Elanchana
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- Posted: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 05:52:44 +0000
Hmm, that's a really cool observation. I feel like it has to do with the musical making the most of its spectacle - Broadway theatregoers don't want a guy trying to be normal, they want a mysterious and alluring and sexy figure showing our heroine an almost magical world. Leroux!Erik is tired of living life as a ghost and wants Christine to help him move on, but ALW!Erik fully embraces the secret world, as the producers want the audience to, and wants to turn Chrstine on to it. I think part of the reason ALW's musical was so successful is that it gives people something surreal, which the book, while having better characterization and plot, can't offer as easily. This element might also be why they never mention Erik's name in the musical.
HEY GUYS. Did you know that Leroux has DELETED SCENES? Someone found a lost chapter that he wrote but never published and translated it and is now selling it on Amazon!!! (Be prepared to laugh hysterically: Erik has turned into the greatest troll of literature history.)
HEY GUYS. Did you know that Leroux has DELETED SCENES? Someone found a lost chapter that he wrote but never published and translated it and is now selling it on Amazon!!! (Be prepared to laugh hysterically: Erik has turned into the greatest troll of literature history.)