Last night we and the Lapps went to see Phantom of the Opera now having a 7-week run at the Bushnell. Every seat sold out for every performance! We had 1st balcony seats ($50 each!) which were quite good. The staging is incredible, the music gorgeous.
Dad had seen the show in New York last year on one of his genealogical forays there, and had sat in the sixth row. He said this version was just as good and maybe more enjoyable, since he’d had time to hear the music in the interim on the CDs he bought immediately after the first viewing, and understood everything better.
I knew the story from listening to the novel on a recorded book. But I was totally unprepared for – but enthralled by – the music, the scenery and costuming, the creative genius of the whole production.