#emma harris

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Variations in Meg Giry's Sitzprobe shawl

Hannah Cadec, Restaged UK Tour

Hannah Florence, Reststaged US Tour

Sarah Grace Mariani, Restaged US Tour

Janet Devenish, original West End

Kara Klein, Broadway

Paloma Garcia Lee, US Tour

Maiya Hikasa, West End revival

Maiya Hikasa, West End revival

Laura May Croucher, Restaged Tour in Vienna

Unidentified, Japan

Lara Glew, Stuttgart

Unidentified, Hiroshima

Lee Ji Na, South Korea

Serina Faull, West End revival

Mietta White, Restaged Aussie Tour

Grace Horne, West End

Tandi Meikle, Cape Town

Emma Harris, West End

(original design by Maria Bjørnson)

[marleneoftheopera]

Wishing (a tad belated) happy trails to the departing members of the 2022-23 London company!

(In order) Holly-Anne Hull, Matt Blaker, Greg Castiglioni, Ellie Young, Connor Carson, Michelle Cornelius, Edward Court, Emma Harris, Olivia Holland-Rose, James Hume, Michael Robert-Lowe, Manon Taris, Anouk van Laake, and Skye Weiss.

[theres-music-in-you]

Beatrice Penny-Toure as Christine, with Grace Hume as Meg and Emma Harris as Madame Giry. From Beatrice’s Instagram Story (x).

[phantomtrader19]

Emma Harris is also going to be leaving the show at cast change! so Anouk and Emma so far have confirmed their leaving…..gutted I absolutely love Emma 😫

*I actually stumbled across a comment from Emma mentioning she was leaving in July that’s how I know 🤣*

[marybeatriceofmodena]

❤️ Meg

Jennifer Ellison: I have to include her because she's the reason I love Meg in the first place, and she's definitely among the things the movie got right. I will never not be frustrated that her mother caught her in the corridor leading to the Phantom's lair.

Hayley Driscoll: Cute as a button, beautiful, childlike singing voice, a cheery little doll with big expressive eyes and graceful movements. You wouldn't expect much from her but she's very much Christine's little guardian angel, standing up to the managers when suggesting Christine and as they dismiss her. She's a Meg I would have liked to see with Kelly Mathieson if I had a time machine, because when told to stay quiet you could tell she had a lot going on in her head. She understood the premise of Meg being a little detective throughout the show to a T.

Heidi Ann O'Brien: A great counterpart to Rachel Barrell's more discreet Christine, with a lovely warm singing voice. You have the implication that she may have encouraged the iron spine and will of steel Rachel's Christine shows later in the show. Heidi's Meg was sassy, mischievous, very protective of Christine, and she'd even openly mock people who were gratuitously mean towards her.

Emma Harris: A wonderfully detailed performance that complimented Gina Beck's very well. She's very much Madame Giry's daughter in the best way possible, the big sister to her Christine, with a will of steel, a take no nonsense attitude, and a good dose of common sense where she can tell right away in Angel of Music that there is something amiss and that it's nothing good. Probably the best voice for Meg the West End production has had, so I'm not surprised she's understudying Madame Giry nowadays.

Brianne Kelly Morgan: The perfect balance between the sassier and the softer interpretations of Meg (according to no other than Hal Prince and Gillian Lynne), she really told a story through every single one of her gestures and guided the audience throughout. Even then, she would still adjust her portrayal depending on who she was playing alongside as Meg - she was the little sister to Elizabeth Loyacano's more mature Christine, and the protective big sister to Kristi Holden's. And she has a voice on Christine's level, which makes it really a shame she never played the role of either Meg or even Christine on Broadway.

Layla Harrison: Gorgeous, great dancer, lovely voice, a lovely, thought out, detailed performance, and it's honestly a crime there aren't more videos of her as Meg, and an even bigger one she never made it to principal Meg.

Deanna Doyle: Cute as a kitten, lovely facial expressions, curious, just a little ball of charm who liked everyone and wanted to be friends with everyone. I may also be biased given she was one of the first Megs I've seen in a video that wasn't the 2004 movie or the 25th anniversary, so there's that.

Polly Baird: Her Meg isn't the most... expansive one, if that makes any sense - but she has a million dollar smile and she's a Meg where you feel there's a lot more going on underneath the surface as she slowly figures out what's going on with her friend. Basically the Sonya Rostova of Megs, and I mean this in the best way possible.

Eleanor Waite: ADORABLE. You would have wanted to pinch her cheeks. Her childlike portrayal worked very well with Kristi Holden's dreamy Christine, but she still had depths, intelligence and courage you would not have expected from her.

Georgia Ware: I say Olivia Safe is the Dora Brunlow of Christines, meanwhile Georgia is the Dora Brunlow of Megs. Another one of the kitten!Megs, with a sweetness paired with a nice dose of mischief. She felt like she was more of a little sister to both Kelly Mathieson and Amy Manford's Christines, but she would always encourage them to get out of their shells and was very supportive no matter what.

Imogen-Lily Ash: She had a very special but graceful way of moving that made her look like a cross between a ballerina and a kitten, and that made her really linger on my mind after seeing the Copenhagen revival video (and mind you, it has the best cast overall I've seen in a POTO video). Like Sybille Glosted, she was very responsive to her surroudings and happenings, never had a moment where she went blank, with maybe a hint of nervousness that makes her descending into the Phantom's Lair all the more poignant.

Sara Esty: Listen, she was ready to throw hands with the so-called Angel in Angel of Music already. The Phantom is lucky to have made it out before she arrived because there would have been a fight. A determined little knight in shining armor, and I really liked her with Meghan Picerno's Christine, because they were one of those Christine/Meg pairings where they really felt like real friends.

Fernanda Muniz: Listen, I saw a picture of her with those freckles, and I was REALLY hoping she wouldn't disappoint as Meg, given the cast for the Sao Paulo revival could be a little hit and miss. She was definitely a "hit". A VERY cheery little Meg, who would spontaneously laugh at certain moments and it felt genuine every time.

I haven't seen Kelly Loughran or Erica Wong yet, but I'm really eager to because I've only heard good things about them.

Send me ❤️ and a role in a musical and I’ll give you my favorite performers in the role.

[princelydisaster]

I will preface this by saying I haven’t watched Harlots season 3 in a while and I’m not a fan of it (aside from a couple characters)

content warning - mentions of homophobia, sex work, sexual exploitation

that said, I didn’t like a lot of the story decisions and writing that season but I really wish Elizabeth Harvey got fleshed out more

I am picking up what they were putting down with her - adding another angle to the different approaches to marriage, the discourse on how many characters choose not to get married even to men they’re in loving relationships with because it means a loss of freedoms - by making her a kind of dangerous bride who takes away her husbands’ freedoms by giving him her debts

I just wish that maybe there was another layer of nuance or something there … or idk, maybe I wish she had more screen time to develop as a character

additionally I think they could’ve gone more into the topic of her being an ally and starting a Molly house with her gay son as a way to provide a safe place for men who desire other men

like she’s definitely not perfect by any means and I love messy women on Harlots but I wish they addressed the dangerous aspect of their scheme(?) where they set up a super popular house and then run when their debts are discovered. Isn’t that arguably more dangerous for their clients, when they get busted for something else and then ditch, leaving everyone else in a place that’s being investigated?

Additionally there’s also the aspect of Fredo working under his mother’s employ and what that entails - since he kinda occupies the Charlotte / Charles spot (as a bawd’s oldest child) after they both leave the show.

Like, certainly she cares for her son, but would she be as enthusiastic about starting her own Molly house if it weren’t so profitable? The taboo / illegality of men having sex with men at the time meant they could charge double what other brothels were charging…

When did he start working for her in that way? Was it voluntary, or due to their poverty? If he wasn’t into men, would they be running some other scheme for money?

I just wish the show had characters question some of the more flawed aspects of her other than the whole marriage-debt no take-backs thing

(And I feel like I’m sugar coating things but in hindsight, it is a bit morally grey to employ your own child as a sex worker. Even if they’re an adult and seem fine with it now.

Admittedly I have 0 real life sex work experience. but still, I just feel like even in ideal conditions where the person starts as an adult and chooses that job voluntarily, there’s still the aspect of transforming your relationship from that of a parent and child to that of a boss and an employee.

But knowing the canon and the Harveys’ history of debts… they most definitely did not start this under “ideal conditions” or any kind, they were most likely making tough decisions and scraping by.

I wish they had a conversation about this or something - as the whole line about her wanting a safe space is the only thing I can remember right now)

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Phantom Of The Opera extends booking to March 2024

The Phantom Of The opera London extends booking to March 2024. Get all the details and new Production images here #PhantomLondon @PhantomOpera @lwtheatres @EarlCarpenter @JRobyns @HollyAnneHull @MattBlaker

Phantom Of The Opera BOOKING EXTENDED UNTIL SATURDAY 2 MARCH 2024 FOR THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at Her Majesty’s Theatre announces today that booking is now extended until Saturday 2 March 2024. With new production images also released.  THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA currently stars Earl Carpenter as The Phantom alongside Holly-Anne Hull as Christine…

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Cincinnati’s White-Slavery Crusader Couldn’t Resist Forbidden Sweets

When Leonard A. Watson, officer of the court, was discovered naked in the bed of a known prostitute, he uttered a most unusual statement.

Watson was the Secretary – essentially the executive director – of Cincinnati’s Vigilance Society. The society was devoted to ending white slavery, the seduction of young women into prostitution. According to a report Watson compiled for national distribution, prostitution in Cincinnati was worse than anywhere in the United States.

“When Detective Sergeant Bowler of Chicago was in Cincinnati, early in the month of February, 1911, and walking through the outskirts of the ‘red light’ district with me, between eight and nine o 'clock one evening, he was aghast at what he saw, and stated that never at any time, would such things have been tolerated in Chicago, as were transpiring openly in Cincinnati. This was but another way of saying, what we, who have been waging a war against the ‘white slave’ traffic and its kindred vices, have realized for a long time, namely, that Cincinnati is perhaps the most depraved city, from the view point of public immorality, in the country.”

Cincinnati’s red-light district, from around 1880 to 1918, occupied a large swath of the West End, from Plum Street westward to Mound Street between Fifth Street and Seventh Street. On George Street, which ran between Sixth and Seventh, there were 45 brothels between Plum and Mound. Just one block of Longworth Street, which ran between Fifth and Sixth, offered 18 “bagnios.”

As the designated agent of the Vigilance Society, L.A. Watson was deputized as an officer of the Juvenile Court and given free rein to investigate wayward women in Cincinnati’s brothels, particularly to search for underage girls brought to Cincinnati across state lines in violation of the new 1910 anti-white slavery law known as the Mann Act. In fact, Watson proudly included in his national report the details of his most successful case, arresting a prostitute and her madam, both of whom were convicted of Mann Act violations.

“Emma Harris, who for twenty-three years has kept one of the largest and most lavishly equipped houses in the city, which she owns, was sentenced to four years at hard labor, in the federal penitentiary, at Leavenworth, together with the costs of prosecution.

“Bessie Green, twenty-six years old, who for several years had been an inmate of the Harris house, and who acted as the emissary of Emma Harris in bringing two girls from Charleston, W. Va., was sentenced to one year at hard labor in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, together with the costs of prosecution.”

So, imagine the surprise of Frank Kuhn, juvenile court probation officer, when he discovered Watson in flagrante delicto with, of all people, Bessie Green, in the brothel owned by the notorious Emma Harris. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [28 December 1911], when Officer Kuhn, accompanied by Cincinnati Police Sergeant John F. Ringer, pulled the blankets off Watson’s unclothed form, the Vigilance Society Secretary said:

“The jig is up, Kuhn. But don’t say anything for God’s sake. I can do you a great deal of good. I’m done and will quit. Everyone is liable to fall sometime. Don’t be too hard on me.”

To Sergeant Ringer, assigned to patrol the red-light district, Watson said something even more peculiar, suggesting that his behavior was not a one-time event:

“You’ve been trying to get me long enough.”

Publicly, Watson claimed he was framed. The nefarious white-slave ring, he asserted, had drugged him and led him into Bessie Green’s bed. He told the Cincinnati Post [28 December 1911]:

“I merely have been a fool. To think of a man of the world and sophisticated, allowing myself to be the victim of a conspiracy like this.”

There were forces at work, Watson told reporters, that implicated powerful people in Cincinnati and would shock the populace once the facts came out.

He may have been correct. Watson arrived in Cincinnati a few years before his embarrassing downfall and immediately accused the Cincinnati Police Department of lax enforcement of the vice laws, which was certainly the case. In January of 1911, Watson presented a list of people who owned property in the red-light district to a meeting of ministers. Allegedly, some of the most prominent names in Cincinnati society appeared on that list. Not surprisingly, none of the city’s newspapers would print the roll of shame.

On the other hand, Watson had a habit over several months of bouncing checks all over the red-light district. The night before he was exposed, witnesses saw Watson and a companion enter the Diamond Saloon, directly across the street from Emma Harris’ brothel. The proprietor there, J.L. Franks, told police that Watson asked to see the saloon’s girls. When Frank informed him that there were no women on the premises, Watson and his companion walked over to the Harris place.

The only outcome from any investigation were two lawsuits. Watson sued the Vigilance Society to recover back pay and the Vigilance Society sued Watson claiming he owed them money. A few members of the Vigilance Society believed Watson’s conspiracy theory and backed him in organizing a new anti-white slavery organization, but nothing came of it. The original Vigilance Society continued its work but agreed that sending male agents into the red-light district might not be the optimum approach. They advertised to recruit women agents.

Neither of the lawsuits went anywhere, both Watson and the Vigilance Society agreeing that discretion was called for as they settled privately. Emma Harris and Bessie Green both went to prison in 1913 after their appeals failed.

One footnote to Leonard A. Watson’s legacy in Cincinnati might be mentioned. Watson was among the few men who openly supported women’s suffrage. In August 1911, Watson announced a meeting to organize a Men for Woman Suffrage organization to support women’s right to vote. No one showed up.

[sihtryggr]

father, son, holy spirit.

[artnoonewants]

Poor delusional Viserys 😔

[christophernolan]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.06 | "Smallfolk"

[marleneoftheopera]

Backstage photos by Ralph Watts.

[karlrincon]

Rest in peace to an absolute treasure, Dame Maggie Smith.

They’ve been reunited 🤍

[imjulia-andilikecats]

Jacaerys "OH Not Another Step Parent" Targaryen

[marybeatriceofmodena]

All right, we need to settle this once and for all.

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HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S02E06 | dir. Andrij Parekh