"If we can shut their big ball carriers down that goes a long way to getting the result but we know we have to play well to go one step closer." They did that in the final of the European Cup, and it worked well for them," Arnold said. "The way they play their rugby is with their forwards, that big power rugby, they like to play on the front foot with them. This season champions Toulouse were knocked out of Europe by Leinster in the last four, but La Rochelle won the tournament by beating the Irish province late last month. We'll see what happens when we lock horns this weekend."Īrnold's side are unbeaten against this weekend's visitors to Stade Ernest-Wallon since September 2019, a run which included last term's Top 14 and European Champions Cup finals. Two different contrasts on and off the field. Off the field he's a really nice guy but on the field he's a big lump and likes to play on the edge," Arnold told AFP on Thursday. I miss the sneer and the sculpted “good” side."I've known Will for a number of years now. Which makes him look… like a young dude in mask. I realize Killian Donnelly wears makeup on both sides, but it doesn’t LOOK like it. Whereas it looks like the deformed side is more or less kept as it was, the “good” side is not contrasted or highlighted. This has been further perfectioned in the West End revival. Depicted is John Owen-Jones (left) and Simon Shorten (right):Ī more “natural” look (I say “natural”, as obviously we’re still talking lots of makeup and latex pieces) was introduced around the time of the RAH concerts in 2011 - not for the deformity itself, but the “good” side. The two most noticable changes, in my opinion, was the silvery highlighted eyebrow (2000s), and the added “brain” (2010s). There was changes along the way, adapting the look to the respective actors as well as trying out new stuff, but the main idea and the heavy makeup remained. I wanna say the essence of this was kept up until the original production closed in 2020. Here’s Michael Crawford and Dave Willetts, the two first principal Phantoms in West End: A thing they worked a bit with was to give the Phantom a sneer, a hint of something beastly, achieved by building the lip on the “bad” side, and highlighting the eyebrown on the “good” side. The “good” side was exaggerated to contrast the “bad” side, making the features grander and bolder and more highlighted. The original makeup gave the Phantom a whole new face, both on the “bad” side and the “good” side. And neither has the Golden Angel, which is what I miss the most. Both have their merits, and both have their disadvantages. This is what we have in West End now, and I still haven’t warmed to it.
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So yeah, this mostly feels like a lot of stuff… pretty much the opposite of the World Tour one:Īlso, not an easy fix, as it would take a lot of time and money to get it back to its original state.
#The phantom fellows cracked#
I also think the cracked side panels serve no purpose at all. But frankly I also find it too curvy and too busy with hard-to-identify details. The West End revival proscenium, on the other hand, looks rich and ornate and definitely finished. In other words, not super exciting in its current state, but an easy fix. It simply looks like they weren’t quite done with it before the premiere. Yet, it still looks Bjørnsonesque as it has the side sculptures and the lyres and the defined frames in the lower section.
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It looks like half a proscenium with those very visible chandelier tracks and the lack of key sculptures: The World Tour revival one leaves a bit to be desired.