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'Phantom' Chandelier To Be A Major Party Crasher
Tribune photo by JIM REED
Crew members prepare the 10-foot high, half-ton chandelier that "crashes" to the stage dramatically during "Phantom of the Opera," which opens at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center tonight.
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Published: October 30, 2008
It's 10 feet high, weighs half a ton, and plays an important part in the musical "The Phantom of the Opera," which opens its run at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center today.
We're talking, of course, about the gorgeous chandelier that is a major scenic element in the show (so major that it includes 35,000 beads and required five scenery shops, working three months, to construct).
Erik, the horribly disfigured man in the catacombs beneath the Opera Populaire in Paris, becomes enraged with those above. So he uses the chandelier as a weapon of revenge. In other words, look out below.
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