Does anyone know what Michael Crawford is doing next?- Page 2

[Batty]

Posted: 6/23/03 at 12:57pm

RosaBud I couldnot agree with you more, I was a member and I am now of the MCIFA. I am 47 and Michael stills looks great he is still hot and handsome.

[Victoria Grant]

Posted: 6/23/03 at 4:24pm

I totally agree with Dottie and Rosabud !

Michael Crawford will always be forever the Phantom! Nobody is perfect and everybody has a bad day. Broadway is a risk no matter what. Unfortunatly the show was a flop that is not his fault. It's what the american people did not want to see (well some of them) My opippion is that people want to be entertained DOTV to some was not a storyline that people were like WOW. So unfortunatly the show becomes swallowed and we get another movie musical on broadway instead of some original work. New writers are not being given a chance to show some creativity. If we could only stop with all of the revivals for a while. But that will not happen because the american people want to see entertainment.

To me I have learned alot from our older mature actors and I hope that they continue to enjoy the dreams thaT they hold and continue to show the what truly the american theater is all about.

Michael Crawford needs to come back to the Phantom !!!!!!!!!!

just my $0.02

[Sunfish]

Posted: 6/23/03 at 4:40pm

I saw the show several times, and obviously loved it. The audiences were always very responsive. There were a few twisted souls that went just to disrupt the show with laughs and giggles and chuckles, but the majority of the audience (by the sound of the ovations)liked it a lot. The reviews really killed the show; people do not want to spend a couple hundred dollars when they are almost certain they won't like it. I was afraid *I* wouldn't like it the first time I went, and I was blown away.

[scooter38432]

Posted: 6/23/03 at 4:47pm

Oh come now!
The film of HELLO, DOLLY! is not all that bad! It won 3 Oscars, and was nominated for 4 others, including Best Picture. Add to that 4 BAFTA (British Oscars) nominations and 5 Golden Globe nominations (including Best Picture). Now, awards and nominations do not a film make -- but there are undeniable strongpoints to that film. Choreography, Costumes, Art Direction, Orchestrations, Cinematography, etc.

Now, I can certainly understand disagreeing with the casting ... but no matter what you think about Ms. Streisand as Dolly ... those songs have NEVER sounded as good as when she sings them. "It Takes a Woman, reprise" is a classic.

I have no problem with Michael Crawford continuing with his work (no matter WHAT his age may be), but I, personally, would enjoy not having to hear his bizarre little singing voice ever again. And no, I have not been (literally) strapped down and made to listen to him (mercifully), but whenever I do hear those sounds, it FEELS as though I'm strapped down. The only exception is in the aforementioned HELLO DOLLY film in which he's great. That odd little tenor sound works wonderfully for Cornelius Hackl. Now, as a romantic male lead (a la PHANTOM), that's where a great vocalist is most welcomed. (If only Howard McGillin was in it from the start -- I may have disliked it a lot less.)

I would NEVER want to deprive ANYONE of listening to whatever singers they choose!