Spectacular!Spectacular! - Vegas Phantom (spoilers) — Page 2

I should have seen this when I was in Las Vegas. The dummies on the proscenium were all covered with a black drape..is that right? then after the chandelier was lifted in the PROLOGUE part - they removed the black drape to reveal this :



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Updated On: 2/12/08 at 02:21 PM

Yeah, if only they could retrofit the Vegas staging into the Broadway/Touring versions. It's hands down a better show, even with the cuts. I'm very glad they decided to re-look at the show when opening it in Vegas, as it's so much more fresh!

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Thank goodness they are two separate shows. Once again, the Broadway Phantom should not be touched. Regardless of whether the technology is better, it still works and its still charming. Alot of the charm is the 80's look of the show---everything old is new again.

I did not mean to disparage Vegas audiences. What I meant when I said that Vegas audiences are more "duh" is that when you go to Vegas, you go there to have a wild good time with all the gambling and partying, etc. You don't go there to sit through 3 hours of August:Osage County or even 2 and a half hours of Phantom. It makes perfect sense to create a new version of Phantom for Vegas. But JUST for Vegas.

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Most shows but not all are trimmed down to around 90mins for Vegas presentation. Works for some but all of them.

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There was a malfunction tonight. Chandelier went up....but never came back down, or rather, it never fell.

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