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Статья про Лас-Вегасскую постановку.

  As construction of a new theatre continues at The Venetian, the Las Vegas
resort, details about the upcoming resident production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's
The Phantom of the Opera in the Nevada desert are coming to light.
  The new 90-minute Las Vegas staging directed by Harold Prince and utilizing
the vision of the show's original London and Broadway production designer Maria
Bj-rnson will have its first preview June 4 at The Venetian. A gala opening
performance is planned for June 24, a spokesperson told Playbill.com.
  The production will play in a new 1,800-seat venue being tailor-built - at a
cost of $40 million - for the musical. Designed by David Rockwell of the
Rockwell Group, the theatre will allow for special effects and interaction like
never before, creating an environmental theatrical experience not seen in other
productions of the international smash, Lloyd Webber told Playbill.com.
(The Las Vegas production itself will cost $35 million on top of the venue
construction cost, a spokesperson told Playbill.com.)
  As previously reported, the interior will look like a 19th-century opera
house. The musical is set in and around the Paris Opera House in the late
19th-century.
  The Rockwell Group includes among its recent projects the Kodak Theatre in
Los Angeles, the W New York and W Union Square Hotels in New York, and the
Motown Center in Detroit. Rockwell's theatrical design credits on Broadway include
The Rocky Horror Show, Hairspray, All Shook Up and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
  The Las Vegas Phantom will feature a full orchestra of live musicians.
  The production will be produced by the Really Useful Group Ltd. (Andrew Lloyd
Webber's company) and Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Entertainment).
Really Useful refers to the Vegas production as "a permanent theatrical
installation."
  "We're looking forward to a high old time adapting Phantom to a brand new
theatre, with the capability for some additional surprises," director Prince said
in 2004, when the project was first announced. "OWe hope [the production]
will keep us at The Venetian for decades!"
  A cast of 46 will be employed. The roles of the Phantom and Christine will be
double cast along with a couple parts. There will be 10 shows a week (typical
of Vegas, but not of Broadway).
  Group sales reservations are currently being accepted at (866) 633-0195 or
via email groups@livenation.com.
  Single tickets (ranging $75-$150 each) will go on sale to the general public
in the coming months. Casting and an on-sale date will be announced in
February.
  Actress Rebecca Spencer announced that she will play Madame Giry in the
production. Spencer previously played Carlotta 15 years ago in the Hamburg, Germany production of the international hit musical.
  "It's looking very exciting to me," Lloyd Webber previously told
Playbill.com. "It's going to be its own show, but it's very true to the spirit of the
Maria Bj-rnson [scenic and costume] design. Hal's directing it, so it's not going
to be allowed to become just a 'Vegas show.' But obviously we'll be able to do
certain things that perhaps we couldn't really afford to do in London or
Broadway."
  The special effects will be more spectacular than before, the team promises,
with an enhanced and more intense scene involving the show's crashing
chandelier.
  "Phantom is not the great technological show that everybody thinks it is,"
Lloyd Webber said. "It has, in actual fact, some great Victorian tricks and
that's about it. In Vegas, for example you'll come into an opera house that is, of
course, built [for the production]. It's a bit more like the film to that
degree, where we built our opera house. There was no opera house in the Venetian. Because we've been able to do it from the word go, we've gotOvarious things that you couldn't possibly do unless you had built it purely for the staging of
the Phantom musical. I don't want to give away the tricks."
  On Broadway, the show runs 2 hours and 30 minutes or so. Was cutting the show
to 90 minutes painful for the composer?
  "No, not really, because quite a lot of them had already been done for the
film," he said. "There are certain things that work well in the theatre that
don't necessarily work in the cinema, and in the course of finding what those
were, and what ended up not in the film, I was very much able to suggest [changes for the Vegas run] to them: 'Look, if you take this scene out here, which we did in the film, it's not going to affect everything terribly badly.'"
  There's quite a lot in the film that is different from the stage show, the
composer said.
  "For example," Lloyd Webber said, "in the film you don't get the second
manager's scene, which happens in the second act [and includes 'Notes'/'Twisted
Every Way']. It's reduced down: Lines from it that are important have been taken
but they've been put into other scenes. We've taken quite a lot of those
things that we've done in the film [and incorporated them for the Vegas version]."

РРР-ГРРРР... :wow:

А вот талантливая аннотация этого показа в "Телесемь" (такая желтоватая питерская телегазетенка).

Музыкальная драма. Реж. Джоэль Шумахер. В ролях: Жерар Батлер, Миранда Ричардсон. США - Великобритания, 2004 г.
Преступник, живущий в здании оперного театра, убивает всех, кто стоит на пути понравившейся ему молодой певицы.

Вискун де Шанги отдыхает...

А что так мало вырезают?! Подумаешь, 90 минут вместо 2 часов 30 минут! Следующим этапом будет такая версия: POTO, MOTN, PONR. Как у Брауна в "Коде Да Винчи"--из всего Лувра--Мона Лиза, Ника и еще что-то, как раз за 5 минут. <_<  <_<  <_<

На оф. сайте "Лестата" написано, что Панаро в данный момент работает над первым сольным диском.

Не указано. А жаль.

*догоняет и с силой тащит к теливизору*

Пошел, пошел Призрак по 5-му каналу!
Облом, перевод лицензионный

Нет, не написано. На его оф. сайте предлагают следить за обновлениями. Думаю, что это будет нечто лирическое с вкраплениями Бродвея