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Christine’s hair in Andrew Riley’s design...

    Let’s just all take time to thank the wig gods that they only used the second wig for the promo video.        

But also, let’s mourn they used it for the promo video at all...

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Costume display at Denver Center for the...

  lol what’s up with the skirt        

That skirt/forepart gave up on life

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Meghan Picerno (principal, left) and Clara Verdier...

  Something about Clara and Megan’s sleeves remind me of Rebecca Caine’s Toronto dress.        

I agree! The Canadian dresses had not too unlike blue arm ruffles - in shape similar to Picerno’s dress, and in colour similar to Verdier’s dress. Here’s June Crowley (cause the photo of her shows the arm area better):

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Louise Fribo as Carlotta, though (from her...

     One of the prettiest Carlotta’s I’ve ever seen        

That, combined with THAT VOICE.... Oh wow. I loved her so in the role.

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Frida Engström in POTO Gothenburg ( X )

That set piece literally looks like a big corset lol

I think it’s intended to be? Though WHY eludes me. It fits the whole vein/branch theme this design has going on, and it echoes the corset/leather bodice Christine wears in Don Juan and the Final Lair. And yet I don’t quite get the corset symbolism here. An unfree body? Blood veins? I dunno. 

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 West End 1991 - Peter Polycarpou, Shona Lindsay,...

The Il Muto one looks like the one featuring Claire Moore as Serafimo/Christine.

That is very plausible. I’ve never seen a Il Muto picture with Claire Moore so that’s probably why I don’t recognize it.