opera House's diva commits suicide after the owner ruins her career for having rejected his advances but her conductor-husband, believed killed in a fire, plans his revenge on all those he deems responsible for her suicide.
With Maximilian Schell, Jane Seymour, Michael York, Jeremy Kemp. The show has a dedication to analogue theatrical effects, from trapdoors and smoke to a skull-topped cane shooting fireballs, and, sure, there’s something hokey about the Phantom playing gondolier in the boat to his subterranean lair. The Phantom of the Opera: Directed by Robert Markowitz. There’s a bit of Hugh Grant about him (the edgier real-life Grant, rather than foppish film version) and he’s rich-voiced in the soaringly romantic All I Ask of You. Rhys Whitfield plays Christine’s more trad love interest, the dashing Raoul. No room to interrogate his status as an abusive incel here, just a good yarn. He’s a Frankenstein’s monster, sinister yet vulnerable, whose eyes “both threaten and adore” and who tells Christine “fear can turn to love”. He handles a tricky role, a stalker and kidnapper who is also an alternative romantic lead. She’s beatific, her tone bright with no harsh glare, all delicate vibrato, fine control and escalating power.Īs the Phantom, Killian Donnelly (a former Jean Valjean in Les Mis) finds a range of colours from a whisper to a roar. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opra House.A young soprano becomes the.
Lucy St Louis (who played Diana Ross in Motown the Musical) is an enchanting Christine, the object of the Phantom’s obsession. Winning formulas, of course, still need a refresh, so post-pandemic the show has returned with a new cast. Lucy St Louis and Killian Donnelly in The Phantom of the Opera.
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