HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
#0HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 10:54am
Was he not considered for the movie.......I think he would have been great.
How old is Hugh anyway....he looks young.
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#1re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:09pmHe's in his early forties and many other people agree with you that he should have done the movie...I certainly do
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#2re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:11pmHe looks so young! I can believe he's in his forties!
#3re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:22pmhe's a hottie
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
#4re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:24pmwho 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."
#5re: 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)
#6re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:25pm
ooh Phantom
but I love Gerard 
"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."
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#7re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:27pmSallyBrown, have you ever seen hugh???
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Updated On: 1/2/05 at 12:27 PM
#8re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:29pmI have!! I have!!
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
#9re: 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."
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:06pmYeah, 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.
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#11re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:13pm
"actually no I havent
so I should shut up I know"
No, you shouldn't. Say what you think.
MTRBOI24
Broadway Star Joined: 12/11/04
#12re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:28pm
They went with Gerard because Andrew wanted a rock sounding voice. It worked.
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magruder
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#13re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:31pmGerard is a young sexy presence, and his rock sound was kinda interesting, I think. But he suffers when he has to produce a more legit sound.
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
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#14re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:36pm
"actually no I havent
so I should shut up I know"
noo i didnt mean it like that
sorry i was just wondering
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magruder
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#15re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:54pm
What's not to like about this face?
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
Updated On: 1/2/05 at 01:54 PM
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#16re: 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??
#17re: 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!
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#18re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:10pmwill hugh still be there in april??i saw him last march, and really wanna see him again when i go to see it!
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#19re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:12pmAs 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!
#20re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 2:13pmJoel Shumacher was quite insistent on having a young cast from what I understand.
"...First let's make a pit stop at the weiner stand!"
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#21re: 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.
magruder
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#22re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:38pmAnd as far as the "youth" of the film's cast...Gerard Butler is 35 to Hugh Panaro's 40. Not such a big difference.
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#23re: 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!!
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#24re: HUGH PANARO...............WHY DID HE NOT DO THE PHANTOM MOVIE?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 4:42pm
Hugh is beautiful and amazing and...*loses train of thought at the rememberance of his PONR*
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