It's a new version of The Phantom of the Opera at the Fabulous Fox

[@alainaj7344]

I saw this, I was in row F so when the chandelier dropped I screamed, I was so scared 😂

[@PhilandSofia]

Can we get Las Vegas spectacular back? 😭

[@nickel-brothers]

YESSSSSSS

[@tearoses9940]

What’s actually different in this? They said they had new changes because of the technology, but what are those changes exactly?

[@peterporkeristhespiderham988]

TeaRoses The boat road when they’re entering the phantom’s liar is a lot shorter. Masquerade doesn’t have the staircase. The Chandelier doesn’t crash onto the stage, and instead goes straight down over the audience’s head. The chandelier also shoots out little pieces of plastic that the audience can grab. The sets are also less 3-dimensional and are mainly sheets of cloth with minor objects in the foreground. The blocking has been changed (and is arguably worse). The costumes are different (despite what they said). The pyrotechnics have been upgraded. There are a TON of d differences. Some are improvements, but many arent

[@tearoses9940]

Peter Porker is the Spider Ham Thanks! I only just started getting interested in this show recently, so I was curious. Usually when I get invested in a musical, especially older ones, I tend to do some dramaturgy on it because I find it interesting.

[@KrystalHarwood-ty7rk]

@@peterporkeristhespiderham988 and no ''famous''mirror bride!

[@maarinabudd]

Nah sorry but the original sets and production are the BEST

[@johncoyle8551]

I think the only way to improve on the original production would be to add the updated pyrotechnics from this show to the original, not just the chandelier but also in the graveyard scene where the phantom "throws" fireballs at Raoul.

[@JeddtheJedi]

Masquerade without the stairs is unfathomable.

[@Dwimora-0]

Jedd the Jedi I agree 100 million times

[@agcaoiliproductions9580]

@@johncoyle8551 I got tell yah, when I saw that graveyard scene and how “intimidating” the Phantom was... I may have laughed a little.

[@johncoyle8551]

@@agcaoiliproductions9580 I was referring specifically to the pyro itself, not the acting or direction, just strictly the fire effects itself. Obviously, that improvement is purely due to technology advancing. No way theater pyro technology wouldn't improve between the late 80s and the 2010s. The extent of the pyro in the graveyard scene in the original was some sparks from the Phantom's staff and the beams of fire to end the scene. The sparks were updated to be more come off as legit fire, and the ending was kept. The things that were simply updated rather than changed, like the pyrotechnics, are the few things that the touring version has better than the Broadway/West End version. There wasn't much that was just updated, but the pyro was one of them.

[@iancastillo6202]

Is this the Tour version?

[@fatak5106]

Kill me but I love the new set and props

[@lukeworsham1757]

I hated this production. Long live Hal Prince’s brilliant, spellbinding original.

[@davidcattin7006]

I don't go to live theater to have a "movie" experience. Did not like the new version. Maybe because I had seen the original five times! Some things you just don't mess with.

[@davidlabelle361]

Such a drag that they’ve engaged in this abomination. Cameron MacIntosh, a special place in hell exists for those that tamper with such a classic formula.

[@lamisere8337]

And in that special place in hell will be the Thenardiers. They will greet Cammack at hell's gates, force him into a filthy dress and hand him a broom, and cast him away into a filthy inn, where he will spend his days sweeping and mopping the floors and getting screamed at by Mme. Thenardier and sent off into the woods for buckets of water, looking miserable and forlorn for what he did to us Les Mis fans! LOL. XD

[@shawnritz]

The random racist guy in the comment section to be sending death threats tho 😳

You need to learn what racist and death threat actual means you stupid bitch

How the hell can Carlotta be black? There is a place in hell reserved for those who mess with a good thing amd changing this show from the original makes me sick enough but to screw with the historical accuracy of a time period is just as bad.

[@edwardn3417]

Uh I’m pretty sure getting the historical accuracy of this show could be overlooked by 1% for the sake of inclusivity and equality 🙃

[@cheriebomb158]

Gus W You’re concerned that Carlotta is black rather than the change of the costumes and sets? I smell racism....

[@emmab5370]

@ What you're saying is not historically accurate at all. There absolutely were black opera singers, all throughout the history of opera. (www.theroot.com/a-brief-history-of-blacks-in-opera-1790864051) And the artistic class in France of the 19th and early 20th century in general was not so monochromatic either. (Think of Alexander Dumas, one of the greatest and most beloved French writers of all time.) Even if it were true that there were not black opera singers, however, is it really harder to suspend your disbelief about a black actor playing a role than it is to believe in a magical phantom character who throws fireballs and lives in a secret (also non-existant) lake beneath the Paris Opera House? It's fiction. It's art. None of the actors playing their roles are actually the characters they play. They are pretending - let's not let racist and untrue beliefs about what the past looked like bar an entire pool of excellent candidates from getting the roles they auditioned for and earned.

[@shawnritz]

If the race isn’t mentioned in the show the race doesn’t matter

[@shawnritz]

Gus W Wanting to not judge someone off the color of their skin isn’t some fairy tale communism it’s called not being an asshole. The fact that you resulted to threaten me, a 15 year old, with gory violence just proves to me that you’re nothing but an good-for-nothing racist prick. You can cry about equality all you like but it won’t change the fact of how talentless you are Would you say you dislike the character just because they’re black? Because that’s literally racist doesn’t matter if it’s accurate or not what you said was racist and you are racist