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...phantom interviewer. Like...
...engines setting up a roar like a primeval scream. The crew and controllers all wore what looked like oversized football helmets, and in the blinking under-light of the landing signals they reminded me of grotesque insects rearing on their hindquarters. Out beyond the edge of the building a Phantom jet streaked across the horizon as tracers darted up here and there into the night...
...boasts Broadway talent galore, beginning with Michael Crawford, the first Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Opera; here he plays all the lead male roles. The show has glorious sets by Tony luminary David Mitchell (Barnum, Annie) and 500 phantasmagorical costumes by Theoni Aldredge (A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls). Among the contributors to its original score is, well, Don Grady, whose first eminence was as the hunkiest of Fred MacMurray's three TV sons but who now writes lush, hummable ballads. Finally, EFX has that cosmic expanse of spirit, that lift of a driving dream, that wily, woozy pretentiousness, that have...
...Greatest Show in the Galaxy," as the Barnum played by Crawford describes it. But it is the most Vegas-y show in town--a huge compendium of big shows from Broadway and Vegas. There are references to Crawford's earlier triumphs in Phantom and Barnum. As in Mystere, there are circus acts, liturgical and drum music, a giant climactic apparition. The Morlock battle is reminiscent of the pirate attack staged outside Treasure Island every evening. There's even a Siegfried & Roy joke, as well as the mandatory legerdemain and leggy chorines. See EFX and you've seen...
Martins especially has to stay out of the sin bin. He is the victim of the most vicious assault of anyone in the league, and he unfortuanetely is sent to the penalty box far too often for retaliation (and phantom retaliation) penalties, depriving the Crimson of its best offensive weapon...