Sorry, been quite busy. But since I’ve scrolled through my asks and found this…
I had supposed I’d better.
So let’s see how well he does wooing Christine before he lets her sleep.
My 9-year-old daughter/pint-sized phan happened to poke her head in the room while I was listening to this and laughing, and she was immediately intrigued.
Several seconds later she was sitting on the bed with me with this huge goofy/confused grin on her face and occasionally letting out these short, swift barks of laughter and saying stuff like “Mom, what is…what is this, why is this happening, oh my gosh”
7-year-old came in the room and tried to get 9-year-old to come play with her; 9-year-old was like “Not now, I’m listening to this and I need to know how it ends”
….I love this story so much, I’m delighted you shared it. XD
The first couple of years blonde Raouls was the norm, as it’s how Maria Bjørnson made him appear in the design. Steve Barton was blonde in real life and also wore a blonde wig. And the Raouls to follow him – Michael Ball and Michael Cormick – were blonde, at least on stage. First in October 1989 did West End get a dark haired principal Raoul, with Robert Meadmore.
The original principal Raouls on Broadway 1988 (Steve Barton), Toronto 1989 (Byron Nease), Stockholm 1989 (Bengt Nordfors) and Hamburg 1990 (Hartwig Rudolz) were also blonde. First in the mid 1990s dark haired Raouls became the norm, and today people is so used to that look that blonde Raouls is commented on. Exceptions from recent years include Jeremy Hays on Broadway, Max Niemeyer in Oberhausen and Oedo Kuipers in Hamburg.
Again, the world for Max is “beautiful”. The opening falsetto/soft bit is just sung with so much emotion and such fragility and, again, it just sounds beautiful. Love it.
• is ugly
• always has a candle lit???
• overreacts to everything
• melodramatic
• manages to fuck everything up
• did I mention ugly
• can’t handle people being nice to me
• garbage human being
Reasons the Phantom is nothing like what you described:
• Seems ugly to stupid people whose idea of beauty is narrow and “trendy.”
• Was from the nineteenth century, an era where candles were still popular and interchangeable with electric lights.
• He was brutalized by society and emotionally traumatized.
• He was brutalized by society and emotionally traumatized.
• Barely fucked anything up, was a perfectionist on all counts, had a period of absolute despair and nihilism and now you dumb fuckers equate that to the entirety of his personality.
• See first item. Asshat.
• He was brutalized by society and emotionally traumatized.
• Shut the fuck up, you giggling, uncompassionate piece of shit.
He may be fictional, but this blind attitude is why human suffering is so ignored by society. Have a fucking conscience.
…Alright then
Oh my G-d. Now I get why you’re uncompassionate–you’re just plain dumb. 😂 Look, if you have no qualms about making fun of someone’s (fictional or not) deformities and sad life, you can go and fuck yourself a hundred times over. If not, kindly delete your post, and see to it that others of your kind do so as well.
Another goodie! I’ve reuploaded the Charles Dance miniseries… But this time, it’s in better quality! It’s a print of the EU version. Here’s a comparison:
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