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 Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:05 am
Today I had the windows open for a first time in awhile. My neightbor, who was sitting on her porch heard music blasting from my house. She she ran over and told me to trun it down. The Phantom of the Oepra came on and she said "Oh. I didn't know you liked Phantom of the Opera!"
So discuss friends you've made or lost by listening to Phantom.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:20 pm
Three random girls in my school became my sort-of friends because they discovered my phanness.
But the shocking thing was that my own band director didn't know how much of a phan I was. We were in NYC for a trip, and at the intermission of Hairspray. It was one of the few options and all my friends were going to it.
Her: So are you liking the show?
Me: Yah, but it was better the first time I saw it. What I really wanted to see was Phantom though.
Her: Why didn't you tell me you liked it that much? I could have gotten you tickets to it!
...DID I REALLY NEED TO TELL YOU?!?! scream
After my hiding Phantom books under my chair, the Phantom shirts and mask even that I kept wearing, my Halloween costume, my joy over us trying to play the Phantom theme (and failing miserably), and my constant gushing over Erik, did I really need to tell her how much of a phan I was?
I cried all through the second act of Hairspray.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:38 pm
Closest I've come to that is discovering phans in my area/state whom I already knew online (Erin Sovenya being one).
I haven't lost any friends, but I do get a lot of people making fun of me. Most of them only saw the PREVIEW for the 04 movie and so they label it as "gay". *shakes head*
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:00 pm
I've gotten closer to 3 of my classmates. domokun
I haven't lost friends, but my best friends make fun of me for it.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:40 pm
Most I've gotten is people who had seen the 2004 movie, and I never kept in contact with them.
Phantom has been quite the conversation starter, however, so it's all good.
And I haven't lost any friends because of it. But my mom did get very angry at me once for being so obsessed.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:30 pm
I think I scared off pretty much all of my friends at my twelfth birthday party when I made everyone sit down and watch the ALW POTO music videos. If just revealing an interest in musical theatre hadn't done it, restarting the tape from the beginning every time anyone talked, left the room, or looked away from the screen cemented my newfound status as a social outcast. emo
It also conditioned half my class to cringe and throw things at me every time anyone said 'Phantom' or 'Michael Crawford'. xD
But on the other hand though, I've been pretty much best friends for years with a couple of people I met online through POTO. Currently trying to organize our yearly Phantomy get-together.
Edit: Not really friends, but I must say that it pays to talk to random people about Phantom. 3nodding When I went to Las Vegas last year we somehow (xD) got on the topic of POTO with the lady who ran the gift shop at the Titanic exhibit, and she turned out to be a moderate fan who'd seen the show back with Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman. xD I've also had nice chats with other audience members at shows. Met an Elphaba's aunt and a Christine's music teacher that way, along with a nice old couple who'd seen POTO in something like five countries.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:03 pm
I used to try to start conversations about PotO, but whenever I mentioned it, the person I was talking to would start singing the title song...very badly. So I would wince and change the subject.
I've had a few conversations with classmates (and teachers...), but I think they just got scared when someone mentioned "the girl from the movie" and I went off on this tirade on Emmy Rossum.
I have made a friend with a guy at work though. I told him I liked singing and opera and he started telling me about the time he saw Phantom in San Francisco. Now he's all gung-ho about coming to my choir concerts and stuff. It's pretty cool.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:07 am
One of my IRL friends is PotO-obsessed, but since we both moved away, we can only discuss it through MSN. sad
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:03 am
It's funny...the most unpredictable people like POTO. I mean..I was at school a couple months ago, going about my buisiness and one of the more sporty and atheletic girls that nobody would ever suspect to be a phan was singing Angel of Music. I was very surprised but I found out that
she really is a huge fan of the movie and adores the sound track, as I do.
So technically I didn't make a friend through POTO but I did learn that one of my friends that I would've never guessed was a phan turned out to be so. You just never know who's a phan anymore. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:38 pm
i've only gotten a little closer to this girl in my english class
but other than that.. i really dont think anyone in my school would obsess as much as we do.. -_-
havnt really lost any friends...they just like to poke fun at me... lol biggrin
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Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:27 pm
Eh...my friends? They think I'm insane when I quote anything. There's only one other person I know who's seen it, and she hasn't been to school for 2 weeks.
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:03 pm
My art teacher. He plays music for us as we draw/paint/whatever. One day, he played 'Phantom' (I freaked out, and began singing along, of course).
After class, I confronted him with many, many "Zomgurbufuttebgoo, you like Phantom?!" He's seen it 3 times... Lucky S.O.B.
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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:00 pm
The other day I was talking to some people at my lunch table about movies, and I suddenly wailed 'Andrew Lloyd Webber's making a SEQUEL to Phantom of the Opera!' and I got into this long discussion with one of my friends about how that's improbable and that everyone at the end of the movie is dead or really old. I didn't even know that he'd seen it in the first place. o_o
So that was pretty cool. ^ ^
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:19 pm
Well, now one other friend has seen it, and another agrees with my views on Merik.
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:14 pm
Well, I was at rehearsal for an amateur musical I'm in a while ago, and I was wearing my awesome Phantom shirt that says Prima Donna with a mask for the "o", and the assistant director said "I'm so obsessed with that musical!"
Also I was at a restaurant with my Mom and her friends once and it was one of those places where you get to draw on brown paper on the table with crayons and my Mom's friend's daughter, who's my age, drew a really cool picture of Erik! But it doesn't really count, because I knew she liked Phantom before that happened.
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