#cooper grodin

[wheel-of-fish]

when people are trying to shoot me so I give them a better vantage point

[meilas]

and on the other side of the spectrum, we have disappointed and bored bad guy

[brendadaaedestler]

It has been brought to my attention (yelled at me several times) that I haven't done a Phantom poll in a while, so thanks to @meilas, I have finally come back with another poll for you all!

Socks came up with a lot of these, so big thank you to them for their help!!

Reblog if you would like to see me create more polls! If you have a request for my next "Which Phantom Would You Like To" poll, please feel free to send me an ask or a dm! I have so much fun with poll requests! :D

**Ethan’s full description is “takes you to a treehouse and makes peanut butter sandwiches and milk.” It has been brought to my attention that the last bit got cut off.

[nerdywriter36]

Derrick Davis is the type of person who would bring you flowers at work if you had a bad day.

I can see that for him, he seems like such a sweetie.

In the interests of saving my blog from lots of little ask responses, I’m going to answer your other two asks here too!

Saulo Vasconcelos is the type of person to bring mini muffins to the neighborhood bake sale

You know. That sounds right. He’s a gentle giant, that man.

Cooper Grodin is the type of person who would charge you a gym membership and make you hire him as a personal trainer at a gym he built in his garage using secondhand equipment from the 70s.

Yep. Sleazy.

[litloverscorsetlaces]

Not sure what I just experienced watching the restaged POTO tour, but now I need to revisit David Shannon bootlegs to help me recover.

[worm-anon]

cooper Grodin’s don juant robe was made of parachute marterial. He climbed onto the table in that scrne becsuse he was supposed to go doen a trapdoor. Notice how when he was on the table propetly he waslooking sround? He forgor where the trapdoor was.

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

So I discovered the absurdities of the Poto re-staged tour the other night

How do I articulate how I feel about the blocking/choreo?

I guess... I guess I would say its like watching

PotO! (The Musical!): a cheesy musical adaptation of what was already a musical.

I've seen High School Productions with more tasteful blocking

[glassprism]

Hi GP! can u do a list of phantoms in the restage tour who does a punch at Christine in the first unmasking?

Whilst keeping in mind that I don't have video of every restaged tour Phantom (and it's not something you can distinguish over audio), here's a list of Phantoms who throw a punch at Christine during the first unmasking:

Chris Mann

I hope that helps!

...Fine, here's a list of maybes:

Derrick Davis

Josh Piterman

Raphael Wong

I call them "maybes" because you can interpret them as trying to smack Christine, but you can also interpret them as wild flailing (Derrick Davis, especially in his second run) or him trying to grab Christine and missing (Josh Piterman and especially Raphael Wong, whose movement looked so unambiguously like a grab and not a punch that I didn't even want to put him on this list).

So really... it's mostly Chris Mann and maybe Derrick Davis in his first run, where I imagine he was influenced by Mann anyway, as the latter was his immediate predecessor.

[eriksangel666]

PHANTOM PHANS STOP EVERYTHING WE HAVE A MARK CAMPBELL BOOTLEG I REPEAT A MARK CAMPBELL BOOTLEG!!!

Y'all don't understand how LITTLE audio there was of this man's Phantom. When he was on tour the show was PHENOMENAL and then they hired Cooper F$%#in Grodin and the show went downhill from there. BUT WE HAVE HIS LAST PERFORMANCE!!! Click here to listen!

[wheel-of-fish]

Phantom acting choices (2/?)

Cooper Grodin (with Julia Udine and Ben Jacoby, U.S. Tour, 2014)

He Liangchen (with Yang Chenxiuyi, Shanghai, 2023)

Hans Peter Janssens (Antwerp, 2000)

Peter Karrie (Toronto, 1998)

Earl Carpenter (with Rachel Barrell, London, 2006)

Ted Keegan (with Emilie Kouatchou, Broadway, 2022)

Hugh Panaro (Broadway, 2005)

John Owen-Jones (with Celia Graham, London, 2002)

Brad Little (World Tour, 2014)

Tomas Ambt Kofod (with Sibylle Glosted, Copenhagen, 2019)

Set 1

[meilas]

Just a collection of unintentionally funny moments, featuring: 1) David Arnsperger and his smooth af caress 2) Cooper Grodin going "ew get off me" 3) Cooper Grodin going "don't trip don't trip don't trip" 4) John Cudia falling off the organ 5) John Cudia whipping a poor partygoer 6) Peter Joback doing his best impression of "Hello, My Baby" 7) Peter Karrie's self-caress 8) Michael Crawford throwing a tantrum 9) Thiago Arancam thinking he's going to get laid

Credit for most of the gifs goes to @glassprism and @wheel-of-fish

[brendadaaedestler]

Alright, it’s been almost three months since my last Phantom poll, and that is absolutely way too long, so here’s my next one! This one was requested by @lieblingslok01! Thank you so much for requesting!!

Also, big thank you to @meilas for helping me come up with a few of these poll options!

Reblog if you want to see more polls!

Requests for more “Which Phantom Would You Like To” polls are open, so feel free to shoot me a dm or to send me an ask with some requests!

[nerdywriter36]

What do you think of Cooper G. R. Odin?

It’s a no from me. One of my least favourite Phantom portrayals ever. Sorry not sorry

[potoconfessions]

we need more cooper content

SO TRUE COOPER GRODIN COME OUT COME OUT WHEREVER YOU ARE

[prettynerdieworks]

Cooper Grodin & Grace Morgan ▼ Phantom of the Opera US Tour ▼ 7.27.14 ▼ Milwaukee

[ange-de-la-musique]

Reviewing more phantoms and Raouls. As usual, I’m doing both in one post.

Dmitry Ermak had a very good first lair, with a sensual motn and a very strong unmasking. He had a very nice, classic phantom voice that he made rather raspy in his more emotional scenes, which I enjoyed. He was a very...wriggly boy in stydi, I loved it. Very much enjoyed his second unmasking and final lair, he played a very tired, sad phantom who did a very good job reacting to Christine and Raoul.

I’ve said before why I like Hugh Panaro (along with a million other people) but I’ll say it again here I guess. His reputation as a “sexy phantom” is uh not unfounded. His acting really emphasizes the sensuality and underlying darkness of the character. Every aspect of his movement is clearly very well thought out. I know he’s a fan of Susan Kay’s phantom and it definitely comes across in his performance. He can also be very sassy at times, which I’m not always a huge fan of but it definitely works well with his performance.

Cooper Grodin....oh Cooper. His voice is...as others have pointed out, he sounds like he was doing some heavy drinking before performing. His acting is extremely aggressive even for the restaged tour. He barely cared about Christine and it felt like he barely cared about the show.

As with Hugh, it’s been discussed why Michael Crawford is so wonderful, aside from bringing to life the character and creating an iconic portrayal. His acting is truly something else, I suppose it helps that as the first he isn’t influenced by any other actors in the role and truly took the time to make it his own. He has a very smooth, elegant motn, with the whole thing feeling like one very long, deliberate movement with a lot of emphasis on his hands. His more distressed scenes have some very Lon Chaney vibes, with more great hands and great distressed noises. His very light voice works well with his portrayal, making him feel even more ethereal and simultaneously phantom-like and angel-like.

Marcus Lovett has a pretty rough voice. Not necessarily bad, just rough. His acting though...we love to see it. A hypnotic motn, he’s very mature, very in control, knows what he’s doing and is perfectly comfortable leading Christine around his lair. This maturity extends all throughout the show up to the final lair, when he seems old and tired. He’s certainly no man-child yet there’s a real sense of desperation.

As for Raouls...

I wasn’t too impressed with Evgeny Zaytsev at first but he significantly improved when with a decent Christine. Overall he can be relatively boring but he does have quite a few nice touches, and his final lair stands out as very good.

Jeremy Hays was there. He existed. He had a very nice voice, I just found his acting kind of boring, he didn’t do much.

Ben Jacoby came across relatively charming in Little Lotte and got progressively worse from there, culminating in him grabbing Grace Morgan’s ears and dragging her head around the rooftop like that.

Reece Holland has a hell of a voice and he knows how to use it. He has some very interesting infliction and was clearly having fun playing with the notes. He was a very earnest, very sweet Raoul who put a lot of energy into his performance.

Simon Thomas doesn’t really stand out to me in any way other than his good chemistry with Anna O’Byrne. He doesn’t really do much but he does go out of his way to be very gentle and soft with Anna’s more nervous, hysterical approach and they work well together.