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 Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:39 pm
Okay, so my friend, Kathleen, decided that she was going to get me hooked on the music to Wicked. And then I started reading the book and I found that there is a lot of similiarities between Phantom and Wicked.
One being that both characters (Erik and Elphaba, ooo, another similairity, both have the same starting letter in their names!) were born abnormal. Both characters have intelligence that no one else could posses. Then they both have talents that in the end, turn them evil.
In your other favorite musicals, have you found similiarities between it and Phantom?
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:43 am
I agree!
Although I heart both characters.
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Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:25 pm
There are a lot of similarities in Broadway productions. 3nodding
The Wicked on I think was pretty awesome, though. xD It was like; BAM.
V for Vendetta (a movie, though) was also kinda similar. O:
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:12 pm
Capricorn Sunchai There are a lot of similarities in Broadway productions. 3nodding The Wicked on I think was pretty awesome, though. xD It was like; BAM. V for Vendetta (a movie, though) was also kinda similar. O: Just looking at a picture of the dude from V for Vendetta is a similarity!
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:46 pm
Capricorn Sunchai There are a lot of similarities in Broadway productions. 3nodding The Wicked on I think was pretty awesome, though. xD It was like; BAM. V for Vendetta (a movie, though) was also kinda similar. O:
A lot of movies are like PoTO, but Vendetta was actually based on an American comic.
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Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:45 pm
South Pacific. Introducing; Young Clueless Girl and Older Mysterious Man.
YCG: HIYA.
OMM: Wanna hook up?
YCG: Well, I don't see why no-, oh, wait, I know nothing about you. gonk
OMM: Uh. I ran away from the place I used to live. And I'm a muderer! 3nodding
YCG: .... sad
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:24 pm
Pengy737 South Pacific. Introducing; Young Clueless Girl and Older Mysterious Man. YCG: HIYA. OMM: Wanna hook up? YCG: Well, I don't see why no-, oh, wait, I know nothing about you. gonk OMM: Uh. I ran away from the place I used to live. And I'm a muderer! 3nodding YCG: .... sad Yep, that sounds very Phantom-ish! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:30 am
I was in New York. Saw Wicked as a part of the trip (it was with a group). I had already owned the soundtrack. Loved it. Now I'm in love with Wicked. It is an amazing musical.
The next day I saw Phantom on Broadway. What sucked was that, though we were in The Magestic theatre, our seats were rather far away. Boo. And the chandelier crash was rather...disappointing. But still. It was great.
I see your point. Well, what about Beauty and the Beast and Phantom? One's a beast, one's a beauty, though the endings are opposites.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:37 am
I think there are a lot of similar shows. I think it has to due with the fact that people like shows like that, so they make multiple ones because they know people will like it. ^_^
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:28 pm
Most shows are connected in some way. Theatre has always been a way for people to relate things in their lives to things that might not exist in reality. And it's also a way to realize that we are all human and we all have feelings and we all have conflicts, but in the end everything most likely will work out fine. Wicked and Beauty and the Beast are the two stories that I would relate most to Phantom of the Opera because each one has a character that is "out of the ordinary" in apperance and everyone hates them for that. Then they use the deformity to get back at the people who have shunned them. All three are wonderful musicals.
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:14 pm
I basically think any show with a love triangle has similarities to PotO.
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:56 pm
I see a lot of similarities between PotO and Rigoletto, the movie, not the opera, and also PotO and The Libertine
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:40 am
There's lines in Jekyll and Hyde that would have sounded cool in Phantom. Only lines though because the plot is different. Quote: Do you really think that I would ever let you go? Do you think I'd ever set you free? If you do I'm sad to say, it simply isn't so. You will never get away from me. Sounds like something Erik would sing at the end of the show when it is just him and Christine there before Raoul comes.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:41 pm
Okay this just occured to me last night while seeing the show in Hong Kong
You know the part at the end where Meg and the random assortment of people are climbing down into the lair, does that remind ANYONE of Les Mis?
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:07 pm
Jekyll and Hyde has an interesting similarity:
Linda Eder, married to Frank Wildhorn, the composer, played the lead role of Lucy. Incidentally they also divorced later on. confused
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