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[stochastique-blog]

I can do Better

The chandelier catch from the inside, at Det Ny Teater in Copenhagen.

Photo by Michael Bothager

[glassprism]

Dearest GP,

Do you have a list of names and pics of all the people in Masquerade?

Thank you so much

No need for me to do it, @operafantomet has already done this, with links to tags that show all the photos, here. Hope that helps.

[mashi-thana]

Some of my favourite Point of no Return photos ❤️❤️

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Phantom: @xatram-cos

Christine: Me

Photos by @mariivamp

Cosplays made by us! Thanks to @operafantomet for your awesome blog and phantom knowledge!!

[andrewlloydwebber]

FAMILY MEMBERS WORKING ON THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA: A Fairly Exhaustive List

Note: I spent a significant time researching this post, searching for photos (thank you @operafantomet), and editing the photos (in some cases, significantly enhancing low quality photos). If you repost this content on another platform, credit would be much appreciated.

Annemarijn Maandag (u/s Christine in Oberhausen) and her sister Lillian Maandag (u/s Christine in the Vienna revival)

Rebecca Pitcher (Christine in the US tour, Broadway, and World Tour) and her brother Rob Pitcher (u/s Phantom, Raoul, and Piangi in Antwerp, Hamburg, and Oberhausen)

Mark Jacoby (Phantom in Chicago and Broadway) and his son Ben Jacoby (Raoul in the restaged US tour)

Ayumi Hikasa (ballerina in the 90s West End cast) and her daughter Maiya Hikasa (Meg in the West End revival)

Alexander Lewis (Raoul and u/s Phantom in the first Australian revival/World Tour) and his brother Ben Lewis (Phantom in the West End)

Morgan Cowling (Meg in the Restaged US tour) and Corinne Cowling (u/s Christine in the West End)

Per Engström (conductor in Stockholm and Copenhagen) and his daughter Christine (dresser in Copenhagen, and yes, she's named after Christine Daaé)

Sierra Boggess (Christine in Las Vegas, Royal Albert Hall, Broadway, and cancelled Paris) and Summer Boggess (cello player on Broadway)

George Lee Andrews (André and Firmin on Broadway) and his son-in-law Aaron Galligan-Stierle (André on Broadway)

In addition, there's Jan Kyhle (Raoul in Stockholm) and Magnus Kyhle (ensemble in Stockholm) but I don't have photos of Magnus in Phantom

[wheel-of-fish]

Saturday, March 16, 2024 • 9 p.m. EST: Gary Mauer, Marie Danvers & Michael Shawn Lewis (U.S. Tour 2005)

It's been a while since we watched Gary! I usually stream him with his wife, Elizabeth Southard, in this crowd favorite bootleg, but I feel like it's time to mix it up and watch him in something different. This is also a rare chance to watch Michael Shawn Lewis, who is a top-tier Raoul.

As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ! Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.

Photo scan by @operafantomet!

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 2- Group B: Umrao Jaan, Umrao Jaan (gifset) vs Christine Daae, Love never dies (pics set kindof)

Propagandas (written by submitters)

For Umrao's dress: she wears this dress when she performs this song: https://youtu.be/XXvIf4_V8Ds?si=YNMVyrRiGzt-XHCV

For Christine's dress: more pics from @operafantomet

[six-costume-refs]

You mentioned Six Korea was a replica production, what exactly does that mean with reference to the other productions?

Hey! Yes, my apologies for not defining that! “Replica production” is basically used to describe any production using the same designs and choreography (usually in tandem with any directing/cut song/etc directions) as a prior or pre-existing production of that show. For example:

- if a Broadway show opens an associated national tour, that tour is almost always a replica of the Bway production

- sometimes we see revivals that are replicas of an earlier production (this usually happens because a production closed and then reopened because that initial production had gained significant interest since, like Beetlejuice, or because the original production is just too iconic to change, like A Chorus Line)

- international productions that keep the same base design/choreography/etc as original Bway/WE would be categorized as replica

Note that all replica productions aren’t exactly identical. There’s often some variance or changes. Sometimes that’s in materials, based on differing budgets and/or supply. @operafantomet does a fantastic job of cataloguing a lot of the changes in replica, semi-replica, and non-replica Phantom productions (here’s a post showing some of the variance in replica Star Princess bodices). Sometimes it’s in choreography or blocking, with some slight changes made to adapt a show to a different stage and all the changed technical aspects that exist there (different dimensions or set-ups). The musical Fun Home was built to be performed in-the-round, so when they switched to a national tour they had to re-block the production to work in typical proscenium theaters. Even Six has some of these changes - all current productions are technically replicas, but of course many of the productions use different materials and have some changed staging!

On the other hand, non-replica productions are new productions that don’t take heavily to the point of near-replication from prior productions, often with a different creative team. Nearly every revival is non-replica. Some international are as well; take this as an example of Anya’s red and gold dress from Anastasia as an example:

Left is Veronica Stern, currently Anya in the replica 2nd US Tour. Right is Pia Piltz, recently Anya in the non-replica Finnish production. The Finnish designers did take some loose inspiration with the color scheme, updo, and silhouette, but it’s obviously not anywhere near identical, is designed by someone else, and is part of a non-replica production.

Or with regards to recent UK productions, the current Newsies production very notably doesn’t use the initial choreography/staging/design of the initial Bway/US Tours and would be referred to as non-replica as well (it’s adapted brilliantly actually, I’ll talk about that sometime).

You also may sometimes hear the term “semi-replica.” It’s not half as common and not really an official term in the same way that replica and non-replica are, but people sometimes use it to describe productions with both replica elements and entirely original elements. Phantom has had a few productions that people will sometimes describe as semi-replica; the pared-down production that opened on the West End post-lockdown would be one example (again, if anyone is interested in examples I’ll refer you to @operafantomet).

Hope that clears things up!

[noppan]

Using LUMA AI to morph between the different MOTN poses of The Phantom Of The Opera. Depicted: 1. Jonathan Roxmouth & Emilie Lynn (Manila 2012) 2. Ramin Karimloo & Amelia Milo (Italy 2023) 3. Josh Piterman & Amy Manford (Australia 2022) 4. Radim Schwab & Tereza Štěpánková (Czech Republic 2023?) 5. Joshua Robson & Georgina Hopson (Sydney Harbour 2022) 6. John Martin Bengtsson & Hanna Ulvan (Sweden 2022) 7. Espen Grjotheim & Astrid Giske (Oslo 2018) 8. Fred Johanson & Sofie Asplund (Finland 2017) 9. Stephen Hansen? & Maria Listra? (Estonia 2014)

Photo credits : @operafantomet on tumblr.

[rom-e-o]

So the Danish dub of Scrooge has Tomas Ambt Kofod as Scrooge.

Me: he's...a REALLY good singer. He has to sing for a living. Not all of Scrooge's voice actors sing (why would you cast them in a musical, but hey, whatevs), but THIS ONE does. He has to. He sings too suspiciously well.

YEAH, HE SURE DOES. HE'S THE DANISH "PHANTOM".

EDIT: So I found a Copenhagen 2018 production, and...yeah, he's really good. ANOTHER EDIT: Go to 12:27 (13:00 is when it's like 'okay, you have to be a professional, that's too smooth'.)

[trashasaurusrex]

tumblr this looks stupid. really stupid.

(not operafantomet, they're lovely and post some very good stuff about costuming. <3 i'm talking about the new bullshit layout)

[marianagarciagr]

Sadly Galinda's Wardrobe website is down. There are a few photos left on the Internet Archive if you look through the Wayback Machine, but Most if not all of the photos from non-US productions are gone forever.

hello! since you're basically the costume queen, i thought i would ask here if you know of any costume blogs for wicked the musical? i'm aware your speciality is phantom, but if you know of any wicked blogs or websites, could you please link them (or let me know if you do post a bit of wicked)? thanks!

My knowledge on Wicked is shallow at best. Hopefully someone else can offer some good blog tips? Anyone? Keep an eye on the answers on this post, to see if good suggestions turn up :)

[glassprism]

Hey GP, what's the deal with getting Raoul all wet and torn before final lair? I've seen some *ahem* ones where his shirt is so wet it's see through lol😂Do you have a gifset of him being sponged/sprayed? TY!

Well, you might recall that during the title song and 'Down Once More', we see the Phantom rowing Christine across a lake?

You might also realize too that the Phantom has the only boat to row across the lake. And that he docked it at his house once he got himself and Christine there.

This of course means that there's no boat for Raoul to use, and the lake's not going to disappear just because he's the "Hero". So what's a guy to do? He's going to swim across.

So that's the purpose of wetting Raoul down and tearing his shirt, to show that he literally swam across that lake to get to Christine and possibly encountered all manner of obstacles and traps too. Continuity! And in fact, Raoul's shirt is deliberately made of a material that will look see-through and very wet, because remember, this is theater, and you have to get that effect across to people all the way at the back of the stage.

The sponging and spraying down occurs backstage, but the ever-reliable @operafantomet has a great photoset here which also includes backstage videos of the process. I hope that helps!

[emotionalmotionsicknessxx]

I know I know I haven't finished the cosplay I started last year but if I post about it maybe that will hold me accountable.....

My two costume plans for this year (after getting the Masquerade tights at the Broadway Flea!)

(photocred: operafantomet)

[bookwormscififan]

Reveal Time!

Here's the reveal video for my Wishing Dress! You have no idea just how happy I am that I finished this! The biggest sewing project to date!

Once again, thanks to @operafantomet for providing reference pictures and being the one-stop shop for refs so I didn't have to fill my Google search history with searches for this dress.

@iamvegorott Because you never said not to tag you in everything creative

[wheel-of-fish]

Phantom actor checklist!

I made a thing, because I love lists and checking things off and avoiding work I actually need to be doing! It contains almost all the actors I could find who have played the Phantom in both the original musical and/or Love Never Dies.

Use the list however you want—actors you've seen live, seen in bootlegs, listened to in audios, or some combination of the three! Let me know in the tags how you did!

Special thanks to @operafantomet, @roadtophantom, and @glassprism, whose blogs I mined heavily for this list.

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 1- Group B: Christine Daae, Love never dies (pics set kindof) vs Shannon Christie, Far and away (pics set)

Propaganda for Christine's dress (written by a submitter):

More pics from @operafantomet