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."
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
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.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Why put out a statement saying you 'want' someone?
If that person doesn't want the role, then they just look silly.
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-whatever2
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.
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?
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.)
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
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.
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'.