![]() ![]() Some dialogue has been addedĭuring "Angel of Music" to clarify the title character's role in Christine's Otherwise, there are few outright additions. Singer Christine Daaé - are sprinkled throughout the film. A number of additional scenes taking place after theĪuction - depicting Raoul's state of mind in the decades following hisīattle with the opera house's once-resident ghost for the love of the young Monkey clashing cymbals (which serves as an important recurring symbol ![]() House, at which he purchases a papier-mâché music box in the form of a An aging Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny, attends anĪuction (set in 1919 in the film, 1911 in the stage version) at the opera ![]() Most notable is the expansion of the show's prologue into a continuing Impenetrable, incomprehensible, or flat-out turgid. Make this version worth a look for those who found the stage musical Other changes aimed apparently at clarifying the work for the screen might Some compromises haveīeen made in the transfer, and this is likely to rile the purists. The stage version - which just surpassed its 7000th performance on Broadway,Īnd is holding up splendidly - remains to be seen. Schumacher's own dramatic point of view and sense of visual style give theįilm a different - but equally valid - feel from Prince's.īut whether this ambitious and expansive film will appeal to diehard fans of Harold Prince, so the film's fidelity isn't particularly surprising, though Much detail had already been laid out by the stage production's director, This film than were necessary to accommodate 2002's Chicago. Stage production is impressive fewer changes were made to the structure of The respect the film's director, Joel Schumacher, shows for the epochal The knowledge that the movie takes its source very seriously. Fans of the stage version can at least rest easy in Is a remarkably faithful adaptation of one of the most successful stage Webber's The Phantom of the Opera has finally hit the silver screen in what We've passed the point of no return: The film version of Andrew Lloyd Late last week Matthew Murray was dispatched to the Majestic Theatre and then to a private screening of the new Phantom of the Opera film to give us a report on the differences between the two versions. ![]()
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