This Week's Phantom Spotlight: Marcus Lovett

The "Isn't he sexy" stream notes

'Blair Witch Phantom' by @illuminaughty and 'Mr incel dungeon' by @flora-gray as alternaitve titles

The VHS quality in general made it so cozy

Someone noticed how this production's Carolotta really embodies Belle Époque, I see that

Someone has said it was 'one of the Three Sit-Down Productions in the U.S. back in the 90s' - this one by Christine Company (LA), and @phantoonsoftheopera kindly listed all 4 companies: Phantom (Broadway), Christine (LA & SF), Raoul (2nd Natl Tour), and Music Box (3rd Natl Tour)

apparently, Oracle of Delphi was high from the geothermal vents @illuminaughti-online . It seems like academics found some evidence for gases which could cause vivid imagery, but it's up for a debate whether there were enough exposure to chemicals to cause these hallucinations

Trivia about the Crawford production that's new to me: apparently, at first many expected little from Crawford's Phantom since he was more used to comedy parts @stephistopheles

In the same lieu, from @glassprism: '@daaesviolin I remember Operafantomet talking about how both Crawford and Brightman sang using, what, an elder RP accent is what it might be called? It's not really taught anymore I think, so you don't hear it nowadays'

List of Phantom actors with 'ghostly' voices: Michael Crawford, Hugh Panaro, Davis Gaines, Alexander Goebel, Masachika Ichimura, Peter Karrie

Someone noted Crawford moves like a panther (in parallel to other Phantoms who are lizard-like)

@lit-ari-ture has found an academic article that discussed Michael Crawford's hands a lot! "‘Think of me fondly’: Voice, body, affect and performance in Prince/Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera" (tmblr doesn't let me link the pdf here, but if you google it it should pop up on the 1st page)

Isabel Leonard in her trouser roles like Cherubino (when discussing Christine's Serafimo)

@haunted-hideaway: Aww man I miss Car Talk @illuminaughti-online: Gondola Talk got you covered

I forgot to copy it, but I think Celina mentioned how the monkey costume during Masquarade both mirrors Erik's Monkey music box, and possibly represents Christine's anxiety about him

it was far-reaching (which was the original, until someone ad-libbed it, and then it was transferred to libretto; most of this PotO trivia here is from Celina, thank you for sharing the knowledge!)

Legs.

1. Jeremy Stolle 2. Davis Gaines 3. Hugh Panaro 4. Ivan Ozhogin 5. Ben Lewis 6. Gary Mauer 7. Howard McGillin 8. Earl Carpenter 9. Mathais Edenborn

Earl Carpenter

Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you

@whynotraisealittlehell

‘It has to be said that Warlow put on a magnificent performance, providing Brightman with unstinting backing and support – even if he did eclipse her in some parts. […] He lifted many of the duets, such as Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life) and All I Ask of You, above some of the original versions.’ (x)

Anthony Warlow singing an utterly swoon-worthy Raoul alongside Sarah Brightman’s Christine during The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber concert tour in 1996

(And yes, I still can’t believe this exists. His “Christine” asdfghjkl)

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

-Gregory Orr, “When Eurydice saw him” from Orpheus & Eurydice

Gaaaaaah that first gif is literally a permanent fixture in my brain.

earl

If this is the level of character analysis Jordan Donica put into his performance as freaking LANCELOT DU LAC then I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WTF HE WOULD COME UP WITH FOR THE TITLE CHARACTER IN PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AND IF THERE IS A GOD PLEASE ANSWER MY PRAYER AND MAKE THIS CASTING HAPPEN I AM BEGGING YOU.

I'm banging my head on the walls of my enclosure don't text DON'T CALL!!!!!!!!

#I am screaming

Not this…

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