Once you download your personalized sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Interactive features include: playback, tempo control, transposition, melody instrument selection, adjustable note size, and full-screen viewing. Interactive Downloads are dynamic sheet music files that can be viewed and altered directly in My Digital Library from any device. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital (HX.175485). His replacement: his son-in-law, actor Aaron Galligan-Steirle.Easy piano - Interactive Download By Andrew Lloyd Webber. And surely enough, upon leaving, it was kept in the family. “It was a huge gift to me, and my family,” says Andrews. I filled up three rooms over my twenty three years on the show.”īy the time Andrews left the show, he was playing Monsieur Firmin, one of the theatre owners. “When people started leaving the show, I thought ‘we’re never going to see these people again’, so I started getting framed pictures of them and putting them on the walls below the stage. I thought the show was great, but I’d get a bit crazy each winter as the commute would get to me. Lucky he had such technique, because he went on to appear in The Phantom of the Opera over nine thousand times over a period of 23 years – making him the Guiness World Record holder for the actor to perform the most in any Broadway show. I learned the technique of walking out there and being alive for the first time,” he says from his home in New York, where theatres have been shut for the past fourteen months. It was a hit by the time the chandelier came crashing down at the end of Act 1. Broadway director Hal Prince led a team rounded out by legendary Royal Shakespeare Company designer Maria Bjornson, Cats choreographer Gillian Lynne, and comic actor Michael Crawford in a career changing role as the Phantom. There have been dozens of film, television, theatrical adaptations and book spin-offs including Brian De Palma’s 1974 rock musical Phantom of the Paradise, and Terry Pratchett’s Maskerade.īy 1985, Lloyd Webber was showcasing the first act at the annual music festival he holds at his home in Sydmonton, England.Ī year later, with a team of creatives at the peak of their powers, The Phantom of the Opera premiered on the West End. He then put himself in the long line of artists who’d used the book as a source material. He spent an afternoon reading it and was hooked. Six months later, Lloyd Webber came across Leroux’s novel in a second hand book shop in New York City. Josh Piterman (who will star as the Phantom in Opera Australia's 2021 season) and Kelly Mathieson in The Phantom of the Opera on the West End in 2019. Who’s to say whether this introduction wasn’t part of the novel's mystique, or a marketing ploy to bolster sales and titillate the press? In any case, the Phantom still has a box seat reserved expressly for him at the Opera Garnier, in Box 5, as per the original tale. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers… No, he existed in flesh and blood, though he assumed all the outward characteristics of a real phantom, that is to say, of a shade.” In an introduction he penned to the novelisation of the Le Fantôme de l’Opéra, Leroux claims (a claim he apparently stood by on his deathbed): He first became fascinated by the story of the ‘opera ghost’ after hearing the tale of a chandelier falling on an audience when the Paris Opera first opened. He filed stories from Russia, Africa and across Asia, but it was his own backyard that inspired him most. Leroux himself had a life worthy of a novel: a shipping heir, he blew through his inheritance and became an intrepid journalist. It’s difficult to know how entirely a product of Gaston Leroux’s imagination Le Fantôme de l’Opéra is.
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