#so shronk would probably be a pretty bad show

[canvaswolfdoll]

i mean... they could.

what's the phantom going to do? sue? i don't know if he legally existed to begin with, and he certainly fled the opera house in the musical*, while in the book he just settles down and lives out the rest of his days quietly in his basement house before his skeleton is ultimately found in a random vault.

also, you've forgotten the part about shronk's lead actress being a rising star, child of a world famous violinist, who is never seen again after the infamous shronk kidnapping, so as far as the public knows she's probably serial killed as well.

* arguably to set up in coney island, but maybe we shouldn't concern ourselves with love never dies.

How was the opera? Was it good? Hope there were no disastrous chandeliers crashing

Okay but actually can you imagine being a guy in the audience at the opera house, and then an evil ghost interrupts the show and kills someone? There is a crowd full of people who will never have the context to understand what the fuck happened. You’re like visiting relatives from out of town, so obviously you go to the theater, and there’s this new musical showing you’ve never heard of, and then during one of the first numbers, the lead actress gets kidnapped on stage mid-song.