Yup.Īnyway, the lavishly produced 25th anniversary concert staging at Royal Albert Hall recently aired on PBS, and I forced my partner to watch the thing with me. But I felt like doing so would somehow be lame, so I opted for Ghost: The Musical. It’s been 18 years since I’ve seen the show, and I was thisclose to catching it when I was in London in January. For their Phantoms, we had Colm Wilkinson (the *original* Jean ValJean) and Peter Karrie (who’s essentially Colm Wilkinson) twice. For Christine, I had Rebecca Caine, Melissa Dye and some other woman. I saw it three times in Toronto during my formative theatre queen years. Yes, the music is repetitive and the characters are pretty one-dimensional, but the whole package is delivered so well (thanks to director Hal Prince and designer Maria Bjornson), who cares.
It’s the longest running show on Broadway, has generated roughly 4,678,980 katillion dollars, and your beer guzzling brother-in-law can probably hum out a few bars of “Music of the Night.” Or not. Can you believe it? Phantom is a quarter of a century old.
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