Phantom or Les Miz?- Page 2

[kaboodles041]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 11:24pm

Phantom. Could you guess by my icon?

[mizzairee]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 11:29pm

I love them both... but I'd have to say Les Miz. I love listening to the French recording. =)

[Ryanindc]

Posted: 4/12/06 at 11:33pm

Les Miserables, no question. One of the best of all-time.

"Phantom" is all style, no substance. Something pretty for the non-English speaking tourists to look at.

[Ghosthost999]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 1:30am

Phantom by far. It's what got me into theater. Les Miz is just stuffy and dull. If the music were edible i'd imagine it tastes just like cardboard

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 1:55am

I love listening to the French recording. =)

Same here. Revival, not OFC.

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 2:39am

Les Miz, Les Miz, Les Miz, ALWAYS Les Miz!

[seasons of love]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 7:49am

Les Mis


(Dirty Rotten Scoundrel agrees!)

[aidaxx3]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 8:10am

i love both, but i find the phantom plot very boring

so id easily have to say les miz.

[knows_too_much]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 8:17am

Lizzie
You don't like the french concept album? I like the final show much better, but if I want to listen to the final show I listen to the CSR. If I'm listening to a french album I listen to the concept album. L'Air De La Misere and L'Un Vers L'Autre are my faforite parts of listening to the french album. They're like lost treasures from the Les Miz score.

[chino]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 10:59am

Do you hear the people sing? LES MIS ALL THE WAY!

[joshy]

Posted: 4/13/06 at 1:16pm

Definitely Les Mis!

[My Name in Lights]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:26pm

LES MISERABLES...now and forever (oh wait, that was CATS ,but seriously LES MISERABLES wins hands down, especially when they cut the 20 mins or so which I didn't miss. They even edited it well. The performances and the score bring goosebumps every time. Can't wait until this fall for its return.

Other than the Music of the Night, PHANTOM was tortuous to watch and the biggest disappointment I have ever endured at the theatre.

[MusicAndPassion]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:33pm

Les Miserables.

It was probably the best musical I've ever seen.

[Kicks8567]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 6:37pm

Les Miserables

[RaininSmilies]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:01pm

My friend and I were actually fighting about this yesterday. Crazy person thinks Phantom is better... Only because she hasn't seen Les Mis yet.

Les Miserables!

[softershade]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:06pm

les miserables. probably my all time favorite show.

[Renthead#1]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:11pm

Phantom because I love thrillers and stuff like that.

[Phantomerik15]

Posted: 4/14/06 at 10:46pm

Ok, this is hard because i love them both...BUT
before 2003 i would have said Les Mis, but now, Phantom...

[Caleb]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 3:19am

Phantom. In my opinion, Les Mis's score falls prey to the thing I don't like about Boubill/Schoenberg scores: every song tries to be the showstopping hit song. It makes for a show with absolutely no forward momentum, and for a multitude of songs that just never really take off: A Heart Full of Love, In My Life, A Little Fall of Rain, Empty Chairs At Empty Tables. Also, the recitative in Les Mis is more plodding, and the whole score has inferior orchestrations. Don't get me wrong, Les Mis has some great moments, but I think Phantom is a tighter, more cohesive dramatic work.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 3:51am

every song tries to be the showstopping hit song.

Funny, I always felt that way about Ragtime...

Oops, never mind, we weren't talking about that show.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 3:55am

We do know that Phantom has dialogue breaking up the songs...and Les Mis is all song through, right?

There's plenty of foward momentum, everyone is just waiting to hear the big songs, the miss the music leading up to them.

ON MY OWN doesn't come out of nowhere, there is a definite lead up to it, but people want to hear Eponine blast that song. I prefer when Eponine is more nuanced and lets a soft echo at the end do all the work.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 7:24pm

Les Mis WINS!!!

Phantom is boring inside out. although, i wish i had such drapes in my living room.

[Addicted to Broadway]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 7:38pm

I like both, but les miserables is depressing(or at least I think so...)and I'm not a Phantom Phan so... I dunno. I will just leave it at I like them both a lot.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 7:40pm

Les Mis

[2]

Posted: 4/15/06 at 8:44pm

I LOVE both and which one I love more depends on my mood. If I feel like something epic and classic, I choose Les Miz. If I feel like something epic and romantic, I go for Phantom.