BROADWAY SHOW ANALYSIS

1. Venus D. Carbonel Speech and Drama Ms. Violeta Gutierrez
The Phantom of the Opera Evaluation Sheet
A. REFLECTION AND/OR REACTION TO THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM
THE MUSICALE (5 – 7 SENTENCES)
I have heard about this stage show “The Phantom of the Opera” before, but I haven’t
watched any of its show not until I am required to watch one. For someone who does not
like to watch a musical play or who’s not used in watching this kind of shows, and yet! You
still know or heard about it? It only means one thing. This stage show is very popular!
Because eventhose who are not their target market were able to heard or learned about
their show.
As I have done my research, I see that this Broadway musical was inarguably famous.
According to them The Phantom of the Opera may be the most successful entertainment
franchise of all time. It has grossed $5.6 billion worldwide — more than Avatar, more than
Titanic, more than all the Star Wars films combined. A staggering 130 million people have

2. seenthe show in 28 countries and 148 cities in 13 languages. As I go on my research about
the creative team of The Phantom of the Opera, I discover that for nearly 50 years Cameron
Mackintosh has been producing more musicals than anyone else in history, including the
three longest-running musicals of all time, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and
Cats, which are still running extraordinarily successfully across the world. And those were
the reasons why this producer is undisputably famous.
The lessonthat I have learned from this show, aside from “if you love someone, you will set
them free”, just like what the Phantom of the Opera did to Christine Daae, that he lets her
and Raoul leave together because he loves Christine so much. But the most important
lessonthat I learned from The Phantom of the Opera was from the antagonist Carlota, who
is jealous over Christine’s replacing as the lead star of the show. It only shows that indeed,
jealousy can do no good to man, that because of her jealousy to Christine, she planned to
take vengeance on Christine.
Nowadays, because of the social media, many are living in depression which is often due to
envy or jealousy because many think that others' lives are better than theirs. Although
Carlota's response to her envy on Christine was different from that of today's people, it
meant only one thing. That envy can bring no good to man, as it is written in the scripture
Proverbs 14:30; "A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones." And
“For where envy and selfishambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.”
(James 3:16). And it is so saddening that a lot of people of today’s generation live in
desperation just because they thought that their lives are not better like the people that
they saw on social media.
The Phantom of the Opera taught me, that life is like a wheel, sometimes you’re on top,
sometimes you’re at the bottom, that whatever life throws at you, accept it freely, do not be
envious if you see that others people’s lives seems to be better than you are, learn to be
contented with what we have. However we should always keepgoing through this life.
Because we should never let the bumps or hurdles in the road of our life's journey, to stop
us from reaching it to the top.

3. B. ANALYSIS OF THE MUSICALE/PLAY
1. THEME
The theme of The Phantom of the Opera is about love, that love cannot be forced, it
is the will of the heart, that you cannot force yourself into someone who does not
want you.
The stage show also gives emphasis that everyone needs love. That sometimes the
reason why there are people who are hardhearted was because they do not receive
love from other people.

4. 2. STORY
The story of The Phantom
of the Opera evolvedon a
young chorus girl,
Christine Daae and Eric a
composer and magician, a
music genius who hide his
facial disfigurement
behind a mask and live in
the underground of
Paris's Opera Populaire,
he was known as the
Phantom of the Opera or Opera Ghost. His only companion is his young singing
protégé Christine Daae, who admired and mystified by his angelic voice but at the
same time she's also terrified of him, she regarded the Phantom as Angel of Music,
that the voice of the Phantom keeps singing songs in her head while she sleeps and
whispers in her ear during day.
Everyone at the opera house is used to the
Phantom's deadly pranks particularly when
the Phantom’s demands are not met. But
because of one incident when the opera’s
leading lady Carllota do her number in one
of her rehearsal, a stage props falls on top of
her and blamed the opera’s ghost for it, but
the truth was, it was because of the
negligence of one of their staff. The canopy
almost crushed Carllota that causes her to
resign as the opera's leading diva.

5. Because of Carllota’s
resignation, the managers
of the musical show, turn
to Christine who at that
time was no more than a
chorus girl. The show
casts her as the leading
lady and she became
famous because of her
amazing performance.
Christine’s fame makes
Carllota envy her that leads her to take revenge against her because she thought
that it was all Christine’s plot to replace her as the opera’s leading diva.
Their misery begins
when Christine, whom
the Phantom has fallen
in love with, accepts the
marriage proposal of
her childhood
sweetheart Viscount
Raoul de Changy, the
Phantom's heart is
broken. His despair
quickly turns to furious,
jealousy rage inside him and planned to do anything to win her, evenif by means of
kidnapping her and bring her to his lair, Raoul gets Madame Giry to take him to
the Phantom's lair. She leaves Raoul halfway through their journey, and Raoul goes
the rest of the way alone. After nearly drowning, he shows up in the Phantom's lair
to save Christine.

6. The Phantom then gives Christine the
difficult decision: she can either stay with
the Phantom and Raoul (who has been tied
up by the Phantom) goes free, or she refuses
the Phantom and Raoul dies but Christine
goes free. Christine decides to stay with the
Phantom and tells him that he is not alone.
She kisses him passionately.
At this the Phantom realizes
that Christine truly loves
him, but his horrible actions
have ruined any chance they
have together. In an act of
selflessness, he frees both
Christine and Raoul.
Christine gives the ring back
to the Phantom who sadly
tells Christine that he loves
her.
Christine forces herself to leave
with Raoul in the boat. She looks
back at the Phantom sadly,
knowing that she loves him.
Heartbroken, the Phantom
destroys the mirrors and escapes
through a secret passage just
before the mob shows up. Meg
Giry finds only his mask.

7. 3. AUDIENCE IMPACT
The Phantom of the
Opera developed an
enthusiastic audience
because of their
impeccable performance
at the Royal Albert Hall.
You can see that the
musicale play attracted a
large number of audience
who created of what they
call an atmosphere of
attentive involvement,
where they are very attentive
to applaud the performance of
the casts every time they did a
great scene, particularly when
The Phantom and Christine
Daae perform and sing the
“Think of Me” “The Phantom
of the Opera” and “Angel of
Music”

8. C. EVALUATION OF THE MUSICALE/PLAY
1. STAGE
You will be amazed by how great
the casts of the “The Phantom of
the Opera” were! Because despite
of the smallness of the stage, they
still manage to execute their
performance really well. I don’t
know what’s with the small stage,
but I notice that most of the
musicale play, uses stage or
platform that are quite small for
the number of the performers that
are performing, but I’ve come to a conclusion, that they intentionally used small
stages maybe for the purpose of compressing the performers so that the
concentration of the audience can focus on a small area therefore the audience can
see every details that is happening on the stage.