#it does lose that sweetness and levity of the traditional reading of the scenes i think its super interesting and engaging and she fucking

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had to turn off my fan to be able to write this post for some reason. anyway. watched umm. poto uk restaged tour today w earl carpenter olivia brereton and simon bailey + and i like 2 see what ppl think after i watch something so i was reading some posts about the restaged + frankly ppl were sooo boring about it. they were like ohh its so aggressive and violent :( like yes. its the phantom of the opera whether alw knows it or not it is a story about abuse+misogyny. and arguably some of the abuse is worse but broadly the restaged tours big difference is that it's not shying away from the abuse. like tbf u can feel how u like w the slap i think it was awesome but that may be a result of specifically simon bailey being the coldest least empathetic and nastiest raoul ive ever seen so. could go either way. but like. the wedding dress+the choking etc. that is the substance of the text. it just feels like ppl r so obsessed w their e/c or whatever that they r trying to willfully ignore the emotional/physical/sexual abuse that is blatantly there but once him forcing her to change is slightly shown onstage instead of just implied offstage it's like. impossible to be ignored. the phantom is an abusive misogynist in this show and he always was + that is GOOD‼️ play with meeeee engage with the text with meeeee