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Fandom: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Christine Daaé/Erik | Phantom of the Opera
Characters: Christine Daaé, Erik | Phantom of the Opera
Additional Tags: Leroux-ish, shameless Jane Eyre reference, Fluff, fluff?, Christine Daaé is a nearsighted lil weirdo & I love her for it, POTO Fluff Week 2023
Summary:
Christine & Erik find love & comfort, side by side.
Written for POTO Fluff Week 2023, Day 1: Reading a Book
Please read, review, comment, whatever your heart desires. This is the first fanfic I’ve ever uploaded anywhere, so I’m a little nervous, ngl.
Big thanks to @textsfromthefifthbasement for hosting such a fun week!
“you’re such a ray of sunshine!” thanks! one day i chose to act happy and then i kept choosing it over and over and over and over until the neurological pathways formed like desire paths in the thicket. i dug and clawed my nails into the grooves of my brain and carved out joy. i retouch it every day.
you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.
(writes something) god this sucks so bad. this is awful. i'm the worst writer ever. this is nothing. (rereads it a while after writing it) oh dude this is fire. i'm the god of writing. (writes something again) god this sucks so bad. th
I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.
-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women
the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either
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 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.
As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome!
⭐Link and password will be posted here at 8:45 the day of the stream.
⭐For more info, please see the Saturday Streams FAQ
⭐Remember to follow @from-aldebaran for stream posts going forward.
⭐PFPs featured on the Saturday Streams banner are left to right Streams Founder @operaofthephantom, 300 Club Streams Host @wheel-of-fish, new host @from-aldebaran, and our Phantom Founder, Gaston Leroux. Massive thanks to @opera-ghost for the PFP additions to Fish's original banner design.
