Phantom of the Opera Will Be Longest Running Musical in China

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/87995.html

And at ONLY 97 performances...

I wonder if it will be translated into Chinese, that would be funny.

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Updated On: 8/23/04 at 01:06 AM

"I wonder if it will be translated into Chinese, that would be funny."

I certainly hope you weren't one of those lame-o morons in elementary school who would make "ching chong" noises to the Asian kids because the language amused you.

millie, I know some songs of les miserables in spanish...
can you figure which one is this?

"Soñé con ser otra mujer
En la esperanza de otra vida
Como en un nuevo amanecer
Soñé que Dios perdonaría
Cuando era joven, no vi el mal
Sueños de amores van y vienen"

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Great!
that was I dreamed a dream

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"millie, I know some songs of les miserables in spanish... "

Those are the Madrid lyrics, right? Do you know the Mexico City ones? I heard they retranslated it because the Madrid one was so bad.

As for translations...I think I heard somewhere that it will be in English. But it would be cool to have it translated into Chinese. That means another international recording for me to own! Besides, POTO has already been translated in Japanese and Korean, so it wouldn't be too difficult to do it in Chinese. Surprisingly, POTO sounds really good in any language. :)

~Rosalynn

"Plus I have all the lyrics memorized in English, so I know exactly what they're saying"

It's not always exact.

I have Phantom in German and Dutch, and at the end of the title song, he certainly is not saying, "Sing, my angel of music!"

He's saying, "Sing, my angel, my muse!"

Close enough, but not exact.

Updated On: 8/23/04 at 03:04 AM

I don't speak any Japanese but based on the parts of the Japanese Red Recording that my friend translated for me, it's an exceptionally rough translation. I can't give any examples but I remember a lot of the song content being replaced by odd metaphors and symbolism that must be a cultural thing. Also Valjean's number is not 24601 in Japanese, it's 24653. My best guess as to why is that the word for the number 3 rhymes with the word "Valjean". Anyone know?

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three in Japanese = san, which rhymes with Valjean....

Back into English (from Spanish), On My Own translates:

Again alone by the street I go wandering without a course
Without seeing neither a known face, neither a house, neither a friend
Arrived the darkness, I believe that he is here at times
I walk alone in the night while all sleep
Thinking in it happy I feel in it me full the thought
Rests the city, and I begin to live

Alone I, I intend that I carry it in me
AND withhe road to the dawn
Still without him its arms surround me
If I feel that I lose me he shows me the road Al to rain, the streets are silver AND the light is mist on the
river
In the night the moon illuminates
Your face with mine to be you united always
But I know that is my imagination
That with me am speaking and not with him AND although I know that neverit will love me even so him I will not forget I want Him, and al to finish the night
He goes, and the river is only a river
Without him, my world is as always
The trees without leaves and I alone among the people want Him, but I know that each day
My life is illusion loss
Without me, he will continue his life
With the happiness that I dreamed to live with him
I want Him, him I want,
I love him, but in my solitude

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It will also become the longest running show on Broadway. :)

It amuses me to no end that my parents watched Les Miserables in Hebrew.