The Phantom of the Opera (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (566)
See it if Costumes, voices, humour and drama
Don't see it if You don’t like spectacular costumes or not emotional
See it if You like great acting, scenery and costuming!
Don't see it if A surprise boom scares you!
See it if Absolutely spectacular! Always love seeing Pantom. It has everything: beautiful voices, music, special effects. Romance, and more.
Don't see it if You don’t love beautiful music scores & voices
See it if Production, sound and music are amazing
Don't see it if Nothing
See it if You love emotionally charged music, magnificent staging, lighting and theatrics, with awesome costumes, a great love story and unrequited …
Don't see it if You don’t like musicals
See it if Absolutely wonderful production - singing dancing staging everything
Don't see it if Nothing at all to say here
See it if The song of female actors is nice
Don't see it if I want to take food
See it if Everything was perfect
Don't see it if I would have liked information about the cast because an active was not the same
Critic Reviews (3)
“Webber's gothic spectacular is totally '80s in the best possible way...The most successful entertainment event of all time...It still works hard for its audience...‘Phantom’ remains strong because its high production values haven’t been allowed to sag...Lost since the days of Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman is a measure of acting ability, but if Rauch and Escobar are rather stiff (her in particular) then they do enough to successfully ride the wave of this still awesome spectacle.”
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“’The Phantom Of The Opera’...puts spectacle to the service of an exciting story and...music is used, in a Pucciniesque way to intensify a dramatic situation...It may be hokum but it is hokum here treated with hand on heart rather than tongue in cheek...It is determinedly old-fashioned but when the new fashion is for boy-meets-laser-beam, it is refreshing to find a musical that pins its faith in people, narrative, and traditional illusion.”
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“This is a powerfully emotional account of the saving grace of love. Despite clumsy lyrics, the music is Webber at his best. He has a real feel for the Victorian theatricality of the tale, from the melodramatic overture, with its thrilling organ chords, to the seductive ‘Music of the Night’ and yearning ‘All I ask of You’...It is sentimental and conservative in its view of women but ‘The Phantom of the Opera’s’ sheer theatrical verve is also immensely satisfying.”
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