HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!

[tking001]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#1

Posted: 1/26/11 at 5:02pm

23 years and still going strong
YAY!!!!!!

[ClapYo'Hands]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#2

Posted: 1/26/11 at 5:37pm

Here's to 23 more!

[TimesSquareRegular]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#2

Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:10pm

Was at this afternoon's performance. Nice curtain speech by Hugh Panaro, who brought Hal Prince on stage for some additional comments. Show looks great, and the improved sound system is a knockout.

2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)

[Mattbrain]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#3

Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:33pm

I've seen this on tour but I've wanted to see this on Broadway for the longest time.

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[EponineAmneris]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#4

Posted: 1/26/11 at 6:59pm

Happy 23rd from a lifelong Phan Here's to 23 more!!!

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[TimesSquareRegular]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#5

Posted: 1/26/11 at 7:04pm

At the curtain call this afternoon it crossed my mind that there were probably some cast members up there who weren't even BORN when the show opened!

2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)

[Ed_Mottershead]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#6

Posted: 1/26/11 at 7:58pm

I celebrate the 23rd anniversary of Phantom about as much as I will Adolf Hitler's 122nd birthday.

BroadwayEd

[ravnquest1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#7

Posted: 1/26/11 at 8:56pm

Updated On: 6/16/17 at 08:56 PM

[bwayphreak234]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#8

Posted: 1/26/11 at 9:09pm

Happy Birthday to one of the most remarkable, magical, spectacular, and breathtaking shows on Broadway!

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[Justin D]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#9

Posted: 1/27/11 at 7:31am

Oh dear, that comment about the new sound system has me worried, It's one of the things I am most looking forward to hearing when I see it soon.

Happy 23rd and I truly hope it will atleast reach 30.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre

[bryan2]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#10

Posted: 1/27/11 at 9:13am

WOW I cannot believe it will 23 years in June since I saw Phantom..I was lucky enough to be at Sarah Brightmans last performance and see the entire company give her roses ..very special moment in my life ....I hope this show never closes

[Pippin]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#11

Posted: 1/27/11 at 10:17am

It's gonna outlive us all.

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[jv92]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#12

Posted: 1/27/11 at 12:53pm

While the stagecraft is dazzling and the production values are outstanding, what is it about this show that makes people come back? I've seen it twice. I thought it looked and played great, but I didn't connect to any characters, I found the music trite and banal and the story contrived. Do people actually just sit slack-jawed looking at the damned thing and not care about the content? I guess so.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#13

Posted: 1/27/11 at 1:32pm

I got to meet Hal Prince backstage afterward which was awesome!

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[Sally]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#14

Posted: 1/27/11 at 2:02pm

I would love to meet Hal Prince---just because I admire him.

ravnquest1--How discouraging about the sound system. Is there no one with authority who can hear what you hear? It's ridiculous to spend a lot of money to make something good worse!

[jv92]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#15

Posted: 1/27/11 at 2:09pm

I know Hal Prince slightly. He's a true gent, and very nice and encouraging to young people interested in the theatre. Glad to you hear you met him, Cape Twirl of Doom.

[metropolis10111]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#16

Posted: 1/27/11 at 2:45pm

Well considering that the CD is in the top selling albums of all times SOMEONE likes the music:
1. Michael Jackson, Thriller (100+)
2. AC/DC, Back in Black (45+)
3. Meat Loaf, Bat out of Hell (43+)
4. Eagles, Their Greatest Hits (42+)
5. Dirty Dancing Soundtrack (42+)
6. The Bodyguard Soundtrack (42+)
7. The Phantom of the Opera (40+)
8. Backstreet Boys, Millennium (40+)
9. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (40+)
10. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (40+)
11. Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (40+)

One may not personally like it but good god it's a damn fine piece of theater to some part the hundreds of millions of people that have seen it. I for one didn't like it till about 4 years ago and now I love listening to it. Here is to a wonderful 50 year run...

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#17

Posted: 1/27/11 at 3:54pm

Thanks jv92! He gave a lovely speech to the cast & crew and was full of praise for yesterday's performances. It was a thrill to meet such a theatre legend while standing on the stage of the Majestic.

"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

[Ed_Mottershead]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHANTOM!!!!#18

Posted: 1/27/11 at 4:00pm

"It's gonna outlive us all." Which is proof-positive that only the good die young.

BroadwayEd