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#5

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:24pm

who was he gonna play?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#6

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:24pm

I KNOW, RIGHT? HUGH would have been great as the Phantom!
He was born in 1964...He's 40 years old!
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#7

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:25pm

ooh Phantom
but I love Gerard re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#10

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:48pm

actually no I havent
so I should shut up I know
"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."
#11

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:06pm

Yeah, I was kinda thinking about that last night while watching the movie. If Schumacher was going to go with an unknown in the lead and wanted someone great looking who could also sing the hell out of the score, why not Panaro? He IS 40, but doesn't look it at all.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#17

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:01pm

Maybe Gerard's "rock sound" (or just bad singing and no technique or control masquerading as "rock sound") would have been more effective had Phantom been a "rock musical." However, it is not. Wouldn't that be funny if it was though? Christine screeching out those arias Brooklyn-style?...That would be "young and sexy" - surprised Joel didn't go for that.

Anyone remember those early early promo music videos of Phantom that Webber put together as a kind of audition for different actors in the role of the Phantom? Remember the Steve Harvey one? That one was "rock" and a disaster...Why does Webber have some crazy obsession with this "rock" idea that doesn't serve the peice??
#18

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:06pm

Isn't Gerard supposed to be this big star in England?

Anyway I heart Hugh.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
#20

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:12pm

As of now (according to his website) there is no date for him leaving the show.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
#22

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:35pm

When I saw 'Phantom' on Broadway last October, I was totally disappointed by the show. In fact, I hated it with a living passion. The ONLY redeeming quality I could pull from it was Hugh. He was AMAZING! He was gorgeous! He was totally cute when I saw him after the show.

When I read this topic, I hadn't even thought about why Hugh wasn't in the movie. And now that I think about it...haha...truly, why wasn't he?! Gerard is obviously not a vocalist, so he seemed to try to cover his voice up with a character voice: a voice of a disfigured man (with no vibrato). But I thought that the 'phantom has the voice of an angel, and only his face is disfigured'. Kinda funny.
#24

re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?

Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:40pm

i thought Hugh was AMAZING... i kept reading so much about him... i was so excited to finally see him in person... WELL worth it!


and birdboy, i remember those videos... they were quite scary... i think Gerard was A LOT better than Steve Harvey... no question about that :P!!
::bust a move::

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