The story, of course, is about a masked man who lives under an opera house and falls in love with Christine Daae, the beautiful soprano, who is also pursued by Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagney. Although! I have a theory that addresses all the movie’s issues, so keep reading for that. And the movie was…not as bad as I feared. And ever since I saw the play, I’ve been afraid to go back to the movie… But I finally did, because I’m writing a retelling and this is research.
I liked this movie when it came out–but I was seventeen and I’d never seen the play. If you’re not familiar with it, the Butler Phantom is a movie version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical–but very much not the play (for that you want the 25th anniversary/Karimloo Phantom). Since the last time I watched this movie, I’ve watched just about every version of Phantom I could find, including the stage production…eight times, actually! I know this, because I know I haven’t seen it since the first time I saw the stage production. I say “finally” because I haven’t seen it in…at least eight years. Phantom will, like Nashville, also come with the added incentive of music sales - a further financial bonus for the network and studio.I finally watched the Gerard Butler Phantom. The network will follow that with a live performance of Peter Panin December, with Fox also plotting a live broadcast of Grease for 2015. NBC, for its part, explored the Broadway world with two seasons of Smash and found massive success with its live musical production of The Sound of Music. Fox will also launch hip-hop drama Empirecome midseason along with the final season of Glee. ABC’s Nashvillehas been steady for the network in its third season and musical fairy tale Galavantwill bow midseason. See more Broadway Musicals That Have Sung Their Way to the Big ScreenĪBC’s Phantom take arrives as musical series have seen a resurgence on the small screen following the success of Fox’s global hit Glee. On the big screen, Joel Schumacher adapted the musical with Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum in 2004. The mini won two technical Emmys and was nominated for a Golden Globe. On the small-screen, Phantom was most recently a two-part miniseries that aired on NBC in 1990. Its worldwide gross is more than $5.6 billion, the second-highest in history, with its Broadway haul of $845 million topped only by The Lion King. Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Tony-winning stage musical starring Michael Crawford is the longest-running show in Broadway history with more than 10,000 performances and ranks as the second-longest-running production on the West End. First published in 1909, Phantom has been adapted numerous times in books, comics, film, TV, radio and the stage.
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