Thursday, April 05, 2007 ;
12:04:00 AM
i have finally watched my long-awaited Phantom Of the Opera today! ahhhhhh. it was beautiful.. the singing.. the props.. its a play i'd never forget.
its kinda ironic how so much has changed, and its all about goodbyes and you were just there too. oh well. thankfully it wasnt as difficult as i thought.
i'm listening to 'all i ask of you' now.. and the last part of the phantom's few words are left haunting me. his situation simply breaks me. i teared at the last part too ha.. what can i say? i'm a softie. waha..
some cool facts about the backstage efforts put into each play:
The dazzling replica of the Paris Opera House chandelier is made up of 6,000 beads consisting of 35 beads to each string. It is 3 metres wide and weighs one ton. The touring version falls at 2.5 metres per second. The original version was built by 5 people in 4 weeks.
The Phantom's make-up takes 2 hours to put on and 30 minutes to take off. The face is moisturized, closely shaved and the prosthetics are fitted, setting immediately, before 2 wigs, 2 radio mics and 2 contact lenses (one white and one clouded) are placed.
2,230 metres of fabric are used for the drapes, 900 of them specially dyed. The tasselled fringes measure 226 metres. They are made up of 250 kilos of dyed wool interwoven with 5,000 wooden beads imported from India. Each one is handmade and combed through with an Afro comb.
There are 130 cast, crew and orchestra members directly involved in each performance.
Each performance has 230 costumes, 14 dressers, 120 automated cues, 22 scene changes, 281 candles and uses 250 kg of dry ice and 10 fog and smoke machines.
The touring production takes 27 articulated lorries to transfer the set between theatres.
every day is a new day ♥
