Phantom Of The Opera Essay

The longest running show on Broadway. The Phantom of the Opera was written in 1909-1910 but didn’t become a musical until 1986. Based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux. Andrew Webber and Charles Hart both wrote the musical together based off that book, back in 1986. Was first played on West End, in London. Then, played on Broadway in 1988 at the Majestic Theatre. Celebrated the 10,000th Broadway performance on February 11th, 2012. Worldwide gross of $5.6 billion and Broadway gross of $845 million. Has been played in 27 different

Webber uses masks in many different ways in the play, The Phantom of the Opera. One of the ways that he uses them is with the characters. Every character in the play wears some kind of mask. Whether it’s just stage makeup, a wig, beard, or a moustache, they all

In 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber, transformed the original The Phantom of the Opera novel (written in 1911 by Gaston Leroux) into a dialogic, emotional masterpiece. The prologue starts at the end of the story, in an auction in the Paris Opera House, in 1905. Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny is buying a papier-mâché music box,

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as in many of Shakespeare's plays the main theme is love. Shakespeare presents many different aspects of love in the play. He shows how love can affect your vision of reality and make you behave in irrational ways. He presents many ways in which your behavior is affected by the different types and aspects of love. The main types of love he presents are; true love, unrequited love, sisterly love, jealous love, forced love, and parental love. Shakespeare tries to show what kinds of trouble, problems and confusion, love can get you into.

To start off, The Phantom of the Opera, musically composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, arrived in Broadway in 1988 and preformed on the stage of the Majestic Theatre. The Phantom of the Opera tells a the story of young Christine Daae who takes center stage as leading soprano. The opera's supposed phantom cuts the rope, which connects the stage lights, causing the old lead singer to quit after nearly being killed by falling lights. Christine claims to have had lessons from an angle of music that her late father had promised. Unknown, the angle is the supposed phantom. The phantom is just a man named Erik who

     In the novel, Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux, we are introduced to a character

And while his death does not happen during the time of the musical it still affects her in every single way. With the death of her father came the death of the only life she knew. But, like most deaths written about in this time, his was beautiful. On his deathbed he described an angel of music that would come and guide Christine in everything she did. His death again served a purpose. Firstly it brought Christine to the Phantom witched sparked the whole ordeal the musical is based off of. It also made Christine cherish her father’s memory and everything he ever said to her. This includes his talk of the angel of music. The way he died fit in with everything the musical represents. The beauty behind the mask. While his death was very beautiful and peaceful, it still is death in the end. A young girl lost her father to a horrible disease. It shaped her whole life and in fact changed its very

In the play Othello, jealousy is shown to be very evident through the actions of the characters. Jealousy is an emotion that everyone shares, and it is ultimately responsible for the tragic ending of the play. Everyone feels jealous at certain times of their lives, and this feeling can cause people to do irrational things. This human emotion also shows people to be weak in the sense that they are never happy with what they have. Shakespeare shows through Othello, Iago, Roderigo, and Brabantio that jealousy is the most corrupt and destructive emotion.

James Barbour is currently playing the role of the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera which is performed at Majestic Theatre in New York City. He has countless accomplishments including performing in eight Broadway shows and twelve films as well as winning three of the six awards he has been nominated for (Wikipedia Contributors). Although James Barbour sounds perfect on paper, he has a dark past.

Five Works Cited    William Shakespeare’s tragic drama Othello presents to the audience a very abnormal character in the person of Iago. Also can one classify the epileptic seizure of Othello as normal? Let us in this essay consider the abnormal in the play.

The Phantom of the Opera started out as a book written by Gaston Leroux, published January 8th in 1910 (Haining, 1). There have been several adaptations since then, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical. The other adaptations were Das Phantom der Opera, which is also known as Das Gespent im Opernhaus produced during 1916 in Germany as a silent drama film, this is known as a lost film due to no known copies existing at this time. A silent drama horror was produced on November 15th, 1925, a drama thriller was produced during August 27th in 1943, a horror film was produced June 25th during 1962, and an indie thriller, called Phantom of the Paradise was adapted from Phantom of the Opera and then produced in October 31st of 1974.

The Phantom was a first class creep and murderer. However, that may have been different if society didn’t judge a book by it’s cover. All throughout his life, The Phantom was scared of being judged due to his face. His deformity lead to his mom giving him a mask to hide his face. He was in a freak show where they called him the “Devil’s Child” and tortured him. All of this lead to the murdering of innocent lives and an obsession of a 16 year old girl named Christine.

Have you ever heard of “The Phantom of the Opera”? The story is about a “ghost” that lives in a opera house, he falls in love with this girl Kristine but she isn't interested. In a dramatic musical Kristine has to make a choice that will change her life forever. The play takes place in the mid 1800s in France and is a dramatic musical that is realistic friction. The main character is Kristine and some other important characters are Raoul and the Phantom. In this essay certain set designs will be explained, like how they were used, why they are useful, and where in the play that they are visibly seen.

Critics have debated the significance of Othello’s race in terms of portraying his identity for a long time. The negative connotations of “blackness” have led to the creation of many racial constructs associated with the “Moor”; this denigration has infused the opinions of many critics, such as Albert Gerard, proposing that Othello’s “negroid physiognomy” reaches down to the “deepest levels of personality” and that he is a “barbarian”. However, many other critics like Edward Berry and Martin Orkin believe that colour is merely a “surface indicator” compared to the outward virtue of beneficence, defining identity. Beneficence could be defined by the will to practice good acts, in conjunction with the aversion of practicing evil, and the prevention and removal of evil.

The techniques of melodrama, meaning “music drama”, began to develop at the start of the 18th century where spoken dialogue was combined with short musical accompaniment, resulting in a happy ending for the hero and heroine. These plays were thematically inspired by Manichaeism, a philosophical idea taken from 3rd century prophet Mani, depicting “a simplified moral universe” (Trumbull, 2004, para. 2) where the forces of good and evil were embodied by the characters. In Melodrama, antagonists were irredeemably evil while protagonists were faultlessly good, there was no nuance. Actors played two-dimensional caricatures, with specific gestures and ways of moving to indicate exactly how the character was feeling. For example, Special effects such as explosions, fires and earthquakes were also common. Early horror films encapsulate the style perfectly, and they were so popular that there is an abundance of evidence surviving to this day. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) was directed Rupert Julian and took inspiration from the same novel as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical of the same name. Fifty minutes into the film, Christine reveals the Phantom’s true face in a sequence of wide open eyes/mouth, stumbling backwards, clutching her chest and collapsing to the floor to signify her utter horror at the sight followed by pleading