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10 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Phantom’s last show is Sunday. I hope somebody records the final “It’s over now, the music of the night…”
If they do, it will probably be only audio, not video, as the ushers have gotten VERY vigilant about walking around to make sure no one's recording.
I was there tonight for the charity performance, for the 26th and final time.
It was glorious, as always. The audience clapped and cheered for EVERYTHING and you could tell the cast was really giving it their all.
I've never cried so much at the ending.
The best part was the curtain call, where they brought out the milestone Christine's from the 25th and 30th anniversary performances, as well as the original Christine, Sarah Brightman.
They were all profiled in this Washington Post article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/interactive/2023/phantom-of-opera-christine-broadway/
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1 hour ago, Spartan Girl said:
Whoa! Has that ever happened before???
Not for me in the 23 previous times that I've seen it. I can't speak to the skillion other times it's been performed.
I've often wondered how the actress would play it if the mask wasn't there and last night, I found out! 😄
That's the danger of theater. Because it's live, the actors have to be damned good at ad-libbing. At a performance I went to in February, the actress playing Christine tripped and fell during a scene, but luckily, she played it off as a natural result of the chaos. But then later in the show, the gun didn't fire, so instead of Raoul yelling at the guy for shooting recklessly, instead, he yelled at him for NOT shooting.
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One of the benefits and drawbacks of seeing The Phantom Of The Opera as many times as possible before it closes is that the more often you attend, the more likely it is that you'll catch an error. There was a HUGE one at the performance I saw tonight. Meg comes into the Phantom's lair at the end, pulls back the cape. . .
And there was NO MASK.
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1 hour ago, Cloud9Shopper said:
I’m still at the point where I like Kerry so we’ll see if my opinion changes as the seasons go on.
Another reason why I like Season 3, it's the only time I liked her. That was another very good and realistic story arc for a character. While she was still the Straight Man to everyone else, the edge came off of the prickliness from the last season.
1 hour ago, Cloud9Shopper said:Part of why I like Kerry right now is that she’s protective of coworkers when they experience trauma
And her friendship with Jeanie started that year.
Even with her own distaste over Doug's behavior, I love the way she firmly shut down the gossip about him bringing in the woman who overdosed--"It's none of our business!"
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On 3/25/2023 at 8:08 AM, Cloud9Shopper said:
So in my rankings so far, I put S3 slightly above S1. To me this is where the show hit its stride, and there were a couple big moments (Mark’s attack, Gant’s pager going off) but it was drama without it being too explosive and over the top like the later years. Also not as many filler characters and low-quality plots. The only side characters left that I’m not thrilled about are E-Ray (he always low-key bugged me) and Wendy.
I agree. While the show has been very good so far, at some point in Season 3, everything clicked. Plus, we got some major, yet realistic character arcs--Doug getting his act together, Mark turning into a jerk, etc.
On 3/25/2023 at 8:08 AM, Cloud9Shopper said:On to S4 next week
My favorite season. I loved Doug and Carol and I was so glad when they finally reconciled. That moment when he tells her he loves her is so beautifully simple.
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23 hours ago, Notabug said:
Same person who allowed Carter to return to work after the stabbing without requiring any psychologic evaluation or counseling... while he was in significant pain and unable to walk without crutches. Kerry was in charge both times, as I recall. When you add it all up, she was really not a good ER manager.
Ironic, considering how utterly obsessed she was with managing.
Let's not forget how reluctant she was to report her mentor despite clearly being concerned about his visible cognitive decline, and her letting Mark come back to work after having a BRAIN TUMOR REMOVED without a thorough physical and psychological evaluation, letting him wander around for several weeks mixing up his pronouns, then not having either the personal or professional courtesy to tell him to his face that she'd finally reported him for competency testing.
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2 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Gee, I guess School of Rock really was Lord Andy’s last hurrah after all, huh?
Well, it was an awesome show, so as far as that, he's got nothing to be ashamed of.
By the way, I made a mistake in my earlier post--enter the Phantom lottery before NOON on 3/31, not midnight.
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Phantom Of The Opera is having a lottery for tickets to its final show on April 16. They'll be in the rear mezzanine, though I'm not sure exactly where, and cost $99 should you win. Enter before midnight 3/31 and there will be drawings April 3, 4, 5, 6, with 24 hours to purchase should you win.
On 3/20/2023 at 9:31 PM, ebk57 said:really enjoyed Something Rotten, Spamalot
Spamalot was hysterical. I regret seeing it only once.
Something Rotten was okay.
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So of course, I bought a ticket for the April 14 show. I was hoping to sit in the orchestra section one last time, but those cost $1500.
On the plus side, there's no service charge, so. . .
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The Phantom Of The Opera 's 3rd to last show on April 14 will be raising money for various charities. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 10:
As far as the other shows, tickets are mostly sold out for nearly all of them, but StubHub has, if you don't mind paying $12,000 for an orchestra seat.
https://www.stubhub.com/the-phantom-of-the-opera-new-york-tickets/performer/10170/
(Yes, I actually saw a ticket for that price)
BTW, Lucy St. Louis has finished her run as London's first black Christine--there's now a black Madame Giry as well--and is now London's first black Glinda in "Wicked".
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On 2/23/2023 at 11:30 PM, Cloud9Shopper said:
On a lighter note…every time Benton busts Carter and Abby Keaton and Carter hides his face in the book I am mentally 15 or 16 again.
I can't help but admire how calmly Abby asks Peter to wait outside as if she hasn't been caught doing something incredibly inappropriate that could jeopardize her career.
And I really liked the scene between them afterwards where she asks if he's threatening to report her and he makes it clear that he never even considered it. No matter how desperately he wanted that pediatric fellowship --"If your recommendation isn't based on my skills as a doctor, I. DON'T. WANT. IT."
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On 12/25/2020 at 3:55 PM, Annber03 said:
Mmhm. And even when they are trying to get rid of the body, it's amazing (and kind of amusing, in a really dark way) how so many criminals don't realize just how hard it is to do that. Dead weight is tough to move around. Same with cleaning up crime scenes-blood is not an easy stain to get out.
I was watching an episode of "American Detective" the other night and Kenda stated, "People get emotional when they kill. They don't think clearly." He was referring to the fact that a young woman's killer had dumped her body in the middle of a public park, it somehow never occuring to him that her body would rapidly be found.
And that applies to Chris as well. Did he really think the cops would think it was just sheer coincidence that his wife and daughters bodies were dumped at his WORKPLACE? If that isn't a blatant declaration of "I did it", I don't know what is.
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On 10/5/2020 at 11:29 AM, Scarlett45 said:
It’s dumb as shit to think you could murder your wife IN THE HOUSE, and then kill your daughters, and get away with it! Not even arrange to kill her in public where someone else may have killed her. Like a mugging or something.
And the cops will figure that out too--there was a crime show episode about a couple attacked while out walking with their daughter. The wife was killed, the husband injured. The daughter was mercifully unharmed, physically, at least.
When the cops questioned him, it didn't take but two seconds for him to feebly blurt out "It was an accident". Yeah, he "accidentally" arranged for a hitman to kill his wife and shoot him to look like a mugging gone wrong. Nevermind that the guy never made any attempt at taking their wallets, the very first thing that would make the cops suspicious.
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On 10/1/2020 at 11:59 AM, EdnasEdibles said:
And since he had a real job and she sold MLM crap, he would have had to pay her child support and probably also alimony. In their sociopathic heads they think "I could just start fresh with someone else" and not have 3 years of legal fighting with expensive lawyer bills and then partial custody where you have to see the other person every week for the rest of your life (or at least until the kids are 18 and considering there was a child inside of her, that's a good amount of time ahead). Plus, then he's the jerk for leaving a pregnant lady when otherwise he gets to be someone they feel bad for
That's exactly it.
It never occurs to these guys that all that is still better than going to jail for the rest of your life.
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20 minutes ago, partofme said:
I've been reluctant to admit this is the reason I've never watched ER. I loved Teddy and Falconer and was devastated when he died. I didn't watch Sisters much longer after that.
Don't feel bad, I thought I was bonkers for feeling the way I did. If it hadn't been for the phenomenal episode "Hell & High Water", I probably would never have become a fan of ER.
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I caught the show tonight for the 20th time. Kanisha was Christine and she was just as lovely as before, except she tripped and fell at the end of the "Bravo, Monsieur" sequence. And the guns didn't go off, though I'm not sure if that's a mistake or a change they're making.
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10 hours ago, andromeda331 said:
I always liked Clooney's TV career better then his movies.
I was so devastated when they killed Falconer--real nice, writers, finally making Teddy happy after years of misery only to cruelly yank it away from her in five minutes--that I actually couldn't watch ER's first season.
StartTV has added "Providence" to its lineup. Was it always this hokey? It's amazing what about TV/movies you view differently as an adult.
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An interview with Emile Kouatchou:
https://www.ebony.com/phantom-of-the-opera-star-emilie-kouatchou-interview/
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On 2/20/2023 at 7:10 PM, Elizabeth Anne said:
I think I mentioned this in another place (referencing Swoozie Kurtz) but I would love to Sisters again. It was being shown in the afternoons on a channel I got back in the late 90s and I loved it. I've never come across it since. It would be a natural for those who love to binge watch and it had George Clooney for awhile so there's that too!
So would I. I loved it. And there were a few episodes that I never got to see.
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I wanted to add that they're airing even more shows than the ones I initially listed, but I don't remember them all.
We need a channel that will re-air all those made-for-TV movies/miniseries that were all the rage throughout the 80s and 90s.
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On 4/20/2022 at 12:07 PM, JustHereForFood said:
It was Easter, so The Thorn Birds were on TV and I could hear my mother watching it for XYth time. For all its faults, I loved the book, probably because I read it as a teenager when I had different opinions on romance than I do now. Still, the adaptation was not bad, as far as adaptations of long books go, but to get to my point, why on Earth does the midquel The Missing Years exist? It was a shitshow that not only was completely unnecessary, it managed to ruin every single character that appeared in it. Why do they always insist on showing it after the main series, as if it were a canon story? Wouldn't we all be better off pretending it never happened? (That was a rhetoric question, of course the answer is yes.)
It was really awful. Completely inconsistent with the original both in story and in characterization. I like to imagine that it simply exists in some kind of alternate universe because said inconsistencies are so glaring:
The Original: Meggie blasts Ralph for not realizing that Dane was his son and thinking that she could go back to Luke after being with him.
The Missing Years: He finds her trying to do EXACTLY that.
There's too many others to count. Ironically, had it been consistent with the original/the book, it would have been fine.
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The Rewind Channel (462 for FiOS customers) is showing a wealth of shows that were popular in the '80's and '90's:
227, Becker, Caroline in the City, Dear John, Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, The Drew Carey Show, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, It’s a Living, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, The Hogan Family, The John Larroquette Show, Just Shoot Me!, Mad About You, Mork & Mindy, Murphy Brown, My Two Dads, NewsRadio, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Suddenly Susan, Who's the Boss?, and Wings
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On 10/6/2020 at 3:55 PM, EdnasEdibles said:
It IS interesting though to see a documentary where the victim isn't painted as an angel. I think Dateline falls into this trap a lot with their episodes where when they discuss the victim the have quotes like "She loved life. She lit up every room she went into and everyone loved her" and honestly, that's not realistic
What I especially hate about when Dateline does that is that once the victim turns up dead, all of a sudden it's revealed that all of his/her people thought that their spouse was a bitch/jerk, and the very same perfect love story they've been touting for the past five minutes is now riddled with flaws--"He/She was controlling/cheating/spending too much/too cheap!", etc.
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Theatre Talk: In Our Own Little Corner
in Everything Else
An article listing some of Phantom's milestones:
https://playbill.com/article/35-years-of-phantom-of-the-operas-history-making-moments-on-broadway
And listing all the actors who have played the leads:
https://playbill.com/article/every-actor-whos-played-the-angel-of-music-and-christine-in-phantom-of-the-opera-on-broadway