lOVED SAGA SET TO OPEN
eMPIRE SET TO RAISE CURTAIN ON PHANTOM
aFter MONTHS OF PREPARATION AND REHEARSALS, THE CAST AND CREW OF THE 2014 eMPIRE tHEATRES MAJOR PRODUCTION, tHE PHANTOM OF THE oPERA ARE READY TO RAISE THE CURTAIN ON ONE OF MUSICAL THEATRES MOST LOVED SAGAS.
tICKETS TO BOTH MATINEE AND EVENING PERFORMANCES ARE STILL AVAILABLE, BUT ARE SELLING FAST WHICH HAS LED TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE ON tHURSDAY, aPRIL 10, 8PM.
tHE CLASSIC aNDREW lLOYD fiEBBER MUSICAL IS SET IN PARIS IN THE 1800S AND FOLLOWS THE STORY OF THE MYSTERIOUS PHANTOM WHO LIVES IN THE DUNGEONS OF THE PARIS oPERA HOUSE, TERRORISING ITS OCCUPANTS AND MANAGERS.
tHE PHANTOM’S OBSESSION WITH HIS PROTéGéE’ INNOCENT SOPRANO, ¢HRISTINE dAAE’ UNLEASHES A STORY OF DESTRUCTION AND DEATH AS HIS JEALOUSY OVER ¢HRISTINE AND HER CHILDHOOD SWEETHEART, rAOUL, ffICOMTE DE ¢HAGNY STARTS TO SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL.
tHE TALENTED CAST AND ORCHESTRA ARE COMPRISED OF PERFORMERS FROM THE tOOWOOMBA REGION, INCLUDING ESTABLISHED MUSICIAN, bRENDON fiALMSLEY AND LOCAL SOPRANO lISA sKERMAN AS tHE PHANTOM AND ¢HRISTINE.
dIRECTOR, JOHN sENCZUK SAID tHE PHANTOM OF THE oPERA WAS A DISPLAY OF THE HIGH QUALITY TALENT IN THE tOOWOOMBA REGION.
“aUDIENCES WILL ENJOY THE SPECTACLE OF A GROUP OF TALENTED LOCAL PERFORMERS GIVING A UNIQUE tOOWOOMBA READING OF THE WORK IN SUCH A WONDERFUL THEATRE,” HE SAID.
“iT IS SUCH A UNIVERSAL STORY AND ITS THEMES GO TO TWO BASIC HUMAN NEEDS- THE SEARCH FOR INTIMACY AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE.
“tHE ¢OMPANY ARE EAGER AND ENTHUSIASTIC NOW TO GET ON STAGE.” tHE eMPIRE tHEATRES EIGHT SHOW SEASON OF tHE PHANTOM OF THE oPERA, PROUDLY SPONSORED BY HERITAGE bANK, OPENS TONIGHT AND WILL RUN UNTIL sUNDAY, aPRIL
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