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PotO in Paris! Yea or Nay?

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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.)

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I was going to mention, it wouldn't be much of a musical of Erik kept refusing to play his music.

Oh my god, there's a lost chapter??

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I want to read the lost chapter but I have no kindle! emotion_0A0

A friend of mine went to a store called Creature Features in Burbank and was cruel kind enough to send me pics. They have so much Phantom stuff! Most of it's based on Lon Chaney's Erik but there's some ALW stuff too. Someone buy me a plane ticket and give me their credit card, I have some shopping to do.
There's a Kindle program you can download for your computer, or you can get the physical version. Either way, you will NOT regret it. It is beautiful.

Gahhhhhh I want to go to that place! Chaney!Erik merch for the win!

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I didn't know you could download kindle for computers, that'll make things a lot easier - more and more of the things I want to read are only available as ebooks these days. emo Thanks for the tip!

I love Chaney!Erik. I need more 1925 movie merch.

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I woke up singing Phantom again..

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Here's a little something the Broadway forum has going on today.

The Opera of the Phantom
Is this about the book? Because I am currently reading the book.

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Is this about the book? Because I am currently reading the book.

It's about everything Phantom! biggrin How are you liking the book?

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#21

Guys, look at #21.

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Oh my. The after doesn't look too much better than the before, but I guess that's the risk of being the first to try something, or at least among the first. It almost looks like a skin mask.

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Ohh god. If Erik's mask was just, some other flab of flesh...

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Ah, that man was Harold Gillies' first patient. He got better at facial reconstruction surgeries with practice, but if you google image search him just be aware that some of these "before" pictures make Erik look like a male model.

(Personally I find #13 on that list to be much more terrifying. WTF.)
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Ohh god. If Erik's mas was just, some other flab of flesh...

*cough Erik Destler cough*
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Ohh god. If Erik's mas was just, some other flab of flesh...

*cough Erik Destler cough*


*insert semi-graphic image to drive home point*

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