house of phantomology

Hi, I'm Amy. I spend too much time online.

[bluecoolkind]

Hi again

It’s that weird time in between Christmas and New Year’s and I was just feeling nostalgic and missing Tumblr life.

My real world is pretty good still. My kid is almost 3 and a half. He’s my favorite person.

Still, thinking about what it was like a decade ago On Here 🤍

[jennyfair7]

Opéra Garnier/Phantom themed equestrian jump at the Paris Olympics! 🎭🐴

[bluecoolkind]

Saw a great local production last night 💚

[bluecoolkind]

i’m officially Back On Here

(photo of the Frankenstein manga i just bought)

[roadtophantom]

The Phantom of the Opera International Tour in Shanghai meets the press with a performance of Masquerade.

[bluecoolkind]

I might get back on here, idk.

I miss it!

updates: my son turns 3 next month. He is amazing and annoying all at the same time and he’s the best thing to have ever happened to me.

Last October we found a cat and her name is Louisa

Still have the husband (Tom) and dog (Nacho) as well :)

I’m going back to work in the fall after staying home for a couple years. Excited about it but kinda nervous I forgot how to do my job.

I think that’s all the updates! 🤍

[rjdaae]

Tag yourself, untitled immersive musical attraction edition

[bluecoolkind]

I’m the woman with a mysterious past

[emotionalmotionsicknessxx]

My bff made me this Phantom monopoly game for Christmas!!!! I literally can't believe how perfect it is and the attention to detail. Yes, you can play as Meg's gun, the sexy ponr shoulder from 2004, the big ass Swarovski engagement ring, and Don Juan Triumphant.

[bluecoolkind]

i love this

[bluecoolkind]

oh hey btw i got married 😎

[rjdaae]

“Greedy!”

I’m digging through my drafts, trying to find my blog’s Christmas decorations, and just found this drawing of Madame Firmin that I did for Amy a few years ago and forgot to actually post!

[bluecoolkind]

it’s framed on the wall in my hallway and i admire it every day! ❤️

[bluecoolkind]

3 month update on this guy they cut out of my abdomen… still a cool dude 👍

[bluecoolkind]

my belated post from the Grand Re-Opening

[rjdaae]

Be careful to check your Halloween candy. I just found Andrew Lloyd Webber DJ’ing a Phantom of the Opera street party inside a Toblerone

[operafantomet]

Emilie Kouatchou and John Riddle, from her Broadway premiere ( x )

[operafantomet]

Bringing Broadway back: a look behind the scenes at Phantom of the Opera, as Ben Crawford, Meghan Picerno, Emilie Kouatchou and the rest of the cast and crew prepares for the big re-opening ( from here )

[rjdaae]

As has been mentioned by others, there have been a lot of odd little lyric changes. I think most people have heard about the adoption of London’s (entirely valid), “Christine/are you alright?” in AoM and “I had hardly dreamt we’d be so blessed” in the Final Lair, and the return of “fathering gaze”, but I thought it would be interesting to talk about some of the other ones that I noticed.

They seemed to break down into a few specific categories: rhyme scheme correction, grammar correction, and disambiguation.

The most common changes I noticed seemed to be geared towards fixing slant rhymes. For example, Meg’s line in AoM has been changed from “distant from all the applause” to “[…] encores”, to ‘better’ rhyme with “the words aren’t yours” (though, IMO, the syllable placement on this one feels off in a way that sticks out worse than the original slant rhyme). I think there were at least three or four of these.

Then there were the grammar corrections. There were a few of these as well, but the one that I remember most clearly was in “Why Have You Brought Us Here”: now Christine sings, “those pleading eyes/which both threaten and adore”. (Which I’m pretty sure isn’t even the most correct of the two options, so……) (On the topic of this scene, as well, either “To the roof! We’ll be safe there!” has been removed, or the audio malfunctioned and just didn’t play.)

Then there were the ones where apparently someone just decided that the original was confusing. In this category, we find: 1. large alterations to the chandelier description in the Auction, in the continued attempt (also seen in the revised tours—though with different lyrics IIRC) to explain why the supposed “chandelier in pieces” is actually intact. And 2. pandering to the people who still don’t understand Don Juan’s very simple scheme: mainly consisting of several pronoun switches that throw off the rhyme scheme (I thought we were avoiding that now, guys?), fail to enlighten, and only serve to confuse people who do know what’s going on—”When you met, you wore your cloak” “She believes she dines with you in your master’s borrowed place”).

Overall, I couldn’t help but find every single change to be a bit jarring—that’s just want happens when you have the old versions permanently engraved into your brain—but I wasn’t offended by them. They were Fine, and it helped that they were almost entirely limited to “recitative” sections and not The Actual Songs. There was one, though, that I can only hope was a flub: when the Phantom is goading Raoul into the Final Lair, instead of saying, ”Be my guest, sir,” last night he said “Of course, sir”. :|

[operafantomet]

Hi, I'm sorry to bother you, but please, may I ask you to share this? It concernes the former LND Australia and HMT Phantom Ben Lewis. His wife, Melle Stewart suffered a serious stroke and they need funds to pay for all of the therapy, but neither of them will be able to work for a long time :( there is a fundraiser at GoFundMe, just search for Melle Stewart. Thank you very much for your help.

I saw it, but I was in doubt if they wanted it shared widely. I guess all attention to the case is needed and welcome, so here goes:

Mellie Stewart, talented London-based Australian actress, had the rare but life threatening VITT response to the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. It means your body and your blood goes into overdrive because of the antibodies and reacts in highly unwanted ways. For many it ends in blood clots and strokes.

Mellie Stewart is the wife of ex-Phantom Ben Lewis and sister-in-law of ex-Raoul and Phantom Alexander Lewis. They are thus the ones boosting the Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-melle-stewart-after-lifethreatening-stroke

As you are all aware, theatre has been near non-existent during the pandemic. It means Stewart/Lewis has had a minimum of income the last 1,5 year. On top of that, when theatres are reopening, neither is able to work - Mellie because of the rehabilitation after the life-threatening condition and Ben because he needs to stay by her side. On top of that their family in Australia has been cut off from visiting them and being of physical help.

In other words... this is life hitting hard, in an already hard time. I am therefore signal boosting their Go Fund Me (link above).