I found this blogger's review of phantom:
http://myrealworld.blog.com/2630010/ (Warning: this link may cause fits of histaria, random object throwing, and, in extreme cases, suicide among phans. Read at your own risk.)
This annoys me so much! I left a comment telling him that phantom is the longest running musical on broadway, he saw one of the best casts ever, imo, and if he had no idea that phantom was a musical he has no right to be criticizeing musical theatre.
I also gave him a breakdown of this quote:
[quote]No breasts. One corpse. No car chases. Gratuitous French accents. One fight that looked a lot like two 6-year-old girls fighting over a pink hair ribbon. No blood. Cat strangling (while I didn’t see a cat that’s what most of the singing sounded like). Overall I give it 1/2 a star because they served beer at half time.[/quote]
"No breasts."
If you payed attention to the sets, you'd see breasts on the candelabras, and the proscenium angel statue (look in your dictionary).
"One corpse."
Two (Piangi and Buquet) or three if you count Carlotta's bloody head.
"No car chases."
Show me one stage musical with a car chase (or show how it is possible on stage), and I'll eat my ass. Same conditions if you can prove to me that there was a car chase in 1870's Paris.
"Gratuitous French accents."
Actually, for some odd reason, there were a lot of those in 1870's Paris. I wonder why?
"One fight that looked a lot like two 6-year-old girls fighting over a pink hair ribbon."
They are actors, not wrestlers.
"No blood."
Except the bloody head, and Piangi. If it is really a big deal to you, I bet they would use more blood, if you wiped it off the stage after the show.
"Cat strangling (while I didn’t see a cat that’s what most of the singing sounded like)."
That's an opinion, not a fact. And a bad opinion at that.