Phantom is a refreshing reminder that maximalism is alive and strong. Subtle songs like at Tony darling The Band’s Visit. Simple sets like at (our beloved) Come From Away. So many of today’s shows have embraced 21st century minimalism. Big sets, big costumes, big songs (more on all that below). It’s a flashback, not so much to the 1880s when it takes place, but to the 1980s when it was created. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s masterpiece is entirely a product of its time. Welcome to the 80sīut the show’s nostalgia comes from more than Raoul’s memory. Lots of drama ensues as young Raoul, the entire opera company, and of course the Phantom himself, become entangled in a power struggle for control over the opera house-and Christine. They reconnect, but it’s soon made clear to the audience that her angelic voice owes much of its perfection to the phantom. Onstage, Christine catches the attention of Raoul, who’s attending the performance, and he recognizes her as his childhood friend. A chorus girl Christine Daaé, must replace the prima donna Carlotta as the lead soprano when Carlotta refuses to perform-furious at the theater’s new managers for failing to control the antics of a mysterious “phantom” who torments the opera house. Subject-wise, the entire show is presented as one Parisian aristocrat’s (Raoul’s) memory of events that occurred decades ago at the Paris Opera in the 1880s, when he was a young man.
What’s the enduring appeal? The Knick team attended a recent performance of the classic show to find out. Three decades later, the musical is still one of the top shows in town, regularly pulling in more than $1 million a week. Two years later, it opened in New York, virtually sweeping the Tonys and becoming Broadway’s hottest ticket. In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, opened in London’s West End. The Phantom of the Opera Is Still Broadway’s Most Broadway Night Out
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