Aside from winning a butt-load of Tony Awards this week, Book of Mormon, from the creators of South Park, has now made Billboard chart history. The soundtrack to the mega-hit musical leaps up the charts, selling 61,000 this week, to #3 on the Hot 100. This is the first time in 32 years that a Broadway cast album has cracked the Top 10 on that chart! The last cast album to do so was Hair in 1969, and it spent 13 weeks at #1. Wow. 61,000 also makes it the most albums sold in a week for an cast album since Neilson SoundScan began tracking in 1991. The prior record was 52,000 set in 1992 by the original cast recording of the London cast of Phantom of the Opera. Book of Mormon,with music and lyrics by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" co-writer Robert Lopez, opened on March 24 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. If you can get a ticket, go see it! [source]
Showing posts with label Phantom of the Opera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phantom of the Opera. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
BOOK OF MORMON MAKES CHART HISTORY
Aside from winning a butt-load of Tony Awards this week, Book of Mormon, from the creators of South Park, has now made Billboard chart history. The soundtrack to the mega-hit musical leaps up the charts, selling 61,000 this week, to #3 on the Hot 100. This is the first time in 32 years that a Broadway cast album has cracked the Top 10 on that chart! The last cast album to do so was Hair in 1969, and it spent 13 weeks at #1. Wow. 61,000 also makes it the most albums sold in a week for an cast album since Neilson SoundScan began tracking in 1991. The prior record was 52,000 set in 1992 by the original cast recording of the London cast of Phantom of the Opera. Book of Mormon,with music and lyrics by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and "Avenue Q" co-writer Robert Lopez, opened on March 24 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. If you can get a ticket, go see it! [source]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA SEQUEL GETS A DATE
The much anticipated (or not) sequel set to ruin the legacy of Phantom of the Opera entitled Love Never Dies (um..okay) is set to debut in London at the Adelphi Theatre on March 9, 2010 and will open on Broadway on November 11, 2010. No theatre has been named for it's run on Broadway. The show is set ten years after "Phantom" in Coney Island, New York, which is where the Phantom has moved from Paris...OBVIOUSLY!! Andrew Lloyd Webber states that he doesn't consider this a sequel (but he DOES consider it a catrastrophe. Just kidding. I DO!) The AP reported that Webber also wanted to create a new production because the ending of the original was too boring. Love Never Dies will star Megan Fox and Tara Reid as a lesbian couple and Queen Latifah as the Phantom. OH, GOD, I WISH!!! Some guy named Ramin Karimloo is the Phantom and Sierra Boggess is Christine. I don't know either. I think the title STINKS. Here are my suggestions:
1. Phantom of the Opera 2: Electric Boogaloo
2. Phantom of the Opera 2: Christine Goes to Hell
3. Bad Idea
4. Phantom of the Opera 2: Fahgettaboudit (cuz it's in Coney Island)
5. Fathom of the Opera (cuz that's what my mom thought the original was called)
What do you think? Like one of these? Have another? [source]
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