![]() ![]() ![]() The entire play is musically underscored. It tells the full story of the mysterious masked terror who inhabits the cellars of the Paris Opera House. You just have to be prepared for anything and react quickly. This love story thriller has been adapted from the original novel by Gaston Leroux and the famous Lon Chaney motion picture. The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera debuted in 1988, winning seven Tony Awards® including Best Musical. One night, as Christine was handing me back my mask as I was crawling across the stage in the ‘Stranger than you dreamt it’ sequence, the mask twanged and pinged right out of my hand and into the pit! So I had to use my hand as a mask, grab her hand and say: ‘Come we must return’ as we ran off the stage. ![]() Occasionally you have to improvise if something doesn’t go to plan. He does manipulate Christine – think of those lines ‘Turn your face away/ From the garish light of day’ – he’s actually turning her head without touching her – she’s watching his movements and his hands and she’s magnetised by him. I wanted a kind of maturity about the Phantom as well as the period it’s set in. I love telling a story with my hands and use them to express a lot of things, to make them kind of artistic and expressive so people focus on them. Song At Midnight follows a disfigured musical genius who stalks the grounds of a traditional Chinese opera house, seeking revenge against those who wronged him. But because you’re masked you can’t convey things with facial expression, so body language is really important. 6/9 Song At Midnight (1935) While many of the adaptations of The Phantom came out of the U.S and Great Britain, filmmakers in China produced their own version of the story. In some ways it’s an easy role because you’re not actually on stage that much, although when you are there’s a huge impact. Simon: Of course the Phantom is a very different role from Raoul and it was exciting to make that transition to my first mature lead. ![]()
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