#not tagging them all

[whatdoessunshinetastelike]

htf gang i drew a few weeks ago but kept forgetting to post

[raspberrywiskey]

watching d20 for the first time. really enjoying it so far! riz my unfortunately named son

[operafantomet]

I’m curious, what is the reason a production will give a Christine actress a blonde/different colored wig? I know smaller productions often have a blonde Christine (I think at least) but like- London for example, I thought they had a few Christine’s with a blonde wig, I assumed because the actress was a blonde but I swear there were some blonde Christine’s that also had a dark wig as well. Is there any reason for this? Or is it just random?

I the earliest days of POTO there was a will to adapt the 'Degas' wig to whoever played Christine and Meg. Whereas all three original Christines in West End followed the Sarah Brightmanesque look with big brown curls, they did feature Patti Cohenour on Broadway with a much lighter brown wig, to adapt to her colouring. It wasn't blonde, but it was a light auburn / reddish brown:

For the original Toronto production they also changed Susan Cuthberg's wig from brown to blonde during her run, making her the first blonde ALW Christine out there. This too was due to it being closer to her own colouring:

Equally, Janet Devenish started out with a very red Meg wig in West End. Later in her run it was changed to a blonder one. It's the blonde look that's stuck on Meg, but interestingly she was a redhead first!

A final example from early POTO days is that original Australian Meg, Sharon Millerchip, started out as a blonde, but it was decided that a brunette wig looked better on her. Once again to adapt to the actress' natural colourings.

But later in the 1990s the general formula stuck. Christine as a brunette, Meg as a blonde. A handful of Christines in West End was featured with auburn wig to match their own colouring, and one or two Megs got a brown wig, but they were definitely the exception rather than the rule. Especially in the US and the World Tour the Christines has worn a general dark brown wig completely unrelated to what hair colour they have in real life. This is what is generally done for the replica production, as the design indicates brown curls, but with some exceptions here and there.

With the first ever non-replica production, in Hungary 2003, their Christines partly wore their own hair, braided, with extensions in the back. This meant that a variety of colours has been seen there: Vanilla blonde, darker blonde, auburn, brunette. Here's barbara Fonyo (auburn), Renata Krassy (blonde) and Andrea Maho (brunette):

The non-replica productions that followed chose different strategies:

The 2008 Polish production emulated the 2004 movie, with curly brown wigs

The 2013 Restaged Tour did a less curly, general brown wig

The 2014 Estonian production featured their Christines with their actual hair colour (one brunette, one blonde)

The 2014 Czech production stuck fairly close to the original design, with long brown curly wigs,

The 2015 Finnish/Swedish production tried out different shades of red; first strawberry blonde, then flaming red.

The 2015 Romanian production and later Norwegian/Greek/Tour version went blonde. The Romanian production featured the actress' own hair, while the others has done wigs. But there's been different shades of blonde, different lengths and different curls. Gaston Leroux has been mentioned as inspiration.

The 2017 Serbian production also featured their Christine with their respective hair, which gave one blonde and one brunette.

Ditto for the 2019 Bulgarian production, ranging from light brown to black hair.

The 2020 Swedish production first went red for Christine. I have read they thought it was never done before and that's why they wanted to try it out (but as seen above, the Finnish/Swedish production beat them to it). When a new principal Christine was cast they gave her a blonde wig, to better match her colouring.

The 2022 Sydney Harbour production did fairly classic brown curly wigs.

The 2023 new Romanian production also feature Christine with her own hair - like the original Romanian production, and incidentally the same actress. But it looks like there's a bit of extensions going on as well.

Last, but not least, the 2023 Mediterranean production premiering in Italy did somewhere between honey blonde and auburn.

So in large, a non-brown Christine wig seems to be a way of adapting the hair to the actress - whether a wig is in use or not. In some cases it's also a way of actively differentiate the look from Maria Bjørnson's original design (as well as the iconic Mary Philbin look).

In replica production the 'wildest' things they did in the 1990s and early 2000s was auburn Christine wigs, and primarily in West End. But in the later 2000s more variations started to appear. The very light brown wigs of Janine Kitzen in Stuttgart and Robyn North in West End comes to mind, and Anne Görner's fairly redhead wig. Then Harriet Jones' first auburn red wig in West End, and them going all blonde on Emmi Christensson. Again the overall strategy seems to be to match the actress' own colours and the wig. Left: Anne Görner in Essen, and right: Emmi Christensson in West End.

In recent years there's also been a will to adapt the texture of the curls. From recent West End examples there is Lucy St Louis, Beatrice Penny-Touré, Paige Blankson and Chumisa Dornford-May with afro-textured hair. Ditto for Emilie Kouatchou on Broadway. Here's Lucy St Louis with Killian Donnelly:

And then the recent wig change for Eve Shanu-Wilson in West End, which is meant to closer reflect on her heritage. Though the Phantom historian in me also thinks it brilliantly reflects on the 1990s West End wigs, so I'm doubly happy...

So yeah. Usually the variations in wig colour and curls is due to a will to reflect on who the actress is and how she looks in real life. But the wig is of course also a tool to create a certain look for a certain role. Which means that every wig is an interpretation, and a negotiation between wanted look and the many possibilities for adaption.

[transingthoseformers]

do you think the reason the malto kids had to go to the fucking north pole for a snow day episode was because Witwicky as an area was just not getting cold enough for snow in the winter anymore for the terrans to experience snow there?

[1071png]

i wanted to post this one too cuz ive been posting about DDD xD

[nyaagolor]

I love thinking about how all the big bads of AA were defeated. Manfred von Karma’s pettiness and arrogance blinded him to the fact that he created the very thing that would destroy him. Matt Engarde’s constant selfishness and betrayals left him with nothing but enemies at the end. Godot’s undoing was the past he tried so desperately to escape. Dahlia just kinda sucked at murder. The Phantom severely underestimated the love between a lawyer and his weird little girl. Garan forgot that the bonds between people, related or otherwise, are a force more powerful than fear. Kristoph just could not shut the fuck up.

[twisting-roads]

a lot of iterator designs...

[priscirat]

mygos

[antilimit]

am i cooking or not (past 30 days of music)

[agent371]

Some doodles since I started college

[edmundpevensiesqueen]

ugh i hate it when minecraft youtubers are funny bc i want to share the joke with someone but no one i know watches these people so they won’t get it bc its an inside joke ughhhhhh

[poisonblossoms12]

what are your kg ships? can be ships you absolutely love or also ships you think are cute.

Buckle up buster, I have a LOT >:D

In order of how much I like them:

Almy (MY BABIES AKSHSJDGENDGDJ), Lovegate, Billstin, Carlonty, Daverome (would be yellow but there's no yellow text), Theonny, Ozzison, Nily, Cindix or Bindy (can't decide), and that's it I think!

Actually turns out I don't have as many as I thought I did-

(Also if you're wondering why I'm posting before 5 it's because my mom let me on my phone early)

[operafantomet]

...here, in this room, he calls me softly...

Ellie Waite and Claire Lyon, World Tour

Cho Ha Rin and Song Eun Hye, Busan

Carolina Puntel and Sara Sarres, Sao Paulo

Unidentified and Ryoko Nomura (?), Tokyo

Cat Lane (?) and Claire Lyon (?), World Tour

Alexandra Young-Schmidt and Luzia Nistler, Vienna

Cat Lane and Magdalene Minnaar, Johannesburg

Mio Ogawa and Sae Yamamoto, Yokohoma (?)

Marni Raab and Jee Hyun Noh, World Tour

Claire Lyon and Hillary Reiter, World Tour revival

Claudia Cota and Silvia Tordente, Buenos Aires

Sarah Brightman and Elisa Heinsohn, Broadway

Sarah Brightman and Janet Devenish, West End

Valerie Link and Theano Makariou, Hamburg revival

Marina Prior and Sharon Millerchip, Melbourne

Asami Iwashiro and unidentified, Japan

Sandra Joseph and Kara Klein, Broadway

Sibylle Glosted and Imogen Lily Ash, Copenhagen revival

[quiverpaw]

design dump: owlnose, podlight, frostpaw, jayclaw, sandstorm, larksong, tawnypelt, lilyheart, curlfeather

[son-flower]

sketches + progress pics of the comic