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It's getting crowded in Box 5

shoutout to the time a few summers ago when i went to Paris, basically lived in the Palais Garnier for a week, and snuck into Box 5.

i walked up to the door of Box 5 that day, and saw it was open! the staff must have forgotten to close the door after cleaning. back in the early 2000s, the Palais Garnier administration put a plaque on the inside and outside of La loge n°5 that reads "Loge du Fantôme de l'Opéra". it is officially Erik's Box.

here's what Erik's plaque on Box 5 looks like from the outside. note all the fingerprints from phans (some of which are mine).

here's where Box 5 sits in the auditorium. contrary to popular belief, Erik didn't choose the Emperor's Box (the large, ornate box close to the stage) or even the box next to it. Erik chose the plain box on the other side of the column. Erik is Emperor's Box-adjacent. he's gotta keep some semblance of humility!

i immediately went and sat in Erik's seat (the second seat on the left side of Box 5). i also knocked on the column, like Gaston Leroux instructed us to do. the marble column itself appears to be solid, but the metal base is hollow. (Leroux claimed this was where Erik hid when he performed his ventriloquist tricks, like making poor Carlotta croak like a toad)

this is the view of the stage from Box 5 (what Erik would have seen when he watched Christine perform)...

aaand here's Erik's view of the chandelier, as he dreamed of dropping it on the audience... ("Erik no! don't do it!" –the Daroga, probably)

aaaaaand then shortly after this, security came and chased us out... au revoir, Erik!

#poto #phantom of the opera #box 5 #gaston leroux #palais garnier #erik you troll

Phantom of the Opera - Hamburg 2013

Mathias Edenborn as the Phantom of the Opera in Hamburg, 2013.

Scanned from the Souvenir Brochure.

So Trump wants Phantom at the Kennedy Centre, huh!

Nadim Naaman and Ramin Karimloo MUST be in it. Like, make them look as Middle Eastern as possible, please. No white people, unless they would most definitely piss Trump off. Maybe Carlotta could be a drag queen. And Trump MUST sit in Box 5. (Also it should be a Rerik musical. They need to kiss. Very romantically. Very homoerotically. Make it supremely gay.

yupppp thats beeleth if he robot 👍

#art #my art #my ocs #beeleth tag #might make a better pic sometime else #for now this is all you’re getting #ive wanted to make a beeleth robot for a while #the horn shape is inspired by how my friend dom draws beeleth #and the legs are vaguely inspired by genesect and calne ca #not by that much though i don’t think #box 5

A quick selfie of myself and @angeliquedaae at @maggiemelodies09s performance. It’s moon-themed, so it suits her. Also, it’s very odd to sit somewhere other than Box 5 during a show.