#1994 was a good year for Phantom I'll say that

[bananakarenina]

20 questions writer meme!

Tagged by the wonderful @breakaway71! A little Friday night break to help me jumpstart some writing, hopefully?

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 26

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 219,077

3. What fandoms do you write for? Julie and the Phantoms, though I have a CW Nancy Drew fic percolating!

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

our hearts can speak ourselves unseen (first collab with @where-you-go, peterpatterlina + modern cyrano de bergerac)

complications you could do without (remix of crescent moon, peterpatterlina)

for love's sake only (the fake marriage historical/regency au, rulie)

want your midnights (the OG! new year's eve 1994, hint of peterpatter)

heaven above and closer (the other collab with @where-you-go, the 90s road trip coming of age au, julie x luke x reggie x bobby, willex)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Oh gosh. i try, for real, y'all. i often put it off because i want to get a good grade in commenting/responding, which is something real you can achieve, and then i end up not doing it at all. but i love each and every one i receive! i'm just so inconsistent about actually replying.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? hmmmmm. excellent question; even if i write angst i tend to veer toward a happy or at least hopeful ending (example: leave the light on)

actually you know what, heart like a wheel is probably the angstiest if you think about it. it's just that the main character doesn't know it, lol.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? oh gosh. i love a happy ending, so pick one. they're mostly all varying degrees of happy, lol

8. Do you get hate on fics? i have been very lucky so far in that i don't get outright hate, no.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? it's not the thrust (heh) of what i write, generally, but i have: for love's sake only and its sequel, to love's self alone, are both in the vein of a paperbook romance and are written as such. i do have a carrie x reggie smutfic in the queue though...

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? i can't say that i have! i might nod to another fandom but full crossovers seem so ambitious to me--two different worlds to track, two styles of story. i love reading them, though!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? if i have i'm not aware of it...

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? i have not!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? @where-you-go are now on our third collab (she, through some sorcery and witchcraft, got me to round robin on a luke x bobby fake dating story one week on here, and we're expanding it to a full fic, hopefully out before the end of the year!) and @daintyduck99 and i have put on that old song, aka the "i can't believe you married a rodeo cowboy" au, also hopefully coming soon! also maybe i'll poke @breakaway71 again about some dialogue i sent her ;)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? i am a proud multi-shipper and you can't make me choose lololol

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? lol is "all of them" a valid answer? kidding. i have been struggling with getting over the finish line with WIPs this year so.

16. What are your writing strengths? dialogue, def. that's my theatre training/playwright classes coming through. i can always tell when i'm tired because my drafts devolve into dialogue only, haha.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Oh gosh. endings! i can never seem to wrap things up in a snappy way! also lately stakes. like figuring out what the characters have at stake to lose in terms of the story.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? i'll do it sparingly but i generally avoid whole conversations. my grammar in spanish is terrible and that's the only other language i'd feel comfortable writing any dialogue at all in. maybe i'd ask family about tagalog.

19. First fandom you wrote for? oh man. hahahahahahahaha the real answer might be "self-insert o-town fanfic in which my friends and i fell in love with the band members"? but i think it might be gilmore girls. i do want to archive all my ff.net and livejournal (well, the stuff i can find :( ) things so you may see them on an ao3 near you

20. Favorite fic you've written? oh gosh. i love them all because they're mine! maybe for love's sake only because it really feels like i finished a full novella with that one. or heart like a wheel because i love tertiary character explorations. or want your midnights because it started this whole thing. see, i can't choose. don't make me

Tagging @innytoes, @jmrothwell, @daintyduck99, @invisibleraven, and anyone else who sees this and wants to participate in the fun!

[glassprism]

Hey GP! I was wondering if you could figure out who would have been in the main roles in March 1994?

Sure, though it depends on location (and I’ll just do the trio here):

London

Phantom: Ethan Freeman

Christine: Jill Washington

Christine alt.: Claire Moore

Raoul: Clive Carter

Broadway

Phantom: Marcus Lovett

Christine: Tracy Shayne

Christine alt.: Luann Aronson

Raoul: Ciaran Sheehan

1st National Tour (San Francisco)

Phantom: Franc D'Ambrosio

Christine: Lisa Vroman

Christine alt.: Cristin Mortenson

Raoul: Raymond Saar

2nd National Tour (Chicago)

Phantom: Rick Hilsabeck

Christine: Sarah Pfisterer

Christine alt.: Rita Harvey

Raoul: Nat Chandler

3rd National Tour

Phantom: Grant Norman

Christine: Adrienne McEwan

Christine alt.: Sylvia Rhyne

Raoul: John Schroeder

UK Tour

Unfortunately, the brochures available skip from October 1993 to November 1994, so I’m not quite sure when cast change occurred, so these are the possibilities.

Phantom:  Dave Willetts or Mark McKerracher

Christine: Lisa Hull or Nikki Ankara

Christine alt.: Josie Walker or Sarah Ryan

Raoul: Mike Sterling

Toronto:

A very confusing year; there aren’t brochures and I’m somewhat doubtful as to whether my videos from this production are labeled with the correct year. But it may have been...

Phantom: Peter Karrie

Christine: Teresa DeZarn

Christine alt: ?

Raoul: David Rogers

Canadian Tour:

Phantom: Jeff Hyslop

Christine: Patti Cohenour

Christine alt.: June Crowley

Raoul: David Rogers

Australian Tour

Phantom: Rob Guest

Christine: Maree Johnson

Christine alt.: Danielle Everett

Raoul: Peter Cousens

Japanese Tour (Sapporo)

The Japanese productions usually have at least three to four actors sharing each role, but unfortunately, all we know are the following three.

Phantom: Eiji Akutagawa

Christine: Hisako Hanaoka

Raoul: Kanji Ishimaru

Stockholm

Phantom: Mikael Samuelsson

Christine: Johanne Brochmann and Inger Olsson Moberg (shared the role)

Raoul: Jan Kyhle

Hamburg:

Phantom: Thomas Schulze

Phantom alt.: Simon Tunkin

Christine: Colby Thomas

Christine alt.: Renée Knapp

Raoul: Dale Tracy

Scheveningen:

Phantom: Henk Poort

Christine: Joke De Kruijf

Christine alt.: Els Bongers (most likely)

Raoul: Peter De Smet