Phantom at LC Archive

[Kip4]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 2:36pm

Has anyone managed to view the archive video of Phantom of the Opera at the LC Archives? Would love to hear reports on it. Is it as cool as I imagine it? 

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 10/10/23 at 6:22pm

I haven't seen it yet, but I would expect it is very much like the couple other videos that have escaped throughout the years. It will have been recorded on video tape with three or fewer stationary cameras. It will be archival quality, but you'll get to experience the original cast, and it will still be be a cool and a worthwhile experience. 

[Kip4]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 8:35am

Yeah, I know what the quality would be. I'm more interested if anyone has seen it and have impressions of the show and performances, like acting choices, pacing, interesting observations. Would indeed be a cool experience! 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 8:42am

Do we know when it was filmed? 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 9:22am

Scarywarhol said: "Do we know when it was filmed?"

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Majestic Theatre, New York, N.Y.: Wednesday May 25, 1988 (both 2pm & 8pm and edited together as 1 performance). 

CAST: 

Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, Steve Barton, Judy Kaye, Cris Groenendaal, Nicholas Wyman, Leila Martin, David Romano, Elisa Heinsohn, Peter Kevoian, Richard Warren Pugh, Jeff Keller, Kenneth Waller, Philip Steele, George Lee Andrews, Luis Perez, Barry McNabb, Charles Rule, Olga Talyn, William Scott Brown, Candace Rogers-Adler, Mary Leigh Stahl, Rebecca Luker, Beth McVey, Jan Horvath, Irene Cho, Nicole Fosse, Lisa Lockwood, Lori MacPherson, Dodie Petit, Catherine Ulissey, Denny Berry, Frank Mastrone, Alba Quezada.

 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 10/11/23 at 11:19am

Thank you, wasn't sure if they'd gotten it with the original cast. What a treasure.