Word: theoni
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...opted for a postage- stamp stage in lower Manhattan. The sets are mostly paintings on roller- drops, slowly uncoiling to the floor ("It looks like we're in the 19th century," admits one of the team privately), and choreographer Peter Gennaro has no room to move. The use of Theoni Aldredge's Broadway-budget costumes just makes the surrounding skimpiness look worse...