Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
#1Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 1:52am
#2Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:15amDefinitely not an official page. You can't believe everything you see. No such project exists.
#3Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 2:17amIt actually IS a real project and is in the process of going on stage off broadway. theres an album, music videos, and many, many fans.
jimmycurry01
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
#4Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:03amYou will never see this on an Off-Broadway stage. This will debut in whatever regional or community theatre that it is going into and then it will vanish forever, along with the hundreds of other shows that experience the same fate every year.
#5Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 7:14amcause you can foresee the future. riiiiiight.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#6Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 7:40am
Well, it seems like an official page -- just not a professional production.
But...OY.
#8Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 10:38amI eagerly anticipate the red carpet at New World Stages.
#9Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 10:43am
Will this be "Phantom Babies?" ... kinda like "Muppet Babies?"
I sure hope so!
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#10Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 10:56am
Huh.
http://taorminateatrogroup.webstarts.com/about.html
#11Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 10:59amCorrect me if I am wrong, but although Gaston Leroux's novel is public domain, ALW's musical is *not*... therefore isn't writing a prequel to it somewhat dubious in its legality?
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#12Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:02am
An actual, official, professional prequel that was based on Susan Kay's novel could actually be very good, at least leagues better than the sequel.
This is just some independent group putting on a show, no different than the hundreds of other small shows that get produced all over the country every year.
#13Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 11:11am
If there's anything exclusive to the Webber version (a character, item, or plot device), it would be protected under his copyright. The rest would not.
(i.e., the ruby slippers are still protected under a copyright since they were exclusive to the 1939 MGM screenplay, but "The Wizard of Oz' in general is public domain.)
That said, titles cannot be copyrighted, which is why there are movies, books, and songs with the same exact title that have absolutely nothing else in common.
So "Angel of Music" is usable as a song title or show title, as long as it shares no common lyrics (beyond nine successive words, I believe) and no common notes (beyond 12 consecutively). That would be plagiarism and a copyright infringement of the score.
It would be very hard to prove in a court since the source material is public domain.
EDIT: Those "technical limitations" of consecutive notes and words were given to me by a music lawyer with ASCAP who said that anything under that becomes very difficult to prove in a court of law. If you go past those numbers, it more than often will hold up as being an infringement.
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#14Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 12:06pmIt's just a mad phantom fan who is writing a show, i hate the trialer how they clearly tried to use some of the Phantom music at the end but changed the notes around.
#15Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 12:19pmGod, that music on the FB page is painfully slow and boring.
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#16Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:37pmit amazes me how [people are so quick to judge something before seeing it in its entirety.
#17Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:47pm
Guys, "The Living Corpse" is *definitely* worth a listen; I'm not even kidding.
The best part is the lyric "the atrociousness of its apparent face," which is a direct nod to the lyrics of PHANTOM's "Down Once More," except it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Also nice is "Come my friends and you shall see/The most hideous thing there ought to be." Songwriter may want to re-think "ought" there and consider, perhaps, "magnanimous" in its place.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#18Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:52pm
Didn't you "advertise" this hear so that people could judge and make decisions? Of course, you were hoping they would be positive ones praising what you offered.
You can't always get what you want.
#19Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:54pmDon't post clips if you don't want feedback.
#20Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 4:55pmon the contrary, i welcome any kind of feedback and critique.Good or bad, but its not fair to judge something in which they havent seen everything in whole instead of actually hearing EVERYTHING and reading the FULL SCRIPT. Only to hear a couple songs and automatically say its terrible.
#21Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:03pm
Seeing or reading the entire libretto won't change the fact that some of the lyrics don't make sense or even scan properly.
#22Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:09pmwell everyone else who read it seemed to get it and understand it all.
#23Phantom of the opera prequel in the works
Posted: 8/12/11 at 5:21pm
Something tells me you're not welcoming my bad feedback, as you said you would.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
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