It may surprise you that a redneck has some culture outside of country music and Nascar but this particular country boy was quite involved in Drama class in high school and has a great appreciation for Broadway musicals. It began when i was introduced to Les Miserables on a school trip when i was around 16 or 17 years old. It truly is a wonderful experience.
Year and years later I would end up seeing Phantom of the Opera in New York and while it was incredibly expensive and a tough choice to make, i would say that it was worth every penny of the near $150 per person to sit in a small seat in a crowded and relatively small theater.
I still think of how incredible that experience is to this day.
As I am sure you can imagine, there isn't a great deal of Broadway productions going on right now, or any production of any sort going on.
These shows are very protected from filming and other than the occasional celebratory clip here and there, there hasn't ever been a full video presentation available online that I am aware of until now. It's cool of the London Stage team to put on the entire full production with team of cameras to do the entire show and put it online for free.
This actually could be even better than being there because the various camera angles get you closer to the action than you would be able to get if you were actually there. Like I said, my seats were $150 each and i was still about 20 rows from the front and I was blown away.
If you have never watched anything like this, Phantom is a fantastic way to start and since it is available to everyone in the world for free I can't see any particular to not watch it.
You might think that this is not your kind of thing but there is a real sense of amazement when you consider that all of this, including the special effects are happening in real time and the amount of people that have to be involved in this sort of thing is a bit staggering. Let's hope that all the people involved, which almost certainly was in the hundreds, were all checked for Coronavirus before they began.
It would probably be better if you opened this in a new window, went full-screen, and put on some headphones. You can make that happen here
Enjoy!
I've never seem a live musical. I've not seen many live plays. Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" had me in stitches though.
I read Les Miserables a while back and thought it to be fantastic. I learned more as it the French Revolution than i would have otherwise.
I really like some of the old French authors: Dumas, Hugo, Verne.
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I have to say I have never read Les Mis, I thought about it, but that book was a beast. It was the size of one of the Lord of the Rings books. :)
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