![]() So to return to this movie- which is truly gaudy, truly extravagant, truly luscious and rich and golden. ![]() I have also come to appreciate extravagance in my art. Since then, I have watched the 25th Anniversary staged concert, which stars beautiful singers and is gorgeously staged. The magic of seeing the tour was the marvel of the music, which is repetitive but catchy and occasionally very beautiful. In 2004, I thought the movie was too gaudy, too extravagant, and that the singing wasn't good enough. I still have not seen Phantom on Broadway, though I want to. A year later a tour would come through D.C., and I would see it at the National Theatre. When I first saw Joel Schumacher's 2004 adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera (in a movie theatre, mind you, with my mom), I had not yet seen the show onstage. The best theatrical experiences play with that balance of real and unreal, and I think the best movies do that too. Movies have some of this quality too, but these days movies are often either too real or too fake, and so lose that miraculous gray area. ![]() The best theatrical productions understand this- you’re sitting in a real place watching real people with your own real eyes, but you’re seeing fake characters in fake circumstances, in locations that are abstract and heightened. What’s magical about live theatre is the thin line between reality and unreality inherent in the art. Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Simon Callow, Ciaràn Hinds, and Minnie Driver Written by: Andrew Lloyd Weber and Joel Schumacher ![]()
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