Producer Cameron Mackintosh had seen Bjornson’s work in the opera house,
but it wasn’t grandeur that impressed him most when it came to picking
a designer for “Phantom.” “She was able to create a real world I could
believe in,” he says. “The reason why of all my shows ‘Phantom’ has
endured so long is that it requires the scale and beauty of the visual
to pull you in.” Lloyd Webber, too, acknowledges “Phantom’s” debt to
Bjornson, saying, “She brought femininity to it.” And the composer
disagrees with those who attribute the show’s visual success to excess.
“People talk about it being very spectacular,” he says, “but most
everything in the production is done with an extraordinary lack of
technology. A lot of ‘Phantom’ is extraordinarily simple. It’s just that
the design is so brilliant that it works right through.”
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