Pages Tagged “Phantom of the Opera”
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- iPod on Random
Caught “Weird Al” Yankovic’s song, “She Drives Like Crazy” — appropriately enough, while on the freeway. I never used to understand why he did the funny voices in the song, until I remembered the Muppets music video of the original song (“She Drives Me Crazy”), with Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog…and suddenly the voices […]
- Frozen Shows
Most of the time when someone puts on a play that’s been done before, they take the script and do their own thing with the sets, costumes, and performances. But when a big show goes on tour, audiences expect the same experience they’d get on Broadway or in the West End.
- Phantoms and Rock(y Horror) Operas
Watched Phantom of the Paradise this weekend. It’s a bizarre 1974 mash-up between The Phantom of the Opera and Faust set in a satire of the 1970s music industry. The movie casts Paul Williams (who wrote all the music for the film) as a reclusive recording mogul, Swan, who steals a struggling songwriter’s pop cantata […]