#ted keegan

[dailyphantomhands]

Ted Keegan (with Emilie Kouatchou)

[wheel-of-fish]

hey fish! i was wondering if you have any recommendations for the portrayals of erik that are more on the sweet or tender side of the spectrum? or especially tender moments some actors have done? thanks!

Yeah sure! These are the actors who come to mind offhand.

Earl Carpenter (with Rachel Barrell)

Ted Keegan (with Emilie Kouatchou)

Josh Piterman (with Kelly Mathieson)

And the OG Michael Crawford, but I would actually direct you to this audio clip for him.

And here are some other tender moments that I like!

James Gant (with Holly-Anne Hull)

John Owen-Jones (with Celia Graham)

Laird Mackintosh

Saulo Vasconcelos (with Irasema Terrazas)

Michael Nicholson (with Olivia Safe)

Jeremy Stolle (with Samantha Hill)

Also this audio of Greg Mills

(Do most of my favorite tender moments involve hair and/or hands? MAYBE SO)

EDIT: This is not meant to be an exhaustive list! Please feel free to add your own!

[greenstripedcat]

The looming weens stream notes

alternative title: transmission from socks' pocket stream

@brideofmirrors: warp i'm weaving on a loom during stream and the vertical strings are called a warp and i just wanted you to know that i was like omg warp... like from stream @batherik: I'm guessing warp knows their looms. such as a weighted loom perhaps @funeral-lilies: looms are fun! i've done weaving on a backstrap loom @litloverscorsetlaces: A little il-loom-ination

@warpweight: she warp on my weft til my heddle becomes rigid. ok thats it from me

@les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques: stranger than you've weened it

Elizabeth Welch as Carlotta, Jim Weitzer is André (he is a former Raoul actor); Giri is Rebecca Eichenberger from a google search (also, awesome chatelain as always)

[on the excellent video quality] @motelpearl: this mcdonalds pepsi quality @funeral-lilies: mcdonalds sprite so crisp

@socksatwork (@meilas): Socks: what can we get for you? Socks’ pocket: [screaming]

@from-aldebaran: Don’t think about the way things might have ween @litloverscorsetlaces: Can it be Christween?

@almostemilyy: there's something SO charming about the really young christines. all of them have been so sparkly and sunshiney

The boot is from 10.04.2022

The most hand ranking by @wheel-of-fish: 1. Saulo Vasconselos 2. Brad Little 3. Gant. Notable mentions of Thaxton and Crawford in the chat

That scene in the end of STYDI, when Ted reaches out, almost toucing Christine's face, and feels like he is about to say somehting to her....

@les-gnossiennes-fantomatiques: its ween in gold

Fic recommendation! The Patron Saint of Lost Voices by @almostemilyy

[on il muto] @warpweight: i know it happens every week. but i love when he laughs at his own joke

@symphony-in-a: And now the phantom is like yeah you know what would make this extra fun? MURDER

@symphony-in-a: This was the late 1800s in Paris you know the crowd would be weirdly stoked by all this. They had nothing else to entertain them as well @wismoth: oh 1881 Paris would revel in that shit the British operas would be so jealous of the scandals

John Riddle's Raoul moistening video

Chat in the break discussing autumn, and how perfect jazz, fuzzy socks and cinnamon rice pudding is for the season; also winter birding (owls and warblers!). Tea and elderberry pies mentions

Birds mentioned:

[on the Red Death] @ravens-repine: happy dia de los muertos

@from-aldebaran: Just love how all the managers would have had to do is ask Mme Giry one question and she would spill the tea like Niagra Falls

@funeral_lilies: idk man raoul just gives me spongebob vibes all the time @funeral_lilies: l'eponge de chagny

Chat, it is fathering today! appropriately so, as @briarlily said, "ted is high key daddying"

@littlelattewanders: Sometimes i just think about "the ducks warring in" and want to hear it so bad [Peter Karrie interview excerpt for context]

Is that Jeremy Stolle in PONR?

The PONR blocking and the way Emilie played in particular gives way more control to Christine in this scene, both emotionally as she doesn't try to run, chases after Phantom herself, and in general as she outsretches a hand to stop the policemen. Interesting to see this interpretation

Emilie's gentle kiss in the final lair, the absolutely pathetic, heartbreaking last 'I love you!' from Ted... A very charged Final lair

[phandompenny]

I love the story of POTO

[litloverscorsetlaces]

Recent Phantoms I've Watched in 1-2 Sentences

[Mostly in the order I've recently watched them, which is random.]

Ted Keegan: A legend. Very much "I know how I want to interpret this character and I will do it consistently well over 20+ years and still make you cry each time."

Jeremy Stolle: The acting is always there, but the voice comes and goes? King of mishaps.

Paul Schaefer: I've only seen one vid of him. His Phantom is literally diabolical up to the very last minute and it's...interesting.

Ben Crawford: Great voice before the post-COVID struggles, but questionable acting decisions. Oddly enough he grew more as an actor as his vocals declined.

Dean Chisnall: Such a shy and sensitive Phantom who sings every note with ease! He wins the award for best reptilian stomach crawl during STYDI.

Laird Mackintosh: He was a solid understudy in the 2010s, but I was awed by how he totally owned the role as a cover in 2023 up to closing. He really brings the heat in the first lair.

James Barbour: Ruined by the legal issues and the fact that I saw him as Rochester first.

Killian Donnelly: He's the perfect combination of sensitive acting and a great voice. Always sticks the landing in the final lair, but he does it a different way each time so every performance feels new.

Tim Martin Gleason: He has the most beautiful hands and I love how soft and tender he becomes after the kiss. He genuinely wants Christine and Raoul to escape safely, like what??

Norm Lewis: If Erik was your dad...but also your toddler?

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Drinks up also for the Christines who go for a full embrace

1. Lisa Vroman (w. Brad Little, US TOUR)

2. Elizabeth Welch (w. Ted Keegan, BROADWAY)

3. Samantha Hill (w. Hugh Panaro, BROADWAY)

4. Olivia Safe (w. Ian Jon Bourg, HAMBURG)

[opera-ghost]

[andrewlloydwebber]

Original Broadway “Little Band”- Rebecca Luker, Nicole Fosse William Scott Brown, and Peter Kevoian. 

Final Broadway Little Band- Elizabeth Welch, Giselle O. Alvarez, Richard Poole, and Ted Keegan.

Second photo from Elizabeth Welch's Instagram