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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:10 pm
I was sitting in my PJ's with my headphones on and I was listening to the prolouge and it just drew me in...and when the overture began chills just ran all over me! It was insane, that moment is in my life is just so important and I cant describe it.
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:36 pm
My first tiem I didn't care about it enough to like it as much as I do now! o_o
My friend showed me the DVD>
Friend: IT'SSOCOOLPHANTOMSOHAAAAAAAWT! whee whee whee
Me: Cool ... confused
Friend: NOLOOKITCOMESHEREHEIS!
Me: Oooh. That was neat.
Friend; THE MUSIC IS SOOOOOFREAKIN' AWESOME! HAWT!
Me: Ooy-vey. gonk
-after the movie-
Friend: DIDN'T YOU LIKE IT?
Me: Sure? sweatdrop
Now, it's totally opposite.
Me: OMG PHAAAAAAAAANTOM!
Friend: ^^;
Me: You need to readthebook,lyke,now.
Friend: @.@ I'll try ...!
Me: No, hurryIT'SSOGOOD!
Friend: .... -_-
Me: |D PHAAAAAANTOM!
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Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:01 pm
Well, the first of the Phantoms I was introduced to was Lon Chaney (sp?), however I didn't enjoy it as much as Crawford was the Phantom.
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:52 pm
My first time hearing the musical?
Commercial during the break of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat on TV when I was small. I heard the theme and just drooled.
My first time with knowing PotO in general... ah.. middle school when I picked up the book.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:37 pm
I downloaded like... half the soundtrack. When it was finaly done loading, I listened to 'Masquerade' and leapt off my seat. I jumped up and down as I when through the list:
Masquerade
Phantom of the Opera
Down once More
Point of no Return
Think of Me (lol, I had a heart atack with this one because I didn't realize that it was Carlotta singing in the first few seconds, I was all 'WTF?! THIS is what Christine sounds like?! She sounds like a psycho!')
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:58 pm
On Broadway...My god.
Just enchanting.
Headed out to NYC with some of the family and a friend.
Best berfday ever.
One of the best nights of my life. I never heard nor saw anything as beautiful as that night.
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Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:12 pm
My sister was watching it on OnDemand, and I was getting sneak peaks. At that time I was all "stupid opera. Sucks." And... the music just started to get to me... so I ordered it two weeks later while she was asleep and watched it at 2:30am, to 4:45am. Gave me chills, and it was summer so no I wasn't cold. XD Now, I flip out everytime I even think about it. Seen the 2004 one 21 times now, going to see it live on stage in ONE WEEK!!!, and I have seen the Lon'Chaney one twice. That one is hard to sit though... I'm not good with silent films... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:03 am
Saknika My sister was watching it on OnDemand, and I was getting sneak peaks. At that time I was all "stupid opera. Sucks." And... the music just started to get to me... so I ordered it two weeks later while she was asleep and watched it at 2:30am, to 4:45am. Gave me chills, and it was summer so no I wasn't cold. XD Now, I flip out everytime I even think about it. Seen the 2004 one 21 times now, going to see it live on stage in ONE WEEK!!!, and I have seen the Lon'Chaney one twice. That one is hard to sit though... I'm not good with silent films... sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:04 pm
The first time I was lying on stage in the auditorium at school while a couple of my friends where singing Angel Of Music to practice for the senior Talent show that we had. It was friggin' awesome. I was totally drawn to that music. Then I saw it the first time and could hardly sit still long enough to catch what was going on. I was so excited. Erik was right above my head!!!!
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Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:49 pm
Sneaky-Snake Saknika My sister was watching it on OnDemand, and I was getting sneak peaks. At that time I was all "stupid opera. Sucks." And... the music just started to get to me... so I ordered it two weeks later while she was asleep and watched it at 2:30am, to 4:45am. Gave me chills, and it was summer so no I wasn't cold. XD Now, I flip out everytime I even think about it. Seen the 2004 one 21 times now, going to see it live on stage in ONE WEEK!!!, and I have seen the Lon'Chaney one twice. That one is hard to sit though... I'm not good with silent films... sweatdrop I taped mine off TCM... And if you search it on Google, you'll find a lot of places to order it off of. o(^.^)b
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The Committee Staff Gaian
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:20 pm
when i was in 6th grade my mom took me to the musical(ALW) i really liked it and since then ive just loved everything about the phantom and the plot and the songs and the movie! heart 4laugh xd
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:05 am
I first listened to it a month ago.
I've never seen the movie, only portions-The Point of no Return, Think of Me...The End...
It was so awesome...ly....awesome.
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 11:30 am
... I honestly don't remember the first time I heard the musical. It was like... ten years ago, and I have a bad memory. I remember that I didn't want to get it because it was a musical and musicals were teh girly... But the plot sounded so cool, so I got the book instead and stayed up until 4am to finish it in one sitting. Then first thing the next morning asked le parentals to buy me the soundtrack.
I did the same thing years later when I got SK's Phantom and Phantom of Manhatten from the library... read them both in one night. *snrk* And I kept flinging them across the room because they outraged me.
I remember the first time I saw the show, like six months after I first heard the soundtrack. That first showing imprinted itself on my brain so much that I remember the oddest details from that night every time I see it now. Little things that I thought, or the fact that I got a Nestle Crunch at intermission and tried to eat it silently so as not to detract from the show... or that I kept mentally nitpicking how the lines were different and Raoul wasn't in the WC trio...
And I remember the first time I saw the Charles Dance movie, after a phan friend told me how awesome it was... Watched all four hours through and then went back to the beginning to watch it again. (After replaying the Faust duet like ten times. xD)
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:33 am
My piano teacher gave my sister The Phantom of the Opera one week, and I quickly became obsessed with the base line. I memorized the notes for the first verse (I must have been... 10?) and would play them as octaves using my pointer fingers while I begged my sister to play the melody. By the time my teacher gave me the song, I could already play the first verse, melody and base line with octaves. She was much impressed, I recall, because we hadn't really done octaves yet. She gave me every song in the book in the weeks after that, and my sister bought the selected songs casette (which I now own lol). The obsession grew. A couple years later, I had the 2-disc CD and could play all the songs in the advanced book tolerably (I originally just did chords and melody with my piano teacher). I saw the play when I was about 12-13, and oh man. We sat in the orchestra level, just 10 or so rows back from the stage. The chandelier crashed down right over our heads ^_^ Love! I went home and immediately listened to the CDs. My family said, haven't you had enough for one night? Pfft. No! Now Phantom is my signature piece on the piano and... well, let's just say it's quite a developed obsession ^^;;;; I STILL get chills and go into almost-trances when I listen to it--danger: do not play while driving!
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:35 pm
I saw the movie for the first time on the plane to Japan. I think it was like 16 hour flight and I spent the whole time watching POTO over and over. During my whole trip I couldn't get the songs out of my head.
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