Pharoga Hell

We're all burning in Pharoga Hell here rip in peace our souls

[let-her-mind-wonder]

Girls don't want boys. Girls want The Persian in their 'Phantom of the Opera' Adaptations

[twenty-thousand-franks]

“Sadly in the London Production [the chandelier] falls very slowly because of Health and Safety. I always wanted to have a block of seats in the middle of the stalls that were 50p each and you had to sign a form, saying “I sit in this seat at my own risk” and really have the chandelier belting down. In the Australian Production - naturally, them being Australians - the chandelier comes down at a hundred miles an hour and stops an inch above the heads of the audience, and is much more exciting. I’ve seen chandeliers fall now at productions all over the world and you can kind of tell which country you’re in by the speed of the chandelier.”

— Richard Stilgoe, Co-Lyricist on Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera [in regard to his feelings on the Falling of the Chandelier and International Productions] (via theragamuffininitiative)

[vernal-witch-deactivated2025051]

One more thing I would change about The Phantom of the Opera in general: ERIK! IS! NOT! A! RAPIST! STOP MAKING HIM ONE IN ADAPTIONS!!!

[bitchinasparagus]

Fun fact…… that kinda ruined the ending of the book for me (and I refuse to suffer in silence)

So you know the whole “mingling of tears” thing at the end of Leroux? I can’t remember it verbatim, but Erik started crying at Christine’s feet, then Christine started crying, and then Erik took off his mask as to not loose a single one of her sweet tears. This is the cathartic moment of the book where he decides to let her go.

Well, this is a late-Victorian era book, and what do those high-laced Victorians love? SEX. But not just any sex- sneaky innuendo sex. We see this in other Victorian literature- anything by Byron ofc, much of the Brontë sisters, DRACULA (blood sucking = sex). I’m telling you, Victorians loved sex that wouldn’t be recognized by, say, a child. The fact that you had to be “in the know” was all the more scandalizing and faint-worthy.

So back to Leroux- Christine and Erik “weep” together, and in the process Erik lays himself bare before her and she does not stop “weeping”. Why the fuck would simply crying be enough for him to let her go? Let’s be real, Erik is a huge crybaby, this is nothing new. But “weeping” is something else entirely- one bit of syntax I do remember is that their tears “mingled” (I’m going off of Ribière’s translation). I don’t think I really need to spell that out much more for you.

Gaston Leroux’s “The Phantom of the Opera”, when analyzed as a piece of Victorian literature, undoubtedly ends in sex.

Sex which Erik started, which Christine of her own volition joined. “Mingling”, “sweet” sex, not angry or bitter.

Tl;dr: ERIK! IS! NOT! A! RAPIST! STOP MAKING HIM ONE IN ADAPTIONS!!!

[monster-to-man]

[victorianoftheopera-deactivated]

Actually, I think it’s a very, very exaggerated claim to make that they had sex. In fact, it’s just… not true. I’m sorry, but this is exactly opposite of the claim against overt and unwarranted sexual context in the fandom.

Sex was just improper to mention in Victorian times—not to mention that Phantom of the Opera was written considerably after the stories mentioned.

Dracula, is of course, a parallel to sexual themes. I could go off on that entirely, but it is much more laden with such motifs and purposefully so. Phantom of the Opera, however, is a MYSTERY NOVEL. Not even to mention that blood sucking isn’t actual sex, but a parallel. Dracula and Mina never actually have relations.. I can’t believe I just said that sentence, but it’s true. She is TAINTED by him, and this is a SYMBOL of rape/sex, but NOT to imply it happened.

Wuthering heights is a darker novel and has such passionate themes, but again—not everyone is OBSESSED with sex in Victorian times any more than they are now. It was simply improper to mention it.

Erik and Christine do not have sex at the end of the novel, nor in any instance (except Kay). if ANYTHING there are parallels to themes of LOVE and ACCEPTANCE. Also, in Leroux, there is no reason Christine would have done so. the whole thing is about her KISS and the power LOVE has to change a person! It’s NOT some sexed up gothic tale like Hollywood often turns such novels into.

That’s not to say that the story isn’t SENSUAL. Although the original novel is debatably not. The Phantom, based in the musical, is made to be so to show the darker side of ROMANCE—but even then, no sex.

In essence, all of the aforementioned stories you’ve laid above were actually NOT Written to express sexualized actions like HOLLYWOOD has turned them into, but rather to make insight into human condition and love itself.

If anything, false information like this further spreads the unnecessary sexual themes (LIKE RAPE) in the context and pollutes a very poignant love story

[vernal-witch-deactivated2025051]

Reblogging this addition to my post for the rebuttal because it’s 100% right. Erik and Christine did NOT have sex in Leroux nor ALW. Saying they did tarnishes the love story and makes it easier for the rape-apologist type adaptions to gain more traction.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Not to be dramatic but "all I ask of you" from phantom of the opera is THE most tender love ballad ever written and I can't listen to it in the car because I become so overcome with yearning that I'm a hazardous driver

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

The fact that only two songs after the Phantom sings "music of the night" for Christine she sings to Raoul "all I want is freedom, a world with no more night," and Roaul says

Im

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

The fact that the phantom's love song to her is him asking her to sacrifice everything she knows, to "purge all thoughts of the life [she] knew before,"

And immediately afterward Raoul's love song to her says "anywhere you go, let me go too. love me, that's all I ask of you," telling her her life is her own and all he wants is the chance to be a part of whatever she decides that means........

That she doesn't get to sing a line in Music of the Night but in All I Ask of You she gets to tell Raoul what she wants and he responds that he'll deliver it........

[fdelopera]

Studio Life’s Japanese production of Susan Kay’s Phantom.

Starring Yoshiki Yamamoto as Erik and Shinya Matsumoto as Christine.

To watch video clips of this production, visit my YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FdelOpera/videos

[nowicantlose]

The Phantom of the Opera is here

[bufferingad]

Christine: *walking towards her father’s crypt as the phantom sings* Daddy?

Phantom: *jumping off the roof* DO I LOOK

[brokendreamsanddoggomemes]

eXCUSE ME

[muirin007]

What IS it with Gaston Leroux and all caps? I'm just here, minding my own business, trying to read the book seriously and then all of a sudden Raoul spouts out I AM THE LITTLE BOY WHO WENT INTO THE SEA TO RESCUE YOUR SCARF out of NOWHERE and I just LOSE IT

DUDE SAME EVERY SINGLE TIME IT HAPPENS THIS IS ALL I SEE:

Just unmitigated SCREAMING.

[inbetweeness]

Erik, behind the mirror:

[muirin007]

What IS it with Gaston Leroux and all caps? I'm just here, minding my own business, trying to read the book seriously and then all of a sudden Raoul spouts out I AM THE LITTLE BOY WHO WENT INTO THE SEA TO RESCUE YOUR SCARF out of NOWHERE and I just LOSE IT

DUDE SAME EVERY SINGLE TIME IT HAPPENS THIS IS ALL I SEE:

Just unmitigated SCREAMING.

[inbetweeness]

Erik, behind the mirror:

[wheel-of-fish]

At what point does the phantom caress himself? If I understood correctly it's in The Music Of The Night but I could not for the life of me find a video that has it. Is there a lyric that I should look for?

Actually, it’s in the title song! The general sequence is hat toss > cape twirl > hair slick > self-caress, as demonstrated by our pal Hugh here.

The whole thing is so delightfully extra.

[bunchips]

So I bought a Korean version of the Phantom of the Opera book, and

Look

At

These

Beautiful

Illustrations

Illustrated by Kyu Ha

[drcgonhide]

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The mashup you never thought would work

[dieharddaae-24601]

Congratu-fucking-lations.

[oneforcasual-oneforbest]

I would pay so much to have this as a ringtone I’m not even joking.

[theatreortheater]

Why?????

[calamitycons]

The face I made while listening to this was so visceral I had to draw it before reblogging it

[junovoltage]

@sillygooseface TORI I’M CRYING PLEASE LISTEN

[sursumursa-deactivated20180131]

Well. That was indeed a thing that happened.

@lindsayetumbls @elisaintime @nellachronism

(Would’ve been better with a different version of POTO but it’s irrevocably stuck in my head so…eh.)

[smiling-grouch-deactivated20241]

Holy shit.

[smiling-grouch-deactivated20241]

[eris-haumea]

Some thoughts on LND

[alvadee]

Shoutout to the Daroga!

[lordjazor]

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@phantom-of-the-keurig did this and it made me chuckle and then people wanted to hear it and @tallestsilver was kind enough to voice a Meg person and…!

[stardustch0rds-deactivated20210]

all i ask of you reprise

[lilygarlands]