Phantom of The Opera

My friend told me : you must go to see theater when you are in London. My colleagues told me : you must go to see theater when you are in London. I just -.-"

Well, the ticket is expensive and i can't imagine i sit there for few hours listening to those opera type of singing. Even the Cantonese opera i cant understand what are they singing, some more this is Angmo opera??? So my response was like , err....see how la.

But they kept on pursuing me to go, so i just die die la, bought the cheapest ticket for Phantom of the Opera (well i only know this show). It cost me GBP30 to get a"hilltop" seat. Mean the most far and highest seat in the theater.
We spend sometime in finding this theater "Her Majestic Theater" which very closed to Trafalgar Square. Only now i knew that 1 theater house show the same theater everyday. Phantom was one of the evergreen theater in the history, had shown for more than 20 years! And always fully booked!
Opposite this theater house, there was another one. In fact most theater house were located at this area.
Before we went in, i just felt so nervous. Cannot imagine i will go to this kind of show with the most expensive ticket i had ever purchased in my life time.
I collected the ticket from box office.
When i went in to the theater, Oh my god, our seats were so far from the stage! Shit! What if later i can't see the performance? Both of us just sat there with thousand questions in our mind. We had been walking for whole day long, never slept well on the night before and now the seat were so far and high! I told allysa, if the show not nice, sure we will fall asleep and wasted all our money.
Dang Dang dang...the show started on time. We are not allow to take photo during the performance. After 2 minutes of the show start, i was totally immersed into the story. I forgot all my tiredness, sleepiness, i can't even felt our seat was far. My Goodness, the performance was completely out of my expectation! How can a stage performance been shown like a movie by changing each scene so smoothly? The special effect can beat those computer animated effect!

For example the phantom appear in the mirror, the phantom bring Christine to his lair by sailing a boat at the river...can you imagine it look like a real river on stage?

And the song they sang, although i might not understand all, but their vocal were excellent, the melody, the lyric....everything was so perfect! Among all song, i love "the music of the night" the most! So romantic...I really admired Andrew who can composed the melody and lyric such as "Open up your mind, let your fantasy unwind...Healing is believing, music is deceiving, hard as lightning soft as candle light..."

For the first time, beside from mandarin, i realized English also had its beauty.

Not to forget the original actress as well, Sarah Brightman who had amazing voice. She is the one who sang "You and Me" in Olympic. Guess she must been at least 50 years old but yet look like 30+.

You can hired binocular if you wish to see clearer. However i don't think i need it although i am sitting at "hilltop" seat. :)

I enjoy the show very much but meanwhile felt so regret that we left half way without knowing it was just a break time. :( As a conclusion, i didn't finished the show! CAN YOU IMAGINE I DIDN'T FINISH THE SHOW?!WTF?!!!

Feel heart so pain after back from London...My friend say: never mind la, only with this regret will make you to go back to London once more time. My answer was always like : definitely i will be back. And when i back, i will buy a good seat although it was more expensive. It really worth it! Quote from my friend : 为艺术牺牲。 How can i like a katak under tempurung? This Phantom had been shown in Singapore before, i didn't even knew it. Also the Puteri Gunung Ledang musical, i miss it as well.

On 12/3/2010, i managed to go KLCC MPO to watch my first orchestra performance. The vocalist - Stephen Rahman sang all famous theater songs. Ie. Les Miserable, West Side Story, Cat, Lion King, Evita...And of course, Phantom of the Opera - The Music of the Night! Wow...i clap non stop. The audience encore and encore.

I love Theater, I love Phantom, I love Andrew Webber, I love Orchestra! And it make me starting to love London. :)