Webber Wants Sarah Brightman for Upcoming Phantom Follow-Up

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:53pm

According to a BBC article, Andrew Lloyd Webber is interested in Sarah Brightman's possibly reprising her role as Christine in his previously announced follow-up to The Phantom of the Opera.

The new Phantom musical (which Webber says he is 99.9% sure will be his next project) will follow ideas developed with Frederick Forsyth, who released a follow-up to the show in novel form with The Phantom of Manhattan in 1999. However, Webber says that the new musical will be "stand-alone" and not a sequel. "It's got to be the story 10 years on and it has got to be completely its own piece so that if you went to see it, and if you have never seen The Phantom of the Opera, you would follow it and get it."

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=18709

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:56pm

I wonder if she would do it, I kind of think she would.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:58pm

I don't know if she is going to take a break from her successful recording career to do theatre, but I certainly hope she does.

[Mr. Tuttle]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:58pm

Wow. Now there's a great idea. She would just sell millions of tickets

Not.

[dfwtheatreguy]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:59pm

Would they try and get Crawford back for the Phantom? They can't get Steve Barton back for Raoul...he's dead.

[dfwtheatreguy]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:59pm

oops double post

Updated On: 5/26/07 at 04:59 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 4:59pm

Why put out a statement saying you 'want' someone?

If that person doesn't want the role, then they just look silly.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 5:15pm

Does he want her just because she is the original Christine?

or

Does he want her because of the person she has become now?

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:05pm

Am I the only one who doesn't like Sarah Brightman? I may be attacked for this...

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:22pm

I may have said this before, but I think this confirms it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is out of his f*cking mind. He really thinks he can get Sarah Brightman for this ridiculous ego trip?

[chino]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:30pm

Yikes. even though she still has the voice, I think she's too old for the role. But then again, yes, she'll sell tickets.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:31pm

Wow, I thought there was nothing about this project that could make me care less. But that shrill, sharp, buck toothed bat singing the lead again will make me want to stay away even more.

[Miss.Vanessi]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:31pm

Am I the only one who doesn't like Sarah Brightman? I may be attacked for this...

You are not alone. Personally, I can't stand her. Her arias make me want to shove sharpened pencils into my eardrums.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:32pm

"Person she's become"? Who has she become? A mildly successful pop/cross over star largely because of Phantom?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:37pm

I know I am not alone in this. I have asked people and most agree, if not before I say, than after they hear it and think. Doesn't Sarah Brightman, particularly in the white dress from Phantom of the Opera, look like Tim Burton's Corpse Bride?

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:39pm

Oh Jesus. He's really fo' serious writing this show, isn't he? Que idiota.

Oddly enough, though I'm not a really Sarah Brightman fan I think she sings Christine beautifully (you should if a part is written for you) and she could actually get me to sit through something like this. But that's assuming this self-indulgent adventure in awfulness is happening. And right now I'm preferring to believe it isn't. (And I'm a Webber fan.)

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:47pm

Sarah Brightman annoys me to no end.

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:52pm

She wasn't great then and she won't be great now. She's a terrible actress, and although her voice is technically good, it annoys me greatly. Plus, isn't she like 45 years old now? The story may take place 10 years later, but she's still way to old for the part, and I agree, she does look like a corpse.

[jg4892]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:56pm

So now Christine will permantly be played by 40 year old women in this production? So much for ingenue...

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 6:59pm

...and that would be different from most current Phantom casting HOW?

It's great when they have an actress under 35.. just rare. Very very rare

[jv92]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 8:04pm

Oh dear. Must we hear that voice again? Once was enough.

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 8:16pm

Yeah, I never understood why most of the actresses who play Christine are actually closer in age to Mme. Giry. Seriously, there are plenty of talented sopranos under 30 that could play Christine, they just haven't been found yet, it seems they like sticking to the same crew of Christine actresses because they're too lazy to find newer, younger, better Christines'.

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 9:56pm

Ick.

[jg4892]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 9:59pm

Well will they be casting 65 year old women then?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/26/07 at 10:02pm

They are - Brightman.