#help me say goodbye

[the-christinedaae]

I don’t even know what to say other than my heart aches so deeply tonight. Thank you, Phantom. You’re loved by so many.

[cestlefantome]

No, we are still not ok. Phantom should still be running. But instead, early in the morning workers were already stripping the facade of the Majestic from the beautiful posters of the production and discarding them as garbage.

Petit Erik won’t have it. He was out til late putting up all the @phantomopera posters he could find.

The Music of the Night is not over.

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[icantrecallaskysoclear]

I found an old post from when I first listened to the audio slime of POTO's final performance. Reading it again made me feel a little nostalgic 🌹🎵

You guys, I’m so grateful that John Riddle came back for those last performances of POTO. I’m so glad we ended the show with him as Raoul. He was the standout in the entire cast, I love his interpretation of my favorite character. I’m hoping beyond hope we get some kind of amazing proshot for that very last night of Phantom. (Honestly, I’d gladly take even a slime tutorial of the 15th or 16th   but I don’t know how likely that is...)   Also, the audience was so enthusiastic. It makes me mist up a little. 

[septembersghost]

NOT AN UNEXPECTED TRIBUTE TO PHANTOM I AM VERY FRAGILE do they not understand my heart broke

[beesonhoneytoast]

I was about to go to sleep when my brain reminded me that tomorrow is the day MatPat officially retires from Game Theory and the other Theory channels 🥲

[anonymous-ace72]

Seeing a lot of people sharing Phantom-y memories so I figured I’d weigh in a little. 

I always thought that someday, I’d pull together the time and the money to travel to New York and see the show in all its glory. That somehow, it would always just... be there, waiting. But now that it’s ending, I just feel a little hollow. I know that it’ll probably come back, and there are always tours to go see... but it won���t be the same. It won’t be the spectacle that the original was. 

Phantom was not my first musical (that pleasure goes to either Annie or Mamma Mia) but it is the first one that I got super into. I first heard the title song in 6th grade music class, and it made such an impact on me that I downloaded the song the next time I got itunes money and listened to it on repeat while putting on my Halloween costume for school. 

I saw it in its entirety twice in my sophomore year of high school. First, I saw the movie in my theatre class. Hearing the overture and watching the movie go from greyscale to color activated something in my brain that would never turn back off. The second time, was when my mom surprised me with tickets to the restaged tour. They were the last two available for that night, so we got lucky. I remember listening to the orchestra warming up before the show, and the excitement at hearing that overture live for the very first time. I’m sad that I didn’t get to see a true chandelier fall, the theatre we saw it in just wasn’t built for it (it dropped a few feet, but never crashed onto the stage. Didn’t even start on the stage, just kind of hovered there with a cloth on top of it. Very anticlimactic). My first, and so far only, live Phantom was Quentin Oliver Lee, may he rest in peace. 

We performed Music of the Night as our ballad for my Junior year show choir package, and having to work on that for months just deepened my love for the musical, even if most of my words were just oohs and ahhs (it was acapella, and I’m an alto). We watched Youtube videos to get inspiration on how to emote, I specifically remember watching Norm Lewis and Sierra Boggess. Norm actually came and did a masterclass at my university last month, and I would have gladly skipped class to watch him speak if I didn’t have a French quiz at the same time (I am still super pissed about that). 

The musical has led me to consume other Phantom forms of media, such as the book, the 1990 miniseries, and some kind of video game where you play as Christine and Raoul’s daughter and get kidnapped by Erik. I’ve tried reading the book in its original French text with... very little success. I’ve cosplayed the Phantom, and am finally going to bring the costume to a con after many much needed refurbishments. 

This musical has honestly become a comfort for me, and I love it dearly. It’s so sad to see it go, this thing that’s brought me much joy these past several years. Honestly, I cannot think of a time in recent years where I was as happy as I was when I saw it live. But hey, maybe I’ll get the chance to see it again someday.

Until then, it’s over now, the music of the night.

[serafimo]

Holly-Anne Hull as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera. West End revival, 2023. Holly's last show. 🎥: @callmelasagna.

[penofwildfire]

Geo and Bonzle's relationship is something so nebulous and not entirely definable but so, so incredibly loving. Less father and daughter and more older brother and teen sister that he feels responsible for. She showed up when he was at his absolute lowest, barely keeping himself alive as day after day after day of agonizing loneliness went by. She knew that loneliness all too well and they found so much comfort in eachother. And even as their family grew their dynamic never really changed. I just. Hrghghhghghghgghgghgghhfjfjfhfjgjghggjjghgh 😭💕💕

[allpromarlo]

can’t stop thinking about sukuna having yorozu’s bare tits in his face and just. looking away

[wowa-bublord]

How can you want an eternity of loneliness?

[cestlefantome]

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Today is a sad day for me, one that I honestly never believed I would witness. My Phan mind thought @phantomopera would outlive us all (🎶would you still play when all the rest of us are dead…🎶). Unfortunately someone decided otherwise. I first saw Phantom in 2001, but I was already fascinated (meaning obsessed) by our (mine) masked genius since reading the book when I was 11. Somehow, I’ve always related to Erik. We all have our moments of feeling as an outcast, of not belonging, of feeling unlovable. To me, Erik represents our inner strength, our resilience to survive despite all the odds, to feel with intensity (for good and for bad), to create beauty and to have a greater than life ability to love. I feel sorry for all those who can’t see beyond his mask, who can only see ugliness and his misdeeds, who mimic those who in the story, can’t show compassion to this amazing man, who I have no doubt, if he had lived, would have been the eternal ruler his chosen name suggests. He is already the eternal ruler of my life. Phantom will keep alive inside all of us who love him, his music won’t ever be silenced and he WILL BE BACK!

Petit Erik is starting a campaign for his show to reopen in NY and play forever. He’s already having posters placed everywhere so he won’t be forgotten.

It is not over…

[emotinalsupportturtle]

the bigeneration or whatever may not have made sense but it means I didn’t have to say goodbye to David Tennant again AND it led to these moments

multiple doctors meeting can actually be something so personal

[faaun]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

[braisedhoney]

some tragic love stories be like: if i could bottle the galaxy, i would pour it into a cup so it would be easier for you to drink. do you want them? do you want the stars? or do they suit you better as adornments for your eyes than glitter on your lips?

but they don’t want the stars. they don’t want the galaxy. but how can they not? is that not enough? (it’s too much, that’s the problem. it’s too much.)

[anonymous-ace72]

Today is the day

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: made a HUGE amount of progress this week (for context—purple is unfinished & yellow is finished; last week all of them were purple) … i am in the home stretch here