You won't forget these: "Think of Me," "Angel of Music," "The Music of the Night," "I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It," "All I Ask of You," "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again," "The Point of No Return. The sheer number of memorable tunes, "hits," if you will, is incredible, especially for a contemporary musical where you're lucky to leave the theater humming one song. So, what about those songs? Well, they're amazing and inspiring in any context - soundtrack or live cabaret - but especially in the show. Oh, yeah, the Phantom popping up here and there is always a trick and treat. These are layouts for my Phantom graphic novel project. Might be a stretch but I’m adding it anyway."Phantom" has touches of Gilbert & Sullivan (the dress rehearsal of "Hanibal"), gorgeous costuming (the New Year's Eve "Masquerade"), effectively spooky staging (Christine's dressing room "The Mirror (Angel of Music)" the boat floating across the lake through mist and "candles" to The Labryinth, where first we hear the electronically-pulsating "The Phantom of the Opera," which propels the show relentlessly, and the graveyard in Peros scene - while Phantom's flame-throwing was lame, the scene-ending pyro spires were KISS-concert eye-popping. I also started to hum Weezer‘s Blue Album b-side “Susanne”. Roger Waters has repeatedly claimed in interviews that the signature descending/ascending half-tone chord progression from Phantom’s title song was plagiarised from the bass line of a track on the Pink Floyd album Meddle called “Echoes.” He has never taken any legal action (“Life’s too long to bother with suing Andrew fucking Lloyd Webber”), but he did add an insulting reference to Lloyd Webber in his song “It’s a Miracle”: “We cower in our shelters/With our hands over our ears/Lloyd Webber’s awful stuff/Runs for years and years and years/An earthquake hits the theatre/But the operetta lingers/Then the piano lid comes down/And breaks his fucking fingers. In 1990, a Baltimore songwriter named Ray Repp filed a lawsuit alleging that the title song from Phantom was based on a song that he wrote in 1978 called “Till You.” After eight years of litigation - including an unsuccessful countersuit by Lloyd Webber claiming that “Till You” was itself a plagiarism of “Close Every Door” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - the jury found in Lloyd Webber’s favor. Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber (531) Lyrics: Charles Hart (167), Richard Stilgoe (145) - additional lyrics Book: Andrew Lloyd Webber (531). Swirling mist upon a vast glassy lake There. The litigation was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. Phantom Of The Opera - I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It Lyrics Christine I remember there was mist. In 1987, the heirs of Giacomo Puccini charged in a lawsuit that the climactic phrase in “Music of the Night” closely resembled a similar phrase in the sequence “Quello che tacete” from Puccini’s opera Girl of the Golden West. As I sit here and listen to Pink Floyd “Echoes” (1971) for the next 23 minutes (it’s a really long song) I am going to check out these others and post them below.
After checking the Andrew Lloyd Webber Phantom of the Opera wikipedia page for some possible details it seems there are other examples. The Phantom Of The Opera - The Music Of The Night - I Remember. This one just got better and better as I started to look into it.
Phantom of the Opera submitted by Cristian & Travis & Matthew
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat vs.
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