Erik (The Phantom of the Opera) took roughly four hours per performance to put the prosthetics on in the original London productions. On Broadway, it was cut to roughly three, and over the years has been reduced to 45 minutes. More than one Phantom has described make-up disasters onstage. Michael Crawford recounts a story where he pulled away from the kiss at the end only to see that "[his] lower lip was now hanging off Sarah [Brightman]'s face!". To cover the flub, he pulled her back for another kiss and "took back the lips" and kept that side of his head turned away from the audience.
Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2 "Ladies Who Screech" ("Ladies Who Lunch", Sondheim) 18 "Phantom Of The Musical" (original, Alessandri, based on "The Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and "O mio babbino caro") Lloyd Webber ("Goldfinger", Barry-Newley-Bricusse) 19 "Give My Regards to Broadway" (Cohan) George M ("Yankee Doodle Dandy", Cohan) 20 "More Miserable Sequence" 21 "Finale" (original, Alessandrini) Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2 Forbidden Broadway, Volume 2 is the second album released for "Forbidden Broadway" ("FB"), an off-Broadway musical that spoofs Broadway's latest musicals. The album was recorded and mixed in February 1991 in New York at Sear Sound. In the liner notes, Gerard