“The sound of her sobs echoed through the silence, carrying through the thin walls to the hollow space beyond. Her voice and all its sorrow was heard, but not by an angel. That night, while the rest of Paris celebrated, two souls broken by the world wept together.”
Description: A retelling of the classic tale in which Christine and the Phantom end up together, but it works. Original work but with elements of Leroux, Kay, ALW, and 2004 movie blended in.
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Special thanks to @erik-carierre for the WONDERFUL cover!!! Please check out their blog if you haven’t already!
Christine Daae is a grief-stricken girl. The one person that mattered to her most in the world died and left her orphaned. She looks for him everywhere but can’t seem to find him. Until one day the angel he promised to send her seemingly comes. Is it far fetched? Maybe to a normal person sure. But Christine isn’t a normal person, she’s a shell of who she used to be. The grief she feels is all consuming, and finally maybe there is a source of solace for it. A sign from her father, a path that will lead her back to to him and who she used to be. But of course it’s a lie, a trick done by another whose life is also full of grief. Just a different type. I truly believe part of her loves Erik because he gave a piece of her father back to her, but another part of her resents Erik because he took it away again.
Simon Pryce & Ana Marina, POTO Australian Tour 2008
Simon Pryce is a Phantom that had to grow on me. He understudied Anthony Warlow, who is one of the more volatile Phantoms and yet I think Pryce's Rik is at his core a gentle giant. He carries his big frame with the awareness that between his face and his towering size could easily frighten Christine away.
Well I decided to change this piece a bit. I really didnt enjoy that it looked that flat so I corrected lightening (especially) and some tiny details as his skin and her face. I love this version much more✨️
guys who terrorize the opera garnier exploit the managers for 20000 francs a month stalk and kidnap a soprano be like “who want me 🤤 ” bitch the gendarmerie.
Saturday, August 8, 2026 • 9 p.m. EST: Hugh Panaro/Elizabeth Welch/Jeremy Hays(Broadway 2014)
After last week's diversion--a Gaston Leroux "The Phantom of the Opera" musical adaptation (decidedly NOT the Andrew Lloyd Webber version) from Spiritual Twist Productions--we head back to Broadway and the world of ALW POTO with a performance featuring one of the all time great Phantoms, Hugh Panaro, who just ended (for now) a run in the most recent ALW immersive Phantom adaptation "Masquerade".
Mr. Panaro has played the role of the Phantom on Broadway over 2,000 times. Adding in his Phantom performances in Masquerade results in an unofficial total of somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500-2700 performances in this role. (He has also appeared on Broadway as Raoul.) If there are any Hugh Panaro scholars out there with more exact numbers for his turns as the Phantom and Raoul in Phantom of the Opera and as the Phantom in Masquerade, please let me know!
He is a huge fan favorite, bringing a smug and unhinged playfulness to the role, and he seems to delight in changing it up for every performance. In a 2024 interview for Musical Theater Review, when asked what advice he would give to young performers he said "...I would say bring as much of your authentic self to every role as humanly possible. Every artist is unique and has to be “captain of his own ship”. My acting teacher called it your “special self”. You cannot do anyone else’s work but your own. If I tried to do Michael Crawford’s performance as the Phantom, it would merely be an imitation, it would not be authentic to me, Michael Crawford, or the audience. It’s tremendously scary to be open and vulnerable but I truly believe it is also our greatest “super power” as an actor."
So come enjoy Hugh's special self with the wonderful Elizabeth Welch as Christine and Jeremy Hays as Raoul. While during Fish's 300 Stream Run Hugh and company have been streamed nine times, this particular performance makes its first appearance on Saturday Streams.
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