#phantom london

[spellcoats]

beatrice penny-touré (and matt hayden) in rehearsal, photographed by melanie gowie

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Flowers fade, the fruits of summer fade,

Lucy St Louis as Christine Daae, West End 2023: @callmelasagna’s master

[empathicflowers]

the phantom of the opera 40th anniversary announcement 🌹

this cast announcement has me screaming omg

source: https://playbill.com/news

[dixiaaa]

I think I forgot to share with you the finished Star Princess costume. 🙈 So… Here are some photos! This was really hard costume to make. I created a replica based on Amy's 2018 costume. 💖✨

Hope you will like it! ✨

📷: minnale_photography (Instagram)

[phantomonabudget]

The Phantom's Makeup (ALW)

Today, we're looking at the Phantom's makeup application process across multiple replica productions.

While the makeup design (prosthetic sculpts, paint scheme) have always varied between replica productions, the application itself followed the same process. First, the actor's hair is slicked back, a bald cap is applied, and glued down. Originally, these were latex (rubber) bald caps. These days, the lighter vinyl (plastic) bald caps are usually favored. Plastic caps also allow the edges to be seamlessly dissolved, creating a smooth transition from cap to skin.

Pre-painted foam latex prosthetic appliances (head crater, right cheek, and bottom lip) are then glued down, one at a time. Several productions through the years did not use a bottom lip appliance. Prosthetic adhesive (pros-aide) or a silicone -based adhesive like Telesis are most commonly used, depending on the actor's skin and sensitivity. Then final makeup is applied to the "good" half of the face and blended into the prosthetics to pull the whole look together. Lastly, the two wigs (alopecia and Valentino) are glued down and the Phantom is ready.

While silicone prosthetics are generally preferred for film and TV because of their realism and ability to dissolve the edges, foam latex remains popular for stage productions as they are usually lighter and less expensive. The distance between the stage and the audience also means that truly seamless edges are not as important as on film.

The design of the Phantom's makeup was meant to represent a congenital birth defect, not a wound sustained later in life. No single medical condition was used as a basis for his look, but several real conditions could explain different aspects of his disfigurement. While mostly just misshapen and discolored skin (as seen in these featured makeups), some designs such as the Australian and World Tours of decades past did appear to have red, raw sores at the top of the head.

Photos:

1. Michael Crawford, Original London cast

2. John Owen Jones, West End

3. Jeremy Stole, Broadway

4. Peter Jorde, Copenhagen

5. Alexander Goebel, Vienna

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[spiderphantom1993]

Dean Chisnall - The Music of the Night (14th August 2024) 7.30 performance

[pixieoftheopera]

One of my favourite things in phantom of the opera is that sometimes the actors for Raoul can’t do the jump to the phantom’s lair because they are TOO TALL 💀 one of the previous Raoul’s didn’t do the jump because the lad was too tall and as someone who is on the short side, it just makes me chuckle

[keenenthusiastinfluencer]

Audio gift Phantom of the opera west end 29 march 2025

Dean Chisnall, Eve Shanu Wilson, Joe Grriths Brown, Lily Allen-Dodd, Adam Linstead, Martin Ball, David Burlin, Victoria Ward, Millie Lyon https://mega.nz/folder/bkxVyTYA#kkRztSGvPhJRn5g3G86O0A

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